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Some days it's hardly worth chewing through the restraints!
One bit of old folklore wisdom says to plant tomatoes when the soil is warm enough to sit on with bare buttocks. In surburban areas, use the back of your wrist. Jackie French
Member of the Eastern Branch of the Darn Under Nutter's Club
On the idiot cat/catflap front, our two rescue kittehs have to be the dosiest. I spent 3 days trying to teach them how to get in and out of our new one; gently lifting their front paws, pushing the flap til it opened, they'd scramble through, I'd go outside and show them getting back in. They watched Whiskers, the big cat coming in and out, no problems. I turn my back and they jump up onto a stool, then onto the tumble dryer, then into the top of a dolls house, then onto the ledge of a small window that the tumble dryer hose goes through, then wiggle through the gap onto the outside ledge, then jump down a near 6 foot drop to the garden... And this, apparently, was easier than using the cat flap, even in reverse to get back in?!
Eventually, the dog helped them out by over-enthusiastically chasing out a marauding cat from down the street and breaking the flap off altogether. They seem to be able to manage it when it's just a wide open hole
Morning all. Sitting here munching on lemon and rasin pancakes wishing I was feeling better. Having one of my mystery illness bad days so will be stuck moving from one seat in the house to the next not really well enough to do anything.
Hope you all have nice days planned for this beautiful sunshine!
Oh Bummocks SR - hope you're feeling perkier soon. Coffee?
Brekkie has been cooked and eaten, washing-up has been done. I'm on a roll! Third laundry load is out, albeit pegged onto my airers, as the line is already full. Next load is in the washer. I'm back in here, on my arris, with a cuppa, as I have 'stuff' to sort on-line. *Yawns.
Oh, and the dawgs have finally given up their annoying in-and-out game, and are laying down, in the sun, munching on pig's ears. Apart from the oldie, who had a bikkie - she doesn't 'do' pig's ears.
I'd forgotten how much more poo there is with three dawgs instead of one. The visitors are fed cheap food, so they do twice as much, and the oldie does it at a walk... Took me ages to find all the bits.
Now, that's put you off your coffee, hasn't it!?
All the best - Glutton 4 Punishment Freelance shrub butcher and weed removal operative.
Morning All, beautiful day with hot sun, but cool wind. Daughter is doing a car boot at Hope, hoping for plenty of buyers. Eldest GG is really ill, she's not been well for two or three weeks, but doesn't like taking medication (she's very mature for her 16 years and believes that the body can heal itself most of the time), but it looks like she'll be visiting the doc tomorrow - she has an important exam on Tuesday. Expecting more visitors today, so not sure I'll be able to do much, but hey ho, off we go. See you later.
BTW RT - what's the baby's name to be? We can't keep calling him Pickle , although it might stick - we still call Hayden "Bean".
Spent the last two days weedin' 'n' plantin'
Planted courgettes x6 pumpkins x 3 marrows x3 & squashes x2.
Weeded out the beetroot & carrots & dug over the last bit of ground that has nothing in it.
I just hope the weather holds for a few days(weeks?) now.
The river Trent is lovely, I know because I have walked on it for 18 years.
Brian Clough
Evening gang, wishing everyone well who is feeling under the weather xx
I've had a busy weekend, I was teaching a group of 12/13 year olds how to make jewellery. It was a birthday party for my godparents' eldest granddaughter. We stayed overnight, played with the children and their rabbit in the garden this morning, then came home to find my friendly neighbourhood pigeons had pulled up lots of my new seedlings - nevermind, resow
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