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Awful weather - typical Brits talk

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  • YoungBlueEyes
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    Brick slope - 


    I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.
  • twopenny
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    Oh nice. Those are setts though and not slippery.
    If you use bricks for a slope you could ski down it in winter  :smiley:


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  • ArbitraryRandom
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    Setts 

    I learned a new word today :) 
    I'm not an early bird or a night owl; I’m some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.
  • Dustyevsky
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    Setts 

    I learned a new word today :) 
      I think they're concrete paviours, now dumbed-down to 'pavers' in most advertising. The setts are forming the edges to the path.

    Types of blocks and bricks

    There two basic types of block paving; the moulded concrete block (CBP - Concrete Block Pavers), and the kiln-fired clay brick, hence the interchangeability of the terms block and brick paving. In the following notes, concrete types are referred to as blocks, and clays as bricks.

    However, both may also be known as pavers, paviors, or paviours, as well as some more obscure terms, not all of which are repeatable in polite company!

    https://www.pavingexpert.com/blocks

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  • ArbitraryRandom
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     I've sent the person quoted a few photos. :p 
    Excellent photoshop skills Dusty. Did you use AI? :D
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  • YoungBlueEyes
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    Every day really is a school day. Thanks for that Dusty, saves me looking it up and falling down a rabbit hole ha haa! I think a slippy slope sounds like good fun but himself has 10 years on me so probably not a good idea :( 

    Baling is my favourite smell in the whole world, perfect weather for it too. It'll carry on the breeze and everyone can have a share :love: They've not started the cutting round here yet but it'll not be long I don't think.

    My plan for that old school milk bottle - alliums and daisies - well the daisies waited for the alliums to die before they came out, so that's the end of that plan :(

    Weather the same, we're deffo in Anti Cyclonic Gloom territory (thanks @Annemos). No change for a few days then it's scorchioooo. They say. Not a drop of rain to be seen for the next 10 days. Thank god we're not on a water meter... 
    I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.
  • YoungBlueEyes
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    Oh Farway, after all that work and tlc :o Swear away, we'll not hear you over all the swearing that's going on here :lol: (Neighbour - singular, she's left again, house is off the market :angry:) is swearing at us making noise from 0900!

    Are your pots definitely empty? Maybe a cat/hedgehog/fox knocked them over in the night? She said, trying to be positive....
    I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.
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