Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

Spirit_2

My surname is ranked more than 300th world wide but in the top 5 in Ireland. OH's surname is just over 200th worldwide and in the top 5 in the UK, USA, Jamaica, and quite a few other countries.

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's my G-grandma's 135th next week

Happy Birthday to pastures-very-old!

lemonjelly

An update on me garden stuff. After a few weeks with the usual wondering if anything would grow, a few green shoots promptly got roundly munched by !!!!!!! slugs and snails!
I've been going to war on the swines this week. I decided to plant a few more seeds as a result of the carnage:



Into the ground I've sown:
Purple carrots - a few shoots, but I'm concerned that most of these have been got at by the varmints
Normal carrots - doing better, but still evidence of slug behaviour
Onions - kicking in really well!
Spring onions - no signs of life at the moment sadly

Into pots I've planted:
leek - some very spindly looking plants 60% success rate
Thyme - couple of small plants, not sure which was the basil (below) & thyme. Will have to wait and see...
Basil - see above
Cucumbers - were doing really well til the vermin got at them 50% got blitzed.
Beans - absolutely nothing. I'm guessing slugs/snails
Peas - ditto
Tomatoes - I know a couple got munched. I assumed that a number got done, however since I first noticed a few have popped up. Got about 6 seedlings now.
Lettuce - got 3 separate batches on the go, plus planted some seeds again yesterday. However those damned critters have started to have a go here too!
Rainbow Swiss Chard - going great guns! The success story so far! The stems are starting to get some colour too.
Tiger Tomatoes (supposed to be stripey?) - to date, only 1 has sprouted. I wonder if slugs etc got at these too
Yellow Courgettes. - 3 planted, 3 nice looking plants

I forgot to say in the original post that I'd planted some red Brussels sprouts too. They were going well, but disaster did hit. They're generally ok though, about 12 have survived.
I'd also planted beetroot, but there's absolute carnage there too.

Evasive action taken this evening by planting extra beetroot, leeks, cucumbers, and spring onions.
At the weekend I planted a shedload of extra tomatoes, as I thought the ones I'd planted were doomed. Looks like I have a potential tomato plant surplus again.

A friend gave me a couple of blackcurrant bushes, with I've planted & all have taken. I've planted one in a chimney pot (a mate is dismantling them off houses down south wales, & brought me 3 up, with hopefully a few more to follow!) I haven't repotted the blueberry bush yet. That'll be this weekend.

lemonjelly

Nikkster wrote: »

That word always makes me think of waterboarding.
I had the way corporate-speak is invented to replace perfectly fictional existing words.

Might delete: at work everyone refers to 'learnings', !!!!!! is wrong with 'lessons'?

vivatifosi wrote: »

Interesting. They use learnings at my place too. I think it is management speak.

Reminds me of office boolsheet bingo. My current fave, "teamwork makes the dream work".

SingleSue

Shattered, back is agony but we survived youngest's PIP assessment.

Just have to keep our fingers crossed now.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's my G-grandma's 135th next week

My mate's dad's 100 and I wonder how far this can go. More and more people are living to triple digits. 135 does sound beyond what's achievable but you have to wonder in the long term.

Blackpool_Saver

vivatifosi wrote: »

Morning Blackpool Saver and welcome to the NPT. Do you like mushrooms?

Yes, is it compulsory ? :rotfl:

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I watched the first series but felt that every episode just had the same three jokes in it. I think it would probably have been funnier if it was made by channel 4 about the BBC rather than the BBC about itself.

I didn't know there was a series before this. Need to get some series to get into. Finding Car Share to be V good. Want to get back into the Americans. Looking forward to the Heroes revival when that happens.

Chewie, make the most of the break. Parenting's a kind of a full-on sort of a thing. People try to describe it to you in advance - that doesn't really work.:o

Spirit_2

An update on my garden stuff too:
In a raised bed, 2 lots of lettuce, coriander, parsley and carrots.

In the green house 4 tomato plants, courgettes coming up, no sign of life from sweet peas, peppers and aubergine seeds only just sown. Potted up window sill basil and mint and both look to have taken. two rosemary seedlings grown last year like the move indoors. I need to sow french and runner beans. In main patch rhubarb is coming up but seems a bit slow this year. Lupins self seeded from last year were thriving, but this morning had signs of slugs having munched them. I want to grow foxgloves and aquiligia from seed this year to flower next year.


OH has decided to buy a petrol hedge trimmer this weekend having finally concluded that doing it by hand is too much work.Probably Stihl.

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

DW has introduced me to W1A. I may become a fan.

I saw this a few weeks ago and really liked it. Unusually for me I watched a whole episode ( concentration/attention cannot be held for very long).