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Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2009 11:37 pm
by Geoff
We had our bonfire tonight - delayed by flu. After raining most of the day it started clearing up at about 5 and was a beautiful warm evening with the stars out. I have a tradition of politically incorrect bonfire models so this year's designed itself - not one of my best but you get the point. Pity the two fingers to shareholders and taxpayers don't show up too well.
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Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 5:51 am
by oldherbaceous
Morning Geoff, i do like the idea of burning the sinners.
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:32 pm
by peter
Today as I stood in the torrential rain, with my dog shivering next to me in her waxed coat, while my son and his team stuffed the opposition 41 -5, despite a ball so slippery you could have stretched it out and called it an eel, I thought of poor Lizzie.
Slaving away in her greenhouse with her fumigation equipment.
Nicotine does kill bugs.
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 6:55 pm
by oldherbaceous
Maybe Lizzie could hire herself out.
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 7:22 pm
by peter
oldherbaceous wrote:Maybe Lizzie could hire herself out.
Oh no!The image that has placed in my mind.... 
Lizzie, on a bicycle, towing a little trailer carrying a:
little pot-bellied stove
length of stovepipe
2'x2' metal replacement for a greenhouse glass pane with a hole for the stovepipe
some kindling
comfy chair
"duty-free" pack of cigs
portable library
hurricane lamp
little keg of paraffin
kettle
frying pan
fluffy slippers
The trailer signwritten thus:
"
Bizzie Lizzie's Mobile Overnight Greenhouse Fumigation Services"
"We charge one pint of paraffin and a small bundle of kindling per visit and just 4 logs per cubic yard of glasshouse."
I'll take 10% Lizzie.
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2009 8:06 pm
by oldherbaceous
Dear Lizzie, i would like to be your first customer, you might need your helpful labourer as i have quite a large greenhouse.
I have got a goodly heap of seasoned logs ready.
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 1:14 pm
by Elaine
Lizzie,if you decide to hire yourself out as described in Peter's post.....I volunteer to be your assistant!
Don't reckon we would get much reading done though........too busy gabbing!
Cheers!
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:48 pm
by oldherbaceous
Can anyone tell me, roughly how many onion seed there would be in a gram.
This seems a little funny, asking a question.
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 6:55 pm
by donedigging
Good Evening OH,
surely you are not that bored!
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:12 pm
by oldherbaceous
Dear Donedigging, it's these dark evenings you know.
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:26 pm
by Shallot Man
OH. I suppose you could weigh a gramme, and then count them, would help to pass an evening by.
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 7:32 pm
by oldherbaceous
The trouble is Shallot Man, i haven't got the onion seed to count.
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:05 pm
by donedigging
OH,
I have some... onion seeds,
but I still work in pounds and ounces...
so it wouldn't count!
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:07 pm
by Gerry
Dear OH,
I won't take the Mickey.
The Seeds by Size website says "A £1.50 worth packet of Ailsa Craig Onion seed weighs 2.7 grams and contains approx 700 seeds.
Regards, Gerry
Re: Bits and Bobs No 14.
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2009 8:18 pm
by oldherbaceous
Cheers Gerry, just what i was after, much appreciated.
Dear Donedigging, i'm a pounds and ounces man too really.