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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    All our tomatoes are still green @wild edges and they're in the polytunnel so warm as toast even on cold days and with the door at either end open night and day.  Sowed and planted late cos of the cold spring and plenty of time to ripen so not worrying just yet.
    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
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Went for a stroll around the garden and the air smells of autumn. Oh well. That's that. It's a wonderful smell. Shame about the summer, though.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    B3 you MUSTN'T mention the A word, that's as bad as the C word!
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    Polystyrene. Why? Say no more.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    steveTu said:
    Polystyrene. Why? Say no more.
    Don't forget her backing band The X ray specs

    Devon.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ..at least x-ray specs have a use... Do you remember those adds for kids? ... bazooka gum, x-ray specs, Charles Atlas tireless legs, fake cigarrettes...when I was just a wee nipper what dross my parents let me read eh?
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    steveTu said:
    ..at least x-ray specs have a use... Do you remember those adds for kids? ... bazooka gum, x-ray specs, Charles Atlas tireless legs, fake cigarrettes...when I was just a wee nipper what dross my parents let me read eh?
    don't forget wooppee cushions and stink bombs
    Devon.
  • steveTusteveTu Posts: 3,219
    ...did anyone ever buy those things? There were so many things I wanted as a kid - and used to get so excited when the Beano or Victor had a free giveaway inside.
    UK - South Coast Retirement Campus (East)
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited August 2021
    I've spent 3 hours on the phone today. 
    3 different departments within DWP, they don't speak to each other so I'm left on hold for over half an hour each time before they even speak to me, then tell me to call someone else.
    Who'd have thought that Care Allowance, isn't the same as Carer Allowance? It'd have been too difficult to give those different Allowances ( administered by different departments ) completely different names, OBVIOUSLY
    Devon.
  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    Not difficult, @Hostafan1, just much less fun for all concerned
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
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