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Curmudgeons' Corner -blame it on the PITAs

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    There are already delays as French customs staff are revolting - strikes to demand extra staff to cope with all the checks on goods to the UK so lorries are already queuing at Calais and the Chunnel and presumably other northern French ports with ferry links to England.

    I'm looking forward to it all pouring in unchecked and free of tariffs via Eire and Northern Ireland.  Drugs, illegal immigrants, people trafficking along with everything else. 
    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
  • RubytooRubytoo Posts: 1,630
    Obelixx said:
    There are already delays as French customs staff are revolting -
    It's all the garlic snails they eat, can't be helped I am afraid.
    The peasants are too.

    So satisfying the way the lid pops off a new tin of Tate and Lyles finest.
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    Oberlix , no change then ! 
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    When I  was on a Hoising Association Board we use to go on a diversity courses every few years as a matter of course , certainly interesting and some times amusing 

    Friut & Veg , well have been looking at fresh stuff in s/m when with other half and have noticed lots of items from Morocco  🇲🇦 & Egypt 🇪🇬  

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Their produce will get delayed too but I'm sure Lord Snooty has a cunning plan.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • IamweedyIamweedy Posts: 1,364
    None at all. Our choir had a long rehearsal getting ready for a concert. this morning Very hard work  but very enjoyable.

    Now I need the  strong man to get the bargain bags of B&Q peat free out of my car. and onto the soil. 



    'You must have some bread with it me duck!'

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited March 2019
    Deep and meaningful thought whilst engaged in a mindless activity:

    When you take the human out of the equation, does a bee have more right to life than a slug or a vine weevil grub?
    If you took a tally, taking in to account bug killers, weed killers etc, do gardeners kill more species than they grow?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    With humans out of the equation they would be equal, but.... without humans the bees would be dead because the slugs and VW would eat everything. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    B3 said:
    Deep and meaningful thought whilst engaged in a mindless activity:

    When you take the human out of the equation, does a bee have more right to life than a slug or a vine weevil grub?
    If you took a tally, taking in to account bug killers, weed killers etc, do gardeners kill more species than they grow?
    I've always been of the opinion that slugs are essential to any garden. They work just as hard as bees and are just as important in the ecosystem. They're toiling away breaking down dead plants and improving your soil and feeding the frogs and hedgehogs. Vine weevils on the other hand can f**k off.
    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
    But nature would survive even if we didn't . Throughout most of the planet, we decide what is a pest and what should survive. The natural environment isn't really natural.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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