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

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  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    B3 said:
    People think gardeners are nurturers. We're merciless killers👺

    Funny you should say that.  On Monday I took my grass shears to the park to attack the docks, thistles, sedge, ragwort and horsetail that have invaded our orchard.  As I was looking around to see where to strike next, a lady looked at me in my facemask, dangling my shears, and said, "You look like a serial killer!"
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    In fairness to new gardeners, often questions about getting rid of bugs and beastiea are simply because they have no experience and honestly don't know what is good and what is bad.
    I saw one post on another site from a newbie asking how they could get rid of "the horrible worms in the garden".  When somebody explained what worms actually did in the garden the newbie admitted that they didn't realise they were good for the garden.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    josusa47 said:
    B3 said:
    People think gardeners are nurturers. We're merciless killers👺

    Funny you should say that.  On Monday I took my grass shears to the park to attack the docks, thistles, sedge, ragwort and horsetail that have invaded our orchard.  As I was looking around to see where to strike next, a lady looked at me in my facemask, dangling my shears, and said, "You look like a serial killer!"
    You misheard her. Anyone with grass shears is a cereal killer. 

    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
    Hmm 🤨 we have a friendly male starling who serenades is from the guttering and we love having him and his family around  ... but every morning I come downstairs to find yet another empty compartment in my plugtrays  of plants ... 🙄 

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It might have been easier to list the MPs that voted against it😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    so much for "food standards will be preserved" hey ho. they sneaked that one through didn't they?
    Devon.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    You're surely not surprised at the sneakiness of our government, @Hostafan1?  Remember "a good day to bury bad news"...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    An unmissable opportunity to bury all manner of bad news. When's the last time you saw anything not virus related on the BBC news site?

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    due to social distancing, I've been unable to avoid hearing two farmers "chatting" outside. Funnily enough they were slagging off our local MP for the food standards vote. I'm 99% sure they'd both voted for him though.
    Devon.
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