Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

treliac

Davesnave wrote: »

... all teachers are failed actors!:rotfl:

I've often thought that... vicars too... only difference is, unlike actors, they have to write the scripts too.

wageslave

treliac wrote: »

I've often thought that... vicars too... only difference is, unlike actors, they have to write the scripts too.

We are all failed actors, the whole worlds a stage.

I dont know many vicars, my lot are more into !!!!!philes

silvercar

wageslave wrote: »

Have all the bloke pixels gone from the board?

Where is Mewbee, Mr B, Bluey, Cleaver, Hamish.......

Did they suddenly all get lives?

Probably watching the footie, I don't call that getting lives

SingleSue

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm a very low effort gardener....everyone seems to go to more effort than me. I like self seeding annuals a lot, roses because I find them fairly straightforward...and ...stuff like that. I like this time of year, lots of de-heading making me feel industrious.I also like pruning. Feels...like brave gardening. I'm quite good with seeds. Picked the first bunch of sweet peas today, they smell better than any other bunch I've ever smelled.

I'm even more low effort, I just make a few cups of tea and my brother does the rest! :rotfl:

Davesnave

silvercar wrote: »

Probably watching the footie, I don't call that getting lives

Not all of us blokes watch all the footie, and even if we do, it can be time-shifted. However, we then need to stay off here and the TV/radio for fear of being given the result before we watch!

The days are just so long and glorious ATM, I don't want to come inside until it's dark. Last night, was still watering at 10pm.:)

Hay was made here for the first time in many years. We have 23 big, round bales, standing like strange sculptures in our little fields. I'm really pleased that the land is becoming truly productive again. On that subject, we picked our first squashes last night, and the first mange-tout peas. Gooseberries nearly ready too....:D

Davesnave

wageslave wrote: »

We are all failed actors, the whole worlds a stage.

I dont know many vicars, my lot are more into !!!!!philes

One of our local vicar-type people lived in our house. He was followed by one of the others you describe.

Now there's us. I think we are more middle-of-the-road types! :rotfl:

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Wageslave....you went with your boots and the men wandered away.

:whistle:

Davesnave wrote: »

Not all of us blokes watch all the footie, and even if we do, it can be time-shifted. However, we then need to stay off here and the TV/radio for fear of being given the result before we watch!

The days are just so long and glorious ATM, I don't want to come inside until it's dark. Last night, was still watering at 10pm.:)

Hay was made here for the first time in many years. We have 23 big, round bales, standing like strange sculptures in our little fields. I'm really pleased that the land is becoming truly productive again. On that subject, we picked our first squashes last night, and the first mange-tout peas. Gooseberries nearly ready too....:D

Great post davesnave!

lostinrates

Hmm, I was in the garden at 3am. Less fun. I heard a noise, so, went out.

The big weed patch behind the conifers that grow around the septic tank was shaking and snarling and growling. It also said ''Yerp'' a few times. I didn't see it but I'm guessing its safe to presume badger over small bear or monster. The badger had found some thing it liked, and I checked it was noone of mine. It was making horrid aggressive noises from me from the undergrowth and I was uncharacteristically nervous. I had grabbed a rowel as I went out...and so I detoweled and shook my towel at the patch and said...''Go away, big eater....go away''. And after a lashing out sounding snarl it lumbered off, the noise of the long grass in the field next door sounding more like an elephant was moving through it.

I like badgers, very much and shudder at the issues we face here with them. In lighter nights its easier to see them, and we have a very, very hefty population. At one point they have totally brought down the bank underneath the disused railway track, tonnes and tonnes of earth (and now an unsafe public r.o.w.) and one night, coming home late I stopped because a riends field was full of jacob sheep and I couldn't understand it...till I turned the car for the headlights and realised it was more badgers than I have ever, ever seen. Years ago, before ill, I was staying with my parents having been to a party locally, and as we drove through a nearby large village on a moonlight 4 am it was like a children's tv show, badgers, going over zebra crossing, walking up the pave ments, outside almost every house (it was bin night). More badgers in th road then I have ever seen people in that place. I did wonder at the time if I were tripping, but it was real. The result is that, without ability to legally cull...thee is a problem. My fear is that with the ability to cull people will decimate the badgers totally here.

tomterm8

I don't think there is a huge badger population here, very few signs of them. Then again, I do suspect that badger culling goes on around here more often than the law allows.

lostinrates

tomterm8 wrote: »

I don't think there is a huge badger population here, very few signs of them. Then again, I do suspect that badger culling goes on around here more often than the law allows.

It does here too. And the badger road kill is shockingly high too.

Thing is...TB exists where badgers don't too (think NZ). Its too easy an argument when proposed as the sole one and it frustrates me.