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

michaels

I wish you had been my godmother when I was growing up

PasturesNew wrote: »

Hot hooker twins.

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

I wish you had been my godmother when I was growing up

Or Charlie Sheen your uncle...

lostinrates

Davesnave wrote: »

Most are done around here, but not the one that gradually hides our view. That'll go any day now, and I won't be depressed when it's lowered.

I try and get my hedges done in a very late solid frost, after christmas. Yes it looks ratty, but it also provides shelter for my critters through the worst longest part of the year, the freeze minimises damage to my ground (and compacts a little early choppyness for a week or two) and provides good cover. We're thinking about ELS scheme, if we are eligable, which we may well not be, then you don't cut it all every year anyway. Especially as we have removed so much of the bramble cover now. but this year they need cutting, too much neglect in the past, so we'll see what they are like next year....after two years in a row cut.

misskool

our hedges get done early spring but we get lazy come the autumn and OH doesn't garden in darkest winter.
He chainsawed a box hedge and think he cut his eye from a splinter. I want to go to A&E and he doesn't.

gah

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I try and get my hedges done in a very late solid frost, after christmas. Yes it looks ratty, but it also provides shelter for my critters through the worst longest part of the year,

We have to do our roadside ones now for safety reasons, but none of them, other than the elm one, has had proper attention for years, so they are still pretty high. The bottom hedge is in a frost pocket, so the top one (other side of the road hedge) is therefore a main place of shelter for the sheep.

I'm sure it would look 'neat' to have the top hedge cut back & laid, but there is no financial incentive for us to do that. It can stay ratty, especially as half of it is oak.

silvercar

misskool wrote: »

He chainsawed a box hedge and think he cut his eye from a splinter. I want to go to A&E and he doesn't.

gah

Do you have a minor injuries unit nearby? Maybe less of a queue.

silvercar

Youngest is ready for his driving test (allegedly). So we book online and the first available date is mid October! Then instructor tells us about some software that costs £20 that continually checks for cancellations and texts you when they become available. Clever idea!

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Youngest is ready for his driving test (allegedly). So we book online and the first available date is mid October! Then instructor tells us about some software that costs £20 that continually checks for cancellations and texts you when they become available. Clever idea!

Not technically difficult either (if you're a web programmer).... at it's simplest it'd be an hourly screen scrape, dump to database, compare changes/dates/times with registered people... if match found, send email.

tomterm8

The real problem with those kind of approach is that all it takes is for the site to decide to do a bit of web development, and you are messing around with a software program that doesn't work any more. Then there is the mad dash.

Better to call up the company, and ask if they can install an API. Lots of companies will do it, after all, if you think about it the software program is actually getting them more business.

(sorry, just technical musings).

n.b. I assume by cut, misskool is not talking about a splinter going into the eye itself, just the socket, in which case a minor injury unit is good, or even just a trip to the doctor (to check it is ok). If the splinter is actually in the eye, A&E even if it is not causing problems yet.

GDB2222

Bit late now, but Toolstation do some excellent safety glasses for £1.50.
Very comfy and fit over my glasses.

http://www.toolstation.com/shop/Workwear/Eyewear/Safety+Spectacles/d70/sd2775/p96583