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

Spirit_2

silvercar wrote: »

We have a sunflower!

This is odd in that we didn't plant it. In fact we didn't know it was a sunflower until it flowered this week. I guess a bird dropped a seed.

It might be one of mine.

I planted a few (intending to join the sunflower growing competition on another board) but not a single one came up.

silvercar

Spirit wrote: »

It might be one of mine.

I planted a few (intending to join the sunflower growing competition on another board) but not a single one came up.

Well it only flowered in September and its about 4 foot tall - don't know if that would win any competitions.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

Well it only flowered in September and its about 4 foot tall - don't know if that would win any competitions.

Happiest surprise sunflower?


Ours have all collapsed in the wind now. Its early, but I guess it won't be long before time to bring geraniums and the abutilon back inside and tidy everything up for winter. I can see the luminous green of ground alder when I peer into the base of the plants. :mad::mad::mad:

lostinrates

OH, feral chicken is roosting thisafternoon, so chances are she really IS back for winter

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

I'm sorry am I moaning a lot :o:(

that means the answer has to be :

Fine thanks!

In seriousness, ok...just annoyances really.

edit...if I groan yell at me. Its really bad but I do feel my self slip into ''sick person mentality'' which is really , really annoying for people around one, and IMO, very bad for the sick person too! It could always be worse, I should be dead, and instead I'm very much the opposite. I've had some really, really good days this year too.

We're all allowed a moan every once in a while lir, & none here are more supportive than you with others.

Here's hoping for increasing numbers of good days :beer:

lemonjelly

Davesnave wrote: »

But...you've only just begun....:eek:

These are the most important two weeks in the year for primary school teachers. Get the tone and the routine right just now and the rest of the year will go well.

I used to begin as I meant to go on, firing on all cylinders. :A

Of course, I didn't go on like that at all..... but I meant to!

We're enrolling - teaching here doesn't start til next week (potentially - I really must go to the other place to explain some of this).

At this time of year, I am a lead part (& for some strange reason, seen as some sort of all knowing guru) of the team assessing the finance for enrolling students. Massive job, the last step in the process, and a very understaffed team who haven't really been trained as well as I'd like to have them trained to do what senior management expects of them. Means a lot of additional hours trying to sort things out/tie up loose ends and so on.

& arguably more responsibility than I am paid for, but there you go...

lemonjelly

fc123 wrote: »

I will join you in the excitement as ours are turning slightly red now at long last.....but they are very small. Davesnaves are the nuts tho'..did you see his pic?


I am not sure whether that was one on my OH's list of ideas....did he enjoy it?

I don't know what the spiky balls are but we use a tumble dryer and as long as a bit of conditioner is in the rinse, then things don't go static.

DD has had a busy night on the Twitter....and whilst online researching my 'illness' I've watched the inbox ping with sales.

The bit that stresses me out is how many illnesses have symtpoms of scary ones.
Looks like I have slight ptosis as sis noticed one of my eyes slightly drooped when we were on hols and her friend had the same thing. I noticed it a few months back and just thought it was ageing but just one eye.
Gives a reason to register with a doc back home though as hadn't got around to it before now.

PV panels are meant to the better ones to get aren't they LJ? I missed how much yours costed up.

I started to answer the question on solar panels before I realised you were talking to Lydia:D

I have about 4 (count em, FOUR!) toms going red. I can't wait to eat them. I really want to make soup with them (making pea & ham soup today!:drool:).

Er...no, didn't see davesnaves huge screen filling picture of his massive crop at all... (grumbles....)

PS, dave, lovely views on your photo album. I'd get little growing done there! I'd be too busy pulling up a chair, to stand & stare (I know that doesn't quite work...:rotfl:)

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

this morning, after animals, we were having coffee, and I suggested we stick a fork in the ground where we thought the grass showed evidence of somehting underneath around the edge of what would have been ''the south wing''. This afternoon we have a ''new'' garden path and very filthy pjs....and breakfast feels a long time ago. We had to stop for rain at one point.

Sadly the path it in really bad condition and the last ten feet or so are totally disinterated. We've got some stone we can put on top of that to make it useable this winter. The top layer looks like it would have been concrete, over tarmac...so not terribly ancient. The bit that is a real wreck is where the damaged wing would have been pulled down and removed, so probably destroyed in that process. But it makes me wonder what is underneath that....from before when there was tarmacadam...there would still have been a path there, because it leads from the front door around the misisng bit of house to the back path and out to the ''drive'' and the farm yard. It might have been stone/shale, or maybe something better. we've decided not to dig down and look today, but might in the future.

We both think though, we preferred the garden without the path, lol.

Sounds like a job for Time Team!:D

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Sounds like a job for Time Team!:D

Just as well dh read Archaeology

First mud we've here and not found a camp coffee bottle though....so we probably are digging in a different era of tenants!

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

Just as well dh read Archaeology

First mud we've here and not found a camp coffee bottle though....so we probably are digging in a different era of tenants!

There was nothing very 'camp' about the coffee, as it was meant to be easy to make, keeping you always ready for action if you were in the army fighting in those far off places 'out East.' (or maybe merely trying to stay awake to finish your dissertation! )

Over the years, the labels became more politically correct:



Anyway, it was vile stuff with not much coffee in it, but lots of chicory.