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HELLO FORKERS 😎 August 2019

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Good morning all 😊

     The day of our Garden Picnic has dawned and the weather looks fair ... OH has to work this morning but will be home at 2 ... the house is clean and tidy and the garden looks as good as it can ... it’s a shame that the clematis around the pergola are well past their best and signs of autumn are creeping up on us a bit early, but they guests are primarily foodie folk so that’ll be the focus.

    Everybody is bringing something ... Scotch eggs, Dragon Wings, Piedmont peppers, Quiche Lorraine, lots of gooey cheese, homemade bread, salads, teabread, cake, scones jam and clotted cream and various alcofrolic drinks and juices as well as tea and coffee. 

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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I wonder why our eBay spammer thinks it’s a good idea to annoy us? ... we’re hardly likely to buy his stuff if he’s a right PITA ... surely he should be using his time doing some creative marketing that’ll increase his sales rather than p*ss off his possible customers with juvenile behaviour 🙄 Makes his set up look very amateur. 

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





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Just doing it to be annoying Dove,  we can cope with that😀
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Come on folks - only another 2 flags needed here for this ar**hole  :D
    His jaiket's hingin' oan a shoogly peg.... 
    I'm keeping the cr*ppy weather up here for you @Dovefromabove , so you should be ok  ;)


    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all
    Woke up to this on the radio, fabulous lyrics.

    Darkness at the break of noon
    Shadows even the silver spoon
    The handmade blade, the child's balloon
    Eclipses both the sun and moon
    To understand you know too soon
    There is no sense in trying
    Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
    Suicide remarks are torn
    From the fool's gold mouthpiece
    The hollow horn plays wasted words
    Proves to warn that he not busy being born
    Is busy dying
    Temptation's page flies out the door
    You follow, find yourself at war
    Watch waterfalls of pity roar
    You feel to moan but unlike before
    You discover that you'd just be
    One more person crying
    So don't fear if you hear
    A foreign sound to your ear
    It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing
    As some warn victory, some downfall
    Private reasons great or small
    Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
    To make all that should be killed to crawl
    While others say don't hate nothing at all
    Except hatred
    Disillusioned words like bullets bark
    As human gods aim for their mark
    Made everything from toy guns that spark
    To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
    It's easy to see without looking too far
    That not much is really sacred
    While preachers preach of evil fates
    Teachers teach that knowledge waits
    Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
    Goodness hides behind its gates
    But even the president of the United States
    Sometimes must have to stand naked
    An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
    It's only people's games that you got to dodge
    And it's alright, Ma, I can make it
    Advertising signs that con you
    Into thinking you're the one
    That can do what's never been done
    That can win what's never been won
    Meantime life outside goes on
    All around you
    You lose yourself, you reappear
    You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
    Alone you stand with nobody near
    When a trembling distant voice, unclear
    Startles your sleeping ears to hear
    That somebody thinks they really found you
    A question in your nerves is lit
    Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
    Insure you not to quit
    To keep it in your mind and not fergit
    That it is not he or she or them or it
    That you belong to
    Although the masters make the rules
    For the wise men and the fools
    I got nothing, Ma, to live up to
    For them that must obey authority
    That they do not respect in any degree
    Who despise their jobs, their destinies
    Speak jealously of them that are free
    Do what they do just to be nothing more than something they invest in
    While some on principles baptized
    To strict party platform ties
    Social clubs in drag disguise
    Outsiders they can freely criticize
    Tell nothing except who to idolize
    And then say God bless him
    While one who sings with his tongue on fire
    Gargles in the rat race choir
    Bent out of shape from society's pliers
    Cares not to come up any higher
    But rather get you down in the hole that he's in
    But I mean no harm nor put fault
    On anyone that lives in a vault
    But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him
    Old lady judges watch people in pairs
    Limited in sex, they dare
    To push fake morals, insult and stare
    While money doesn't talk, it swears
    Obscenity, who really cares
    Propaganda, all is phony
    While them that defend what they cannot see
    With a killer's pride, security
    It blows the minds most bitterly
    For them that think death's honesty
    Won't fall upon them naturally
    Life sometimes must get lonely
    My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
    False gods, I scuff
    At pettiness which plays so rough
    Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
    Kick my legs to crash it off
    Say okay, I have had enough
    What else can you show me
    And if my thought-dreams could be seen
    They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
    But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited August 2019
    A huge favourite here  @punkdoc  😊. The man truly deserves his Nobel Prize. 

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    edited August 2019
    I always loved the lesser known Paul Simon song [ A Simple Desultory Philippic] @punkdoc - particularly this section: 


    I knew a man, his brain so small
    He couldn't think of nothing at all
    Not the same as you and me
    He doesn't dig poetry
    He's so unhip when you say Dylan, he thinks you're talking about Dylan Thomas
    Whoever he was
    The man ain't got no culture

    But it's alright, Ma
    Everybody must get stoned

    Opinion is always divided - is it parody or tribute?  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I’m concerned about the damage shown to the tree trunk in the recent pic on this thread https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1032070/very-bad-white-staining-on-acer-leaves#latest

    Im no tree expert but ... what do you others think?



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





  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    fab, didn't know that Paul Simon song.
    Can it be both parody and tribute? Probably not, in which case, parody?
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    punkdoc said:
    fab, didn't know that Paul Simon song.
    Can it be both parody and tribute? Probably not, in which case, parody?
    I would’ve said it is a transliteration ... in the ‘arts’ meaning of the term ... https://interartive.org/2013/08/translation-in-visual-art/

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





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