Well, I have ignored one particularly irritating "know-it-all" who didn't. He left for a while but now I see he's re-invented himself and come back.
DHR - keep your golf if it makes you happy but do allow we golf widows to have a moan about the long hours wasted and the totally boring conversation habits of their OH's playing crowd - bearing in mind these were weekend golfers with mostly high-powered, international jobs who could have had so much more to talk about than post mortems and blow by blow accounts of taking 6 shots on a 3 hole. It's actually a lot better now he's retired and does it mid week sometimes and with locals.
I will never get Poldark - watched the original series but not all of it decades ago.
I don't get tree ferns in UK gardens - all that wrapping to get them through a winter.
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Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I don't get tree ferns either Obelixx, or banana plants , l like cannas though. There's a lady up the lane with a massive, very healthy tree fern. In the early winter she wraps it in fleece held in place with white twinkling lights. At Christmas she adds rainbow lights and a fairy on top. It always makes me smile when l go past.
Sorry folks - conversations have moved on. Late again! I do remember worrying about the tree ferns in the Garden Rescue programme - several to be wrapped up - in one garden the boys did. I do like them but wouldn't want one as I'd be terrified of losing it.
Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
There is Victorian terrace on the way into town. They all have tiny front gardens. A few houses have massive monkey puzzle trees planted outside their bay windows, some are nearly as tall as the rooftops, blocking out all light l imagine. They are a beautiful shape though, there is a wonderful MP tree lined long driveway approaching Bicton College not far from us, they look majestic. A chap in a large detached house up the hill from me, had two beautiful Cedar trees he called them "the sisters" on his land. When he sadly passed the house was sold and the new owner had them cut down. I must admit l cried at the loss of those trees, they made a beautiful skyline. He then built a bungalow where the trees had been, sold up and cleared off.
I love cedars but I believe they are planted to be enjoyed by our descendants. Maybe we are too selfish but more likely lack the confidence that anyone will be about to enjoy them in their maturity. The ones we enjoy now we're planted in different times to ours.
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Lil is perfect Muddle-up, as long as no one begins it with leg-over. Poldark could call me whatever he desires...?
Well, I have ignored one particularly irritating "know-it-all" who didn't. He left for a while but now I see he's re-invented himself and come back.
DHR - keep your golf if it makes you happy but do allow we golf widows to have a moan about the long hours wasted and the totally boring conversation habits of their OH's playing crowd - bearing in mind these were weekend golfers with mostly high-powered, international jobs who could have had so much more to talk about than post mortems and blow by blow accounts of taking 6 shots on a 3 hole. It's actually a lot better now he's retired and does it mid week sometimes and with locals.
I will never get Poldark - watched the original series but not all of it decades ago.
I don't get tree ferns in UK gardens - all that wrapping to get them through a winter.
Last edited: 02 September 2016 19:38:38
I don't get tree ferns either Obelixx, or banana plants , l like cannas though. There's a lady up the lane with a massive, very healthy tree fern. In the early winter she wraps it in fleece held in place with white twinkling lights. At Christmas she adds rainbow lights and a fairy on top. It always makes me smile when l go past.
I bet Verdun doesn't have to bubble wrap tree ferns down there in his tropical micro-climate
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Sorry folks - conversations have moved on. Late again! I do remember worrying about the tree ferns in the Garden Rescue programme - several to be wrapped up - in one garden the boys did. I do like them but wouldn't want one as I'd be terrified of losing it.
I like my banana. I know I have to bring it under cover in winter, but it's a small price to pay.
I'm aiming to have more "tropicals" next year so more space will be needed in the tunnel.
if I had the money, and a lot more shelter, I'd be tempted by a tree fern, but it's just too blowy.
There's something about a tree fern that just makes me want to hug it. I guess its the woolly trunk.
There is Victorian terrace on the way into town. They all have tiny front gardens. A few houses have massive monkey puzzle trees planted outside their bay windows, some are nearly as tall as the rooftops, blocking out all light l imagine. They are a beautiful shape though, there is a wonderful MP tree lined long driveway approaching Bicton College not far from us, they look majestic. A chap in a large detached house up the hill from me, had two beautiful Cedar trees he called them "the sisters" on his land. When he sadly passed the house was sold and the new owner had them cut down. I must admit l cried at the loss of those trees, they made a beautiful skyline. He then built a bungalow where the trees had been, sold up and cleared off.
I love cedars but I believe they are planted to be enjoyed by our descendants. Maybe we are too selfish but more likely lack the confidence that anyone will be about to enjoy them in their maturity. The ones we enjoy now we're planted in different times to ours.