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

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Never mind all that, when is Naked Gardening day!!!
    You've missed it!! 
    Always first Saturday in May
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    What a stupid time of year to go nekkid!! When do the nettles come out?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    I never garden naked. Even when it was totally private. Nettle rash is awful.  Now a white towelling dressing gown is another thing. I'm sure one of the neighbours children thinks there is a ghost floating about opening up the greenhouse in the morning.  I never dive without a full wet suit either. Plankton rash is just as bad, and try telling Australian customs that the steroid  cream is perfectly acceptable to buy in this country.  When I actually went into an Australian Pharmacy in Exmouth WA to buy a tube of hydrocortisone cream, I got the third degree. Then I had to sign for it.  Then my friend said that I was a British Pharmacist and I got offered a locum job on the spot.

  • PlantyPruPlantyPru Posts: 142
    Today's grumble! The wind took my little plastic greenhouse today. Saved what I could and moved it to the proper greenhouse but oh so sad to see all that hard work and care just trashed  :(
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    That's annoying for you.  Several posters on here have apparently taken to tying their plastic greenhouses down for jus that reason.  It has been terribly windy all day, my poor newly planted runner beans were feeling the draught. 
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Maybe this should be on Covid-19...
    I am a football 'fan' - I like watching football. But who is deciding whether certain industries have to adopt the social distancing rules? You can't play football without breaking the rules. You can't fly in a plane (with normal seating arrangements) without breaking the rules. So can factories and offices then simply ignore the advice and have employees within a few feet of each other?
    I really can't see how some industries (like football..and most collective sports, air travel - bulk travel in general) can work, or even be thinking about working, unless the social distancing thing is dropped completely. And what sort of message does it give to the general public if those industries are allowed, while family members may not be 'allowed' to see each other?
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I'm afraid it's another example of the arrogance of "football" and the bubble in which they live that they think they're immune and SO important that rules don't apply to them
    Devon.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Hostafan1 said:
    Lizzie27 said:
    Good result Hostafan.  personally I wouldn't touch Talk Talk with a barge pole no matter what their prices are, I've heard my SIL moan so many times about their service, it's quite put me off.
    I've been with them for the 8 years we've been here in Devon and also about 3 years in Hants. I've never had problems. ( until lockdown )
    I'm sure there isn't an ISP without dissatisfied customers. I'd not touch BT with the most socially distant barge pole.

    It's all down to personal experience isn't it.  I've been with BT for years and never had a problem which hasn't been fixed quickly.  I have a speed of over 70 mbps so nothing to complain about there.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:

    We've missed it this year but a note for our calendars

    Curmudgeons Day 2020 is observed on Wednesday, January 29, 2020

    Curmudgeons DayImage: unknown, Google Image

    Countdown to Curmudgeons Day 2020

    The Curmudgeons Day Countdown Clock will show you the number of days, hours, minutes & seconds until Curmudgeons Day 2020.

    Curmudgeons Day Dates

    Curmudgeons Day 2020 is observed on Wednesday, January 29, 2020
    Curmudgeons Day 2021 is observed on Friday, January 29, 2021
    Curmudgeons Day 2022 is observed on Saturday, January 29, 2022
    Curmudgeons Day 2023 is observed on Sunday, January 29, 2023
    Curmudgeons Day 2024 is observed on Monday, January 29, 2024
    Curmudgeons Day 2025 is observed on Wednesday, January 29, 2025


    Absolutely typical.  We have our own special day and nobody tells us about it.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I gave up on BT when they started charging a " payment processing fee" of £4.50 to pay my quarterly bill,  even though I paid by card online. It cost them NOTHING to "process" my "payment"  and they could never give me an explanation, or a cost breakdown to justify the fee.
    Devon.
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