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Post by amipal on Jun 7, 2019 12:25:14 GMT
Id let the grass/hedge grow a tad long. We were probably the talk of the steamie. Been out to cut them. Rain came on sooner than forecast. Round two another day. We've decided to let our front garden go a bit wild in order to help local wildlife. It's not a big patch of grass, probably around 10ft square. At the moment, the grass is about 18" tall and going to seed... should be good for insects and reptiles and smaller mammals. Assuming the cat doesn't get them. And to think, I re-laid the lawn only two years ago. |
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Post by crankcaller on Jun 7, 2019 12:31:36 GMT
We had lots of buttercups with bees flying about them out the back. I did feel bad about mowing them down. The buttercups I mean. I made sure there were no bees in 'em.
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Post by amipal on Jun 7, 2019 12:34:04 GMT
I keep meaning to put up a sign bearing the legend "WILD GARDEN" or some such.
You know, so that people don't think we're those people.
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Post by Faceless on Jun 7, 2019 12:54:16 GMT
The trick with gardens is to choose your neighbours very carefully. I've got students one side, who haven't cut their grass since they moved in last August, and a slightly odd couple the other side who haven't touched theirs in the 5 years they've been there. By comparison my garden looks slightly better.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Jun 7, 2019 13:03:31 GMT
I am particularly unlucky with regards to neighbours as both sets keep their gardens pristine and are out there every weekend mowing, trimming, weeding etc...
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Post by gongfarmer on Jun 7, 2019 13:08:51 GMT
I still have a procession of bees making nests in my naughty succulents.
Fish finger sandwiches. White bread. Sriracha sauce.
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Post by scubar on Jun 7, 2019 13:27:45 GMT
I had a bacon, sausage and egg sandwich at 11. I’m wondering what is a respectable/normal time to leave it before having lunch.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 7, 2019 13:46:27 GMT
Surely 14:30 is leaving it too late for lunch.
You’re into afternoon tea time.
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Post by amipal on Jun 7, 2019 13:47:16 GMT
Lunch: a Pukka steak and ale pie. I cut it in half, and the first half didn't have any Pukka pieces of meat in it. The second half was repeat with them though. 4*
Neighbours: on one side, I have a male divorcee whose front garden was converted to brickwork off-road parking before we moved in. He also has a half-built extension on the side of the house.
On the other, I have a family who have many palm trees and bamboo plants bordering us (I'm sure there's a Japanese soldier in there that doesn't believe the war ended). But it's also off-road parking, though to shingle rather than brick.
Rich and compelling.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 7, 2019 13:48:42 GMT
We have made gardening easier for our neighbours for some time now. I'm sure the garden has already achieved protected wildlife habitat status. Somebody has to save the planet.
It's been chucking it down all day at an impressive rate, so not a gardening day by any means anyway.
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Post by cobblers on Jun 7, 2019 14:09:59 GMT
Out front have a recycling bin full of cider cans, at the rear a decrepit back garden* but verdant and fulsome tomatoes**, a gate that looks like it’s recently been kicked in*** but is, in fact, simply self destructing and a scuzzy lockup with a terrifying asbestos roof that is so grotty I can’t even try and produce a suggestive entendre for it.
It’s an up and coming area. Well, some of it is. The bits I’m not in, mostly. I should really pay someone to come and set it all on fire.
*Not an euphemism
**Also not an euphemism
***Filth, but no, nor is this
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Post by FuckOffPal! on Jun 7, 2019 14:16:52 GMT
Cobblers is a dirty boi
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Post by crankcaller on Jun 7, 2019 14:18:27 GMT
I asked a friend if he could recommend what to do with a decrepit asbestos garage roof. He's in drain unblocking and knows quite a few folk in various house related businesses.
He said he knew two "Irish Gypsies with a van" who would do it cheap. But the fallout would resemble that Chernobyl that's so popular these days.
In the end we paid the company who replaced the roof to take it. They probably subcontracted the Irish lads.
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 7, 2019 14:32:34 GMT
Thanks to a couple of gentlefolk from this parish for some MarioKart fun last night. I finished last. Stupid game. If you’d like to join in: 4899-8052-2027 I'm a stingy (rather than stinky) peasant who didn't want to buy Mario Kart 8 for a second time. Maybe I should rethink this. Then you will no longer finish in last place, that much I can promise you. I'm always completely confused by the Discord layout. Did we end up with a general console username/friend codes/what have you spreadsheet and I just can't find it? I'm on 3927-5569-0967 and I need more friends. At least for gaming. |
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Post by cobblers on Jun 7, 2019 14:34:29 GMT
Happily I do not own the carcinogenic nightmare and it’s the other side of the back lane. I merely rent in on a cash in hand, no questions asked, HMRC-unfriendly basis, as is the only true way with lock up garages. I figure that, as long as I don’t breathe too much when I’m in there, it’s someone else’s problem.
"Good news is, the lab boys say the symptoms of asbestos poisoning show a median latency of forty-four point six years, so if you're thirty or older, you're laughing.”
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Post by Felice Landry on Jun 7, 2019 14:39:20 GMT
Thanks to a couple of gentlefolk from this parish for some MarioKart fun last night. I finished last. Stupid game. If you’d like to join in: 4899-8052-2027 I'm a stingy (rather than stinky) peasant who didn't want to buy Mario Kart 8 for a second time. Maybe I should rethink this. Then you will no longer finish in last place, that much I can promise you. I'm always completely confused by the Discord layout. Did we end up with a general console username/friend codes/what have you spreadsheet and I just can't find it? I'm on 3927-5569-0967 and I need more friends. At least for gaming. What is this number that is being passed around, is it a secret club? btw Oligarchy Tradesman is on the PC within the hour |
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 7, 2019 14:46:50 GMT
I'm a stingy (rather than stinky) peasant who didn't want to buy Mario Kart 8 for a second time. Maybe I should rethink this. Then you will no longer finish in last place, that much I can promise you. I'm always completely confused by the Discord layout. Did we end up with a general console username/friend codes/what have you spreadsheet and I just can't find it? I'm on 3927-5569-0967 and I need more friends. At least for gaming. What is this number that is being passed around, is it a secret club? btw Oligarchy Tradesman is on the PC within the hour My secret code is my Switch friend code, and I believe Dom's secret code is for a Mario Kart lobby or such things, am I right @smellavision? Would be a lot easier to link up via username, but no... |
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Post by Destry on Jun 7, 2019 15:03:22 GMT
So you can lie to the electorate with impunity? Good news.
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Post by amipal on Jun 7, 2019 15:05:21 GMT
More sweet content* available. *I really should stop calling it that. One day. Maybe when the nuclear apocalypse has finally happened. |
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Post by tenthenemy on Jun 7, 2019 15:07:45 GMT
Found the Discord Mario Kart thread and sent friend requests to @smellavision and @bloggiesmalla. It's-a-me, just in case you are wondering.
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Post by amipal on Jun 7, 2019 15:08:54 GMT
So you can lie to the electorate with impunity? Good news. “as mayor and MP, the office-holder should conduct himself honestly” Ha ha ha! I've never laughed so much in my life. |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Jun 7, 2019 15:32:52 GMT
Gardens? Just get a gardener, if you are middle class enough. We've got a gardener who comes for 90 minutes a week and keeps it looking way neater than when I used to spend half of every weekend hacking away at it.
Games? Apex.
Telly? Still rewatching the Shield. Still awesome.
Ottm: the G has an article today that describes St Andrews, which is not that far from where I live, as 'miles from anywhere'. I can feel a righteously indignant letter to the editor coming on.
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Post by Chumbles on Jun 7, 2019 15:51:39 GMT
Where sheep may safely graze! Tommy Welsh at work  My front 'garden' is block paved with drains to subsoil and a runoff to a wide flower bed (bluebells in Spring, anemones in Summer*) - big fight with the block paver who wanted no drains or flower bed. But round here 75% of fron parking runs the water into the drainage system which means it doesn't get back into the water table... Back garden is 50/50, but instead of block paving it's coloured shales, massive pottery planters with a staggered pavement in a circuit with shrubs and a huge honeysuckle which bees love, going nuts twice a year over a trellis. In late Autumn it's cut back to just 2' of stems. You'd think it would die. *What I think is an anemone
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Post by gongfarmer on Jun 7, 2019 15:52:01 GMT
For the best gardening advice, consult your local psychedelic warlords...
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Post by Destry on Jun 7, 2019 16:41:59 GMT
Chicken enchiladas with guacamole and rocket salad.
And a glass of Pinot Grigio.
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