Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

PasturesNew

I've got 24/7 squawking seagulls .... too many, too loud. And they're big bugg4hs, size of a small dog. A couple are being aggressive to other birds in the garden and exhibiting other worrying behaviours, like walking into the house .... and sitting just outside my bedroom window looking at me, so I never have the window open enough that they get overly curious.

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's endless mind-numbing boring stuff lately... but once it's all done (is it ever?) I might find time to leave the house.

Snap. With me it's weeds. If you read articles about people who take on run-down country property, farms etc. they just focus on the big landscaping and building stuff. The real work is doing battle with the weed seeds locked-up in the soil.

Doesn't make good copy.

Realising that seed of some species, like docks, can remain dormant for around 70 years, I'm beginning to wonder if I have long enough....:(

Davesnave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got 24/7 squawking seagulls .... too many, too loud. And they're big bugg4hs, size of a small dog.

Been there. Had those. Bath was famous for them.

Here, we are too far from the rookery in the village to suffer the cacophony that creates. Some people we know have paid £500k+ to live next door to that!

Also absent are large numbers of slugs, snails and squirrels.:) There are some compensations. Also, everywhere you go, people speak to you. That's unnerving at first, but what it means is the locals have plenty of time for chat.

I guess they found a way over their weed problem...

silvercar

Also absent are large numbers of slugs, snails and squirrels.

Busy eating my bizzy lizzys!

Fuschia update - 3 against the north facing wall have done well and are even flowering. Of the 3 on the east facing all, 1 floated away, 1 shrivelled and died and one survived but looks weak and slug bitten. 4 out of 6 is not bad for a fiver. Time will tell if they are hardy.

Interesting find, among the weeds have appeared bizzy lizzys - remnants of last years crop that I had lifted and discarded in October.

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got 24/7 squawking seagulls .... too many, too loud. And they're big bugg4hs, size of a small dog. A couple are being aggressive to other birds in the garden and exhibiting other worrying behaviours, like walking into the house .... and sitting just outside my bedroom window looking at me, so I never have the window open enough that they get overly curious.

I'm not getting the seagulls but my parents are.....sounding like blooming great things stomping over the caravan roof at stupid o clock in the morning. They are also getting the annoying children awake at 6.30 and playing football outside the bedroom window....I'm in a much quieter part, so much quieter that all mine are still asleep, at 10 to 9 in the morning, it's unheard of!

lemonjelly

Hi Everyone!:wave:

I'm in a really busy period at work at the mo', hence dropping in & out by convenience...;)

Davesnave I did go to longleat - the monkey enclosure was closed at the time. have to be honest, I'd probably have gone in...
I found the house amazing...
Had a lovely day there - the weather was great!
Only downer was they wouldn't let me in postman pat village as I didn't have a child with me.:o

I'm going to start another thread about summer holidays later regarding other experiences I've had recently that got me thinking...

treliac I trust you are well!:)

Viva, I have finally finished reading musicophilia! phew! I have started this:

I'm only on chapter 3, but enjoying it.
I accidentally went into a bookshop yesterday, & bought 5 books!:o

My what if moment - I was on the Herald of Free Enterprise (from Zebrugge) 1 year to the day before it capsized!

John_Pierpoint

I planted one and a half rows of lettuce. Looks like I might harvest 4.
Loads came up and night by night they literally disappeared.
Eventually one or two got big enough to only half disappear overnight but something had chewed out the growing point and probably the roots too..
Don't blame slugs & snails - I found the culprit(s).
It was an underground caterpillar with a chestnut head.
No not a leather jacket - that is a big juicy job that turns into a daddy-long-legs.
Not a wire worm - one of those mid brown things the thickness of a thin biro refill.
This was the same sort of length, perhaps a little shorter with a light greeny earthy body and a dark chestnut head.
The main thing about it was that stamping on it on a paving slab could not kill it. I had to saw its dark chocolate head from its body with the blade of the hoe.
What was it??

treliac

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Don't blame slugs & snails - I found the culprit(s).
It was an underground caterpillar with a chestnut head.
No not a leather jacket - that is a big juicy job that turns into a daddy-long-legs.
Not a wire worm - one of those mid brown things the thickness of a thin biro refill.
This was the same sort of length, perhaps a little shorter with a light greeny earthy body and a dark chestnut head.
The main thing about it was that stamping on it on a paving slab could not kill it. I had to saw its dark chocolate head from its body with the blade of the hoe.
What was it??

Ughhhhh!!!!! You've quite put me off my lunch.

treliac

lemonjelly wrote: »

treliac I trust you are well!:)

I was.... before I read John P's post.

Nice to hear from you lj and to know that you're not too far away.

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

Only downer was they wouldn't let me in postman pat village as I didn't have a child with me.:o

Maybe that's discriminatory. Could try to hang it on one of the following:
- lesbians/gays are statistically less likely to have a child
- younger people are statistically less likely to have a child
- older people are statistically less likely to have a child

Go back and demand your 'uman rights. I'm sure you paid the same as everybody else, so why are they discriminating against you ...?