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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    The toothbrushes do last much longer, it’s not so much using the electric it’s the disgusting treatment of those poor children that have to collect the stuff to go in the batteries,  I wouldn’t have any large tools that take batteries. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    Got up at the crack of dawn (to me) in order to go to the emergency dentist in the next town at 9am only to find they are closed. How dare they, when I have had toothache all weekend. Hopefully nothing at all to do with the fact I have eaten a box of 12 Cadburys chocolate eggs over the past week and a bit! 
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Driving home from Cardiff last night we saw at least 3 seperate hill fires. It seems early in the year but I guess there's lots of dead and dry material left from the heatwave last year.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's the holidays.  People get bored and start a fire or are careless with a cigarette or match and start one.
    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
    islander said:
    Maybe not the right place but I am sick at heart
    https://www.rte.ie/news/ulster/2019/0422/1044940-wildfire-newcastle-county-down-donard-forest/
    A large part of Ireland is on fire; usually these are started by farmers burning gorse out of season, Wild life   is being incinerated. Just .......
    According to news reports those were started by somebody having a barbeque.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    I thought that was the one in West Yorkshire 
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-48012193
    Although the Donegal ones could have started the same way.....
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    AnniD said:
    I thought that was the one in West Yorkshire 
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-48012193
    Although the Donegal ones could have started the same way.....
    Yup.  Just realised, and came on to correct but been beaten to it. :-:smiley:
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Bad grass : 
    The one with the wide blades and white roots
    The long thin one that gets in the middle of shrubs and gets high
    The thin one that's full of ' elbows ' and sneaks around at soil level
    What are they called?
     People ask how to get rid, but I don't  know one from t'other and would like to know what they're talking about.
    I find weeding the elbow one strangely satisfying. I feel I should be concerned about the others, but I'm not.
    Enlightenment would be appreciated.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    I think the first one is probably couch grass. It grows over concrete. I try to pull it out from under the soil, to get as much root as possible. 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Thanks @raisingirl 😊  
     That leaves two😊 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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