I said to Simon
‘Hurry up and get rid of those chips so we can leave!’
I wondered why he laughed?
My hair is getting thin, I know worrying about it is the last thing to do, however how do you stop worrying about it? Any ideas? I am off to get it cut today so maybe Bethan will know.
The garden is slowly taking shape, I am loving the outdoor pottering. Today I order the water feature.
The rat saga moves up a gear, the heavies are being rolled out ie the trap mentioned by gz. The all singing all dancing, cost a fortune one is being returned as not fit for purpose, as another night it was tripped without a dead rat as reward. I wouldn’t mind but not even a goldfish in a plastic bag as once upon a time you could win at the fair!
My place at the top of the list for the next available allotment is getting chilly, soon I will need bobble hat, mitts and an oxygen bottle as the air becomes thinner sitting at the summit.
Ellie is as joyful as ever.
Interesting times as we all wait with bated breath for the next moonshot offerings from our great leader!
The latest musing from the lass in Ludlow... toodle-pip!
We were unaware Ludlow was that close to the sea, and an arctic sea at that. Good luck with rat attack 2 (and the wait for an allotment - we waited 4 years and then got a choice of dozens, with loads more clearly abandoned and unused. Waiting lists seem to be an administrative thing, somebody's little power trip, rather than a lack of allotments.)
ReplyDeleteSea levels are rising Tigger, no different in Ludlow. I only saw a lump of ice float down the Teme just the other day! (that was a fib)
DeleteOur allotments are extremely well tended, no one wants to give up, even yesterday I said I thought one particularly ancient lady might be the first to go. She is soldiering on digging for Britain. Meanwhile I wait and wait, patience they say is a virtue, I say it’s a blooming pain! Hey Ho!
LX
Best of luck with getting your allotment..hope you get it early enough in the Spring!
ReplyDeleteThe allotments here are much sort after by way of their glorious situation, so understandably people will hold on to them and who can blame them? Meanwhile having just ordered some glorious tulip bulbs, in the back of my mind is me planting them in the allotment when they have finished in the tubs. This garden is stuffed with bulbs so not a spare inch here to put them.
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Not so idle thoughts. Death to the rat.
ReplyDeleteI wish in a way they were as my mind is always of late in overdrive. All the joy of the birds in the Wrenery has gone as yesterday it was swept clean of any fallen nuts and seeds. The rat last night wandered through looking lost at the dearth of nibbles! The hedgehogs no longer arrive, maybe they will when the weather gets colder and they need to top up their fat stores in readiness for winter. Their feeding station is primed indoors ready to be put out the minute they appear. The real killer trap will be bought today.
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Hope you have had results. If you can read downsizer.net forum, look at the hunting and shooting for the pot forum and the thread titled "not for the pot, dear rat"...I think you would get on well with dpack!!
DeleteThat was a very random post! I felt my hair was thinning too and I think getting it more layered has helped as has the volumising shampoo I now use. No use worrying, that will just make it worse!
ReplyDeleteI fear your wait for an allotment has a way to go yet unless you fill deadmens shoes! I believe there has been a huge upsurge in people deciding to garden and grow their own since lockdown so I doubt anyone will give up their allotment any time soon :( I'm almost at the stage of putting the gardening tools away for winter now. I've been raking up fallen apples and leaves, the grass has been cut and the spiders have taken over the greenhouse!
I wish you good luck and success with the new and improved trap for the rat. Hopefully he didn't tell his friends and family about the sweet place he'd found and they don't come looking for him!! xx
MG... my whole life is very random, surely you have twigged this by now? Asking my lovely hairdresser, newly discovered, about my hair seeming to get thinner her candid opinion was my hair was in good heart and thinning hair does go with age!?! Surely not 36 I cried aghast!?!
DeleteThe allotment saga will go on and on, until as you crisply put it someone departs to the great potting shed in the sky. You certainly seem organised in the garden, but then you are so much further north than we are here.
The rat saga totters on. Our kill rate is zilch, his family is probably growing by the day and some serious manoeuvres are yet to be planned. Watch this space.
LX