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🦀CURMUDGEONS' CORNER 9 🦀

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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    BenCotto said:
    I can’t help myself. Why do I let myself get slightly annoyed by this fad of saying ‘super’ for ‘very’?
    Back in the day I am sure I said fab and groovy with the best of them. I must have been so irritating.
    'Super excited' is the worst one IMO  :#

    Were you 'far out' as well?  :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    I've made pillowcases out of the good bits of a torn sheet, and cut up what's left for cleaning cloths (we use them for messy stuff like oil, paint etc, single-use then chuck) . There are a couple more stashed away for as-yet-unforeseen uses.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's super good to have two conversations running concurrently. 
    Some of the suggestions remind me of the tramp's blanket😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Not a happy bunny.  I'd been checking for gardens in our area which don't require pre-booking and, although few and far between, there was one in particular that I wanted to visit.  It's closed on Friday which is my wife's normal non-working day so she changed her day off for this week.  Checked it this morning to confirm opening times, and today is ticket only for NGS.  No surprise to discover no tickets available.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    You'll just have to go to a garden centre then. 😉 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • josusa47josusa47 Posts: 3,530
    I get irritated by the recent fashion for "taking a knee".  What's wrong with "kneeling"?  Where will it end?  Will we be "taking a bum" instead of sitting?
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I've heard people say 'Take a sit'.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    edited August 2020
    Curmudgeonly about the amount of ignorant people on holiday in Cornwall, my son has been delivering the round from St Ives Bay across country to Marazion for 17 years and just told me it’s never been as busy as now, all roads jammed both ways, when he says excuse me when he’s carrying parcels, he get a load of abuse, around St Ives area there are two huge car parks, they've filled those and taken over 3 farmers fields, not all the toilets are open so everywhere there’s 💩.

    Who would want their children to play on that. Someone actually said to him, ‘why was he worrying, it’s not down here’! Around the coast, Life guards were called out at the rate of one per minute this past few days. The upside is that Mako sharks have been sighted only 20 yards off beach, I don’t think they want that to get out! So if you’d like to pass that on, David would appreciate it😀

     On the very upside though, he’s had his treatment, was almost 6 months overdue but they didn’t want to risk him coming to the hospital. The rheumatology department is now in another building away from the main hospital. All’s well in Cornwall. 🙂
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    We went out yesterday to take the kids for a walk along the canal. The Brecon Beacons were heaving with people parked anywhere they could. We go to a quieter bit of the canal which is miles from any village so you only get the long distance walkers/cyclists there but it was still quite busy. We passed a homeowner complaining because 3 or 4 cars had arrived and just parked in his yard and gone off for a picnic. He doesn't have signs up to say no parking because it's never happened before.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I hope he reported them to the police and either had them towed or locked the exit till they'd paid a fee!   Bloody cheek!
    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
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