Sorry - off topic - thanks Busy Bee2. OH and I have been looking in the dictionary to see what the difference was between practice and practise. No help there.
Mr Toast - you are a great worker and want everything down to a T(pun not intended but it works). Yours will be perfect because you have put so much effort in.
4390evans I have bought a very large landscapers rake to help me with mine, it only cost £17 but looks like it will help alot, one side is a large rake and the other has a flat edge for moving soil around, the rake is pretty weighty but this should help with the levelling.
Mr Toast that sounds like the perfect present for Mr Bee - he doesn't take much interest in the garden (unless there is something out there he wants to eat) but he is obsessed with flat lawns. He asked me today how many molehills were out there, and I said I hadn't noticed, and explained that that was the equivalent of me asking him whether there were many weeds in the flower beds. There were, (as he learnt/learned five minutes later) six molehills, which he treated with chilli powder. He is losing faith in chilli powder and large windmills though. I have included above, another little English teacher type conundrum for the grammatically minded.
Does that work Lesley? Not with my home-grown garlic though - I've been waiting since last October to harvest that, and I didn't plant enough, so it is precious stuff. But we could get some value garlic from the supermarket?? The dictionaries will tell you learnt and learned are interchangeable, but there are preferences in British English and American English for one or the other. I was taught that 'learnt' was an adjective and 'learned' the past tense of the verb, but the dictionaries don't agree, or even with each other, or find historical precedents. So in short, there is no one answer.
Busy Bee2 - We had molehills on the lawn a few years ago. I put crushed garlic in the holes and we haven't seen any moles since. It could be a coincidence but is worth a try.
English is a very strange language. So many rules have exceptions to them
Lesley, I am now having visions of moley cooking himself up a curry down there, once we've given him the chilli powder and the garlic - no doubt someone will tell me that a slice of root ginger will do the trick soon, and some basmati rice and a poppadum!!!
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Sorry - off topic - thanks Busy Bee2.
OH and I have been looking in the dictionary to see what the difference was between practice and practise. No help there.
Mr Toast - you are a great worker and want everything down to a T(pun not intended but it works
). Yours will be perfect because you have put so much effort in.
4390evans I have bought a very large landscapers rake to help me with mine, it only cost £17 but looks like it will help alot, one side is a large rake and the other has a flat edge for moving soil around, the rake is pretty weighty but this should help with the levelling.
Mr Toast that sounds like the perfect present for Mr Bee - he doesn't take much interest in the garden (unless there is something out there he wants to eat) but he is obsessed with flat lawns. He asked me today how many molehills were out there, and I said I hadn't noticed, and explained that that was the equivalent of me asking him whether there were many weeds in the flower beds. There were, (as he learnt/learned five minutes later) six molehills, which he treated with chilli powder. He is losing faith in chilli powder and large windmills though. I have included above, another little English teacher type conundrum for the grammatically minded.
Mr Bee learnt his lesson. (I hope) He could try crushed garlic cloves instead
Does that work Lesley? Not with my home-grown garlic though - I've been waiting since last October to harvest that, and I didn't plant enough, so it is precious stuff. But we could get some value garlic from the supermarket?? The dictionaries will tell you learnt and learned are interchangeable, but there are preferences in British English and American English for one or the other. I was taught that 'learnt' was an adjective and 'learned' the past tense of the verb, but the dictionaries don't agree, or even with each other, or find historical precedents. So in short, there is no one answer.
Practice is a noun - like in a GP Practice
Practise is a verb - as in "I must practise what I preach"
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Busy Bee2 - We had molehills on the lawn a few years ago. I put crushed garlic in the holes and we haven't seen any moles since. It could be a coincidence but is worth a try.
English is a very strange language. So many rules have exceptions to them
Lesley, I am now having visions of moley cooking himself up a curry down there, once we've given him the chilli powder and the garlic - no doubt someone will tell me that a slice of root ginger will do the trick soon, and some basmati rice and a poppadum!!!