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Reasons to be cheerful 2021

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  • ErgatesErgates Posts: 2,953
    Stuck in slow moving traffic, and noticed some interesting wildflowers on the roadside. By happy coincidence, I had my wildflower identification book in my side pocket. I now know what a Great Mullein looks like, really cheered up a boring few minutes. Must get some seeds.

  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    BenCotto said:
    Wait a minute (and I just checked too). 6d = 2.5p. Since, according to the Bank of England, prices have risen just shy of 25 fold since 1957, 2.5 x 24.7 = 62p. No wonder the country’s going to the dogs.

    You're correct in your calculation BenCotto.  My maths is normally pretty good but I got that one wrong.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I know it's vanity, but I  was at my volunteer garden yesterday when a man called over the gate, do you know where the janitorial staff are? After I directed him he said thank you  "young man " . It was only when he walked away I thought I'm certainly old enough to be his dad.  🤗
    AB Still learning

  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Nice one @Allotment Boy   :D

    I loved this when I read it earlier today
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-58341247

    Quite right too   :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    KT53,that sounds more like a curmudgeon! Mine, dentist yesterday,clear round,whoop. Went out for dinner in our "usual"
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Sounds like a contented chap https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/newman-smith-still-farming-at-age-of-90-8273012
    😊 

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





  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Charles Paris (Bill Nighy) on Radio 4
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Feeling rather smug (apart from the fact that I have a ,"floating" green house!Monty said that the sweet peas were Finnished time to remove them
     I sowed one batch last autumn,I removed them yesterday,then I sowed a second packet in March,and a 3rd in June,still plenty of buds
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Just shows how little they understand different conditions in different areas @Nanny Beach
    Sweet peas last well until October here, and will flower until the rough weather annihilates them, because they start later. I find it really infuriating. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Fairy, perhaps he just did one sowing. I swore I wasn't going to bother with autumn sowing anymore. Found they went leggy,and problems with room, although I have 3 green houses,but they were the best I've ever had. Shame I didn't take a picture. I have Garden News weekly and Carol said you just had time in June for a sowing,so how could I argue with her!!
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