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  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    I accidentally bent my thumb in a direction that thumbs don't bend and now it doesn't want to bend at all. I need to start looking after that thumb a bit better. When I was checking it over I noticed it's got a few too many scars and that tattoo I accidentally gave myself five years ago still isn't showing any signs of going away.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited June 2023
    When I was young my thumbs were double jointed and bent all over the place.   They definitely are not as flexible now and really resent going the wrong way.   Give yours a rest and treasure it @wild edges.  I don't know where that expression about being "all thumbs" comes from but I'm definiitely clumsier when one of mine is out of commission. 
    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
    edited June 2023
    Thunderbolts and lightening very very frightening promised. At best we've had heavy drizzle so far. Me (I?)  and the grass have been enjoying it but everything else is just being teased. I held off planting out stuff until after the rain. Silly me! Expect to be disappointed and you will never be disappointed.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The grass and I 😇
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Shouldn’t it be ‘me and me grass’ 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    @Lyn I be thinking youm dead right🤔
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @B3. youm be right Maid. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147

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





  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    The car started making an odd knocking noise from the front suspension. It turns out a spring has snapped. I think this is the 4th or 5th snapped spring I've had to replace now. The MOT guy I use says he's seeing loads of them now and blames the bad roads and the extreme weather temperatures but I suspect it's just substandard metal being used these days. They're about the age and mileage to start giving out so I've ordered new shocks and springs to do the whole lot. Annoyingly I had plans for Saturday and I've had to bin those to get this sorted  :(  Considering I do so little mileage these days I seem to be spending an awful lot of money to keep the cars going.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    The dreaded Solomon's Seal sawfly caterpillars are busy munching through my plants, loads of them. They can strip the leaves unbelievably fast.

    I'm now waiting for the gooseberry ones to also arrive.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
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