Thanks both... waiting for the builder at the mo. Wish the leak was on the other side of the garden next to my veg - we have a hosepipe ban from tomorrow!
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
@Liriodendron Hope you get it sorted soon. Couldn't bring myself to actually kill the Artemesia SJ so I've put it down in the oubliette between a budleia and the compost heap.
Is it just me? I was looking out an upstairs windows twilight and strung along several fences are long strings of fairy lights. Naff is just about acceptable at Christmas but in June they're as appropriate as a chandelier in a milk float.
It's a bit weird, @B3... twinkling lights are vaguely cheering in winter but pointless now.
We have delinquent young magpies. To start with they just removed the labels from my seed trays and scattered them about, which was a bit annoying but I could generally work out what was what. Then they started dropping cigarette butts (thanks, builders), stones, ivy leaves etc on the seed trays, when I hid the labels. And during the past few days they've started ripping out seedlings... I've built a replica of Fort Knox using concrete blocks, wire mesh and old strawberry net and put all the seedlings inside. Not sure what the birds will get up to, tomorrow morning...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
We just had an owl on the bird feeder and for once my camera was sat on the table beside me with just enough light for a photo. I set it all up, pointed, focused and it starts flashing NO CARD I'd left the bl**dy thing in the computer earlier.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Is it just me? I was looking out an upstairs windows twilight and strung along several fences are long strings of fairy lights. Naff is just about acceptable at Christmas but in June they're as appropriate as a chandelier in a milk float.
There's a flat down the road from us which still has a Christmas decoration in the front window.
Several houses here have them [lights] strung along their roofline - all year round.I can only assume they simply can't be a**ed getting a ladder out. That's bonkers @KT53 I remember coming back from a hill in Kinlochleven one day in early November, and there were C'mas decs in one of the houses there. You'd be sick of the sight of them by C'mas day!
@wild edges- always the way isn't it? Lovely to have the 'visitor' though. Hope he/she is back soon when you're properly organised. They know though - don't they? @Liriodendron -typical eh? Hope it's fixed soon.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
There's a few of those here too @Hostafan1. I don't know if they're on timers though, or the light activated types, but I have seen a few when I've been out earlier, and they're on even when it's been full daylight. We had a neighbour who left theirs on all night on a regular basis.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Couldn't bring myself to actually kill the Artemesia SJ so I've put it down in the oubliette between a budleia and the compost heap.
I was looking out an upstairs windows twilight and strung along several fences are long strings of fairy lights.
Naff is just about acceptable at Christmas but in June they're as appropriate as a chandelier in a milk float.
We have delinquent young magpies. To start with they just removed the labels from my seed trays and scattered them about, which was a bit annoying but I could generally work out what was what. Then they started dropping cigarette butts (thanks, builders), stones, ivy leaves etc on the seed trays, when I hid the labels. And during the past few days they've started ripping out seedlings... I've built a replica of Fort Knox using concrete blocks, wire mesh and old strawberry net and put all the seedlings inside. Not sure what the birds will get up to, tomorrow morning...
There's a flat down the road from us which still has a Christmas decoration in the front window.
That's bonkers @KT53
I remember coming back from a hill in Kinlochleven one day in early November, and there were C'mas decs in one of the houses there. You'd be sick of the sight of them by C'mas day!
@wild edges- always the way isn't it? Lovely to have the 'visitor' though. Hope he/she is back soon when you're properly organised. They know though - don't they?
@Liriodendron -typical eh? Hope it's fixed soon.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
We had a neighbour who left theirs on all night on a regular basis.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...