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Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

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  • PasturesNew
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    Pyxis wrote: »
    This is a type of laurel, although there are lots of types.



    cinnamomum_camphora5.jpg

    That looks like it to me - green, shiny leaves that are "quite light" - growths with white stuff that'll ping out ...

    I'd say that was it.
  • PasturesNew
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    silvercar wrote: »
    Danger is when some bits get too high or too thick to hack. Then you are stuck as those bits don't get pruned until you get someone in to do it.

    It's a hedge in my front garden, behind it is a low wall. The other side of the wall is the footpath, which is about 2' higher .... so I can always reach - and I've got one of those "long reach loppers with a string you pull" that I used to hack back the neighbour's 10' tall bush with.... that's now completely gone, thank goodness.
  • PasturesNew
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    Had a look - and this could also be it.
    https://evergreenhedging.com/hedging-store/griselinia-2.html/

    Bored of hedge talk now.
    :)
  • PasturesNew
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    Just had a massive short (5 minutes) hail storm. Could have been described as a "thunder dump" to use Pyrix' earlier word!

    It came from nowhere!
  • Pyxis
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    Just had a massive short (5 minutes) hail storm. Could have been described as a "thunder dump" to use Pyrix' earlier word!

    It came from nowhere!

    It's thunder-plump, not dump! :eek: :rotfl:

    Also, there has to be a thunderstorm too! :D
    (I just lurve spiders!)
    INFJ(Turbulent).

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  • Tahlullah
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    michaels wrote: »
    A few months ago I downloaded and I think mostly filed in all the POA stuff as with our low income we would get it free but I think the next step was to get some signatures witnessed so it has gone onto a 'to do' pile....

    That's one of the reasons I really enjoy this thread. You get such random comments that you have no idea what it relates to or means. POA... Payment on application, payment on account, price on application, plan of action? Oh, Power of Attorney! Now it makes sense.

    Tx
    Still striving to be mortgage free before I get to a point I can't enjoy it.

    Owed at the end of -
    02/19 - £78,400. 04/19 - £85,000. 05/19 - £83,300. 06/19 - £78,900.
    07/19 - £77,500. 08/19 - £76,000.
  • Pyxis
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    Tahlullah wrote: »
    That's one of the reasons I really enjoy this thread. You get such random comments that you have no idea what it relates to or means. POA... Payment on application, payment on account, price on application, plan of action? Oh, Power of Attorney! Now it makes sense.

    Tx
    Oh thanks! I was wondering, too!
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  • PasturesNew
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    It's POA because ... after time, you get to know people's situations ... so can randomly guess the correct answer without even blinking.
  • michaels
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    Tahlullah wrote: »
    That's one of the reasons I really enjoy this thread. You get such random comments that you have no idea what it relates to or means. POA... Payment on application, payment on account, price on application, plan of action? Oh, Power of Attorney! Now it makes sense.

    Tx

    I thought we were only talking about hedges and Power of Attorney and it definitely wasn't a hedge comment....nor did it relate to the Prison Officers Association.

    Our rental house had a beech hedge, looked great in summer when well trimmed but miserable in winter when the leaves had fallen. At the bottom of our garden we have two nearly 40 foot leylandii, they were all along the S edge of the garden (120 feet of 30 plus feet 'hedge' but we got them raised to 40 feet as soon as we moved in except for the last two at the bottom of the garden that provide privacy rather than perpetual winter...
    I think....
  • chris_m
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    michaels wrote: »
    leylandii, they were all along the S edge of the garden (120 feet of 30 plus feet 'hedge' but we got them raised as soon as we moved in except for the last two at the bottom of the garden that provide privacy rather than perpetual winter...

    You got them raised? Wasn't 30 feet high enough?
    :p
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