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HELLO FORKERS! May 2018

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  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all.
    Very humid here, with a thick mist.
    Hope to get a few things planted out today.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hiya Pdoc  :)
    Anyone want to help flag the advert on Rat Infestation?  Not sure that a Californian pest control company is going to be of use to many of us. 

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





  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    edited May 2018
    Morning all.
    Have you decided where things are going, pdoc? Hope you get some planting done. Did the ricinus go out yet?
    Still giggling about your well-looked-after p(l)ants, Dove. Sorry!
    Mmmm pea and ham soup sounds lovely, Pat. I hope it helps you get your mojo back. Very draining to feel 'not quite right'. 
    And thinking of you too Clari, hope you feel better soon.

    More revision today, with other tasks dotted in between sessions. Both kids are sleeping at friend's houses tonight and OH, as usual, is doing 100 hour weeks again so I'll keep going into the evening.

    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • Pat EPat E Posts: 12,316
    Yes Dove. It really did. Lots of left overs for tomorrow. Son and cat are coming down, so it should go.

    S. E. NSW
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    LG  :) it's a good job they grew ... small ones would've been no good to me at all
     :) 

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Morning all.
    Hurrah for an unbroken night's sleep. 
    @fidgetbones, my daughter said Galapagos islands were the most expensive part of her South America trip, but "worth every penny" , one of her highlights of the trip, along with the salt flats in Bolivia, and Cartagena.
    I'm hoping to get the tomatoes planted in the polytunnel today . I had to do lots of shuffling from one bed to another yesterday to get them ready, but I'm certainly heading in the right direction.
    Devon.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    The reply from Poundland is wonderful:
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-44311928
    Can we just accept that Thatcher's Privitisation was a total failure? So much for lower prices and competition. The separate utility companies are morphing back into one ,and the price of water has risen exponentially and the trains are a joke and getting more tax payers' money than ever before. 
    Devon.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Love Poundland.  I stocked up on bags of vermiculite.
    Hubby thought it was expensive, but it doesn't matter how you do the Galapagos, it is expensive. From the recent reports, I suspect we may be litter picking there as well as Indonesia. Sea lions playing with plastic is not good. I will be happy if they play with my fins.  I might need a new Camcorder. :*
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Always been on my list too, fidget. Sadly the list is on hold, no holidays booked here.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    The top 10 excuses for not appointing women were:

    • "I don't think women fit comfortably into the board environment"
    • "There aren't that many women with the right credentials and depth of experience to sit on the board - the issues covered are extremely complex"
    • "Most women don't want the hassle or pressure of sitting on a board"
    • "Shareholders just aren't interested in the make-up of the board, so why should we be?"
    • "My other board colleagues wouldn't want to appoint a woman on our board"
    • "All the 'good' women have already been snapped up"
    • "We have one woman already on the board, so we are done - it is someone else's turn"
    • "There aren't any vacancies at the moment - if there were I would think about appointing a woman"
    • "We need to build the pipeline from the bottom - there just aren't enough senior women in this sector"
    • "I can't just appoint a woman because I want to"

    The explanations come from a range of FTSE 350 chairs and chief executives that were heard by the team conducting the review.

    Amanda Mackenzie, chief executive of Business in the Community, said: "As you read this list of excuses you might think it's 1918, not 2018.

    "It reads like a script from a comedy parody but it's true. Surely we can now tackle this once and for all."

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

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
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