In that case I'll cut a notch out of the front gate so it has access to the compost bins. As long as it doesn't eat my hairy snail colony it can help itself to whatever it fancies.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Can't win this week. My wife timed her Zoom meeting today for 10am when the builders would be on their break. The builders didn't turn up but highways have just rolled up with disc cutters and hammer drills to do some road works outside the neighbours house. You'd think with everyone working from home they'd give some notice for that.Ā
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Rose petals everywhere after the heavy rain. Look pretty now but in a few days they'll be brown and after the expected further rain, they'll be slimy and stuck to the underplanting. The downside of hundreds of blooms on the climbers - thousands of petals on the groundš Wild Eve has dumped her petals into my containers but Margaret Merrill has had the good manners to hold on to all of hers.
Djokovich, Murray, Federer andĀ Nadal until 2002 when the aussie won it. Then you're practically into the Sampras roadshow era. Then a few random like Agassi before Becker and mcenroe. Must admit I don't know anything about queen's. Always thought it a warm up grass competition for Wimbledon with the same competitors in it. Can't be or Djokovich et al would be past winners. Perhaps last chance for a wildcard Wimbledon entry as the winners seem to be relatively unknown to me.
Can't win this week. My wife timed her Zoom meeting today for 10am when the builders would be on their break. The builders didn't turn up but highways have just rolled up with disc cutters and hammer drills to do some road works outside the neighbours house. You'd think with everyone working from home they'd give some notice for that.Ā
I understand your frustration but if they tried to get agreement from everybody they would never get any work done.Ā Much easier to do the work and ignore the complaints after the event.
Giving notice, along the lines of a note through the letterboxes nearby or a sign up somewhere, "we will be doing xxx work on dates yyy, we apologise for any inconvenience this may cause", is very different from getting agreement and would be the considerate thing to do.
Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
Yes, Margaret Merrill is a stoic sort,and what a glorious smell! My grump, went out with a friend yesterday, coffee first,then we walked to the "local",there's severally really,BUT the main one, just generally chatting I said I had lots of stuff to plant. She said I had far too many plants,I let that one go,we grew a lot from seed and Everything germinated! Then she told me my garden was ridiculous,that she was telling her friend at work about it,and that you couldn't move without falling over,and that as soon as a plant died we rushed out and replaced it.well,I have beds and borders round the edges,shrubs, trees,lawn paths with arches,a couple of lawns about 50 foot long, nothing to fall over,I told her nothing dies. Then thought play her at her own game, so I told her the old man wanted to dig up all the grass and plant. People,can you actually guess what HER garden looks like!!!
The best players tend to win the most Grand Slam titles ā¦ a bit like the best teams in the Premiership ā¦ but in tennis you have the added variety of the different playing surfaces ā¦ some players are better on grass than clay and vice versa ā¦ just a few are as good on both, or can be if they have an adjustment period ā¦ Wimbledon is a prestige event so even Nadal who used to hate playing on grass, worked at his grass court game until he too could win Wimbledon.Ā
Weāve had a spell with quite a few really great players being around at once and being able to maintain their fitness over several years which is quite new ā¦ Bjorn Borg retired at 26 ā¦ Federer is still playing Grand Slam tennis at 39 ā¦ but Nadal revealed today that he will not be at Wimbledon this year as he has to listen to his body ā¦ is this the year when things start to change ā¦, itās a fascinating time in the tennis world ā¦ and then thereās the womenās gameĀ ā¦ donāt make the mistake Ā of saying āthe men play longer games so they should get paid moreā. The tennis players donāt get paid an hourly rate, they get paid according to what they earn for the venues ā¦ if you had a theatre and you had the choice of Dame Judi Dench or me coming to do some poetry readings and I said āIām going to charge the same as Dame Judi because Iām going to read for just as long as herā youād say I was nuts, because you can sell far more tickets and earn far more money by employing Dame J than Dove.Ā If the womensā tennis matches didnāt sell the tickets theyād not have had a leg Ā to stand on when asking for equal prize money.Ā
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Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Can't win this week. My wife timed her Zoom meeting today for 10am when the builders would be on their break. The builders didn't turn up but highways have just rolled up with disc cutters and hammer drills to do some road works outside the neighbours house. You'd think with everyone working from home they'd give some notice for that.Ā
I understand your frustration but if they tried to get agreement from everybody they would never get any work done.Ā Much easier to do the work and ignore the complaints after the event.
Very true but if we'd known a week in advance she could just have booked her meetings for the afternoon instead. The council even insist everyone has an online account with them now and can email you a quick notice so it wouldn't be much bother for them.
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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Wild Eve has dumped her petals into my containers but Margaret Merrill has had the good manners to hold on to all of hers.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wimbledon_gentlemen's_singles_champions
Djokovich, Murray, Federer andĀ Nadal until 2002 when the aussie won it. Then you're practically into the Sampras roadshow era. Then a few random like Agassi before Becker and mcenroe. Must admit I don't know anything about queen's. Always thought it a warm up grass competition for Wimbledon with the same competitors in it. Can't be or Djokovich et al would be past winners. Perhaps last chance for a wildcard Wimbledon entry as the winners seem to be relatively unknown to me.
I understand your frustration but if they tried to get agreement from everybody they would never get any work done.Ā Much easier to do the work and ignore the complaints after the event.
ā¦ donāt make the mistake Ā of saying āthe men play longer games so they should get paid moreā. The tennis players donāt get paid an hourly rate, they get paid according to what they earn for the venues ā¦ if you had a theatre and you had the choice of Dame Judi Dench or me coming to do some poetry readings and I said āIām going to charge the same as Dame Judi because Iām going to read for just as long as herā youād say I was nuts, because you can sell far more tickets and earn far more money by employing Dame J than Dove.Ā
If the womensā tennis matches didnāt sell the tickets theyād not have had a leg Ā to stand on when asking for equal prize money.Ā
Gardening in Central NorfolkĀ on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.