A few months and several questions

RosaBernicia

ZTD wrote: »

OK...what's a scoop T?

And don't say a mash-up between Ice-T and Scoop Doggy Dog... :rotfl:

Scoop neck t-shirt - much less interesting

ZTD wrote: »

Burn it! Burn it with fire!

The ash will be fertile too, so scatter it...

Hmm... did consider that, but as there's 3 huge bags I suspect it would take several weeks of continously feeding the chimenea :rotfl:

ZTD wrote: »

Little land mines will sort them out...

So would an air rifle, the rotten little Yankee invaders. Or a catapult... though that garden is very overlooked and I suspect there'd be a local cop on the doorstep in seconds if I tried either.


Rosa xx

ZTD

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Hmm... did consider that, but as there's 3 huge bags I suspect it would take several weeks of continously feeding the chimenea :rotfl:

No, actually lleylandii burns like napalm. You'd have to balance your feed rate based on what your chiminea can stand, and how much heat you can take.

RosaBernicia wrote: »

So would an air rifle, the rotten little Yankee invaders. Or a catapult... though that garden is very overlooked and I suspect there'd be a local cop on the doorstep in seconds if I tried either.

They're officially classified as vermin, so as long as you killed them instantly, your local plod would just have to stand there with a sad look on.

The "semi-official" method of despatching them is to chase them into a sack and hit them with a spade... :eek:

RosaBernicia

Hm, thanks for the leylandii napalm info Z... have friend coming round to help try out chimenea this week so will give it a go and see if that saves me paying out to the Council - could take the ashes to the allotment too.

(This post has probably just popped up on the screen of some poor MI5 junior desk officer who will now have to read all our posts - goodness knows what they'll make of yours, Z :rotfl:)

Rosa xx

ZTD

RosaBernicia wrote: »

Hm, thanks for the leylandii napalm info Z... have friend coming round to help try out chimenea this week so will give it a go and see if that saves me paying out to the Council - could take the ashes to the allotment too.

(This post has probably just popped up on the screen of some poor MI5 junior desk officer who will now have to read all our posts - goodness knows what they'll make of yours, Z :rotfl:)

It'll broaden their mind. Lord knows, they need it.

kerri_dfw

Rosa, can you not get at the leylandi pieces with some kind of chipping thing and put it on the allotment for paths?

vasseur

Sorry to hear you're getting disheartened with pole Rosa. If truth be told I was like that up until about 3 weeks ago. I just felt that for the past year (maybe even 18 months) that I hadn't learnt anything. Part of it was me just being a wuss and refusing to try things but a LOT of it is that as you progress everything just becomes so much HARDER. To start with, every pole class was a success because I achieved something every lesson but as you advance it all becomes a lot more complicated (and painful) so the milestones are further apart.
Also - don't compare your progress with others. I share a class with some people who I would say aren't as advanced as me but they can do a plank which I still haven't mastered (although I am almost there) and that was something we were introduced to at the start! Yet I can do a shoulder mount (yep can still do it ) and they are still struggling with it.

Another thing (I'll shut up in a minute, probably ) we all have different pain thresholds. There is a girl in my class who I swear has asbestos skin - nothing seems to hurt her, yet she's not half as good when it comes to the spins.

If it's the pain that's holding you back have you tried taking an ibuprofen half an hour before class?

I get frustrated with just having an hour a week to practise so my next thing I'm saving up for is a pole to put up in my living room . Would your landlord let you do that?

The thing that helped me was realising that I was just wasting the money every week so I might as well make it pay and I just became so much more determined. I've got that after class buzz back again (complete with bruises) and it feels great . To think - I was going to give it all up at the beginning of the year...

Great news about the allotment - that will be great exercise too not to mention being good for the soul.

And the bike also! I'm going to get one with my current piggy bank savings - then I can go cycling with my daughter instead of having to trot behind her all the time.

Aren't we all good wholesome women (poledancing aside....;)).

ZTD

polesalot wrote: »

Aren't we all good wholesome women (poledancing aside....;)).

Of course you're wholesome. It's just the whole what that needs to be determined...

RosaBernicia

polesalot wrote: »

Sorry to hear you're getting disheartened with pole Rosa. If truth be told I was like that up until about 3 weeks ago. I just felt that for the past year (maybe even 18 months) that I hadn't learnt anything. Part of it was me just being a wuss and refusing to try things but a LOT of it is that as you progress everything just becomes so much HARDER. To start with, every pole class was a success because I achieved something every lesson but as you advance it all becomes a lot more complicated (and painful) so the milestones are further apart.
Also - don't compare your progress with others. I share a class with some people who I would say aren't as advanced as me but they can do a plank which I still haven't mastered (although I am almost there) and that was something we were introduced to at the start! Yet I can do a shoulder mount (yep can still do it ) and they are still struggling with it.

Another thing (I'll shut up in a minute, probably ) we all have different pain thresholds. There is a girl in my class who I swear has asbestos skin - nothing seems to hurt her, yet she's not half as good when it comes to the spins.

If it's the pain that's holding you back have you tried taking an ibuprofen half an hour before class?

I get frustrated with just having an hour a week to practise so my next thing I'm saving up for is a pole to put up in my living room . Would your landlord let you do that?

The thing that helped me was realising that I was just wasting the money every week so I might as well make it pay and I just became so much more determined. I've got that after class buzz back again (complete with bruises) and it feels great . To think - I was going to give it all up at the beginning of the year...

Great news about the allotment - that will be great exercise too not to mention being good for the soul.

And the bike also! I'm going to get one with my current piggy bank savings - then I can go cycling with my daughter instead of having to trot behind her all the time.

Aren't we all good wholesome women (poledancing aside....;)).

thanks Poles :A

I think a little of it is comparing myself to two of the others in the class who seem to be progressing faster - but that is probably something to do with having rather better fitness to start with, since one is a gym bunny and the other a university rower. The other lass is at about the same stage as me. My pain tolerance is balanced out by my stubbornness!

Mostly it's just frustration at not getting enough practice time. What I really want is pole time to myself so I could just do things over and over, getting them wrong in all different directions til I find out how to do it right and get that to sink into my head. It is a bit like learning to drive, once a week just didn't get it settled into my body memory even when I understood it in my head. Unfortunately I think a pole at home would have to wait some time... the fab portable ones my instructor recommends are about £700 and I'm not sure where I'd put a semi-permanent one in this little flat, even if I'm staying more than a year. Soooo... it might just be having to do more exercises at home and try to get to her other class occasionally. I guess I could also ask instructor if there is any way of getting hold of a portable pole second hand.

I wanna be able to turn myself upside down! must remember that and think about slowly getting there instead of how long it's taking.

Rosa xx

RosaBernicia

Haven't done much today as my asthma was misbehaving last night - didn't get much sleep so had a loooong lie in to compensate. Did get to the allotment for an hour though - another quarter of my little square dug, due to the rocks and huge burdock I had to dig out of the very corner of the plot. It looks like the soil is on top of a layer of clay? and I'm digging up water-worn rocks, so I wonder if the land used to be part of a lake, as there is a pond right next to the plots. I suppose it at least means that it will hold water but it's a bit frustrating when a spade's depth consists of couch grass at the top and clay at the bottom! I also think I've found an alternative to paying out for a shed, as Homeba5e have an offer on a big lockable plastic storage box at the moment - I could set that into the ground, so it would also make a seat, and it's dark so would look less noticeable than the beige versions. I only really need space for the spade etc, there's not going to be anything of real value in there and I live so nearby I can take small stuff back and forth. I might pick one up online while the 15% offer is on.

It was forecast to rain tomorrow so have planned for that to be a day off allotment digging. I'd like to go out, but town will be just utterly bonkers and I can go in the week when it will be a bit calmer. So I might just spend tomorrow 'goddessing' (to borrow a Lula word) and start sorting through my clothes - it's warm enough to put away my heaviest winter coats. Actually, that's a plan, I have enough Tescos points to get a voucher to have them dry cleaned before they are packed away

Has anybody been watching Once Upon A Time? I like it but am still occasionally wondering what Dr Cameron is doing in this scene :rotfl:. And I WANT her red leather jacket.

Rosa xx

kerri_dfw

I have couch and clay grrrr, OH dug half the plot for me and I chucked green manure on it to keep the couch at bay over winter, then the other half I put a big tarpaulin over and left it like that until I can face putting anything in it. The green manure has definitely done it's job though as nothing but it is growing where I put it. Might be worth a shot, you can leave it on for 4 weeks, so long enough to bring on seedlings.

I did notice the other day whilst in HB that something we saw online for £19.99 was in fact £16.99 in store, so you might want to be weary of that. Naturally my housemate and I were disgusted with the online trickery, however we did get one over on them because I found a 20% off sticker that had been left up in the store and they had to honour it