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by peter
Mon Sep 09, 2024 12:47 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Summer Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 239
Views: 27389

Re: Summer Bits and Bobs.

And there I was Friday evening in Homebase looking in disgust at an inflatable life-size diorama of USA Halloween characters clustered round a cauldron in aisle one.
by peter
Fri Aug 23, 2024 4:55 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Pets
Replies: 4
Views: 586

Pets

My 12 & 1/2 year old rescue dog has had us on an emotional roller-coaster the past week and a bit. He's a 32Kg German Shorthaired Pointer, we got him via GSP Rescue Services and 11 & 1/2 months old, we found that out because we had early issues. He had been woefully underfed, his hips stood ...
by peter
Mon Aug 19, 2024 6:13 pm
Forum: Seasonal tips
Topic: Flowers - When to cut back/tidy?
Replies: 7
Views: 1650

Re: Flowers - When to cut back/tidy?

Nearly cried in our town park, the "gardeners" were using hedge trimmers on the plants in the borders round the Norman castle mound.
They'd trimmed 6" to 8" off the top of the Butchers Broom.

I mean, really............
by peter
Fri Aug 16, 2024 7:36 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Happy Birthday OldHerbaceous
Replies: 5
Views: 940

Re: Happy Birthday OldHerbaceous

Happy Birthday OH :mrgreen:
by peter
Fri Aug 02, 2024 7:40 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Summer Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 239
Views: 27389

Re: Summer Bits and Bobs.

Geoff wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 9:36 pm I was asked to login to Plesk also, wondered if it was my machine decided to try later, found the message but couldn't resist taking the pear shaped screen shot. Ever find out what Plesk was, I didn't dare Google?
It seems to be a web-site hosting or construction site.
by peter
Thu Aug 01, 2024 8:25 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Summer Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 239
Views: 27389

Re: Summer Bits and Bobs.

Geoff wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 1:18 pm It just went pear shaped

Screenshot 2024-07-31 211159.jpg
It was way worse before that asking if I'd sign into something called Plesk, so I called the team who were pretty quick on getting that holding message up.
by peter
Thu Aug 01, 2024 8:23 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Happy Birthday Shallot Man.
Replies: 9
Views: 1710

Re: Happy Birthday Shallot Man.

Shallot Man wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 4:10 pm O H. Thankyou for the Birthday wishes.91 today. If I listen carefully I can hear a scythe being sharpened.
for someone else old chap.
by peter
Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:57 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: What do you do with old 'rubbish'?
Replies: 7
Views: 1406

Re: What do you do with old 'rubbish'?

I have two or three old frying pans. I don't need or want them any more. I don't want t o put them in the bin, ie landfill. And the snobby charity shops won't have them. (I've not even asked.) I remember when I was a skint student I'd have jumped at the chance of kit like this. What should I do wit...
by peter
Sat Jul 06, 2024 11:33 am
Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
Topic: Swallows
Replies: 4
Views: 1704

Re: Swallows

I read that people on the north African coast have been using huge cheap nets to catch migrating birds.
by peter
Thu Jun 13, 2024 4:48 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Early Summer Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 142
Views: 20482

Re: Early Summer Bits and Bobs.

Our Allotment Association had to switch to card as we bank at Barclays and our branch has shut. SumUp was on offer at Toolstation before Christmas at 30% discount so £70 for the tech. Their charges are stated on their website as: "A standard fee of 1.69% per transaction applies for all our card...
by peter
Tue May 28, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Early Summer Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 142
Views: 20482

Re: Early Summer Bits and Bobs.

Spent the long weekend mostly reroofing a 12'x8' pent roof shed tall front. Complicated by the fact I extended it on the site, down-slope, with the tall bit of roof abutting the right side. Where I had doubled up 3/4" plywood header board with an aluminium panel holding the edge of the Onduline...
by peter
Mon May 20, 2024 1:46 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Robins
Replies: 3
Views: 1392

Robins

After rotavating I had a few hours fun with robins, one was investigating the rotovated soil and carrying off beakfulls of wrigglies to a nest somewhere. Then another turned up and a fight ensued on top of next doors salad/cabbage tall netting cage, both zoomed off. The original (I think) resumed ac...
by peter
Thu May 09, 2024 6:43 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Christmas!
Replies: 17
Views: 312210

Re: Christmas!

Magazine doesn't see the need for more moderators with the volume of activity on here. If you can point out any more of his posts, which the "Ban Hammer" tool was supposed to remove I can individually delete them. But unless I peruse every thread in past months I'm unable to find them as h...
by peter
Thu May 09, 2024 8:05 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Christmas!
Replies: 17
Views: 312210

Re: Christmas!

Darui was banned and the repost editing Stravaig's post has been removed.
In total I removed one on April 21st and edited out his links on another on May 1st.
He cannot post or follow you around since he was banned on April 8th 2024.
I'm the sole active moderator on here.
by peter
Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:45 pm
Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
Topic: What are these invading the plot?
Replies: 11
Views: 3007

Re: What are these invading the plot?

Closest two matches match I can find in the Phone App "LeafSnap" are:

1 Sibthorpia Peregrina AKA Madeira Moneywort, "it forms dense mats of finely pubescent leaves and miniature yellow flowers."

2 Bramble.