Oh yes, I've been trying to remember what the film was called. It frit me to death when I was nobut an impressionable nipper. Goodness knows what my mother was thinking letting me watch that. I haven't trusted pianos since.
My wife came back from our local GC with these the other day. New in apparently. Good fit, well made & very comfortable. Priced at £5.99. I've never heard of the make before but apparently Gardener's World Best Buy.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I think @bédé must be having a really miserable time @punkdoc . He never used to be so unkind and peevish … perhaps something is wrong?
Thee was a child at the playgroup I used to run many years ago … she’d spent all her four years so far in the company of adults … she wanted to make friends with the other children but didn’t know how to go about it, so she kept poking them … that was counter-productive as they just began to avoid her … it was what we now call ‘attention-seeking behaviour’ and it just made things worse for her.
We found that encouraging her to join in with nursery games like Ring a Roses, The Farmer’s in his Den and What’s the Time Mr Wolf? where she could observe, copy and learn the little rituals of behaviour really helped her.
Sadly some folks miss out on those things; and some folk think they’re too important to bother with the niceties of positive social interaction that help to make the world a pleasant place to be …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Apologies for taking the thread off topic @TheSustainableGardener but that's the way of forums isn't it? I've always thought they were like sitting around the kitchen table drinking coffee or tea with friends and trying to put the world to rights or in the pub having a drink with pals and doing the same thing. We do that online with people, that in the main, we don't know.
We go from topic to topic, meandering in and out, sometimes getting heated and sometimes gentle bantering. On forums as in life there are members who are grumpy old sods and some that are the life and soul of the gathering, some that are daft as a brush but in the nicest possible way. Never the less we listen or read posts that are their point of view to which are are all entitled to do or say. We also learn about things we might not have thought we were interested in.
On the whole, forums are fascinating places to inhabit and long may they reign.
And about those gloves @LunarSea, they look crackers, I wouldn't mind some of those.
I use those builders' gloves they sell in B&Q. Cheap as chips [although I expect chips are quite dear now] and do the job well. Rubbery palm and fabric back. I only use gloves for mucky jobs - lifting/laying slabs, digging holes when it's very wet and manky [frequently] and cutting the hedge. I don't really use them otherwise. Of course, as @Uff says - threads often take a 'turn', and it can be very interesting, but it's very odd when people make that kind of peculiar comment a few posts back. If you don't like a thread, or it's content, don't read it. Simples
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
At least it was (still is/will be?) more interesting than all the sacchariney, fausse bonhomie that passes for discussion.
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We go from topic to topic, meandering in and out, sometimes getting heated and sometimes gentle bantering. On forums as in life there are members who are grumpy old sods and some that are the life and soul of the gathering, some that are daft as a brush but in the nicest possible way. Never the less we listen or read posts that are their point of view to which are are all entitled to do or say. We also learn about things we might not have thought we were interested in.
On the whole, forums are fascinating places to inhabit and long may they reign.
And about those gloves @LunarSea, they look crackers, I wouldn't mind some of those.
Of course, as @Uff says - threads often take a 'turn', and it can be very interesting, but it's very odd when people make that kind of peculiar comment a few posts back. If you don't like a thread, or it's content, don't read it.
Simples
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...