The Retirement Thread

[welsh dragon]

There isn't much air here. Feels very humid.

 

[Paulus]

Same here, very muggy and little breeze.
Tomato plants now big enough to plant out so that is the job of the day in the garden.
MrsP wants me to get the cases out of the loft to start packing for our jaunt to Cypress this week. MrsP is looking forward to the warm/hot weather. I am convinced she is a reptile.

 

[screenman]

Hmmmm.......good luck with that one. The bugs which cause this are a variety of different aphids and on some conifers scale insects. There are several other causes, disease, fungal infection, drought and poor trimming.

Aphids are the commonest cause, 50%, of browning. Scale insect is questionable. I would check to see if either are present before spraying - the aphid may have left already!

Once the browning has occurred the chances of regrowth are slim.

Controlling aphids on garden plants where you can see them works with washing up liquid solutions. I doubt it will work on scale insects. In both instances getting the liquid in deep enough to hit everything will be a real challenge.

Hence the use of the jetwasher, I am happy to take any other advice.

 

[Drago]

Almost died during my morning run. Painfully humid.

 

[screenman]

Primark is buzzing.

 

[screenman]

Now doing a Dirk.

 

[Dirk]

Now doing a Dirk.

 

[Dirk]

I'm doing a @screenman ......

 

[screenman]

Only had a half, I was driving and having a moody day. Bit of D going on, soon be out of it though as it does not last long nowadays.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

I've spent the morning with the vac in one hand and the polish in the other catching up on the housework, even the shelves and oven got a clean. I've spent the afternoon with the hoe in one hand and trowl in the other catching up with the garden, as a bonus I've discovered a clematis that had died is growing back, I had three but lost them to clematis wilt, one grew back last year and I moved it under one of my budleha to grow through that, this one has been moved under the other one to do the same.just need to cut the grass now.

 

[screenman]

I've spent the morning with the vac in one hand and the polish in the other catching up on the housework, even the shelves and oven got a clean. I've spent the afternoon with the hoe in one hand and trowl in the other catching up with the garden, as a bonus I've discovered a clematis that had died is growing back, I had three but lost them to clematis wilt, one grew back last year and I moved it under one of my budleha to grow through that, this one has been moved under the other one to do the same.just need to cut the grass now.

You got it all wrong, you want a hoe in one hand and a pint in the other.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

You got it all wrong, you want a hoe in one hand and a pint in the other.

 

[PaulSB]

@dave r very impressive.

About 11.00 I popped out to collect my lad to go to the gym and swim. Innocent little local journey of ten minutes.........

Hmmmm........locally M6 rammed northbound, M61 northbound at a standstill for +/- 4 miles, M65 westward very, very slow. These motorways converge at Junction 29 of the M6.

There was a plan to build an IKEA at the western end of the M65. Ikea pulled out a couple of weeks ago. Today was a taster of what would have happened every weekend.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

@dave r very impressive.

About 11.00 I popped out to collect my lad to go to the gym and swim. Innocent little local journey of ten minutes.........

Hmmmm........locally M6 rammed northbound, M61 northbound at a standstill for +/- 4 miles, M65 westward very, very slow. These motorways converge at Junction 29 of the M6.

There was a plan to build an IKEA at the western end of the M65. Ikea pulled out a couple of weeks ago. Today was a taster of what would have happened every weekend.

I was reading online this morning that they had built a new IKEA in Exeter and it had caused chaos around the M5 the first morning it had opened.

 

[Dirk]

You got it all wrong, you want a hoe in one hand and a pint in the other.

Sounds like a Detroit gangster.......