Dear Weyplotter - if you were able to put your moles to sleep, and I don't think that is a possiblity in all honesty - as nature abhors a vacuum, all that would happen is that more would enter your plot. Try some of the sound producing ideas that seem to work quite well, just remember that moles are as entitled to a place on the planet as much as we are - probably more in that they may have been here first!
Just watch them if you get the chance, the 'gentleman in velvet' really is a most fascinating animal.
Bookertoo, just wish that moles would stay in the paddock, not the garden. They make tunnels under the plants leaving the roots dangling in space and then they die of drought.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
It's amazing what you can find to do in peoples gardens, clearing/repairing sheds, tidying/repairing greenhouses & general tidying up. When it's not raining as much I'll offer jet washing.
Only snow has prevented me from 'gardening', although I've cleared snow from some OAP customers so they could get their dial-a-ride or taxi's.
So glad I don't work in the SW of Eng or the Pennines, it always seems to rain in these parts.
Dont apologise Mike, other peoples ramblings, hopes and dreams are very interesting. They make me think about I made various decisions in my own life and the special moments in my own career.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
I always wanted to be an astronomer and found Patrick Moore an inspiration, RIP. Unfortunately I was rather immature in my youth (and perhaps still am!) and discovered motorcycles, alcohol and the opposite sex (not necessarily in that order!) when I should have been concentrating on my A levels. I caught up later on my education but was already in a job by then and never had the courage (or any encouragement) to jack the job in and go back to university to study the subject. Still, I do now have telescopes and an observatory in my garden and with over 40,000 amateur astronomers in the UK it's a thriving community, as is the gardening one I love so much.
A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
Bob, that's really quite sad. Funny how so many people's lives have 'what ifs' and 'if onlys' isn't it? How many of us would go back and change things we did earlier in our lives I wonder, and would be any happier? Perhaps not. Sometimes things happen by accident not design.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I wonder how much of it is a "grass is allways greener" type of thing. I now say that I wish a hadnt become a doctor, but I am not sure what I would have done otherwise, and medicine did provide a very interesting career for many years. On a more vulgar, but no less true note, I would not now have my large lovely garden on the edge of the moors without it.
How can you lie there and think of England When you don't even know who's in the team
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Lawnmower Chris, what do you guys do in this awful weather?
Dear Weyplotter - if you were able to put your moles to sleep, and I don't think that is a possiblity in all honesty - as nature abhors a vacuum, all that would happen is that more would enter your plot. Try some of the sound producing ideas that seem to work quite well, just remember that moles are as entitled to a place on the planet as much as we are - probably more in that they may have been here first!
Just watch them if you get the chance, the 'gentleman in velvet' really is a most fascinating animal.
Bookertoo, just wish that moles would stay in the paddock, not the garden. They make tunnels under the plants leaving the roots dangling in space and then they die of drought.
Don't get me wrong Bookertoo I'm sure they're adorable creatures just not keen on them being in my garden.
Hi 'gg', a good set of waterproofs help!
It's amazing what you can find to do in peoples gardens, clearing/repairing sheds, tidying/repairing greenhouses & general tidying up. When it's not raining as much I'll offer jet washing.
Only snow has prevented me from 'gardening', although I've cleared snow from some OAP customers so they could get their dial-a-ride or taxi's.
So glad I don't work in the SW of Eng or the Pennines, it always seems to rain in these parts.
Dont apologise Mike, other peoples ramblings, hopes and dreams are very interesting. They make me think about I made various decisions in my own life and the special moments in my own career.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
I always wanted to be an astronomer and found Patrick Moore an inspiration, RIP. Unfortunately I was rather immature in my youth (and perhaps still am!) and discovered motorcycles, alcohol and the opposite sex (not necessarily in that order!) when I should have been concentrating on my A levels. I caught up later on my education but was already in a job by then and never had the courage (or any encouragement) to jack the job in and go back to university to study the subject. Still, I do now have telescopes and an observatory in my garden and with over 40,000 amateur astronomers in the UK it's a thriving community, as is the gardening one I love so much.
Bob, that's really quite sad. Funny how so many people's lives have 'what ifs' and 'if onlys' isn't it? How many of us would go back and change things we did earlier in our lives I wonder, and would be any happier? Perhaps not. Sometimes things happen by accident not design.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I wonder how much of it is a "grass is allways greener" type of thing. I now say that I wish a hadnt become a doctor, but I am not sure what I would have done otherwise, and medicine did provide a very interesting career for many years. On a more vulgar, but no less true note, I would not now have my large lovely garden on the edge of the moors without it.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
Every cloud doc eh?
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...