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Awful weather - typical Brits talk
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Well I can now enthusiastically join in with the “have you seen the price of materials?!” conversations!
Work progressing, slowly. It’s gonna take this month to finish it when it’s only weekend working from next week
Anyway. Yeah I really liked the gravelly bricks too 2p, it’s an idea I’m for copying. Somewhere. At some point. Another fellah had a bricked slope instead of steps which I liked too. I’ll put that up. I like the arty bits too Farway, the fighting hares and the hidden deer were a surprise as you come round the corner!Plenty of gardens looked like your pic Dusty, lovely but not startling. But they gave me good info, which I wrote down like a good girl.Thunderstorms and lots of rain is just gonna give floods…No sun here (thank gawd) still cool and breezy.I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.5 -
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I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.4 -
Oh nice. Those are setts though and not slippery.
If you use bricks for a slope you could ski down it in winter
I can rise and shine - just not at the same time!
viral kindness .....kindness is contageous pass it on
The only normal people you know are the ones you don’t know very well
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Setts
I learned a new word todayI'm not an early bird or a night owl; I’m some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.3 -
ArbitraryRandom said:Setts
I learned a new word todayTypes 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!
"There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity3 -
I learned something yesterday, too: there are beavers in our river! There are times when they can't be mentioned in polite company either, but I digress...We've had an invitation to see the damage constructions they've been making, which will be hailed as wonderful and exciting...until they create more localised flooding in a place where people already struggle to sell. It's not many people, so it'll just be hard luck. They aren't 'official' beavers, but as the nearest group of those is over 50 miles away, across Exeter and the M5, I expect they've been introduced surreptitiously.Yesterday the hay was baled and we got 27 big ones; about 1/3 more than I anticipated, so that shows what I know!
Not bad for a place with "no significant agricultural activity!" I've sent the person quoted a few photos.
"There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity5 -
Dustyevsky said:I've sent the person quoted a few photos.I'm not an early bird or a night owl; I’m some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.3
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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 shareThey'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.4 -
Pride before a fall, am I allowed to swear? 'twas only yesterday I posted how well my posh cannas were doing & ready to plant upThis is what I found this morning, the black pots are the posh & expensive canna pots, contents now inside a squirrels' belly I suspect, or maybe some of Dusty's beavers ventured further EastI've not had chance to inspect closely, but I think they've all gone. These were against the house wall, and required a bit of agility to get there, as well as bl))dy cheek, fume, spit & bu66erEight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens7
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Oh Farway, after all that work and tlc
Swear away, we'll not hear you over all the swearing that's going on here
(Neighbour - singular, she's left again, house is off the market
) 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.3
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