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I've not seen or heard a Cuckoo this year either
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Shallot Man wrote:
Can't remember the last time I heard a cuckoo. :( :(


tigerburnie wrote:I've not seen or heard a Cuckoo this year either


I remember the last cuckoo I heard...
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it was midday and I was walking past a antique horologists shop where there was a asylum of them

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left side of the greenhouse, dwarf(not) French beans are climbing well, tommies are pretty much all in flower and there's buds on the peppers and chillies too.
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I planted these at the same time as some more outside, those outside are barely knee high, sweet corn is growing strongly too.
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Grandad them climbing beans look like knotweed to me haha
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Aye I grew them last year outside, tasted delicious, though the missus was upset they lost their colour when she cooked them.
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I'm growing dwarf French beans out side this year and three different colors ,green,yellow and purple, the cobra which I normally grow outside I'm growing in the pollytunnel but only around eight I should get enough beans off eight to feed a family of sixteen if the one I grew in the tunnel last year is anything to go bye
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Must be this thread - weeding tonight to the sound of the Cuckoo.
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#~It's a kinda magic ~#

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Pa Snip wrote:#~It's a kinda magic ~#


It's a kind of magic,
A kind of magic,
One dream, one soul, one prize,
One goal, one golden glance of what should be,
It's a kind of magic,
One shaft of light that shows the way,
No mortal man can win this day,
It's a kind of magic,
The bell that rings inside your mind,
Is a challenging the doors of time,
It's a kind of magic,
The waiting seems eternity,
The day will dawn of sanity,


I can live in hope of you lot improving can't I?

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The day sanity dawns for me will be the day I give up and depart the mortal plain.

I don't do 'sanity' :lol:

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Very sorry about the lack of posts from me, just been so, so busy......although you all might be quite pleased... :)
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We've missed you, OH. I thought you might be sunning yourself in tropical climes ........
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Shortage of dust here - 34.29mm and counting.
Wonder why there is a reservoir just over the hill from us?
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Rained all day yesterday and yellow flood warning for today, who was the one who said their soil was like concrete
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Much needed proper rain here too, the rivers are rising, better get the Salmon and Sea trout gear dusted off ready for a fresh run of fish.
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