The Retirement Thread

[classic33]

Ooooh..... I never thought about a name.
Now you have given me an interesting conunderunderum type thingy.
I will discuss it with MrsD and let you know.
I suppose Little Tom is too obvious?

Well "Big Tom" has already been taken. Besides, I want to know how big your chilly is.

 

[Drago]

Put new tyres and tubes on Mini D's BMX, ready for a summer of fun and Bikeability in the new school year. You all know my opinion of Bikenoability, but it's school syllabus so I'll have to deprogramme her and train her properly afterwards.

Debating a ride, but forecast looks dicey. There was a tornado less than 10 miles away yesterday!

 

[Dave7]

Well "Big Tom" has already been taken. Besides, I want to know how big your chilly is.

My willy sorry, chilly is too small to photograph as yet.

 

[gavroche]

Good morning mateys. I did my good deed yesterday by saving a hedgehog from a horrible death of starvation and thirst. Let me explain. I noticed that Molly was standing over the kitchen drain in her hunting pose so I went and had a look. At the bottom of the drain was that little hedgehog who had fallen down it because the cover was loose and obviously couldn't get back up again. So I rescued it, fed it with cat food and gave him a drink. I also secured the drain cover . When I got up this morning, I am pleased to say that the poor little thing had gone and assume he is safe and free to roam gardens again.
If it wasn't for Molly's hunting instinct, I would never had noticed it or probably too late. Well done Molly.

 

[Dave7]

It has gone quite cold here. My phone tells me its 18° but its nearer to 12° now. Had to close the conservatory door.
Tomorrow is supposed to be thunder and lightning

 

[classic33]

But what if its a little girl tomato
How do I know? (enter el Classic)

It might even be both, or neither.

https://nypost.com/2019/06/19/this-tomato-is-the-first-sexually-fluid-plant/

 

[oldwheels]

Started of rainy but sun is out with possibly showers later I will probably have to get out and cut the front grass. The back can wait.
Time to try the potatoes as well. Games Day would have been last Thursday which is the traditional time here for starting on the tatties. This year it would have been midge hell.
Games Day now is only a shadow of it's former self and has been overtaken by greed and newcomers with no regard for tradition. In the past everything shut down for the day, apart from the pubs of course, tho' one had a beer tent on the field. The whole town was there. Nowadays nothing shuts. There used to be a special ferry came from Oban for the day but that has also gone.
Does remind me of the official opening of the distillery in 1972 when we hired the KG5 to take guests from Oban. Rumour has it that she steered her own way back to Oban after the event and lay alongside the pier waiting on the stevedores to tie her up.

 

[classic33]

Put new tyres and tubes on Mini D's BMX, ready for a summer of fun and Bikeability in the new school year. You all know my opinion of Bikenoability, but it's school syllabus so I'll have to deprogramme her and train her properly afterwards.

Debating a ride, but forecast looks dicey. There was a tornado less than 10 miles away yesterday!

Where's it now though.

 

[oldwheels]

There were loads of bunnies outside in the field this morning. If ever we are sent back to the stone age because of some virus or bomb, we will be ok. We can have bunny casserole, bunny stew, bunny and chips, bunny in a basket.

Yes but it will be all bunnie and no veg. They eat everything. We have virtually none here now all been eaten by predators.

 

[Drago]

Where's it now though.

It's up @PeteXXX's end, so it's probably been stolen by now.

 

[welsh dragon]

Yes but it will be all bunnie and no veg. They eat everything. We have virtually none here now all been eaten by predators.

We have some green beans and new potatoes that they didn't eat.

 

[PeteXXX]

It's up @PeteXXX's end, so it's probably been stolen by now.

The tornado or the bike? 🌪

There's two kinds of blow around the Eastern Townships.. Ganga, and Doris from No 69

 

[Dave7]

@PaulSB
Do you treat your tomatoes with any protection type spray or only if they get a blight.
I am putting them out during the day then bringing them in at night but the leaves are geting some holes.

 

[Dirk]

And who will skin and gut them ??

I will.
No problems paunching a rabbit.
I do enjoy a rabbit stew.

 

[12boy]

I would name the tomato "lunch". The second, "brunch" and the third "munch". As I've read, it's silly to name non-sentient things because it pisses them off. Since you don't have our cookie brands, my sister naming her fig tree "Newton" is probably a little obscure. I've had a project of removing 20 year old roses with the mosaic virus from a patch of garden about 10 x 5 feet, which requires digging down a couple of feet in heavy clay/rocky soil to get the roots. My window is a couple of hours in the morning because once it gets over 33C I get exhausted fairly quickly. Then I am too tired to do my 20 on the bike. Being old and frail is a pain in the patoot. Oh well, in a month or so the temps will drop and we will have the best time of the year here in the Rocky Mountain West. Hope to have this done well before then so I can enjoy the beautiful golden days.​