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Irresponsible cats owners offer (bad) advice.
"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2011-03-04 21:40:42 +0000, Jake Nospam@invalid said: On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:56:13 +0000, hugh ] wrote: In message , Jake writes intermediate bits killed off by sudden frost I don't have thick stone walls, merely brick and block here but I had problems getting phone reception in the garden until I followed someone's advice and moved the base station upstairs. Flippin' pain with the answerphone messages, which we always forget to pop upstairs to check for, but vast improvement in garden reception. Did the same with my wireless router and I can now sit anywhere in the garden and compute away happily on my notebook (provided it's not raining!) Can't you listen to the answer phone messages on the handset? Not so simple, unfortunately. Long story but the base unit is a Phillips and the other handsets are all Motorola. The normal phone functions (and all the whizz stuff like transferring calls internally and conference calling) work fine but the answerphone stuff doesn't. The handsets don't give any indication that there's a voicemail message waiting. We used to keep the Philips handset downstairs but it kept running out of juice cos we forgot to charge it. Now we seem to end up phoning people late at night when we go to bed and see a little flashing red light. Please no comments about flashing red lights in the bedroom! It was bad enough when someone told us that having pampas grass in the front lawn indicated that we were swingers (well it was bad enough once we had found out what "swingers" meant!). Now researching miscanthus varieties as a replacement ;-)) Ye gods - what have I missed?! To think I dug mine up and made the resulting cavity into a pond. There must be some significance to that, surely? ;-) I don't even know what pampas grass looks like, so what have I been missing all these years? Alan -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon |
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Irresponsible cats owners offer (bad) advice.
"alan.holmes" wrote in message ... "Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2011-03-04 21:40:42 +0000, Jake Nospam@invalid said: On Fri, 4 Mar 2011 19:56:13 +0000, hugh ] wrote: In message , Jake writes intermediate bits killed off by sudden frost I don't have thick stone walls, merely brick and block here but I had problems getting phone reception in the garden until I followed someone's advice and moved the base station upstairs. Flippin' pain with the answerphone messages, which we always forget to pop upstairs to check for, but vast improvement in garden reception. Did the same with my wireless router and I can now sit anywhere in the garden and compute away happily on my notebook (provided it's not raining!) Can't you listen to the answer phone messages on the handset? Not so simple, unfortunately. Long story but the base unit is a Phillips and the other handsets are all Motorola. The normal phone functions (and all the whizz stuff like transferring calls internally and conference calling) work fine but the answerphone stuff doesn't. The handsets don't give any indication that there's a voicemail message waiting. We used to keep the Philips handset downstairs but it kept running out of juice cos we forgot to charge it. Now we seem to end up phoning people late at night when we go to bed and see a little flashing red light. Please no comments about flashing red lights in the bedroom! It was bad enough when someone told us that having pampas grass in the front lawn indicated that we were swingers (well it was bad enough once we had found out what "swingers" meant!). Now researching miscanthus varieties as a replacement ;-)) Ye gods - what have I missed?! To think I dug mine up and made the resulting cavity into a pond. There must be some significance to that, surely? ;-) I don't even know what pampas grass looks like, so what have I been missing all these years? Alan It's those tall grasses with the big spray of white at the top of long stalks. My daughter and son in law have them on the Island in the middle of their pond Mike -- .................................... Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive .................................... |
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"Madahlia" wrote in message ...[color=blue][i] Christina Websell;913904 Wrote: "Roger Tonkin" wrote in message ... We have just booked a holiday that will take us away from home for virtually the whole of April - normally the busiest month for sowing/planting out etc. Does anyone have advice on what I can do with seedlings/young plants that should be ready in April (onions & leeks at the moment). Whilst the neighbours will water things in the greenhouse (cold and drafty!) and even mow the lawn, I can not expect them to plant out my veggies.I never plant out leeks until June/July - never ready or organised before then! They have always resulted in a crop so far. So I'm sure you can leave them until you get back. I did not write anything of the sort and tbh, I just wish gardenbanter would P off from rec.gardening. Tina -- Madahlia |
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Irresponsible cats owners offer (bad) advice.
"Sacha" wrote in message ... On 2011-03-06 17:09:30 +0000, Sacha said: snip Here we are, Alan. You and Joyce are in a few of these. It was before Ray and I got married, so the meet was in my then house in 1999 and we all trooped off to the Nursery and then returned to my place for tea IIRC. I remember that in the evening, some of us went to a local pub for supper. Yet again, she forgets the url!! http://www.u-r-g.co.uk/urgmeet4.htm -- Sacha South Devon and this one http://www.u-r-g.co.uk/devon02.htm (I won't forget to post the link) Mike -- .................................... Don't take life too seriously, you'll never get out alive .................................... |
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