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  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    edited March 2020
    No - another one of those terms I just don't get! I'm beginning to think you've got a random local accent phrase app and you just turn your posh Biggleswade accent into pidgin whatever...

    Now I've insulted most of the British Isles, I will depart to peruse my domain, before the sun sets over the yard arm and I am forced by tradition to down a pint of G&T (without lemons)....

    Adieu (see - we all have one of those apps) mes braves.....

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Check out Harry Enfield's Scousers @steveTu. Hilarious!

    Have you led a very sheltered life?

    What did Del Boy used to say to Rodney? 
    'Mange tout, mange tout'....
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Cloistered I would say, rather than sheltered, going by my hair....

    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    It's easy with sports people, if they are crap, then they can stay Scottish, if they become good, then they are obviously English.
    Said the man who is half Scottish and married to a Scot.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • GWRSGWRS Posts: 8,478
    I hard already got everything before this problem started , compost / seeds etc 

  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    Same here GWRS I had just bought 6 bags of compost from my local garden centre when the lockdown was announced.  Plug plants were ordered before October, some have been delivered already others are due any day now.  I also grow lots of seeds.  I am replanting a fair sized area at the top of the garden, I can get some of the plants online but others will just have to wait until Ashwoods re-open.
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    @punkdoc I know a couple of Hearts supporters who would wholeheartedly disagree with you 😁
    @steveTu you’re incorrigible 😆
    @Fairygirl well remembered!
    https://www.walesonline.co.uk/incoming/gallery/9-del-boys-greatest-french-6732168
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Apologies - we got slightly sidetracked on this thread  ;)
     
    I got a bag of compost a few weeks ago, but not enough to do the sweet peas, as I'd have been getting that in mid April. Never mind. It's a small set back only.
    I lifted some of the turf in the back garden recently, so more of that's going in the pots than normal this year, and they'll get a smaller layer of compost on top. I have plenty of food for them, so it'll be fine. 
    I don't sow as many seeds as some people do anyway, so it's less of a problem for me. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • dappledshadedappledshade Posts: 1,017
    Yep, me neither. Got a bit of compost, before all this C-19 started and then decided to buy a small greenhouse. I’ve got some veg compost on order though, so fingers crossed. Just ordered tomato plants, some round courgettes, French beans...and some of my carrots were sprouting in the fridge, so I stuck those in soil and they’ve taken. 
  • NollieNollie Posts: 7,529
    I have had no GCs open for two weeks to panic buy in, am unwilling to order plants online because of courier backlog while they deliver supplies more essential than a few DOA plants to me and have nowhere suitable to grow from seed! I have been reduced to perving around online - plant sites, I hasten to add. 

    However, I did crack earlier as Farmer Gracy had a 25% off sale plus 10% GW discount. Ordered anenome bulbs and bearded iris corms, should survive the longer lead times and will come by post, so no guilt re clogging up couriers doing essential deliveries 😇 
    Mountainous Northern Catalunya, Spain. Hot summers, cold winters.
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