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Reasons to be cheerful 2019 - the antidote to Curmudgeons' Corner

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I thought for a minute it referred to a "designer" windscreen - frosted to ensure no one could view the celeb who was driving.

    I saw one of those a few days ago.  Possibly a tank driver in a previous life as only an area about 18" wide and 6" high had been cleared as a viewing port!  It was an Audi, and we know drivers of German cars have right of way so there would be no problem. :D
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Fairygirl said:
    I just remembered another RTBC today. When I was out for a walk this morning, and bearing in mind it was minus two when I left the house, I saw a postman in shorts.
    His trousered  colleague was just along the road and I said to him that it had made me laugh. He said ' I know, he's off his head'  :D

    Isn't it odd @Nollie, that when people do that kind of thing correctly, they're praised, when the fact is - everyone should be doing it as a matter of course!
    Posties are a breed apart.  My brother-in-law wears shorts until his legs develop frostbite. 
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Since The Incident, which caused my dog's bed to be taken to the tip as a lost cause, the poor boy has been slumming it with his thin travel bed and resorting to stealing cushions from the chairs to make his bony self more comfortable. Yesterday his new bed arrived in the post and he hopped straight in and hasn't left it apart from to eat and to visit the little dog's room. I've never seen a comfier looking dog.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    He's probably afraid it'll disappear like the last one😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Absolutely beautiful misty pink and golden sunset 🌅 

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





  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Honey fungus is pretty much confirmed in the bank next to our driveway. Digging out the several elm stumps on which it is feeding and subsequently stabilising the bank is likely to cost £1000 - £4000 depending on the extent of the stabilising procedures. The good news here is that I feared it could cost three or four times as much.
    Rutland, England
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @BenCotto, I'm not sure I would bother at that price unless you've got a wood or other precious trees nearby.  I suspect the honey fungus is probably well established underground as it is in many gardens (including ours) and it may be cheaper just to learn with it. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    How big is the bank and what else is around there for HF to feed on?  Its bootlaces (rhizomorphs) can spread a very long way so it may well be an unsuccessful investment

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=180 
    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
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I've come over to hide here for a while. It's a jungle out there😯
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Our shed will be delivered and erected tomorrow.   :)
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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