I'm very grumpy. I've been awake since 5am , and yesterday evening the flippin' drive belt on the mower snapped. AFTER the machinery place closed for the day so I couldn't order a new one before the weekend shut down.
I'm hoping they might be open this morning. Fingers crossed, but they rarely have the belts in stock and they're sent from Germany. No doubt after Brexit , a UK supplier will magically appear.
I'm hoping they might be open this morning. Fingers crossed, but they rarely have the belts in stock and they're sent from Germany. No doubt after Brexit , a UK supplier will magically appear.
Or you'll have to start buying tights.
The ice cream vans where I grew up always played 'The Happy Wanderer'. Fol-de-reeeee
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Do you get the scrap metal collector with the loud hailer doing his rounds as well? That might be just our local pikeys chaps though.
Yes we do. The voice on the loudspeaker is unintelligible, but the sound of the 'dukes of hazzard' horn is more than enough to announce their arrival on the street 🙉.
Buy 2 Hosta so you have a spare! It'll last forever then. Sod's law!
Haven't seen any scrap merchants round here but we're a teeny hamlet and also have a choice of 5 official refuse/recycling sites now that they've joined local councils together and grandly called themselves the Community of Councils of the Grand Littoral.
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)."
KT. Years ago I had a fella knock on the door to ask if he could take the old combi boiler, which was dumped in the front garden waiting to go to the tip.
Another time the guy who delivers the evening newspapers relieved us of the old (but still working) fridge freezer in much the same way. He'd moved into a new flat and had nothing so I tossed in a box of kitchen stuff when he came back to collect it. We were having a refit at the time and a good old clearout. He was very grateful 😁.
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I've been awake since 5am , and yesterday evening the flippin' drive belt on the mower snapped. AFTER the machinery place closed for the day so I couldn't order a new one before the weekend shut down.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The ice cream vans where I grew up always played 'The Happy Wanderer'. Fol-de-reeeee
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Haven't seen any scrap merchants round here but we're a teeny hamlet and also have a choice of 5 official refuse/recycling sites now that they've joined local councils together and grandly called themselves the Community of Councils of the Grand Littoral.
Another time the guy who delivers the evening newspapers relieved us of the old (but still working) fridge freezer in much the same way. He'd moved into a new flat and had nothing so I tossed in a box of kitchen stuff when he came back to collect it.
We were having a refit at the time and a good old clearout. He was very grateful 😁.