Tiny Little Things That Cause You Irrational Rage

[Spartacus]

Soggy overcooked bland sprouts (they are tiny little things 😆)

[malumbu]

Par boil then fry with olive oil, caraway seeds and honey. Go on, you know you want to!

[WomblingFree]

People with multi-syllable names who refuse to accept the common abbreviation for those names, making you say/write the whole thing every time.

Yes Jonathan, I do mean you.

[Spartacus]

People with multi-syllable names who refuse to accept the common abbreviation for those names, making you say/write the whole thing every time.

Yes Jonathan, I do mean you.

 

Or Ro-Land 😁

 

[Sue]

I'm reviving this thread especially for malumbu!

Thanks for reminding me of it, mal!

Now you'll probably have irrational rage because you couldn't find the thread.

I just did a search for irrational 🤣

[malumbu]

Not being able to find old threads on this site.....

[malumbu]

Well worth a trawl back thought the posts.  Very entertaining.

My two'penneth worth today, constant rain and South London clay soil.

[Sue]

Flower pot sizes. Even ones that look as if they should fit together don't .

Same with the saucers that go underneath them.

Why aren't they standardised? GRRRRR.

I made the mistake of starting to clear out my loft (I still have a pre-gentrification type loft).

Now my (pre-gentrification type) kitchen is filled with zillions of flower pots and saucers.

I am so irrationally enraged that I need to sit down with a nice cup of tea.

I've just put the kettle on.

Edited 16 hours ago by Sue
Typo

[malumbu]

Plastic flower pots full stop, have so many of them and most go into the recycling rather than being reused.

[Sue]

3 hours ago, malumbu said:

Plastic flower pots full stop, have so many of them and most go into the recycling rather than being reused.

Southwark apparently doesn't recycle them in the blue bin collection, although you can take them to the recycling place off the Old Kent Road.

I have no idea what they do with them there.

I've tried to give them away in the past.

One community garden took a load one year, but I haven't had much luck otherwise.

People are probably trying to get rid of their own 🤣

I don't know why nurseries don't use biodegradable pots, but I suppose it's because they would biodegrade before the plant reached the plant centre/retailer and then the gardener at the end of the chain.

ETA: I just did some googling, and apparently Dobbies garden centres take them. There's a good one near Wallington, so I might take them there next time I'm down in that direction.

Edited 12 hours ago by Sue
Adding info

[malumbu]

"In Southwark, you can recycle plastic plant pots at home in your main recycling bin, provided they are not black, as black plastic is often not detected by recycling machinery. Clean, rigid plastic pots (tubs/trays) are accepted, but soft plastic pots should be taken to a local supermarket drop-off point"

B&Q take as well https://www.diy.com/responsible-business/community/community-re-use

(I've just found much of this out)

Or you can make little men

[Sue]

1 hour ago, malumbu said:

"In Southwark, you can recycle plastic plant pots at home in your main recycling bin, provided they are not black, as black plastic is often not detected by recycling machinery. Clean, rigid plastic pots (tubs/trays) are accepted, but soft plastic pots should be taken to a local supermarket drop-off point"

B&Q take as well https://www.diy.com/responsible-business/community/community-re-use

(I've just found much of this out)

Or you can make little men

Where did you get that info about Southwark?

Can you give a link?

That's not what I found when I just googled!

And what's a "soft plastic" pot?

Edited 13 hours ago by Sue

[Jenijenjen]

6 hours ago, Sue said:

Southwark apparently doesn't recycle them in the blue bin collection, although you can take them to the recycling place off the Old Kent Road.

I have no idea what they do with them there.

I've tried to give them away in the past.

One community garden took a load one year, but I haven't had much luck otherwise.

People are probably trying to get rid of their own 🤣

I don't know why nurseries don't use biodegradable pots, but I suppose it's because they would biodegrade before the plant reached the plant centre/retailer and then the gardener at the end of the chain.

ETA: I just did some googling, and apparently Dobbies garden centres take them. There's a good one near Wallington, so I might take them there next time I'm down in that direction.

I'm not sure they still do it but Forest in NX Road used to leave a box outside where it was possible to leave unwanted plant pots. Worth checking with them?

[Sue]

3 hours ago, Jenijenjen said:

I'm not sure they still do it but Forest in NX Road used to leave a box outside where it was possible to leave unwanted plant pots. Worth checking with them?

Thanks, I live round the corner from Forest and I don't recall seeing a box, but I will ask!

10 hours ago, malumbu said:

Or you can make little men

Bill and Ben were made with proper terracotta pots!

I have lots of those too, many really old, but I like looking at them 😀 

[beansprout]

11 hours ago, Sue said:

Southwark apparently doesn't recycle them in the blue bin collection, although you can take them to the recycling place off the Old Kent Road.

I have no idea what they do with them there.

I've tried to give them away in the past.

One community garden took a load one year, but I haven't had much luck otherwise.

People are probably trying to get rid of their own 🤣

I don't know why nurseries don't use biodegradable pots, but I suppose it's because they would biodegrade before the plant reached the plant centre/retailer and then the gardener at the end of the chain.

ETA: I just did some googling, and apparently Dobbies garden centres take them. There's a good one near Wallington, so I might take them there next time I'm down in that direction.

Long as to go for flower I posts… maybe Gardenman can help?

[Sue]

54 minutes ago, beansprout said:

Long as to go for flower I posts… maybe Gardenman can help?

I wouldn't be going all the way to Dobbies  just to take flowerpots! 😀

It's a very good garden centre with a wide range of well kept  plants and helpful staff, at least it was on the only occasion I've visited it, last year!