SteveT

It is now three baby robins as far as I know. There might be more as I haven't seen both parent birds together. Just one parent and three youngsters so far, I am putting out bird food for them, the bag has the hideous countenance of bill oddity.

Why not get her to put the prices up here, she might make a few quid? Come on GinaG3 you have sewn the seeds, give it to us straight, I have to buy my eldest daughter a birthday present in the next couple of weeks.

Tell them the truth, some low life C%$? spiked your last three drinks at the pub and you were blind drunk and didn't know what the F$&? was 'appenin', and if the bill were any good at detecting anything why not go and find the real culprits, you small minded bunch of potless tossers. Ps has that judge got any sense of humour or wot?

Tripehound!

There was a Watchdog programme last week about some electrical cowboys doing this type of job, and ripping people off, surprise surprise. Have pm'd you.

woof wrote:- Silk & satin, are these are available at your favorite "by the hour" establishments ? I do not waste time checking such irrelevant details of inanimate objects woofy, I go for the pleasure whether it was in cat litter, straw, or Brentford nylons, which always included elbow, 'n knee cap burns. Does not matter to real men how the bed is made, the pleasurable experience in it is all. I have never knowingly given a sheet one.....

Had to replace a couple of the tomato plants since the slugs or snails did their worst, so I placed some of the bright blue (cake sprinkles they look like) stuff to give them a hard time. I have had a crop of 2 robins well thats as far as I know, if I see more than that I shall be delighted to gloat, said he smugly. I tried the first radish from the 'guttering bed', phew it was hot, I hope they cool down with age. The apples are forming on the trees now and the blackberry is in bloom, also the bees are in attendance which is good. The bees seem to like the blue gentian it's always buzzing so it must issue lots of nectar. I remember kids in the street and at school, having it painted on various parts of their anatomy as an antiseptic, which the scientists extract from the gentian root.

It would seem more sensible to cut their hours to four per day and maintain the same amount of employed at half the wage bill. The unemployed would be better off working for their income so they maintain the work ethic and structure in life. The ones on long term benefits should be rigourously checked and jailed with hard labour if found cheating. I feel quite happy to pay my taxes if I know that the sick, old, infirm, and disabled are being cared for. I do not feel happy about keeping the lazy work shy variety of individual, who's parents lived off the state and are now training their offspring to follow in their parents footsteps, which we see far too many of and have been proliferating at an alarming rate since the eighties.

Down filled pillow and duvet, covered with egyptian cotton just as cate said. Silk and satin are all very well but are cold to the touch, linen if you are in the hot climates with a laundry maid. The only linen I use are tea-towels and scrim cloth for glass windows.

I would lay money on it being the same person getting in.

When do you plan to have the next one Maracrippa?

One chap I know was walking down the street on his way to a business meeting, stepped into a puddle and went down to his neck, as some kind soul had stole the lid of the sewer, he returned home to shower and change. If anyone is injured and lying on the street and you try to help, the police accuse you of injuring the victim, a fat bribe is the only way out.

The baby robin twitted around as I dug up some of the garden whilst the parents perched nearby, it makes me feel chuffed that they have succeeded. The next ones will be the blackbirds, but not for a couple of weeks or so as they only finished nest building last week. The great tits just disappeared with their family a week ago and I haven't seen them since.

I was talking to a Lagos native some months ago, he said it was either 40 degrees, or it was p!ssing down. The friends I have in the FO say it's a hell hole and they get extra pay for such a posting. Your wife seems to know more than she's letting on. My nephew lived there for the most miserable couple of years which he would certainly not duplicate. He changed his job and employer rather than return. Hope you make the right decision.

karter wrote:- Most people on here are probably not near that age....... Sadly that is not always the case as I am only one year away, though still think I'm twenty in my head. The reason you may not be recruiting as many as you would like maracrippa, is, if they are anything like me they are already doing it at home in their own garden. Anyhow, now I know you have a gardening club in embryo, posting the details of time, day, and address might be useful to any would be gardening lurkers.

Keeping a bucket of sh!t in the kitchen should keep them out of the lounge. They do not like the smell of elder, so if you cut off a few sticks from a nearby bush it probably won't be 100% but it may reduce the total. Horses seem to attract flies so maybe keep one in the garden.

The bright yellow in amongst the rhododendrun bushes in Dulwich park are scented azaleas, they're about over now but are highly perfumed. Honeysuckle is about due and the lilac is gorgeous too. Cow parsely bbug you can keep it and it's scent, the only thing it was good for by late August was pea-shooters, by that time it's main stem had a large inside diameter although we never used peas we used hawthorn berries.

yeh... you're total chump Huguenot, I also disagree, I think Hug-you-not is good value, and well worth reading his posts.

I have been honoured by a pair of blackbirds who are now nest building in my wisteria. The robins are in a feeding frenzy at the minute, so their young must only be a couple of days from fledging, when their previous family fledged they left the garden and I never saw them again. The sparrows have taken to giving the fat balls a good hiding, and the youngsters no longer need any feeding from their parents. The runner beans have finally started to show, they are about four inches above ground, they will grow a few inches per day when conditions are good, which is fast and furious growth for a garden. The peas are being crowded by a blessed chickweed (brought in with the compost) and with all the pea sticks it's not easy to keep them weed free.

Perhaps the lounge should be closed for redecoration for the summer, and resume in September along with the drinks night. Then see what happens.

I somehow get the feeling that if bp aren't careful the US government might help themselves to it, to off-set the amount of pollution cleaning costs incurred.

DC wrote:- I'm not ashamed to admit that I believe modern, western, liberal, rational, democratic, judicial, enlightened culture to be as good as it currently gets. And that we, as befits those who are lucky enough to live within such a society, should encourage its spread throughout the world. One of the problems I have with the islamic faith is you cannot live peacefully along side it, because it is written in the koran to change and convert all who are not of islamic faith. One should be allowed to live and let live in theory, in practice one feels that the islamic culture is soooo in your face one cannot ignore it. The way the catholic faith has had its nose rubbed in the dirt by expecting the pope to open an aids clinic and other demeaning chores, yet the islamic faith is tip-toed around for fear of upsetting some islamic nutter who might plant a bomb. You can refer to people as Yankies and Ozzies but not as Pakkies. Is this the way we can expect things to progress in the future? My guess is yes.

Watching the fledgling sparrows being fed in earnest by their parents. It's as if there is a competition on who can eat the most in the shortest possible time.

The family of sparrows are feeding their young which are now out of the nest. I've put down some bird food which the fledglings although walking in it do not help themselves, they wait for the parent bird to feed them with it.

Interesting stuff John K. keep up the good works.