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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Get yourself a water scarecrow WE - but turn it off when you're out there!
    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
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Can I be vicariously curmudgeonly on behalf of my daughter?
    Her upstairs neighbour came in from night shift,started running a bath , then fell asleep. Water pouring through the ceiling light socket woke my daughter  up , banging on his door had no reaction so they called the fire brigade who were about to break in , fearing he'd died or some such thing. He is on floor 5 , daughter directly below but the water went all the way down through  every flat on the floors below down the ground floor level.
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Oh dear, that's going to be a big insurance claim - if he's insured at all.

    I'm miffed today because I walked all the way down to the village to try a new pilates class at 10.45 am in the church centre but nobody else came, very strange as the lights were on in the room and a pile of mats out. I waited half an hour and then walked home again. I'd also missed some good gardening weather as well. Not happy.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Are you sure it wasn't a pirates class and they were all outside swashbuckling on the village pond?
    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
    or Pontius Pilates. They might have been washing their hands.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Did have a good look round, we don't have a village pond alas, no suspicious characters that I could see. Probably my own fault for not phoning the tutor beforehand.

    Rant today is because when I drew the bedroom curtains this morning, found a squirrel sat on top of the trellis merrily chomping about 6 clematis buds which were soon to bloom (Group 2 earlies). Although I ran out in my jimjams, the blighter must have sneaked back and ate some more.  I didn't know they ate flower buds.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Joyce21Joyce21 Posts: 15,489
    Squirrels have eaten flower buds on hellebores and a climbing rose which I removed as it never got a chance to flower.
    SW Scotland
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Anything fresh and juicy and easy to get to.  Frustrating.
    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
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Lizzie27 said:
    Did have a good look round, we don't have a village pond alas, no suspicious characters that I could see. Probably my own fault for not phoning the tutor beforehand.
    Well there you go. They'd probably all gone off further afield looking for a high sea to practise on.
    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
    Squirrels keep nipping off my rosebuds. I'm running out of egg cups.
    😠😐💣
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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