Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

silvercar

michaels wrote:

...although suffering terrible hay fever means it will have to be more of a look but don't touch thing which rather ruins the point if you can't sit on it and appreciate the softness and uniformity.

age is your friend. I had terribly hayfever, almost to the point of being asthmatic, until is was 46. The next Summer it had disappeared.

GDB2222

Percy1983 wrote: »

I can't look right now but I believe the codes are formatted like so:

90YY 13/177
30GG 16/137
30BG 10/111

I made a note that our kitchen cupboards are

dulux 66bb 08/369

Anyone have a linky please?

Davesnave

GDB2222 wrote: »

£450 for running a tractor and gang mower over the lot!!!!????

Our local parkkeepers do 3 football pitches in 30 minutes.

It wouldn't be that much around here, but the grass crop was worth about £1k last year, so I'd rather do a bit of work and have the hay to swap for meat & logs.

Now things are under control, I can get around the lot twice in about 8 hours using the knapsack sprayer. It's extremely tedious, but I need only use about £30 worth of chemicals a year now, and that way, most of the land remains untouched.:)

I once worked with a chap who used to mow 4 acres with a big ride-on. He liked riding around on his toy, but to my mind it seemed a terrible waste of a resource.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

although suffering terrible hay fever means it will have to be more of a look but don't touch thing which rather ruins the point if you can't sit on it and appreciate the softness and uniformity.

silvercar wrote: »

age is your friend. I had terribly hayfever, almost to the point of being asthmatic, until is was 46. The next Summer it had disappeared.

Likewise; I didn't have hay fever until I lived in Bedfordshire where a lot of fields were growing oilseed rape back in the 80s. Had it seemingly forever afterwards but it faded away in my 40s.

Not completely gone in my case but hardly ever a problem now.;)

silvercar

Friends of ours have just bought a holiday home...

converted barn....just off a dirt track....off a council estate!

Only 45 minute drive from home.....

Silly money. Comes with a tractor for mowing the lawn in the paddock and walled garden!

Not even detached as it is attached to another barn conversion.

silvercar

GDB2222 wrote: »

I made a note that our kitchen cupboards are

dulux 66bb 08/369

Anyone have a linky please?

Blue.

http://www.color-swatches.com/dulux/dulux-trade-collection/62bb-08-369/swatch.html

silvercar

Anyone musical should look at google's doodle for today.

michaels

When did you all grow in to it or did you have it from young? I never started getting it till my late 20s and it has got worse every year since

vivatifosi

Anyone want to play weed bingo? These are what I have in my garden...

Scarlet pimpernel
Sow thistle
Mind your own business
Couch grass
Nettles
Brambles
Bindweed
Rose of sharon
Daisy
White clover
Dandelion
Buttercups

Fortunately I don't have ground elder or japanese knotweed, but I do have something that looks like japanese knotweed in its early stage but then doesn't grow, can't find that in any books.

At some point I will probably get someone in to nuke the lot as it is a losing battle with basic chemicals and hand gardening tools. Astroturf is looking increasingly appealing.

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

Anyone musical should look at google's doodle for today.

You said that just as DH (who is rapidly on the road to becoming plain H) was playing it. As much has he would like to tell you otherwise, he does not currently constitute "anyone musical".