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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Well I doubt they've made much on garden stuff this year. If it keeps them in business for another year, we'll just have to put up with it.😐
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • I have just been watching University Challenge, and I am becoming increasingly annoyed by the new presenter. One question was about a certain school of composing. Nobody knew the answer, but the presenter forgot to tell us! This is on top of him repeatedly talking about the non-existent word Haitch. You would expect a BBC presenter to know the alphabet!
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    I can't stand the new presenter of University Challenge.  Any time I've seen him doing interviews he spends more time sneering at the person he's interviewing and talking over them, than he does allowing them to actually answer a question.
  • Songbird-2Songbird-2 Posts: 2,349
    edited August 2023
    Have noticed today, five perfectly round bare/brown circles / patches have appeared on the front lawn. Dogs?😡
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    Well that's rude @Songbird-2. Can people just let their dog wander onto your property? A tourist tried it here once. His dog p££d against my big pile of weeds. He did not expect me to be up and about at six in the morning obviously... till I yelled at him. Dirty stinker! I would have bundled those all up in my arms to take away if I hadn't seen him! 🤢
  • Songbird-2Songbird-2 Posts: 2,349
    Our front garden is all open plan @plant pauper . Air was blue here......😊😂
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    I'll bet! It would be here too and I have dogs!
  • I've caught people letting their dogs do their business up our drive. Worse, people too, who think they can't be seen if they do it behind an outbuilding. But they can be seen from the back garden. 
    Boy, do I let rip. Passing parents bring their children up. The number of times I've said that they only need to knock at the door, and if the child is that desperate, we have a REAL toilet out the back. 
  • Songbird-2Songbird-2 Posts: 2,349
    That's beyond awful @rowlandscastle444.🤢 Some people have no scruples or pride and respect. Think I would  be taking my garden brush ( pretty harsh bristles) to them . Unbelieveable the levels some will sink to, disgusting. 
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    edited August 2023
    This is not curmudgeonly, just intensely moving yet interesting. From being called up at the age of 19 to his death at Monte Casino 18 months later my wife’s uncle dutifully sent letters home at every opportunity, every one carrying the salutation “Dear Folks” and the last posted two days before he died. All the letters have been typed and professionally bound.

    Sydney was a bit of a lothario with three girl friends sending him treats to his training camp at Catterick but one tiny detail caught my eye: on Christmas Day 1942 there were three postal collections and three postal deliveries. O tempora o mores.




    Rutland, England
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