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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Probably best to wait until the rain gets warmer.🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • herbaceousherbaceous Posts: 2,318
    and what happens when the elderly gentlemen have a funny turn?
    "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I'm not sure I can sow seeds this year as I don't have a toddler free zone to grow them in the house. We gated off the lounge so the kids didn't have access and that's been the only room where we can keep all the fragile things and delicate plants but the curse of the grandparents has struck again. Father in Law apparently made an amazing rocking horse for my wife when she was young and she's always talked about it with fond memories. It turns out he'd kept it in the back of the shed and due to lockdown boredom decided to dig it out and restore it for the boys. The problem is it turns out to be a pretty much life-sized pony and takes up quite a bit of space in a small house while also having runners that at full gallop would crush the feet bones of a 1 year old. So the only place to stable the beast is in the lounge and the kids demand access to it all day while also running their well rehearsed schemes of distraction and destruction. Turn your back on the little one for a second and he'd have a tray of seedlings tipped over his head.
    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
    No chance of stabling it outside in a shed I don't suppose ... provided with a haynet it ought to be pretty happy  ;)

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





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    It would go in the garage but that's already full of hay nets, saddles and other large, bulky horse related things for the horse we've never owned and likely never will. There's a big leather saddle-horse down there that's also horse sized so we've got quite a herd building up.  :|
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Flaming jobsworth binmen!  I had a load of cardboard to get rid of and it was more than will fit in the blue polypropolene bag they supply.  They already demand that all cardboard is cut down to a size which will fit said bag, so I cut all the excess down to a size to fit one complete box which is smaller than the blue bag.  Binmen have come and gone and dumped the additional box on the pavement.  They didn't even take the cut stuff from in it.  I had stood it on top of the blue bag so they can't claim they didn't see it.  Last year they didn't empty the garden waste bin for 6 weeks, understandable during the first lockdown, but when they did come they refused to empty it because it was too heavy.  It was heavy because it had 6 weeks work thof grass cuttings in it.  It wasn't so heavy that I couldn't wheel it out to the kerb!  P'd off?  Damn right I am.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    @KT53 and our council want £70 a year extra to collect the green bin every 2 weeks. Except for 6 weeks over Christmas and any other excuse they can think of. 
    AB Still learning

  • My council will not resume taking my green waste until April 1st! It has been full for several weeks. I might have to use the general waste bin instead.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited March 2021
    I’m saying nothing, except that our bin men are lovely. They empty our garden waste every other Monday right through the year for the princely sum of £48 p a even if it weighs a ton. 
    They take all our other stuff when they’re supposed to and do it with a smile. Norwich bin men are great 😁

    But I’m feeling curmudgeonly about the incessant wind and rain 🙄 

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





  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    We have no problems with the bin men but then most of the stuff goes in the incinerator  power station thing. Even, I suspect, most stuff from  the recycling bin.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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