Cutting pallet wood on the circular saw Sunday a gust of wind put some sawdust in my face, this evening I have raging conjuctivitus, pharmacist viewed me with horror from fifteen foot away and told the assistant get the antibiotic eye drops....... Got home realised why pus oozing out of my eyes and ...

Robo, how long have you had that padlock?
Had any trouble with it?

I ask because I have a number of them and they all seem to malfunction pretty fast, my suspicion is water getting in and b*****ing the electrics. Latest failure kept going off for no reason, repeatedly every few minutes.

Doesn't look like a beetroot, more like a number grown so close they merged.

Two women neighbours, Emma and Mel, go out one night without their husbands. They go to a restaurant for a meal and order a bottle of wine. Sitting there chatting away they order another bottle of wine, by the time the restaurant closes they've had a right skinful, pay up and stagger off home. Halfw...

PLUMPUDDING wrote:I saw two stickers on the back of a car this afternoon:-

"No baby on board - Durex" and "There are no biscuits left over night in this car"

Saw a honeywagon* with a notice on the back, "No stools left in this vehicle overnight."


* cesspit emptying lorry.

I would take a bottle of brandy bribery usually works Not with our produce judge she is teetotal. BTW Mouse tell Mr Mouse his "assistance" could get your entry marked "Not as schedule" because the schedule specifies a bottle of cordial. It should specify the bottle type (colour)...

I suspect that they'll taste it neat or use one thing to dilute all entries.

This is the Great Dunmow side of Stanstead airport.

Last year we didn't have an annual Show, our Show Secretary moved away and everyone else had too many prior commitments to take over. We relaunched this year, a fair few show Virgins turned up and we gained some new members. About fifteen exhibitors, some with just one entry. Our old friend John, a ...

Beetroot Vampire Moth infestation?

Sucks the colour out making them anemic.

Really busy, but not with gardening matters.
Annual show for Allotment Association and first match of rugby season on the 1st September. #splitpersonality Chairman / Barman.

Funny business this. ........ The use of glyphosate that troubles me is pre-harvest in cereals, to make the harvest easier by killing weeds, but also to desiccate the crop, reducing drying costs. This is common practice and surely must leave large residues.......... But on cereals, you can slop it ...

I always keep shed bases off the ground, At worst I'll put a breeze block or brick plinth in a two to three foot grid. At best I'll make a foot deep hole, fill it with postcrete and insert a bit of perforated metal strapping, build off the ground two bricks high, a pair of bricks on the first layer,...