I was so angry after Brexit that it affected my digestion for over a week. Resigned to it now but still have to wonder about the "man in the street" they interview now who complains about price rises, pound falling, the time it will take for anything to be resolved, money for NHS etc etc. No idea!
All too easy too to get fired up about CETA and EU/US Trade deals which will give global companies too much power over governments, living standards, quality of food imports - they allow growth hormones and chemicals and GM which the EU doesn't and it will eventually filter through to working conditions and job security and the politicians concerned haven't the wit to stand up to the lobbyists.
An then there's the middle east and most of Africa and the US elections and the bloody Russians and the Chinese to worry about and that lunatic in North Korea.
Thank heavens for gardens and plants!
No frost but chilly start to the day. Still cloudless and sunny here and 13C now and we've been and bought a wood chipper for OH. One of the DIY stores offered me 10% off an item of my choice for my birthday later this month so we've been and taken advantage. OH so pleased with his new toy he didn't balk at the modifications I want to make to the plumbing and storage in the scullery. Good.
Busy - sounds like you're enjoying yourselves. Good.
Topbird - glad things are progressing well. Looking forward to the pics.
Hosta - Have you tried the meerkats? There must be a better deal somewhere.
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)."
Philip Green, USA, CETA, GM, FIFA, moles, Brexit... ...yes, sometimes we just need to go into the garden and talk to worms. Though at least the High Court has thrown a small spanner into Mrs May's works. I see the Pound has gone up as a result...
Currently waging war in the garden with the local c**s (I love the blighters, got one myself) who are determined to dig up my newly-planted strawberries. Replanted 3 this afternoon, put in yet more prickly prunings, and covered the beds with the runner bean net. If that doesn't work I'll be constructing a low-tech, high-speed cage in the short time available before I go to Scotland on Tuesday.
It's great being "27". The paths and lanes are deep in dry, crunchy leaves so I've been stomping through them, enjoying being a child again... (I can confirm that the best species for crunch are beech and sycamore, having plenty of substance and a 3D profile.) Got a few funny looks from folk not yet old enough to have fun - but I DON'T CARE.
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I was so angry after Brexit that it affected my digestion for over a week. Resigned to it now but still have to wonder about the "man in the street" they interview now who complains about price rises, pound falling, the time it will take for anything to be resolved, money for NHS etc etc. No idea!
All too easy too to get fired up about CETA and EU/US Trade deals which will give global companies too much power over governments, living standards, quality of food imports - they allow growth hormones and chemicals and GM which the EU doesn't and it will eventually filter through to working conditions and job security and the politicians concerned haven't the wit to stand up to the lobbyists.
An then there's the middle east and most of Africa and the US elections and the bloody Russians and the Chinese to worry about and that lunatic in North Korea.
Thank heavens for gardens and plants!
No frost but chilly start to the day. Still cloudless and sunny here and 13C now and we've been and bought a wood chipper for OH. One of the DIY stores offered me 10% off an item of my choice for my birthday later this month so we've been and taken advantage. OH so pleased with his new toy he didn't balk at the modifications I want to make to the plumbing and storage in the scullery. Good.
Busy - sounds like you're enjoying yourselves. Good.
Topbird - glad things are progressing well. Looking forward to the pics.
Hosta - Have you tried the meerkats? There must be a better deal somewhere.
Philip Green, there is another person who is making me really angry today.
When you don't even know who's in the team
S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
If ever there was a case for putting someone in the stocks and hurling rotten tomatoes at them, Philip Green is it.
Wouldn't it be sooooooooo satisfying?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Cutting off his bank account would be more effective.
fidget....I can think of something more painful
Of course, that first and his wife's - that goes without saying (or should) .............. but please let me throw rotten tomatoes at him too
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
But the bank account would pay out on those missing pensions.... Not much use for the other ,Joyce.
Hi everyone.
Philip Green, USA, CETA, GM, FIFA, moles, Brexit...
...yes, sometimes we just need to go into the garden and talk to worms. Though at least the High Court has thrown a small spanner into Mrs May's works. I see the Pound has gone up as a result...
Currently waging war in the garden with the local c**s (I love the blighters, got one myself) who are determined to dig up my newly-planted strawberries. Replanted 3 this afternoon, put in yet more prickly prunings, and covered the beds with the runner bean net. If that doesn't work I'll be constructing a low-tech, high-speed cage in the short time available before I go to Scotland on Tuesday.
It's great being "27". The paths and lanes are deep in dry, crunchy leaves so I've been stomping through them, enjoying being a child again... (I can confirm that the best species for crunch are beech and sycamore, having plenty of substance and a 3D profile.) Got a few funny looks from folk not yet old enough to have fun - but I DON'T CARE.
Much more behaviour like that and you'll have to wear purple and learn to spit Liri
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.