Mundane News

[Illaveago]

I feed mine on Guizotia abyssinica seeds (Niger). They also love Teazels, so planting a clump in the garden will have them thanking you!

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We have some teasels at the bottom of our garden. We used to put Niger seeds out but nothing ate them . Once the birds discovered the sunflower seed hearts we've had loads of birds . It seems as though they fancy something different at times as we have seen them on our mint ,roses and lavender .

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Why is it, when I go out walking and the ground everywhere is rock hard (like today), I find the one bit which isn't and my foot goes plunging into ice cold mud?

 

[DCLane]

Went for a ride out and chose the canal - the route alternated between deep mud and snow/ice threatening to pitch someone in.

 

[Tail End Charlie]

Whilst on the boot eating walk I mentioned above, I passed through a farmyard and saw two cats, so I stopped and said hello as you do. One of them insisted I tickled its tummy, it couldn't get enough and kept pulling my hand (claws weren't out) towards its tum. I've never come across a cat which likes that, most of them like a good old cheek tickle and some go for the full on neck massage, but tickling a tummy?

 

[Reynard]

You know it's much too cold to do stuff in the garage when you struggle to hold a drill properly. Not good when trying to ream out the center of some dowelling. Thank goodness this was only a trial run.

The sun was melting the icicles, which were dripping onto the path. And instantly re-freezing into ice stalagmites.

Anyways, time for a nice and a couple of chocolate suggestives.

 

[Reynard]

Whilst on the boot eating walk I mentioned above, I passed through a farmyard and saw two cats, so I stopped and said hello as you do. One of them insisted I tickled its tummy, it couldn't get enough and kept pulling my hand (claws weren't out) towards its tum. I've never come across a cat which likes that, most of them like a good old cheek tickle and some go for the full on neck massage, but tickling a tummy?

Oh, the girls like full-on tummy tickles. But on their terms. A previous cat, however... Try to tickle his tummy and you were in serious risk of having your face removed...

 

[Reynard]

I feed mine on Guizotia abyssinica seeds (Niger). They also love Teazels, so planting a clump in the garden will have them thanking you!

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In theory. But teazles spread like blazes in rich soil, and the spikes on the stems are rather vicious. As I discovered when mum planted them, and then later, muggins had to eradicate them.

I still have a two inch scar on my hand where a spike not only shredded my glove, but also, in the process, me.

 

[Salty seadog]

The general waste bin has been out here since Monday. No collection yet.

Still no collection.

 

[Deleted member 26715]

Oh, the girls like full-on tummy tickles.

Ours does & will literally flop on the floor & roll over, however as soon as you start it then starts to very gently bite you & start to kick it's back legs against your arm with it's claws out, however it is most indignant if you stop

 

[Reynard]

Ours does & will literally flop on the floor & roll over, however as soon as you start it then starts to very gently bite you & start to kick it's back legs against your arm with it's claws out, however it is most indignant if you stop

Yup... That sounds like Madam Poppy

 

[Salty seadog]

Well, in the warehouse at work a little Robin red breast has been hoping around a couple of the aisles where we keep pallets of herbs and spices etc. He/she had been around since Monday. I've put a couple of little vessels of water down for our little visitor.

*don't tell the boss*

 

[biggs682]

Anybody want to tell me where today has gone please

 

[postman]

Mrs P 64 having her jab tomorrow.At a surgery so close she can walk there.

 

[mybike]

Put it on a pallet and cover with a tarp. Don't have the tarp all the way down the sides though. I have a tarp over a wooden frame which is held down by milk bottles full of water, which makes it easy to take on and off. It can become obsessional though rushing out when it rains to cover and then uncovering when it stops ad infinitum. Built a proper slate roofed store recently, I must get round to building a couple more.

If only I had a pallet.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

I am about to try my first ever mug of Cerasee tea, something I'd never heard of before a Jamaican neighbour mentioned it a few days ago. She just popped round with some tea bags this afternoon so that I could give it a try. I spent a while trying to persuade her to have the vaccine but didn't really get anywhere. The distrust is deep.

Oh my, that tea is bitter!