TBH - sometimes I feel that way just looking at our "garden" which is going to take years to tame and make how I want and require men with machines. Got OH to rotivate a new bed I need for more roses and clems and stuff and it's just a pile of broken roof tiles. Seems our predecessors knocked down an old farm building and buried the tiles so we'll need a man with a bulldozer/digger and a lorry to take all that away and then another man with loads of top soil.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
A few spots of rain in Mid Devon have made not one jot of difference to the desperate need for water for the parched earth. We have no hosepipe ban as such, but are, like the rest of the country, exhorted to minimise water usage. And now today we are being told that we need to keep our plants watered and blooming, or the butterflies will suffer from lack of nectar. What to do in this dilemma? Who on earth are we supposed to believe? (Remembering 1976, 60% of the butterfly population died because of the extended drought. Perhaps we need to take this into account as we conserve water).
5 minutes of rain in Sevenoaks.Not much good to me as I don't live there. But it was nice to see. I poked my leg out of the car to feel it and had a good sniff at the petrichor -ah memories! Encouraged OH to sacrifice his washing to the rain gods. No luck .washing bone dry when we got home Now I know what it must be like to live in one of those boring countries with predictable weather.
Last year Sainsbury was lauding their amazing new toilet rolls with smaller holes. Apparently with the same number of sheets. Lower transportation costs etc blahdeblah.Who would bother to count them anyway? The bigger hole is handier to grab hold of when it's on the floor because the holder has come off the wall. I'm sure that's the reason.
Actually, B3, counting the number of sheets on the roll was the job of a Trading Standards officer a few years ago. They go to all lengths to make sure we, the public, are not being short-changed!
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Encouraged OH to sacrifice his washing to the rain gods. No luck .washing bone dry when we got home
Now I know what it must be like to live in one of those boring countries with predictable weather.
N0, it's NOT a bigger, fatter loo roll. It's just got a bigger hole in the middle.
The bigger hole is handier to grab hold of when it's on the floor because the holder has come off the wall. I'm sure that's the reason.