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

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Hazel-1 said:
    @Hostafan, seems you’re right, just read up on the “ GW coming on thread,”  sounds dire. I won’t bother watching repeat.
    For once, we're all in agreement. Unfortunately it's not agreement on how GOOD it was.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I found it strangely comforting to see that Monty’s garden was as dishevelled as mine 😉 

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Less " dishevelled" and more "abandoned" where the "wildlife garden " was concerned. 

    I'm all for a bit of "fuzzy round the edges" dishevelment but it was a total car crash.
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I might watch it just to make myself feel better. The wind and rain has levelled anything tall in the garden. I've got to stake up all the teasels today now or the finches will have nothing to eat come winter. It's one of those days when you just want to cut everything down rather than look at the mess.

    I got 2 more vine weevils last night and found another drowned in a plant tray :)  Hopefully my neighbours didn't see me poking about in the undergrowth with a torch in the rain randomly swearing to myself.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Friday's GW gave every impression of being thrown together from items they had in the archive.  Maybe they think nobody will bother watching in August.  Too many more programmes like that one and they could be right.
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Something (I suspect badger) has just dug up loads of perennials in the hot border - achilleas, sedums,  agastache, dahlias, penstemon 😡 The dogs went bonkers at 5am, which was really annoying, but not as much as finding out why later on when I saw the border destruction! I have replanted most and hope they survive. Must find the hole in the fence!
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Unless they've burrowed under Nollie!   I hope your plants survive.

    Yesterday's forecast was for 24mm of rain in one good downpour.  Today it's morphed to a 4mm barely there drizzle.
    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
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    Probably, Obelixx, though the fence up the hill at the back is on such uneven ground there are plenty of gaps that we keep plugging with large stones. Now we understand why the previous owners had an electric fence there! Currently not in operation, we need to do some serious clearing to reinstate it. They (boars, badgers, foxes, even deer) don’t normally venture down to the house, but are clearly getting bolder, the rascals.
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
  • hogweedhogweed Posts: 4,053
    I've watched a few tv dramas recently that I have thoroughly enjoyed - Brokenwood Mysteries set in NZ, The Widower (STV drama), the Disappearance (about a plane crash), Harrow (crime) set in Australia, and the Bad Seed (also set in NZ). I have been very impressed with all of them.  
    'Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement' - Helen Keller
  • Singing GardenerSinging Gardener Posts: 1,237
    My greenhouse watering timer decided to stay on overnight and now everything is completely waterlogged!  :#
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