Great replies folks - I feel quite cheered. I didn't tell you all that I have been known to cut the grass between the paving stones with a pair of scissors - in the rain!
It looks our chance of rain is receding fast, although it's now 6pm and looking very stormy. Thankfully it's also cooler.
You have eaten too many Bath Buns Lizzie27 although it was something I enjoyed in many visits to Bath, you needed something to take the taste of the Spa water away. Was it a cunning plan I ask. We always took new intakes from our base in Cella to Belsen and I often saw old Ladies on their knees cutting the grass areas in front of the Museum with Scissors, I asked what was going on did they not have machines? I was told they were Displaced people who could not be sent home, they had claimed the grass patches as their own and would not let anyone touch them. Inside the camp area were mounds covering the Dead and it was still arid and brown, the mindset on seeing lovely green patches can only be imagined, the care they were taking was heartbreaking to see. My bus load of young Squaddies were very quiet on the bus back to Cella.
In the stable yard we watered the Sets with salt water it kept the weeds down but we had to stop the horses licking it. Frank.
Palaisglide - I love Bath buns so have to control myself. The water - urghh. I am one of the privileged few who went to the Roman Bath Rendevous, must have been in the 1970's. It was a week of evening openings in the summer, you could actually bathe in the Great Bath or smaller ones, then you changed for dinner/dancing.. The only downside was that your swimsuit came out orange and it was a job keeping your beehive hairdo dry! I do wish I had a photo of my younger self then.
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It looks our chance of rain is receding fast, although it's now 6pm and looking very stormy. Thankfully it's also cooler.
We always took new intakes from our base in Cella to Belsen and I often saw old Ladies on their knees cutting the grass areas in front of the Museum with Scissors, I asked what was going on did they not have machines?
I was told they were Displaced people who could not be sent home, they had claimed the grass patches as their own and would not let anyone touch them.
Inside the camp area were mounds covering the Dead and it was still arid and brown, the mindset on seeing lovely green patches can only be imagined, the care they were taking was heartbreaking to see.
My bus load of young Squaddies were very quiet on the bus back to Cella.
In the stable yard we watered the Sets with salt water it kept the weeds down but we had to stop the horses licking it.
Frank.
Palaisglide - I love Bath buns so have to control myself. The water - urghh. I am one of the privileged few who went to the Roman Bath Rendevous, must have been in the 1970's. It was a week of evening openings in the summer, you could actually bathe in the Great Bath or smaller ones, then you changed for dinner/dancing.. The only downside was that your swimsuit came out orange and it was a job keeping your beehive hairdo dry! I do wish I had a photo of my younger self then.
Frank.
I think gardeners are generally the sanest people I meet. Even if they do some odd things
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