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

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    KT53 said:
    Lizzie27 said:
    We're getting used to Sainsbury's deliveries and may even continue after lockdown's over. Beats fighting for a carpark space, pushing a trolley around for an hour and packing the stuff. Apart from a couple of rather odd substitutions, they've been very good and most of the delivery drivers have been very polite and helpful, even after pushing a trolley full of shopping up our long steep drive! Might even walk down and meet them next week as we've got 6 bottles wine coming on their special offer.

    Surely you can control yourself until they push the trolley up the drive.  How will it look if they only time you help is when it's loaded with booze? :smiley:
    Lizzie27 said:
    True.... I didn't think of that!
    It's fine to help, but don't carry a corkscrew with you.
    Devon.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Sometimes you see something that reminds you just how long we've been on lockdown...

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • PlantyPruPlantyPru Posts: 142
    So today it's Father's Day and just over three weeks since my father in law passed away, my cat had to be put to sleep on Friday and it's the anniversary of my stepdad passing tomorrow. I am on the verge of completely giving up at the moment! All that's keeping me going is my family and the garden (really need the rain to sort itself out for that one though :(  )
  • floraliesfloralies Posts: 2,718
    Hang in there @PlantyPru, it will get better, especially as you have the garden to concentrate on.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2020
    Every time I prune my bay tree ( 2 or 3 times a year) I get peeved about the amount they charge in the supermarket for a little box  containing about a dozen dried up leaves. Ive filled one of those concertina weed collector efforts and I'm  only half way through. 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Surely you don't buy them if you have your own tree?
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Hang it up outside for neighbours and passers-by to take home free.

    Time and your garden will help @PlantyPru
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2020
    No!! But I looked out of curiosity😊
    I was thinking of looking for recipes using the soft green leaves. I wonder if you could use them like a herb.
    Can't find any😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited June 2020
    They are a herb!  Assuming you have culinary bay and not just hedging laurel.  I always use them fresh off the plant but then I do have two large specimens here.  Never got one thru a winter in Belgium, even indoors.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Four ticks extracted today, every itch prompts another detailed examination. That is over a dozen so far this year. I HATE TICKS! Wildlife friendly gardening does have its drawbacks.
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