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Generali wrote: »

The weather here is lovely; wonderful. Warm and sunny and lovely. We're still in Spring until 1st Dec but the weather thinks that it's summer.:T

my daughter flies to Hong Kong tomorrow then on to Cairns later in the week. she is looking forward to getting off the plne into a wall of heat.

lemonjelly

LydiaJ wrote: »

At present I have an open mind as to whether his writing pain is associated with his extra-bendy fingers, or with the serious break of that arm in "the accident" or something else. Tomorrow he is going to try writing with his left hand for several minutes to see whether it hurts. If it does, we can rule out the accident as the cause of the writing pain, because he only broke his right arm. OTOH, if it does turn out to be the accident that's caused this, then it will open up all sorts of avenues for faster and/or more intensive treatment, because the defendants will be liable to pay for any private medical treatment that is indicated.
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I had a friend who after a motorbike accident taught himself to write left handed, as he had 3 years with virtually no use of his right hand.

Generali wrote: »

I'm no superhero, I'm really, really not, but I won't stand by and watch a man beat his wife ever.

This bloke was older than me and I reckon if I'd pinched him he'd have cried. I'd react the same way if it was Ali (not that Ali would treat a woman like that I'm sure). If you don't stand up to these $@#@#ers then who will?

Reminds me of a time Me & a friend were walking down the street & saw a similar dispute. The bloke hit his wife/girlfriend & we shouted & started to go over to them. He apologised to us! We advised him he had no need to apologise to us, but should apologise to his lady...

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

These days are good for museums, nt houses, wet weather gear walking....very bracing, organising type jobs in the house, and curling up with a movie or a book.


We're going to move a buddleia and see if the ash tree is ready to move.

I've got a cherry blossom tree to move.
Not happening today though!

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I've got a cherry blossom tree to move.
Not happening today though!

Ash tree isn't ready. But the unhappy gingko was, so did that instead. We have a couple of little budds to plant too, but I'm thinking they might go over my they orchard. Tbh, I'm a. Bit non fussed with them, but they are so great for butter flies etc .

Nikkster

lostinrates wrote: »

Can any London based or mYbe ova do shopping NPs tell me if gin and juniper is being offered this year again?

Looks like it should be:
http://www.waitrose.com/shop/DisplayProductFlyout?productId=305837

lostinrates

Nikkster wrote: »

Looks like it should be:
http://www.waitrose.com/shop/DisplayProductFlyout?productId=305837

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Ii hope maybe to have that for breakfast on a day to distant yet to mention.

Thank you SO much.

Nikkster

Generali wrote: »

I am a previous malmer. I have been malm free for about 2173 days.

Billy bookshelves though? A design classic for the proles.

Anothe ex-Malmer here. I carried it home on the bus - well I intended to and realised shortly after paying that I wouldm't be able to move it without the aid of some form of wheels.

I managed to persuade customer services to keep half of it for me, and I took it home in two journeys.

My ex had it when we split up - he'd managed to break it by sitting on it anyway (it still worked ok, but needed propping up).

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've been researching my garden wind problems and it seems it's called eddying. When fierce winds hit an immovable object they create these swirls. To minimise the effects, which make my garden out of bounds whenever there's any wind really, I need to look at fencing/planting that will allow the wind to pass through it. This reduces the wind speed and the effects of the whirlwinds.

e.g. stand outside of my patio doors/window and let go of something light and it'll be ripped from your hands and go straight up. It's fierce out there, all the time. Even during the summer it was causing leaves to be dumped inside when I opened the patio doors...so it does need sorting as it's a daily issue all year round.

So I've spent a lot of time staring out of the windows and wondering what sort of barriers could be put in place, which positions are best. It's a tricky shaped plot when you consider the plot shape/size, the use of the space and the (ugly) options available.

It's all academic anyway ... as I don't have the skills to go knocking 6" posts into the ground by a few feet and fixing up fencing.... but I do need to think about what would be best/acceptable/achievable/possible for the future date when I can try to sort it out.

Woven hazel looks lovely and gives privacy. Don't think its the cheapest option, but would do what you want and still offer privacy.


An less good but easier alternative to knocking in posts that you might find at a DIY store are metal spikes you knock in with a hole for the post. The spike can be knocked in considerably more easily. I've never used them, but see principle. . Then you attach fencing to post as normal. With any luck we'll be removing some fencing next year, fencing that we put up two years ago when we planted our yews. Then we'll pull out next row of junky hedge, erected fencing there, and plant more yew. Our neighbours keep warning us we're going to die cause the yew is so poisonous.

Nikkster

silvercar wrote: »

Views of the Hudson were good,

You'll have been looking over at where we stayed last month

The Highline was one of my highlights (:)) of NY - even though it was very cold and windy the day we walked it.

Beautiful, and really nicely done.

I took a few photos - mostly as aide memoires as I am not a gifted photographer and was just using my phone. I'll see if I can post a couple.

Can't believe it's only just under a month since we flew out - feels like ages ago. I've been back from the US for just over 2 weeks and I'm now in my 3rd city since then (I'm Oop North, think Mas is my nearest NP here?)

lostinrates

I'm giving up, but I've been trying for ages now to link to a google image search of hazel hurdle fencing for pn to see what I mean.


The easiest way to do what you want pn, is a hedge, but I just guessing you will not want to be maintaining one. ( prickly hedges are excellent for home security though! ) there are reed fences the same. As you have no pets to keep in you could look at the type of hedge that isn't dog/ necessarily person proof but is a good privacy and windscreen, like proper clump forming hedging bamboo ( varities do exist). They also screen out a lot of outside sound, and make a sort of rustling sound. One could almost imagine it were sort of beachy wind noise.