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

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    'Fess up @Hazel-1- it's that big box of chocolates you promised them that got your delivery bumped up  the list  ;)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I’ve been waiting for a delivery today and have tracked the poor driver’s journey round the Midlands: Leicester-Loughborough-Derby-Matlock-ClayCross-Lincoln-Sleaford-and currently north of Stamford. I hope we’re next and last, the poor sod must be exhausted.
    Rutland, England
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    That’s right Ben, a good many of us wouldn’t want to do that journey even without deliveries.
    My son then has a 70 mile journey back home.  No wonder he goes to sleep in the chair when he gets in and goes to bed at 9.30 ready for a 5am start. 

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    My armchair arrived - I gave the guy a fiver tip.
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Hope it’s comfy 😊 

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





  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Me too, Dove. I haven’t taken it out of its cardboard box yet - no sooner was the delivery made than we went out for drinks at a neighbour’s house. Our village is an unbelievably sociable place: we count our blessings.
    Rutland, England
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The recycling men came before 9am rather than after lunch like they normally do. They did the street in half the usual time as only half the people had their bins out.
    I also caught a cat hunting in the garden again. This cat just won't take the hint that it's not welcome.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    We had trouble this morning trying to get out of the village to go to Sainsbury's. Some of our roads are so narrow, the recycling truck completely blocks it. We've also got roadworks on the main drag which makes it worse.
     
    We've got a neighbours' cat like that @wild edges . Apparently I need a water 'Nerf' gun according to my son - have no idea what they are though.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    It's an overgrown water pistol but you have to be there to use it?  Get a water scarecrow instead.
    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
    The dog might object to the water scarecrow  :#  I'd make the dog chase the cat but he'd do more harm than good and probably injure himself. I've been using a catapult and firing hazlenuts at the fence to make a loud bang. The cat legs it and the mouse it was hunting gets a snack. :)
    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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