Minor Rant thread 2016

[Cadalot]

I mooched on the inter webby and I am now the proud guardian of.........Spanish Slugs - Ta Potty for the suggestion.

Lumpy where is your kitchen located ?

[Lumpy]

I am going to start a Spanish Slug thread so we are not told off for chatting!

[gardening_gal]

The NHS. The NHS makes me want to rant. It is so disjointed these days that woe betide you if you have something outwith the norm wrong with you, as my daughter does. Gone are the days of one doctor treating you, one doctor who knows your history. Now you get passed from pillar to post and you need to start again every single time, with the same useless tests. It's like a call centre customer service person reading from a script. Often, I am more educated about the problem than they are. We had to go to the out of hours centre yesterday and the Doctor actually had to look something up and read it off the internet whilst telling me about it. I had already done that!

I sooo wish I had money and could afford private treatment with a one stop expert!

.......and breathe......

[Bigmallly]

I sooo wish I had money and could afford private treatment with a one stop expert!

.......and breathe......

You'd probably get the same Dr who you saw in the Hosp, only you'd be paying top dollar for the privalage.

[mrswadders]

Physics teachers who don't know how to work physics equipment...............

[Nafets]

I received an Anti-Social Behaviour letter, for feeding the birds on the grass a stones throw from my house. I was reported by a neighbour who is worried I will attract vermin.
So I can 'attract vermin' in my garden but not out the front. And to top it all off the anonymous neighbour that reported me has an overgrown garden full of mice that my cats often bring home!

.....wooosah........

[JanieB]

I've just been told that I'm not a very nice person. I was shopping and parking was at a premium. I saw two cars were just about to leave so I waited for them to go and kept a little way back so that they could get out easily. Blow me if a car comes along and parks skew whiff in the middle of the space just vacated. I got out and told the bloke what he'd done but he just ignored me and opened his boot.

He was in the shop I was going to, and what he was getting out was his zimmer frame. That's when he told me I wasn't a nice person. I'm afraid I had to point out that parking in a space meant for 2 cars was selfish and inconsiderate and I didn't feel that he was a nice person either.

[happyhumph]

Dropped my phone on a hard floor yesterday so typing this on a cracked screen....

[Hazel at the Hill]

Dear X - although you are universally popular, throw yourself into any enterprise with gusto and are supportive of others and enthusiastic to a fault; I still find you just immensely irritating.

I don't know why - it's me, not you, I'm sure; but boy, you get my goat.

[piskieinboots]

When you are all set to make spiced Indian chutney, which will smash through some of the courgettes. When you have *all* the ingredients measured out. When you got to open the last (of three new, unopened) bottle(s) of cider vinegar. When it spins and spins and spins and won't break from the neck thingie .... pffftt

[Guest]

You know winter is coming when........

...you go to bed early just to read.
...you look round the garden and as sad and tired as it looks you just can't bring yourself to sort it.
...you start wearing extra layers.
...you wake up and bed feels sooo cosy.
...you wake up with a raging sore throat and can only breath through one nostril.

Can someone bring back summer please?

[Hazel at the Hill]

Note to self: curb over-exuberant tea-pot stirring prior to pouring as you will break the tea bag and then get a gob-ful of tea leaves. Yuk.

[hamamelis]

Some utter *&^# at the allotment apparently decided this morning that my flower border, along the edge of my plot, looked like a nice place for a drive. It's over a foot lower than the actual driveway.

I honestly cannot understand how they went about 4 meters along it; did they not notice one side of the car was that much lower than the other? Did they just not know how to brake?

Oh, and just to add that little extra edge of *&^#ness, they apparently then got out of the car, and trampled round all the flowers they didn't manage to run over.

I think most of the plants will survive, with a lot of damage, but the sedum was just flattened (in full flower!), the verbena bonariensis was nowhere to be seen, and my promising feijoa bushes were both crushed and twisted and may lose half their growth, growth that took two years to put on.

I'm not sure this is a minor rant, to be honest, I'm livid.

[JanieB]

Aaaaaargh! I'm a local as in parish councillor. I'm so fed up with politicians messing about with people's lives. Both tories and labour have absolutely no idea about the distruction their decisions cause. I sat and listened to 2 people who have been ejected from the only homes they have ever known and put in "old peoples" flats with no chance of gardens and being harassed to join in the bingo, singsong, etc and being ostracised for preferring to go to the pub. They are both in their 50's and in full employment tho low paid. Ok rant over.

[Potstubsdustbins]

Lost all my baby leeks to leek moth caterpillars