Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait

GDB2222

Michaels has a beautiful wife and family.

lostinrates

GDB2222 wrote: »

Michaels has a beautiful wife and family.

He really does


And they are lovely people.


Anyway, dh just said invite IS for him. Whoa.:eek:

I'm not going.
1. No passport. Michaels is right, I should go to passport office, but no time before 'this is spinal tap' and not sure I'll be up to it the couple of days after. He flies out at the weekend. (After this one)

2. It's long haul. I won't be able to confirm I am able to fly until brain drain. So we'd be looking for a ticket long haul at just a few days notice. Probably be really expensive....especially as I think. (Princess mode) I 'd not want to do it in economy to stand a chance of being able to enjoy the two days there, I'd need to know I maximised my chance to move etc on the plane and be able to 'be normalish' on arrival. It's a long flight to sleep in a fancy hotel.

GDB2222

lostinrates wrote: »

2. It's long haul. I won't be able to confirm I am able to fly until brain drain. So we'd be looking for a ticket long haul at just a few days notice. Probably be really expensive....especially as I think. (Princess mode) I 'd not want to do it in economy to stand a chance of being able to enjoy the two days there, I'd need to know I maximised my chance to move etc on the plane and be able to 'be normalish' on arrival. It's a long flight to sleep in a fancy hotel.

I wouldn't contemplate doing that just for two days, even flying business class/first class. And, I do have a passport.

mystic_trev

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Over the winter, my Dad lays old carpets and similar on the bare patches on his vegetable garden. Then, when he wants to dig it over and plant something, he whips them off, and there are no weeds to deal with.

One of my neighbours did that last Autumn. In fact they covered a large portion of their garden to re do this Spring. When they started to take the covers off they found a colony of Slow worms, which are a protected species and can't be moved. They're now well and truly stuffed!

lostinrates

mystic_trev wrote: »

One of my neighbours did that last Autumn. In fact they covered a large portion of their garden to re do this Spring. When they started to take the covers off they found a colony of Slow worms, which are a protected species and can't be moved. They're now well and truly stuffed!

My cats love slow worms:o. Thankfully we don't get any here.....they are gruesome to have to clear up....all in segments wriggling yuck.

I have yet to find a way to stop cats getting slower a, birds disappear to a bell and cats can be put off them with water guns, but sloworms they get without me seeing, probably miles away.

PasturesNew

mystic_trev wrote: »

...they found a colony of Slow worms, which are a protected species and can't be moved. They're now well and truly stuffed!

Isn't that just one of those "quick/shhh, nobody's looking.... it's only us that'll ever know...." times?

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Isn't that just one of those "quick/shhh, nobody's looking.... it's only us that'll ever know...." times?

I'd be surprised if they stayed there all summer....they tend to like more dank places.

Carpet helps weeds, but not totally, We used it a lot, and still do, but it reduces rather than eradicates. Ad of course, its more faff than its worth round permanent stuff.

mystic_trev

PasturesNew wrote: »

Isn't that just one of those "quick/shhh, nobody's looking.... it's only us that'll ever know...." times?

Quite But now that they've told everybody.......

tomterm8

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

Over the winter, my Dad lays old carpets and similar on the bare patches on his vegetable garden. Then, when he wants to dig it over and plant something, he whips them off, and there are no weeds to deal with.

That's a good idea for a vegetable patch, but the weeds are in the dratted flower borders. (They are badly planted, flowers too close together, so it is a manual weeding job. And we've had much less time this year than normal to do it.)

I like flowers, but I am not really that interested in doing them as a garden. In this, I am overridden:D

Actually, I've got to that point in my life that I'd prefer to get a nice concrete patio "garden", with a few flower pots, and ***** the gardening.

But maybe it is the ant attacks that are making me feel that way:D

tomterm8

To be honest, I wouldn't worry about the slow worms. They will just make their way to some other shelter. It's the adders that might hide under the carpet that you need to worry about.