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🐗 CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 8 - room for the peeved and cantankerous too🐗

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited May 2020
    A good gardener isn't necessarily a good speller and predictive text is a ass ( to misquote Mr Bumble)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    One of the best gardeners I ever knew was illiterate.  She used to come in to work with armfuls of fruit and veg in season and give it away to her workmates.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    😡 https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/coastguard-tide-warning-family-rescued-from-scolt-head-brancaster-1-6663493

    “North Norfolk Coastguards have been called out more than 30 times in the past two days” 🤯🤬

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





  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Roads gridlocked in Cornwall yesterday,  car pars closed so they parked and blocked the roads, traffic wardens ran out of tickets, people sunbathing on the beaches, we’ve been so good down here keeping almost virus free, now it’s going to spread like wild fire, speaking of which, everyone out on Dartmoor, won’t be long before that’s set in fire, it’s so dry.

    My son’s GOV letter runs out next week, he thinks his boss will expect him back at work, he’s dreading it with the roads packed with holiday makers from cities, ok whilst they keep moving but if there’s any sort of accident and he’s got to get out of his van, could prove fatal.

    We’re not to worry though because now they’ve got the hospital beds, we’ll all be assured of a place in hospital. 😱😢
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I saw the hoaching roads on the news @Lyn - Devon and Cornwall.
    Cumbria police were apparently turning back about 100  car loads from trying to get in here. Sunbathers over on the east side too- despite the fact we are under different guidance, until probably next week. Always the idiots who ignore it all.
    With you on the fires too. We've already had a lot up here because we had the driest April on record. An inevitable consequence of the careless, barbecuing brigade.

    There was some idiots 'tombstoning' recently as well @Dovefromabove. Cut off by the tide. 
    I bet I know what advice coastguards feel like giving these types....

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



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Went to pinch out my cosmos and found that a slug had done about a third of them for me😠
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    The roads chaos in tourist hotspots can be blamed fair and square on Boris and his cabinet.  There is no logic in totally removing travel restrictions, as the end result should have been obvious to a deaf, dumb and blind man - even if he was preoccupied playing pinball.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    Don't bother coming to Wales; the hotels, pubs, cafes, restaurants, piers, tourist information offices, libraries, public toilets and most tourist attractions are still closed.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    When I come to Wales it will be to stay with my sister, but we're leaving it a while. Maybe in the late summer/autumn, depending on how things go, or maybe not until next year. We like a tea shop visit or 3, and Bodnant Gardens, as well as some walking (away from the main hotspots).
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    josusa47 said:
    Don't bother coming to Wales; the hotels, pubs, cafes, restaurants, piers, tourist information offices, libraries, public toilets and most tourist attractions are still closed.

    Police should impound the cars of the muppets who still think it's OK to drive in, or into, Wales.
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