Mundane News

[oldwheels]

Made it back from Stuttgart, not helped by Deutsche Bahn.
It's the season where lots of German schoolkids go away as a class for the week. At the same time many people without kids go on holiday to avoid the main school holiday season.
Lots of these people want to go where I live.
Knowing this, Deutsche Bahn decided today was the best Monday to cancel the first train of the day, and then make the second train shorter than usual...

Lots of people come to where I live so the problems are familiar. I feel a rant coming on so better shut up now.

 

[PeteXXX]

It's Swan Upping Day. 🦆

 

[biggs682]

Eeek! Grown from seed?

I buy established plants around mid-May time. And they like the sun trap that is my drive.

Yes they were grown from seed they will catch up

 

[biggs682]

Another working day completed

 

[oldwheels]

The rain did not appear so went for a walk but got diverted by a meeting of the “we hate the tourist industry and holiday homes in particular” committee.
One neighbour had gone to get some shopping but had to return empty handed as being disabled she could not find anywhere to park her car. Back home the owner of the hated holiday house had appeared with a large van and instead of going to the parking place in front of the house had taken up three of our spaces plus a strategically placed wheely bin partially blocked another used by this neighbour.
Some of us attempted to buy this parking area in the past but the council deny ownership which is a straight lie.
The area was gifted to the town council by the then owner about 45 years ago. When Strathclyde Region was formed they set about destroying all the town records but some were saved by an employee who in effect “stole” them for posterity. He is now dead do cannot be prosecuted.
Rant over for now anyway.

 

[oldwheels]

On the subject of mushrooms I went on two mushroom foraging walks supervised by an expert. Surprising number of wild ones are good to eat and really only a couple are dangerous and even look a bit dodgy.
At the end of each walk we adjourned to a picnic area where a stove and pan had been left to cook the results of our foraging.
Nobody died.

 

[Illaveago]

Ooh! There are a lot of Bumble Boos on the plants today .

 

[Andy in Germany]

No . I was inside battling against the strong wind .

I shall refrain from repeating the obvious.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Lots of people come to where I live so the problems are familiar. I feel a rant coming on so better shut up now.

It's more DB's sudden post privatisation incompetence than the tourists. It gets a bit crowded but fortunately most go to areas near where I live rather than my town.

 

[Moon bunny]

Wants to be the centre of attention, touchy, thinks he looks younger than he is, definitely male.

He was a naughty engine today,

so we made him stand in the corner and think about what he did.

 

[tyred]

I saw my first wasp of the season.

 

[tom73]

Yes they were grown from seed they will catch up

If sown early try sowing later they make much better plants. When sown early they are often checked by cooler spring weather.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

China provisionally recorded its highest temperature ever on Sunday - 52.2C in Xinjiang, the UK Met Office says

 

[rockyroller]

It's Swan Upping Day. 🦆

how far up to you get them?

 

[tom73]

I saw my first wasp of the season.

Wasp's are pretty cool things if we had none we'd be over ran with bugs. The about one larva eats is massive , oh and we'd have no chocolate either , cocoa can only be pollinated by one sort of tiny wasp.