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

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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    4 more vine weevils sacrificed to the shoe gods this evening. There's no end to them :|

    In more positive news I managed to get the new greenhouse frame unloaded and built on my own in just a couple of hours this afternoon. Between dodging showers and having to help with the kids I'm pleased to have got anything done at all. Now I need to clean all the glass during the week ready to get it fitted next weekend. I don't want it partially glazed with the gusty wind we've been having.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Reluctant_GardenerReluctant_Gardener Posts: 284
    My left leg has swollen up to the size of my thigh. Fipping clegs / horseflies, / flowerbugs /  ticks / partially-decomposed blackberry cuttings or whatever it was.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Sounds like you'd better get it looked at @Reluctant_Gardener. It sounds a bit extreme for an ordinary bite.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I've just knocked a marble fridge magnet off the door and it's smashed. Bought it from a stall near the Taj Mahal. 
    V grumpy indeed.
    Devon.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Look on the bright side ... it didn’t smash a floor tile ... or did it? 😉 

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





  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    the floor tiles are inch thick slate, mercifully, it'd take a big chunk of marble to break one of them. 
    Devon.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Haven't you got a significant anniversary coming up with hubby planning a trip?  Go and get another one, or a new memory.
    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
    Obelixx said:
    Haven't you got a significant anniversary coming up with hubby planning a trip?  Go and get another one, or a new memory.
    I'm lucky enough to have visited the Taj Mahal twice but it was just a nice memory from our first visit there.

    I've lost my appetite for long haul flights.
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    12 vine weevils tonight. It looks like there's a good population on the lupins and I hadn't been checking those. :#  I went over the lupins twice and found slugs already munching the dead weevils on my second time around so that answers that question anyway.
    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
    @Hostafan1 - surely a similar flying time to the Gambia??

    @wild edges - is this your new mission in life?  
    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
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