tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post480336104210298002..comments2023-10-12T15:59:35.120+01:00Comments on radiogandy: Y at Burton Joyce - NE at 10mph - Cold thoughtracyjameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914991294683176018noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-9689812032286754302009-05-15T16:22:00.000+01:002009-05-15T16:22:00.000+01:00I think the flower is White Campion - book says 'f...I think the flower is White Campion - book says 'flowers from May onwards - about two weeks later than red campion'.<br /><br />It's been a good day - I managed to set time/date on new camera and do the pre-set buttons on new radio. And sorted out bbciplayer, which I have had for some time but not very good at negotiating web-site.<br /><br />Managed to put in a few bedding plants, snap-dragons, cosmos, violas, silver-leaf thing. Gardener not in favour of such things, too labour-intensive. He is right, of course, but they do supply almost instant bursts of colour in the bare patches.<br /><br />Y sounds a most useful person to hve around, still think you ought to hire her out....My speciality is the c.heating boiler and water pressure....<br /><br />One day this week I finished crossword, other days, hardly any done.<br /><br />Perhaps I should have shouted at the wisteria, I didn't know all that about seeds, etc, Bob.Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-46177712048180533792009-05-15T16:16:00.000+01:002009-05-15T16:16:00.000+01:00Graham, no problem about the "stolen line" at all....Graham, no problem about the "stolen line" at all. In fact I was going to pinch one you had used but decided to go and do a search on Google where I found that one.......Sports desk news that some might find interesting....My youngest step-daughter has always been sports mad especially football. She is seventeen and plays in goal and has represented the island at ladies level for the past three years. Anyway to cut a long story short she has been accepted after two trials to join the academy of the best ladies team in Europe if not the world, Arsenal.Petenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-38251468833785015682009-05-15T07:17:00.000+01:002009-05-15T07:17:00.000+01:00Sorry to hear your washer's going through a bad pa...Sorry to hear your washer's going through a bad patch.<br /><br />I’m pretty sure it’s a flower.<br />A white one.<br /><br />Cold and wet.<br /><br />So that’s what they mean by cheap travel!<br />The bulldog irritates me but I’ll put up with that!<br /><br />I understand less scrupulous garden centres sell wisteria grown from seed rather than cuttings; ergo… <br />(below).<br /><br />Great quote.<br /><br />Jill:<br />Wisteria requires patience. Sandra threatened ours after 7 years and it bloomed the next!<br />I understand cuttings work (eventually) but not seed.<br /><br />*************<br /><br />Variation on ‘walls have ears’.<br />Some of you already know that an auld acquaintance of mine (unknown to Graham) googled his father’s name and thereby inadvertantly hooked into ‘radiogandy’!<br />Beware!<br /><br />Son Dan’s partner Emma is initiating a north Notts school’s pilot scheme, possibly to be rolled out nationwide, whereby (volunteer) Lower VI and (paid) Upper VI students will supervise an afterschool/homework club for Year 7/8 pupils (12/13yrs) who would otherwise be returning to empty homes.<br />Sounds a good idea for all involved?bobnoreply@blogger.com