I just saw my first person in a mask on Google Street View. 😷
Oh.
No, it's OK, my Mum's still in her sitting room chair. I shall be very sad when they update that one
The view outside my parents' house is still my old dog sat in the boot of my dad's car getting in the way while he's trying to load up. That dog was always in the way of something.
My house has been updated to spring this year though. I'm starting to understand why my grandparents' generation insisted on keeping the front of the house looking smart at all times. You never know when the Google Street View car will pass and immortalise your slovenly weeding and lacklustre hanging baskets.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
With our house in Belgium they passed the day after I'd stripped the paint of the wooden garage doors and before I'd sanded, undercoated and painted. Looked awful.
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)."
wild edges said: I'm starting to understand why my grandparents' generation insisted on keeping the front of the house looking smart at all times. You never know when the Google Street View car will pass and immortalise your slovenly weeding and lacklustre hanging baskets.
One unlooked for advantage of living a mile from the road. The only view Google has of our house is a corner of the roof behind the neighbour's leylandii hedge on the far side of a valley.
@B3 The fox probably would eat squirrel if you caught said squirrel and killed it and served it in a dish with some nice fruit on the side
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
Now it's not only the squirrels wreaking the sunflowers, a mouse has got in the shed and has chewed on the Apples. Luckily most of the Apple store is at the Allotments & so far they are safe.
Luckily most of the Apple store is at the Allotments.
The capital letter makes it sound like they're trying to grow ivegetables.
I get problems with rodents in my apples every year. I really need to invest in some mouse-proof wire mesh to protect the shelves. My current scheme is hanging them from the ceiling but I can't deal with a big glut that way.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Parents back from their holiday. Well that free chard, tomatoes, fennel and beans ride is over. Seriously your don't mind checking on house and watering a few plants if you are in the middle of a nice harvest season. Usually they're away in strawberry and courgette harvest. In fact they never get to eat much home grown courgettes but we usually do. Bad year for that and no strawberries since they moved house.
You cav understand why when they moved away we moved closer a year later. 😆 Seriously not the reason but mile and a half away free harvest and child minding services are an added benefit of this house. Still miss those beans and Swiss chard. Oh and the fennel! We got the only big one and it filled the van with aniseed smell so strong even I could smell it (virtually no sense of smell except for usually not very nice ones and occasionally very strong nice ones).
So my grump is not being able to find Swiss chard, really nice fennel and beans in the shops near us. When you get the taste of homegrown quality you miss it when you only have supermarket bland!
They leave explicit instructions to pick whatever is ready to be picked just leave stuff in the veg compartment of the fridge in the last week of their holiday. Funny how there's nothing left by the last week! 😆
They even call and WhatsApp to make sure we're harvesting stuff. They want to know what we're getting.
They moved to a better house for older age that's more modern and lower maintenance. We moved to next village because we always liked visiting it and there's a train route to work through it. Coincidence!
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@B3 The fox probably would eat squirrel if you caught said squirrel and killed it and served it in a dish with some nice fruit on the side
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”
You cav understand why when they moved away we moved closer a year later. 😆 Seriously not the reason but mile and a half away free harvest and child minding services are an added benefit of this house. Still miss those beans and Swiss chard. Oh and the fennel! We got the only big one and it filled the van with aniseed smell so strong even I could smell it (virtually no sense of smell except for usually not very nice ones and occasionally very strong nice ones).
So my grump is not being able to find Swiss chard, really nice fennel and beans in the shops near us. When you get the taste of homegrown quality you miss it when you only have supermarket bland!
They leave explicit instructions to pick whatever is ready to be picked just leave stuff in the veg compartment of the fridge in the last week of their holiday. Funny how there's nothing left by the last week! 😆
They even call and WhatsApp to make sure we're harvesting stuff. They want to know what we're getting.
They moved to a better house for older age that's more modern and lower maintenance. We moved to next village because we always liked visiting it and there's a train route to work through it. Coincidence!