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Hello Forkers - January 2018

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Oooh Pat!  Brown snakes are the ones you really don't want around your home aren't they? 

    The MA was brilliant, made even better by being awarded it by Bill Oddie ... my previous degree had been awarded by a rather inebriate uncelebrated pal of the college principal ... image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316

    Yes, I can imagine how it felt getting Bill to present it. I can’t even remember who gave my BA to me. 

    Re. The Brown Snake. There was a bloke in Tamworth a couple of days ago who tried to rescue his little dog who was too close to one, he got bitten on the finger and didn’t survive.

    S. E. NSW
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

    Not good Pat ,,, so glad you spotted that one. 

    Do they have any predators to help control them in your area?


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    Morning, all white out there

    Pat the only scare we had was in FNQ , Mission Beach when 2 cassowaries entered the children’s room!

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316

    No predictors that I’ve ever hear off. 

    Lilyp, I’ve never encountered a cassowary. Are they aggressive?

    S. E. NSW
  • Lily PillyLily Pilly Posts: 3,845

    They say they can kill with one kick Pat, they look so colourful but if you look carefully they have a spur that has a venom inside. One kick and you are in trouble. 

    only saw a brown snake once, squashed on the road!

    Dove, you not got the snow yet?

    i actually got some sleep last night so feel a lot better

    quiet on here this morning 

    Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.”
    A A Milne
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    Hi all.

    Snowing hard, blowing a gale and bitterly cold, no excuse for not studying today then.

    Perhaps I would rather have our weather than your Brown snake, Pat.

    Shane McGowan is 60, so what you say, well if you had regularly seen the Pogues in the 1980's, you would have been surprised if he had reached 30.

    Still think Fairytale of New York is my favourite Christmas song.

    I knew you were clever Dove, but that is amazing.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Ha ha, punkdoc - every time we listen to The Pogues (which is quite often) we comment in awe that Shane McGowan is still alive. HOW? I've concluded that he must actually be just pickled. Only saw them once, at a GLC party. Ended up in the moshpit, which was quite terrifying... But happy birthday Shane, you poet. 

    Had a tree surgeon round this morning to look at my massive leylandii (4 of them), prunus and elder. Still can't decide what to do.

    More revision today - it's cold but sunny and rather nice here so that will be hard. Also other unwanted admin stuff (all of which costs money, booo) and trying to sort out why our shower has suddenly stopped draining.

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360

    Chicky, are you out there? Hope you're OK.

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489

    LG - I don't know how convenient the Slademore Contemporary, Mayfair is for you to visit  but there is a photographic exhibition being staged there until the 28th January which may interest you..

    "The Garden of Cosmic Speculation"

    It is a 30 acre site, developed over a 30 year period.  The garden is quite near to me, open only one day a year and a friend who visited it said it was marvellous.

    SW Scotland
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