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Continuity problem on GW

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Depends on what needs watering the most Obelixx ... if you've only got a little water, and the peas need watering and they're down the end of the garden, then I think yuou'd probably take the water down there ... I know I would.   In the summer of 1976, with a very new baby Wonky, and a newly planted wildlife hedge down the bottom of the garden, I didn't waste water on the pots of pelargoniums on the back steps, I carried buckets and buckets of bath and washing up water and water from the washing machine down the garden every day in order to keep that hedge going ... We used Ecover washing up liquid and 'detergent' and the hedge survived perfectly well and it's still looking good.  Probably doesn't need watering now  :)     

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Water butts and hosepipe on a meter - as is everyone's water round here - so no water restrictions other than filling swimming pools.

    Glad your hedge survived.  I remember 1976 very well.   So hot - working in Foyle's old buildings so no A/C.
    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)."
    Plato
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    The daughter is an Ancient History and Egyptology graduate,  she goes mad when films get the wrong ships like in Troy. My best one was a visit to Rome this year, we found the archway Cleopatra arrived under in the film is at right angles to the forum,  another poetic licence.  😄
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    "I bet if those who have been enjoying Poldark looked carefully they would see a BCG mark on his arm."

    But this says far more about about the people who look for the BCG mark than Poldark.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Who is this Poldark of whom you speak? If he is to be valued as much as your comments would suggest I imagine it to be excellent news that he will not succumb to the fatal consumption.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Poldark's BCG injection mark.


  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Fire said:
    Hosta, the quote I was thinking of it this.


    I seem to remember a story of you encountering him while he was filming at a flower show and you finding him insufferable. Maybe I'm mixing up the stories. Apologies if I have.

    Nope, it must have been someone else who found him insufferable. ;)
    Apology accepted. No hard feelings on either side I'm sure.
    Devon.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    Its possible a good meal and better designed trousers would maybe make him smile instead of grimace?   I apologise if I am being discourteous about someone's idol, not familiar with this person - never really got over Dirk Bogarde.
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Maybe he has sea water in his eyes and a stiff breeze??
    Devon.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    And, not to be indiscreet, no mechanism for easy relief! Why do certain people think clothes that are too small make them look 'fit' ?
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
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