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Reasons to be cheerful 2022

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  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    Seeing 'Kirkcudbright' reminds me of listening to radio Luxembourg many decades ago and the presenter saying that the competition winner lived in Kirk-cud-bright, Kirk-cud-bright-shire in a strong American accent.  Heathen! :D Can't even pronounce place names properly.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
     :) Then there's Castle Douglas, round here they don't bother to go to the trouble of the full name, it's just C D. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    @Allotment Boy we don't have any obvious shortage of sparrows here in Gloucestershire.  Plenty of starlings too.
  • LG_LG_ Posts: 4,360
    We have lots of sparrows, and even more dunnocks. I think a lot of the houses in my street have sparrows nesting in the roof - they certainly make quite a racket and you see them about a lot. Which is a reason to be cheerful 🙂
    'If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.'
    - Cicero
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    We have discovered a bumblebee nest, it's beside a fence post, in the side passage.  Surprisingly it's in one of the cooler  most shady places, I thought they liked the warmth. Anyway they are flying in and out very happily. 
    AB Still learning

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited June 2022
    Haven't seen many aphids at all this year . I will happily move on from No Squish Spring to No Squish Summer😊
    I just wish the sparrows would take a leaf out of the tits'  book and do the job more quietly, though.😏

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2022
    Sounds as if your OH is another who deserves one of our awards...

    Here is the medal for Shed Builder Extraordinaire 🥇 ... you can present that to him (I'm presuming it's a him, if not my apologies) on our behalf with a bar of choc/bottle of beer or treat of his/her/their choosing. 😉

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





  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Ooo your very own shed, pure joy. Looks quite splendid.
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • HeartinthedirtHeartinthedirt Posts: 300
    @Dovefromabove, he's tickled pink. Grinning his head off.
    @Uff, I am honestly giddy about it. I think OH is actually a bit jealous now cos he's only got the old lean-to for his tools. 🤣
    It's knowing what to do with things that counts - Robert Frost
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