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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat.

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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    And why do ALL my post still show edit, edit, edit at the bottom even when I have not made any corrections.
    AB Still learning

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Frog impersonations!
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Very good. :D
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The more you type, the more edit options you have😀. Only you can see so it doesn’t really matter.  
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I don't get the coffee thing. I don't mind coffee cake or the bean in a sambucca (why don't they set fire to sambuccas any more?)
    I don't drink tea either -tastes like dead leaves
    Anywayyyy. People buy a bucket or an eggcupful of coffee for an extortionate price. There's this weird coffeespeak skinny latte- what's that forgoodnessake? - don't tell me. I don't care.

    As far as I'm concerned, hot drinks are medicinal for when you've got a cold. Lemsip or marigold stock followed by cold water.

    While we're on the subject - I hate milk (primary school radiator issues probably). I would have welcomed Maggie Thatcher milk snatcher with open arms and donated half my pocket money to her election fund
     I learnt later that it was about more than school milk and.d would have eventually cut off the funding stream.

    Anyway, I have digressed into politics. What I was trying to get around to was people who try to convince me that there are alternatives to cow's milk. I know this but I don't need them. I don't drink tea or coffee. And I don't mind milk so long as I can't taste it. <green emoji>
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    My only complaint today is that having spent all day sanding my living room floor, my back is now killing me. And I am so tired! But, job done! And I welcomed the inclement weather as if it had been sunny, I would have collapsed!
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    All hail 'xander!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DyersEndDyersEnd Posts: 730
    How about £186 quid for 50 mins of torture in the dentists chair. (I've just got back) That reason enough to be grumpy DyersEnd ?
    Yes. Sympathy from someone who is putting off making their next appointment (which was due this month).
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Why do the names of so many plants sound like diseases or afflictions?
    Some mentioned today : eucomis and scrophularia to name but two. And then there's scabiosa and plumbago
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2018
    It's 'cos so many of them have bits that look like human bits and pieces ... and of course, it was thought that if they looked like them they would help cure problems with them ... it's called the Doctrine of Signatures ... Lungwort with its blotchy leaves was thought to cure diseases of the lungs.  Scrophularia was thought to cure the throat disease Scrofula because the flower shape looked like a throat. 

    Thank goodness for modern medicine  :)

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





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