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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I keep my flour totally isolated now and away from the kitchen. Flour mites are an absolute pain to get rid of. If my flour moves, that's all I need to bin.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • Totally understand, @B3
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    School holidays, day two: oldest boy has brought home a last minute cold and only takes breaks between inessesent high volume talking to wipe his nose or cough over everything. I've already heard the word 'dad' 4384 times since they broke up. Hiding in the bathroom only serves to highlight just how loud my tinnitus is. I've already used one of the emergency Lego sets to distract the youngest and will pay for this by having to rebuild the thing every 20 minutes for the next six weeks.
    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    After this cold, at least he won't be able to pick up something at school for a few weeks. But he does seem to be quite resourceful in these matters.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I won’t be growing lobelia Crystal Palace in pots again. I have just picked 3 snails and 28 slugs off one pot, and they weren’t little keel slugs either, no these were great fat brazen lads making no attempt to hide around the rim. The lobelia in the other pot are completely shredded. That one is now a lost cause so I let the bunch of slugs and snails which were on it stay there.
    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    The slugs are there anyway. They've congregated on one  plant. Result!  I'd dot them around instead of slug pellets @BenCotto
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    All hail to the jet stream. I'd rather be a bit cold .
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    @B3 I wouldn't want the issues they have in many parts of Europe at the moment.  I would though like maybe 10 of their degrees, I'm sure they can spare them.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Nooo @KT53 .10 degrees hotter would be high 20s, getting on for 30 C which is too damn hot. It's grand just as it is. a bit of 🌞 would be nice but not at the expense of lovely rain and pleasantly cool temperatures to keep the garden growing well.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Some people are just rude.

    Not having been on the forum for years I've been noodling about reading over old threads. The number of unnecessarily brusque and snarky comments is shocking. I'm not with the FBI but my profiling results are interesting. So far, with no exceptions, they come from one demographic. Can you guess which one?

    plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
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