The New Minor Rant thread....

[Potstubsdustbins]

Sat looking through the window at this high wind battering everything down, even blew a wooden garden table over. Forecast is carp too!!!!

[Elfeda]

grr.. can not separate the supermarket flower pots.

[Uplandlady]

Nurtured poppy seeds that grew into lovely big plants with numerous just ready to open buds
Then came the wind and uprooted the lot of them
Gutted!!

[Potstubsdustbins]

Runner beans 3rd June??? Someone please tell me I have the date wrong,

[mothhawk]

Started the car today and got a "low battery" warning.

What?! It's just back from being fiddled about with!

Took it back to the garage, and it took the "technicians" an hour and a half to discover that my car was telling me that my KEY battery was low!

(And then it took them about 15 minutes to manage to get the key battery compartment open and change the battery)

[Bigmallly]

Don't you just love technology..........................

[Bigmallly]

An afterthought................why does a key battery have anything to do with the ignition?

[cristalfiona]

The last day off I had to get in the garden was the 23rd May, and the next day off I have is the 20th June. There's so much to do and I can't get it all done in the evenings!

[Rocketron]

An afterthought................why does a key battery have anything to do with the ignition?

How else would one know the key battery was low?



Sorry, RANT.....

The sparrows I have praised for eating aphids seem to have taken a liking to new beetroot leaves.

[Lumpy]

That every time my body believes my brain when it say's 'of course you can spend the day lugging, digging and moving heavy planters without any consequences' because I am too daft to remember the last time when I crippled myself for several days.
Written in despair as I nurse a seized up spine, swollen fingers and joint ache.

[marchogaeth]

SO Alicante is not a bush tomato as the lovely little hand made seed swap packet said. Arrrrgh!

[Bill HH]

An afterthought................why does a key battery have anything to do with the ignition?

Most keys nowadays contain a chip that allows the engine to start, try starting it by bypassing the ignition and it wont work.

[JanieB]

Most keys nowadays contain a chip that allows the engine to start, try starting it by bypassing the ignition and it wont work.

I decided not to do the techie explanation of this as us girlies aren't supposed to understand. Actually it's because I broke the key to my car and the spare is on my son's keyring and as he is serving HMP I can't get hold of it. The cost of a new key/ignition is so extortionate the ignition has been dismantled and I have to start the car with a screwdriver. But I also need the key fob to point to the ignition or the car won't start. This wouldn't work if the battery was dead.

[JanieB]

It's nearly 10 years since Brian died and I live on my own. I have had to learn to cook for 1. I am still adapting favourite meals that can't be frozen for one person. One of our favourites was cassoulet and having checked on the internet that I can freeze it I have taken several days to get all the ingredients.

I thought this would be easy since this is a country stew with supposedly easily obtainable ingredients. 30 years ago country people would have had the best chance of ingredients, nowadays not a chance. I've been round both our "supermarkets" and all the convenience stores and I can't get even such a basic as garlic sausage (except in one store it's in very thin slices).

They started out well but have reverted to the lowest common denominator. We hoped they'd stop town residents leaving the town to shop.

My cassoulet is on minus the sausage which I will get from Sainsbury's (10 miles away) tomorrow.

[veggiechicken]

I keep having an itchy rash on my arms after being in the garden.
Its been suggested that I may be allergic to something - like doughnuts