Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

The neighbours are having the outside of their house decorated. This involves their decorators putting up a scaffolding tower with much clanking and loads of swearing in a foreign language. That's okay, except they were doing this at 7.30 in the morning, and they woke me up.

Seems quite a reasonable hour to me......

....But then we have a coc kerel living 5m from our bedroom window ATM, and he thinks it's time for us all to wake up at about 05.30. :rotfl:He doesn't swear, though.

John_Pierpoint

We have been able to pick blackberries here for about 3 weeks p mind you I think they are not truly hedgerow but crossed with farden varieties as there is a lot a variance between sections of hedge etc.

Yesterdays rain has reduced about half the greengage crop below "Eat sun warmed direct from the tree".

At any time the magic tree ripened fruit is in danger of being reduced to jam quality because of wasp/mould damage call it 20%

So currently I am involved in harvest rush: 20% reduced to jam quality. 30% splitting and I'm in a race with the wasps to get it de stoned and dry frozen and 50% just turning into the magic you can never buy in the shops. If the rain had not come onto our clay soil then we could have had 75% of the crop as eat from the tree quality for a week to 10 days.
(My teeth are rotting just with the thought)

I have been listening in the background to this:

I think, like my efforts to get into "Harry Potter" - I lost the plot after 2/3rds of the programme:

1. Dewey Eyed

Dewey Eyed

Listen:

Availability:

Sorry, this programme is not available to listen again. ( why?)
Last broadcast today, 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).



Synopsis

by Sarah Naomi Lee
Philippa is a librarian from a long line of librarians. When her father dies and her mother loses her wits, Philippa tries the only language Vera understands, that of the Dewey cataloguing system, to guide her back to sanity.
Philippa ..... Olivia Colman
Vera ..... Sheila Reid
Sheila ..... Caroline Guthrie
Alistair ..... Paul Rider
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

Ah well that is one we are not allowed to listen to again.

GDB2222

Davesnave wrote: »

Seems quite a reasonable hour to me......

....But then we have a coc kerel living 5m from our bedroom window ATM, and he thinks it's time for us all to wake up at about 05.30. :rotfl:He doesn't swear, though.

Does he put up scaffolding, too?

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

Does he put up scaffolding, too?

Well he puts something up, given half a chance, though probably not the kind of erection you had in mind. :eek:

We popped one of our tamer, more refined hens in there with him the other day to see what would happen, as he's still a youngster. After 10 minutes she was telling us, "Yes, it's been nice visiting this new chap, but do you think I might go back to my own pen now, please?" :rotfl:

lostinrates

they'll all get on. The more he's with the less exhausting he'll find them. My beloved cuckoo is bald behind the comb because she's our roosters default. She's too sweet ...and now too old... to run away so when she see's him coming with that taut stompy walk, wings pointing down she just lies down. The other girls take the pressure off her a bit.

lemonjelly

For those interested in the fantasy football:

The mini-league name is MSE
The mini-league password is boombust
pin for the league is 224234

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

The mini-league password is boombust

Is it because I'm tired that I find this ridiculously funny?

sss555s

lemonjelly wrote: »

For those interested in the fantasy football:

The mini-league name is MSE
The mini-league password is boombust
pin for the league is 224234

I never knew £50m was so easy to spend :whistle:

Nikkster

I think its probably 2/3 shyness (I am like this before I get to know people better in real life too), and the rest of it is generally not having anything of interest to say/ using the thread/ board as to refine my timewastingexpert skills when I'm not at work - and sometimes when I'm there too! Its strange. I do sometimes feel like I'm prying as I'm not contributing, but its also easier to be lazy I suppose. I'll try to not hide so much

QUOTE=lostinrates;45835901]Do you still feel shy?

We don't bite (hard) as you'll know. There are a couple of very quiet followers which I confess makes me a little sad, not because they are not welcome, they are more than welcome. I just think there are people reading who have the same little ups and downs and don't get the same....release...the thread often provides the rest of us. I suppose its a virtual equivalent of never finding out about a neighbour who died..:eek:


My jaw hurts. I think I might need a filling :([/QUOTE]

michaels

Lots of people who follow this thread don't have much to contribute...doesn't stop us from posting tho! :rotfl: