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I have been given quite an appropriate present, a lovely K.G calendar.

I did smile to see our own Captain Carrot smiling between the Runner beans. :)

And i'm not going to build my hopes up, but i don't suppose that's Lady Lettuce's hand on there as well is it! :wink:
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I had a load of manure dropped off yesterday evening.
Just what I needed !!!
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TV packed in last night. Are we missing it? Have you seen what rubbish is on today?
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I'm really pleased,

I got my bigger tin for all my seeds and a heated propagator :D
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Loads of books, mostly chosen by yours truly (vegetable gardening, Yorkshire barns, construction of the Settle-Carlisle railway, Yorkshire geology and similar) and a lovely, cuddly, long scarf - much needed to day:
freezing fog, maximum minus 2 degrees all day and, on a trip further northwest towards Ingleton, the car thermometre never rose above minus 7. Still lots of snow and more expected tonight.
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Got my daughter one of these Magic Wands , very Harry Potter. She spent hours practicing and setting it up. :D
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A Steroid Hit the Earth - book of newspaper typos. Funny; I bought about 6 myself for various friends. Don't worry about the TV, Alan, you are not missing anything worth watching,if you ask me. The best material is stuff you've seen before - Dad's Army. Except the Royal institute lectures; they are always worth the hour spent. Needless to say, i missed most of them, as they coincide with our dinner time.

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Hi Mike,
I am glad that you watched the Royal Institution Lectures by Professor Sue Hartley. I wish they had something even approaching them when I was young. I thought they were excellent.
I took note of what were almost her last words which were;
"If there was any time when plants needed science it is now!" (not verbatim)
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Hello Johnboy
I know you are of a great age but the RI Christmas Lectures have been going since 1825! Are really so old!!!

http://www.rigb.org/contentControl?acti ... 0000003534

I remember going to several in the early '60s. It was really quite inspiring, listening to a leading scientist of the day and sitting in the very same theatre where giants of science like Faraday had once lectured.

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A garden planner book, seeds now organised in order and useful reminders,
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alan refail wrote:TV packed in last night. Are we missing it? Have you seen what rubbish is on today?


I couldn't agree more Alan. The only half decent stuff was repeats of Only Fools and Horses on Gold and we've seen them all a dozen times before! I went to bed early and read a book. :roll:
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I think TV's should be consigned to the cupboard for Christmas (and probably most of the year too). Every year the offering gets worse. When you consider what high salaries the management earn for dishing up this kind of junk, it makes you weep.
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Primrose wrote:I think TV's should be consigned to the cupboard for Christmas (and probably most of the year too). Every year the offering gets worse. When you consider what high salaries the management earn for dishing up this kind of junk, it makes you weep.


Hi Primrose

I don't think the management have much to do with the programming. Apart from the news all the programmes seem to come from the recycling skip :wink:
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I agree about the Christmas Lectures. I think I might have seen most of them since they started broadcasting in 1966. Brought my son up on those and a subscription to New Scientist which I think were a good influence - like me he takes nobody's word for it.

TV was sad on Christmas Day - James May's train didn't make it from Barnstable to Bideford, perhaps Clive can tell us if he ever had a chance.

Son bought his Mother Nigel Slater's "Tender Vol 1 : A Cook and his Vegetable Patch". She likes what she has read so far and says I've got to read it too. Somebody gave me a Manchester United mug as a joke but it dribbles.
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Very drool indeed Geoff. :wink:
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