Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...quite below the salt...

What does that mean?

PasturesNew

Just started BBC2

Orbit: Earth's Extraordinary Journey.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

What does that mean?

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/below-the-salt.html

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

I use Vaseline for slugs and also to stop cats climbing over fences. Don't know what I would use if I didn't grow in pots though.

Unposh alert: DH may now not be going to Sydney. A problem has arisen.

Not quite as OT as it might first sound, another good book you might like to read might be "the Annotated Alice" by (I know, we've all guessed it) Martin Gardner. He puts Lewis Carroll's works in context and explains the Victorians obsessions with tunnels.

In one of his other books "Sylvie and Bruno" Lewis describes the gravity train that takes 42 minutes to fall through the Earth to anywhere in the world. Before they knew about the mantle and tectonic plates of course!:A

You'd proably find Martin's religous/non-religous views interesting. I most admire him for contributing to "the Skeptical Enquirer" a myth-debunking magazine every school should have copies of.

lostinrates

Signs ofspring.....

Daisies in the lawn, celandine under the trees, six flower buds on a strawberry plant, !!!!! willow, piles of animal hair on the barn floor, in patches in the field and on gateposts, me putting my pots outside, brown earth being relaved with green leaves of plants i had forgotten about, dh's first tan lines of the year.

vivatifosi

PasturesNew wrote: »

He let slip how much it'd cost and you've put your foot down?

:rotfl: we don't have that type of relationship. Because we don't have kids, we've always taken the view that we're both - for the most part - sensible people. We've bought a house together and accrued pensions and some savings, therefore for both of us I don't tell him what to spend his money on and vice versa. We don't have a joint bank account either, he pays the mortgage, I pay all the bills and it works out roughly the same. Also it wouldn't cost much because of who he works for.

An issue has arisen that makes timing problematic, but all is ok here.

vivatifosi

lostinrates wrote: »

Signs ofspring.....

!!!!! willow

:rotfl:yet so many worse words get through the filter.

vivatifosi

Oooh, by the way zag, the book you mentioned the other day, I was doing some work in non-fiction and came across it. It is now on the shelf in the office waiting for a space to come free for me to issue it. I'm nearly at the end of Boomerang, by Michael Lewis, which is about the financial crisis in Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Germany and the USA so there will be a space then. Not that it will be the next one read, but at least it will make the pile!

misskool

bought 6 hellebores.

And lir, thanks for the link, will get some plants from there after we get back from sicily, don't want them to be dessicated when we get back.

michaels

I hope he gets to turn left on boarding.