Hover Fly
Lazy so and so
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Similar to what I did with a cat, moving into my new house, spot-on the cat, then let it roam around, attracting all the fleas that were lying dormant.
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Illaveago
Guru
- Location
- Chippenham,Wiltshire.
I was just watching a slow motion run of the Aviva advert where the young lady breaks down in her Saab and eventually turns up to be greeted by her grandchildren years later. The family seem to show a complete lack of concern that she had been missing all those years. Perhaps the company paid out on her life insurance policy as she had been missing for so long . 
Hover Fly
Lazy so and so
- Location
- Besides the lake, beneath the trees
Old friend has just asked me if I want a load of old engineering books from late19th/ early20th centuries. Pettigrew is among them, others of similar importance, if you know your engineering history you will know what that means.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Back from running errands. I had a bit of an impulse buy moment, and have acquired a bay tree. 
(True bay, not ornamental.)
I have also purchased a suitable quantity of white roses - which is what I went out for in the first place.
(True bay, not ornamental.)I have also purchased a suitable quantity of white roses - which is what I went out for in the first place.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
Thinking further on this. At one time one of the ideas to get rid of a tick was to try to get it loose with a lighted cigarette or a lit match.
There were all sorts of suggestions but none of them ever worked. This was before Lyme disease became common as the effect was to make the thing regurgitate it's stomach contents into your body which of course introduces the disease into you.
Nowadays the only method is to use one of the recommended tools or needle point tweezers and remove the thing complete with head which is imbedded under the skin. It is important to get the head out and I have had on occasion to dig it out with a fine needle.
I have 3 sets, one in the house ,one in the car and another in the bike/trike tool bag.
oldwheels
Legendary Member
- Location
- Isle of Mull
I have a bay tree which started out as a very small bush and is now about 10 or 12 feet high and about the same in diameter. Be careful where you put it as I have had to cut back quite a bit on one side which was taking over a large bit of a neighbouring garden.Back from running errands. I had a bit of an impulse buy moment, and have acquired a bay tree.
I have also purchased a suitable quantity of white roses - which is what I went out for in the first place.
I have got good white roses this year. My wife wanted a white rose planted on her grave but the blasted deer eat anything organic so it ended up beside my garden path.
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It is almost an hour since anything mundane enough to be posted has been posted..
I've just wrestled the duvet cover back on my Good Ladies duvet, having taken it off this morning to wash it and dried it this afternoon, is that mundane enough?
carpiste
Guru
- Location
- Manchester
So I went for it! 20 miles, 2 hours and it was lovely, cool breeze even....I couldn`t get to sleep last night so got up and watched Going Postal on the Firestick. Plans for a morning ride ruined I went to bed around 11 am and now I`m up it`s so hot, 27c, and the sun is blasting down!
Forecast is little change in the temperature for a few hours
Decisions, decisions!
Now I`m in the house the sweat has suddenly started pouring from me! What`s that all about!
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
My previous experience with a bay tree is precisely the reason that this one is going to live in a planter.
If left unchecked, they do grow, erm, rather large... Tell me about deer eating my roses... They walk by in daylight with impunity. The buck is the worst.
I have plenty of white roses in the garden - climbing ones fortunately, so Mr Buck Rodgers can't get to them. I do so love white roses. These ones are from the florist though. I am going down Winchester way on Wednesday to visit the grave of someone very dear to me. I can't believe it will be 30 years. Where has that time gone?
DCLane
Found in the Yorkshire hills ...
- Location
- Dewsbury, West Yorkshire
Something's occurred to me this evening:
My neighbours, who left school age 16 without qualifications but have done OK in life. They've a decent house, jobs, car, well-behaved kiddies, etc. are spending their evenings sunning themselves in their garden. They've a mortgage and the car's leased but it's all OK. They'll have to work until 65 at least.
Us? SWMBO's working in one room on a private health contract in her freelance role, son no. 1's in another doing further research following his dissertation with his client & university (unpaid as yet) aiming to patent the research, son no. 2's in a third studying so he can get A's in his A-levels and a decent university place, and I'm in a fourth doing private marking. No mortgage, older cars but lots of nice bikes. And a few battered, old ones. And I'm retiring age 60 at the latest.
Now who are the daft ones ... ?
I did tootle out earlier for lunch in the sun for a couple of hours though as I'm not time-bound. But ... a glass of vino (if I still drank alcohol) out in the hammock would be nice right now.
My neighbours, who left school age 16 without qualifications but have done OK in life. They've a decent house, jobs, car, well-behaved kiddies, etc. are spending their evenings sunning themselves in their garden. They've a mortgage and the car's leased but it's all OK. They'll have to work until 65 at least.
Us? SWMBO's working in one room on a private health contract in her freelance role, son no. 1's in another doing further research following his dissertation with his client & university (unpaid as yet) aiming to patent the research, son no. 2's in a third studying so he can get A's in his A-levels and a decent university place, and I'm in a fourth doing private marking. No mortgage, older cars but lots of nice bikes. And a few battered, old ones. And I'm retiring age 60 at the latest.
Now who are the daft ones ... ?
I did tootle out earlier for lunch in the sun for a couple of hours though as I'm not time-bound. But ... a glass of vino (if I still drank alcohol) out in the hammock would be nice right now.
fossyant
Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Just about to pop out and watch the sunset over the Irish Sea. I'll bring a photo back.
Reynard
Guru
- Location
- Cambridgeshire, UK
Just a bbq pork sandwich, a 
and the last of the pineapple for supper. Too hot for much else.
and the last of the pineapple for supper. Too hot for much else.