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Curmudgeons' Corner 3. I blame it on the scapegoat🐐

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  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Obelixx said:
    I just take a daily anti-histamine and that sorts out the worst of it and also helps reduce reactions to bites from the kind of fly that feeds on warm blooded  critters such as me, horses and cattle but not OH.   

    I assume you occasionally mention to him that this probably means he's actually a lizard? Or a dinosaur? 
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Right. This is totally  curmudgeonly and definitely ungrateful.

    If a person wants to give you a present of alcohol, why don't they give you a really good bottle of wine - costing more than you would spend on yourself? You could enjoy it when you normally would drink a lesser wine.

    Instead, they give you a bottle of champagne which takes up valuable space in the fridge waiting for an 'occasion' . You fancy a glass of wine but can't justify opening the bottle.
    And I'm not that keen on fizzy wine anyway 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2019
    Maybe they had a bottle of fizz just waiting in their fridge for someone to give it to ?  
    I’ve got one of those .... 💡 maybe it’s the same bottle offizz ... going around and around, being passed from one person to another by folk who’d really rather have a bottle of Haut Medoc, Sancerre. Muscadet sur lie or Picpoul ... just like me 🍷 

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    In the 70s it was a bottle of dubonnet. I reckon there were only a half dozen in existence and they wandered from party to party. Still sitting there forlorn as even the homemade wine was drunk while the cigarette packets were shaken to see if somebody had missed one lurking in the corner of the packet and leonard cohen droned mournfully in the background.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I had a bottle of champagne once as a gift, I kept it for several years, never in the fridge. We did finally find an occasion and drunk it all in the night. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    A lot of my garden is self seeded. For obvious reasons most of them have gone over now.  My garden is a spring garden. I love it when plants burst into life. Summer gardening seems to be more about just keeping things alive.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My electric supplyl will be off all day today, doing something with our water pumping station, no internet from 9 till 4.! 😢😱 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    My God! You'll have to interact with the real world for hours😱
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    B3 said:
    My God! You'll have to interact with the real world for hours😱
    not really, she's coming over to mine, lol
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    You’ll have to pop across to that nice Waitrose delivery man’s place for tea and toast 😉 

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





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