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CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 4. I blame it on the eevil weevils 🐜

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Or the exhaust pipe?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I opened the curtain this morning and there's a damn vine weevil on the wall outside the window. It's 3 stories up and out of reach so I'm relying on the sparrows to sort it out for me. I might go and find a long stick though...
    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
    I had that a few years ago and was advised to smash the window.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Does your window not open WE?
    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Can you not dangle a small child on a mountaineering rope?

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Or a bungee?

    I've got that Wallace and Gromit bit from A Close Shave  in my mind now....'the bounce has gone from his bungee'  :D
    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
    It disappeared before I could find a long enough stick. Hopefully it either got eaten or it took up a short career in skydiving.
    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
    Getting beyond a joke now.  Saturday's several mms which were reduced to 2.4 have now disappeared altogether with a faint promise of .5mm on Sunday, just before dawn.  We might then get 5mm over the following 3 or 4 days.   Likely story.

    Do vine weevils not have wings then WE?  Must admit I've never knowingly met one.
    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
    I think they have wings but they don't or can't use them.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    wild edges said:
    I think they have wings but they don't or can't use them.
    Lazy tykes 🙄 

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





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