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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Under normal circumstances, these people would be in a tower block in Benidorm. God willing, they'll be back there next year. Think of their neighbours. They've got them for the other 50 weeks of the year
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KlinkKlink Posts: 261
    Imagine having to deal with them every day in your job..

    Talking of which,why do parents behave so appallingly.Watching a little 3 or 4 year old wanting to pay for the toys in their hands only for the parent/s to get really angry at the child for being honest.
    Child insists the item needs to be offered up to be paid for only for said parent to grip the child so hard it winces in pain. It's enough to make you weep.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Another problem thread to add to the great reasons not to have plastic grass... :|
    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 know, and they get upset if we tell 'em we're gardeners on here and don't do plastic grass........
    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
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    This is turning out to be a hell of a year :/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-53748192
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It's so  hot down here. My skin has been leaking all day. One minute they forecast rain. You look again and they've updated it for the day after tomorrow😡
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    We've just had a very sudden and very heavy thunderstorm. I got a bit damp closing greenhouses and removing sun shading so stood out on the lawn and let the rain finish the job. Very refreshing in a so cold you can barely breathe kind of way :) I had to give it up when the hail started though :#
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • fidgetbonesfidgetbones Posts: 17,618
    Could you send a bit our way. Not a drop in weeks. Anything planted this year is wilting, and even a long standing buddleja on the front is a bit droopy.
    Tonight I watched a council planning meeting. Can anyone tell me why Tree protection Orders are put on trees, then when a developer wants to cut them down to cram as many houses on the site as possible, and the locals are up in arms about it, the council just rolls over and lets the developer do what he likes. Sod the trees, sod the wildlife, ignore the voters.  Much muttering about brown envelopes and back pockets going on.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I know this doesn't apply to many if you, but I'm getting fed up with trying to keep things alive in this heat. It's become a real chore.
    Maybe I need to let them go and look at this drought as a planting opportunity for next year😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I don't think I'll be needing to water anything for a few days after that one and hopefully all that lightning fixed the nitrogen in the air into free plant food as well. All my tillandsia can have a dunk in a water butt tomorrow if it gets warm enough in the sun. The fresh nitrogen-loaded rain water will do them good.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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