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Curmudgeon' s Corner. I blame it on the heat. (2)

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    edited November 2018

    Lyn said:
    😀😀😀😀😀. Brilliant Obe, yes, agree that flushing must be done with the lid down, although I did hear, on tv, that it would be safer to prepare your food on the toilet seat than your worktop! 
    Even my aim isn't bad enough to hit the worktop.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That was about tumbleweed not sick people at hospitals. Although...
    sometimes I wonder if they might be better off pushed out onto the streets and become someone else's problem,😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    Bit like all the neighbour's recycling heading past my window at the moment then, @wild edges!
  • LauraRoslinLauraRoslin Posts: 496
    edited November 2018
    I live on the side of a hill.   We had our rubbish picked up on Tuesday morning.  There's still a pile of wheelie bins at the bottom of the hill.
    I wish I was a glow worm
    A glow worm's never glum
    Cos how can you be grumpy
    When the sun shines out your bum!
  • Obelixx said:
    Apparently it isn't native to the USA but arrived with Russian emigrants who had seed with them.  The young shoots are edible, it seems, and probably a treat after a winter of frozen cabbage..   However, its habit of breaking off and rolling as it dies in order to distribute seeds has meant it has spread far and wide.

    In Russia it seems it's good at absorbing noxious minerals from contaminated soil

    http://www.eattheweeds.com/salsola-kali-noxious-weed-nibble-green-2/ 
    Tasty or what???  :/

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited November 2018
    Happen they found it rolling around places like Chernobyl Dove.   The thing is, it presumably either breaks down and goes back into the soil or maybe gets used as kindling so not particularly useful as a uranium absorber then altho you'd certainly get a glow from a fire made with it..
    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
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    AnniD said:
    Bit like all the neighbour's recycling heading past my window at the moment then, @wild edges!
    My recycling was still outside the gate after the lorry had gone past.  I committed the ultimate sin - I had a lot of cardboard to go out and it wouldn't all have fitted in their recycling bag, so I used a bit of common sense and packed it all into a large cardboard box.  Box was open with the rest all neatly stacked inside.  They wouldn't take it because it wasn't in the approved recycling bag!  *&^%$$£ jobsworths.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    OH’s brother had similar experience, they’d had a party and the box was full of bottles so they used a cardboard box on top for the surplus bottles, they wouldn’t take them so brother asked if he could put them in the cart, Yes they said. ! 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Pauline 7Pauline 7 Posts: 2,246
    Ours will take any amount of recycling in any container,  as long as they can see it's recyclable.  We have a wheeled bin for everything that can be recycled and mine is normally full to the brim every fortnight. 
    West Yorkshire
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I went to a poncey restaurant the other day. A wedge of lemon was involved in the starter. It has elasticated muslin knickers on it - why?
    And -  more worrying  - do they re-use them?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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