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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Has politics gone down the toilet?
    @Songbird-1 if you don't like the way the thread is going, steer it in another direction. What shall we moan about? You decide😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Can I moan about slugs please?  I suspect that this mild damp weather is perfect for slug-canoodling 😖 

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





  • @Dovefromabove i think you are right. I'm hoping this is why a pair of blackbirds were hopping about pecking at the soil in my pots yesterday. although i'll settle for them pulling out weeds that seem to have germinated over the last 48 hours!
    Kindness is always the right choice.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    pansyface said:
    No, ours at least doesn’t give you a good brushing down.

    But it does have a “massage” setting (weird) where the water squooshes out and kind of pulsates.

    The “turbo” setting is a fine thin stream of water which is jetted out under quite high pressure. Painful almost. Definitely not one to linger over.

    Sounds like something from Wallace and Gromit!
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    pansyface said:
    An interesting question. 

    The water isn’t hot, only luke warm, and it’s only heated to order. The heater comes on when you plonk your bahookie on the seat. And it doesn't use a lot of water. No idea how much but probably about a couple of cupsful at most.

    No paper is needed so there must be a few trees saved or recycled paper not needing to be created.

    No idea really. 


    I had this sudden vision of the reaction of the user if the heater failed, particularly on a cold winters day.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Is there an enema or colonic irrigation setting?

    Tree rats were certainly courting yesterday. 
    I've seen evidence of slugs but none of the beasts so I assume it's the little ones.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • I tried growing Chinese Cabbage for the first time, lace curtains doesn't begin to describe them.  Still it kept the bu**ers off the sprouts. 
    AB Still learning

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I grew the wrong kind of Chinese cabbage last year. The leaves were covered in prickly hairs. The slugs weren't interested and neither was I. Apparently, the hairs go or soften if you cook the leaves. I never bothered to find out. Straight on the compost heap.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I found a lily beetle exploring my laptop yesterday!  First one I've seen since we moved here and not a welcome sight.

    I tend to find slugs in the outer layers of our Savoy cabbages but now I just tear those off and hand them to the chooks who enjoy both.
    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
  • What is Aunty Beeb up to? 
    Tonight BBC1 Attenborough  and the Mammoth graveyard. BBC 2, Only connect,  champions of champions,  BBC 4 JVT last of three RI lectures.  ALL @ 8pm  we can record one and watch one, BBC don't do plus 1 channels, we can only hope for a repeat at some point. 
    AB Still learning

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