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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

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    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,504

    Yes. I've been waiting to use it since I was about twelve. It's one of those euphonious words that doesn't slot easily into conversation. I seem to remember growing beans in the dark or something.

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    You're mixing with the wrong sort of people B3. It slips into conversation easily here. image

    OH manages to slot in gibberellins occasionally, that's one of his favourites



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,504

    Ooohh missusimage

    I'm quite fond of egregious

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457

    image Just found these little chaps feasting on a weed which if I've identified the cinnabar moth larvae correctly is Ragwort.

    See! Slothfulness does pay! image

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,504

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    This iceberg climber spent the last few years buried in a massive ivy hedge. It was cut down to a stump about a month ago when the new fence was put up.  I noticed it had sprouted so I loosened just enough soil around it and gave it a bit of fertiliser. The surrounding soil has been left in true GoS style.

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    compost beside empty dalek bin

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    There's a white buddleia behind the plum branches

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • CloggieCloggie Posts: 1,457

    How do you pronounce gibberellin Nut?  Is it a golfball g or a ginger g?  And could you please put it into a sentence.

    My friend had a word that she used interchangeably and very adaptably: the word chuff.

    'e's chuffed it (he made a mistake)

    throw the chuffin' thing away (that is dirty and needs to be disposed of)

    I don't give a chuff! (I don't care)

    Chuff off (go away)

    He gave it a good chuffing (he broke it)

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,504

    I think it may be a euphemism for something beginning with f and can be used similarly in the appropriate social context  - apart from when you are chuffed about something. In which case,  are pleased a d proudimage . You knew  this already, didn't you, cloggieimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,504

    It adds another element to your posts  - a bit like a cryptic crosswordimage

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328

    I think gibberellin has a ginger G, Cloggie.  Summat to do with plant hormones but I can't remember what - need to look it up...

    One of my tutors at horticultural college used to pronounce ETIOLATED as ETOLIATED.  He was a very serious man so I didn't dare smile.  image

    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
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