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On 28/2/07 20:59, in article , "Carol
Hague" wrote: Sacha wrote: ......who did what today in their garden? Nobody here I can tell you. We have had high winds and rain, then everything went a bit sunny and then it all started again in a minor key. No gardening but some satisfactory time at a potting bench for me and away from the desk! My compost daleks arrived, and it wasn't practical to store them in the house and wait for better weather so I wrestled them down to the allotment, which luckily is literally just around the corner from our house. Good thing I did too, because when I got there one of my green-tent cloches had been blown over by the wind - the metal frame was upside down in the broad beans and the cover fabric was almost in someone's garden on the other side of the allotments. I retrieved it, repositioned it and pegged it down as firmly as I could, supplementing the inadequate pegs that came with it with some bits of paving slab and short garden canes. I take my hat off to you for even attempting to wrestle with such a situation! Not much else I could do of any use on the allotment, the ground was far too soggy, although not quite as bad as a plot a bit further downslope which appears have a moat..... I got back home just in time to see the parcel delivery van driving off and find the inevitable postcard through the letterbox. Bah! I then had a chance to read the little booklet that comes with the daleks - do they *really* need to tell people not to put glass and metal in their compost bins? How daft do they think we are? My Godson swears he received a packet of peanuts on a plane trip which said "open packet. Eat peanuts". I still don't believe him but nowadays, I do wonder! -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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Sacha wrote:
On 28/2/07 20:59, in article , "Carol Hague" wrote: Good thing I did too, because when I got there one of my green-tent cloches had been blown over by the wind - the metal frame was upside down in the broad beans and the cover fabric was almost in someone's garden on the other side of the allotments. I retrieved it, repositioned it and pegged it down as firmly as I could, supplementing the inadequate pegs that came with it with some bits of paving slab and short garden canes. I take my hat off to you for even attempting to wrestle with such a situation! Thanks - but there really wasn't much choice - it was that or leave it to be blown away again :-( Seems moderately secure at the moment, but I foresee a trip to a camping shop and the purchase of some rather stouter tentpegs in the near future..... At least the peas planted underneath it hadn't come up yet, so there was nothing to be damaged there. For some idea of the size of the thing, here's a picture of the three cloches in the snow a couple of weeks ago :- http://www.wrhpv.com/temp/monopoly_howses.jpg Although two of them have been moved since then, so they don't look quite so much like they're waiting for a large red version of themselves to arrive :-) The bench in the picture was apparently built by the father of the previous allotment holder who had had the plot before him. I feel like I'm taking over a piece of history.... I then had a chance to read the little booklet that comes with the daleks - do they *really* need to tell people not to put glass and metal in their compost bins? How daft do they think we are? My Godson swears he received a packet of peanuts on a plane trip which said "open packet. Eat peanuts". I still don't believe him but nowadays, I do wonder! We've been offered peanuts on a plane before and when they arrived they were actually broad beans! Quite nice really - I think the the Swiss flight attendants had been taught "peanuts" as the generic name for any small crunchy things in packets :-) -- Carol "Never trust a man wearing leather shorts and a plastic dressing gown" - Spray, "The Dangerous Sports Club" |
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"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 28/2/07 20:59, in article , "Carol Hague" wrote: I then had a chance to read the little booklet that comes with the daleks - do they *really* need to tell people not to put glass and metal in their compost bins? How daft do they think we are? My Godson swears he received a packet of peanuts on a plane trip which said "open packet. Eat peanuts". I still don't believe him but nowadays, I do wonder! I bet it also said "Warning this product may contain nuts" Mike (the nutty one) |
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On 1/3/07 07:39, in article ,
"Muddymike" wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message . uk... On 28/2/07 20:59, in article , "Carol Hague" wrote: I then had a chance to read the little booklet that comes with the daleks - do they *really* need to tell people not to put glass and metal in their compost bins? How daft do they think we are? My Godson swears he received a packet of peanuts on a plane trip which said "open packet. Eat peanuts". I still don't believe him but nowadays, I do wonder! I bet it also said "Warning this product may contain nuts" Mike (the nutty one) ;-) -- Sacha http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon http://www.discoverdartmoor.co.uk/ (remove weeds from address) |
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"Sacha" wrote in message . uk... My Godson swears he received a packet of peanuts on a plane trip which said "open packet. Eat peanuts". I still don't believe him but nowadays, I do wonder! My son had a peice of clothing that had a label on it which read, 'part cotton, part other stuff' and 'wash when dirty'! I didn't believe him until he showed me it! Alan |
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In article , Alan Holmes
writes My son had a peice of clothing that had a label on it which read, 'part cotton, part other stuff' and 'wash when dirty'! I didn't believe him until he showed me it! Alan I once had to take back a tee-shirt to the shop as it shrank in the wash and the assistant manager actually argues that though the label said "washable" it meant the label not the tee-shirt! -- Janet Tweedy Dalmatian Telegraph http://www.lancedal.demon.co.uk |
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On 3 Mar, 12:43, Martin wrote:
Maybe that explains why shrink proof Viyella shirts shrink, since they are no longer made in UK, and why I no longer buy them. http://cjoint.com/?ddn0TKMU80 |
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