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

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  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I want to open a care home in a converted granary, so I can call it The Old Grannery.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    9 vine weevils tonight and one more that my wife launched out of a 3rd floor window to take its chances after finding it wrapped up in the washing. I wonder how soon I can recruit child labour into helping me? A bounty of a shiny 5p per vine weevil and two eagle eyed boys should have the place cleared in no time. I'll probably get in trouble for not paying minimum wage and failing to offer them a workplace pension though.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    This is where you need a couple of boy scouts and "bob a job". Different times.
    I must admit you seem plagued by vine weevils,  the most I've ever seen at one time is 2.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    It’s ok @wild edges you don’t have to give them a pension until they’re in their early 20s 👍 

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





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Seems pointless anyway since retirement age seems to be creeping closer towards death ever year. :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Isn't it weird when the cheapest book on a very specific element of British wildlife has to be posted from Canada? Although I guess it makes sense that it's cheaper there since it's completely irrelevant to the country. :/ It's very telling of modern times though that a UK book is shipped out to Canada and shipped back to the UK and is still cheaper than second hand copies here.
    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
    There's an American book charity that has free postage so its often cheaper to buy second hand books from America.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @wild edges - don't forget to factor in board, lodging, protective wear/clothing, holidays and on-the-job training.  Invaluable.  I haven't been able to fathom book pricing in the UK since the demise of the unlamented Net Book Agreement in the 90s.  Used to run a department in Foyles in the mid 70s when everything was "controlled".




    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
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    New blade as well then @Hexagon  ;)
    They're usually quite easy to repair with tape if you don't have any of those little connectors. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Don't bodge it, it's not worth the risk. I cut through my grandpa's hedge cutter cable years ago and just chucked on one of those Masterplug 2 pin connectors. It's an easy fix and nice and safe. It also made storing the cable much easier too. That's what I told him anyway :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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