If this is your first visit, be sure to
check out the FAQ by clicking the
link above. You may have to register
before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages,
select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.
Rosemary beetle has pretty much done for my lavender hedge. It was hit last year, and this year already there is hardly a leaf without neat semi circles eaten out of it. Today I've taken out three huge bags of dead twigs and branches. Think I'll let what's left flower (if it can) this year, then have the lot out and plant something else in its place.
It's been good, I've had 6 years of sturdy hedge, made from two price reduced 6" pots of lavender, so can't complain really.
Except my arms look as if I've been in a fight with a sackful of wildcats. Dead lavender is scratchy!
Dishwasher not producing hot water so everything washed by hand and washing machine not draining properly. OH away on d of e Friday and Saturday so Sunday will be spent trying to fix.....
I have grown to despise foxes. They mess everywhere and now they've eaten the birds that were nesting in our garden. They don't even run away these days... just stare me down like a belligerent teenager.
I have to log in every time I visit the site and ticking the "remember me" box doesn't make any difference.
I also get some sort of redirect error when I do log in.
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made
By singing-'Oh how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade,
While better men than we go out and start their working lives
At grubbing weeds from gravel paths with broken dinner-knives. ~ Rudyard Kipling
My rant - not just Chelsea tractors, but Chelsea tractors driven by 30 something women who think the one way system in the car park doesn't apply to them, in spite of 2 red "no entry" signs plus NO ENTRY painted on the roadway in letters two foot high, and glaring at me for being legitimately in the centre of the roadway travelling in the correct direction.
Had a look in the oldest compost bin today with a view to getting some out. Easy thirty wasps hugging assorted burgeoning nests or clinging to the sides gave me an evil look. Might have to get up early when they're cold to deal with them. Have a friend who's terribly allergic, so they have to go. Plus, I want the compost but no stings. Can't use spray seeing as they're in the compost bin...
Being stuck behind some of the most robust, capable, cars on the road, and be forced to potter along as their drivers take evasive action for every minor discrepancy in the road surface or slightly adverse bit of weather, while lesser cars are totally untroubled by these things, but held up behind all the same.
The spiders in my house have woken up. Haven't seen one for months. Walked in to four big ones this evening, and that's just in the two rooms I've been in since I got home!
The taxi driver who bought us home from Asba's.
I've used the same firm since OH lost his license (dementia) last July and always had kind and considerate drivers.
The one today, in his late 20's refused to help get the shopping trolley or carriers into the boot - thats OK said I I'll do it if you have a bad back etc (no other driver has not helped). No, he says my backs fine and I'm not paid to be your skivvy.
Slinging the cab round corners so shopping out of carriers everywhere and radio turned up full blast as he is quote 'not paid to talk'.
Sadly no tip for him and even sadder the 30 marigolds that were in his firms fleet car were accidently tipped on their sides whilst I was getting them out as he sat in his drivers seat. I hope he don't mind cleaning the boot then!
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas A. Edison
Outreach co-ordinator for the Gnome, Pixie and Fairy groups within the Nutters Club.
Ring and complain,i would,
my rant is how selfish a lot off the world and it's people are,it's the sun you know,dries their tiny little brain cells out,
sigpicAnother nutter ,wife,mother, nan and nanan,love my growing places,seed collection and sharing,also one of these
Lumpy last time I had a driver like that I said nowt....well not to him any way. They tell me he was most shocked when the company owner walked in and tin tacked him.
Potty by name Potty by nature.
By appointment of VeggieChicken Member of the Nutters club.
We hang petty thieves and appoint great ones to public office.
Comment