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Someone gave me a pack of B&Q plant labels, complete with marker pen, at Christmas. Now we are near the end of the season, it's clear that most of the ink has washed off the labels. Now what's the point of that?

Hi Ken

As Geoff has said before: Remember your Shakespeare "To be or not to be" - always 2B.

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alan refail wrote:As Geoff has said before: Remember your Shakespeare "To be or not to be" - always 2B.

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Could i just clarify what that means please?

I've always used lolly sticks in the past (living next door to 4 children there's always plenty available) but now having to use plastic labels. What is a 2B pen?

Smurfy wrote: What is a 2B pen?

Hi Smurfy

Add -cil to pen and what do you get?

shows how good the great british education system is doesn't it

Thanks for clarifying!

Pet hates!
I try hard to be tollerant but it is so easy to compile a list of things/actions which can enrage me (for about 30 seconds - I cann't be bothered to keep these things in mind)

- people who stop and chat to each other at the narrowest point of the pavement/corridor. Why do they always stand right in the middle and across the space?
- people who stop at the top and bottom of stairs to fiddle with their wheelie cases.
- dawdlers of all kinds.

Surely you don't want me to go on!

Putting my hand in a sack of windfall apples and meeting a large slimy slug...

Finding a large spider crawling across my pillow....Biggest one I ever saw. About 4 inches across and full of eggs.

Pet hate - the fat on a chop

Diane wrote:Pet hate - the fat on a chop

Well, if it's a pork chop, it's nothing without the fat

Diane wrote:Pet hate - the fat on a chop

Fat is flavour. Mmmm. I'll have it if you don't want it.

Finding a gang of Chinese people in my garden picking the plums a few weeks ago, and then some more calling at the door this week asking if they could get some pears!!!!! - at least they asked this time.

PLUMPUDDING wrote:Finding a gang of Chinese people in my garden picking the plums a few weeks ago, and then some more calling at the door this week asking if they could get some pears!!!!! - at least they asked this time.

Hmmm - this is a recurring theme as my dad discovered some neighbours had been stealing apples and veg from his garden and when my dad commented the guy said that my dad was somehow harming his daughter by stopping her eating apples

Reminding me of an anecdote in yesterday's Independent. The writer's friend had lost her cat, and then found that a neighbour had it and was claiming it as hers. When the friend protested that she had bought the cat and paid the vet bills, the neighbour said: "Well, it comes to my house, I feed it, and when it's night time, I lock it in overnight - it obviously prefers me..."

alan refail wrote:

Diane wrote:Pet hate - the fat on a chop

Well, if it's a pork chop, it's nothing without the fat

Not had a pork chop for many a year..Almost forgotten what they are...Ah well!