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

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  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    edited August 2019
    I hope you're right @wild edges. Realistically the one near us is on too small a site to be successful for anyone. We used to have a lovely independent garden centre about 5 miles away but it got taken over by Blue Diamond a couple of years ago and the range of plants is much reduced (although much better than Wyevales).
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    All the Wyevales have closed around here and gone back to being independant garden centres. I really hope it's a market shift away from the chain stores.
    One Wyevale near us still carries the signage but might as well be closed.  Very limited range and what they do have isn't great quality either.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Only 3 vine weevils tonight but the weather has probably dampened their urge to ruin my plants.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    All the more reason to grow your own flowers from seeds and cuttings.  Silly prices in the nurseries and GC’s. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The wife rang the doctor's surgery at 10am to get an appointment for the baby. They said if she could be there by 10:30 they'd give her an emergency appointment. She got there at 10:20 and then had to sit there keeping the baby quiet until they finally saw her at 12. I get that doctors are under pressure but they must have seen the waiting room full of people at 10am and thought maybe making more appointments isn't a good idea.
    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
    Men who call their wife "the wife"!
    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
    but 'the baby' is ok?
    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
    edited August 2019
    Yes, while it's still blobby.  Interesting once they start to sit up and show personality but "my" or "our" would be much better of course.
    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
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I don't mind "the wife" but I cringe when anyone refers to their own or someone else's husband as "hubby".  Especially my husband.  
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    josusa47 said:
    I don't mind "the wife" but I cringe when anyone refers to their own or someone else's husband as "hubby".  Especially my husband.  
    I always refer to my Husband as my Hubby. I like it, he likes it. If others don't like it...... tough.
    Devon.
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