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  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Brilliant @wild edges :D
    We used to buy the B&Q own brand version of No More Nails as we found it better for all kinds of jobs. We named it Grips Like ****.

    Indeed @BenCotto. It's boak inducing. :/
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    There is one called Sticks like Sh*t. With the apostrophe, as if that would stop anyone so inclined from being offended.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I think I've seen that one @JennyJ. Bet it sells well   :D
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited March 2022
    Depends on the consistency of the sh*t,  I'd say🤔
    It might slide like sn*t off a door handle.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • KT53KT53 Posts: 9,016
    B3 said:
    Depends on the consistency of the sh*t,  I'd say🤔
    It might slide like sn*t off a door handle.

    Presumably a consistency which adheres to blankets.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    I listened attentively to Monty on Friday evening. When your clump of herbaceous perennials is about four years old it’s time to lift and divide. Sometimes you can tear the bits apart with your hands, or with more vigour you could use hand forks, back to back. But Monty opted for for a driven spade.

    That was my approach this afternoon with Lythrum ‘Dropmore Purple’. It has roots like coiled steel. I whacked it with the spade, it bounced off. I whacked it harder, it bounced further. I tried an axe, but missed. Eventually I succeeded with a pruning saw, industrial language and the T.A. on standby. 

    I’m not doing it again.
    Rutland, England
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    I always use a border fork and my dad's old spud fork back to back . Works for me. 
    AB Still learning

  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    Today is the day when I face one of the hardest jobs of the year: working out how to adjust the car clock.
    Rutland, England
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I know that feeling @BenCotto. All the bells and whistles [literally] on new cars, but a simple task like changing the clock is impossible. I can't even remember if this car is easy or not, but the car I had some years ago was hopeless for that. I just had to ignore it for six months of the year. 
    Mine gets serviced quite soon. Maybe I should ask them.  No manual - you have to download the guff, because a manual would be the size and weight of an encyclopaedia. I couldn't even find anything on that.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I have distance glasses and I have classes for reading … the dashboard falls somewhere between the two and the digital clock figures are small … I can’t see them even if they’re telling the correct time. I wear a watch. 

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





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