Comments on radiogandy: BJ day for Y - Me messing about - Max 90F - little...

Nice moth picture, whatever it is.... I remembere...

2009-07-03T19:56:52.408+01:00

Nice moth picture, whatever it is....

I remembered the first line of 'Hiawatha'.....

JBW - how do we deal with rubbish collection ? - with difficulty. They sent us a big calender, all colour coded with what they collect on which day. If we get confused we ask son who lives near-by, same rubbish days, but I do try and get it right. If you put plastic anything in with cardboard, they won't shift any of it, they put a sticker on it saying'you have not sorted rubbish in the correct manner' - there are pages of correspondence about it in local paper and on web-site, and it got a page write-up in Daily Tel a couple of weeks ago. Masses of complaints - their web-site crashed, etc. Is it a surprise our council tax went up? Only benefit to us is we get garden rubbish collected, we were paying gardener to take it to dump previously.

Torrential rain last night - not so humid today - double egg and chips for lunch, blow the fresh veg for once (thought of you, Y) with fruit salad. Excellent fresh Arbroath kippers for supper from M & S, best we've had for ages.

Peacock and Red Admiral on the buddleia, first this year.

Some might call it a ‘yellow moth’. Could it be a ...

2009-07-03T11:53:29.524+01:00

Some might call it a ‘yellow moth’.
Could it be a Large Yellow Underwing (about 1” across)? Or a Barred Sallow (5/8”)?
Probably not.
What it definitely is, is a very nice photo:
“Ceci n’est pas une merth” as Inspector Margaret Clouseau might have said.

Another day for doing nowt much.

Mole-grips should be a weapon of mole-catchers (or ‘molesters’ as they are also known – their young apprentices being ‘child-molesters’, who, in Victorian times, worked underground).

I had 2 teas – a tuna-&-lettuce cob first, then a cheese-&-onion omelette sandwich with Weetabix for ‘afters’.

Plenty of flies around here, plus aphids.

Whenever I’ve been in time I’ve taken the mouse-trap a good half mile away to release the little creatures – they may find their way back but it could be a life-changing experience for them (like National Service).

My sympathy too for Jill’s complicated refuse collection. We have 2 bins; silver for recycleable, green for other - collected alternate weeks. Also ROB (Recycling Ollerton & Boughton) charity collects bottles fortnightly.

Jill - How on earth do you cope with such a compli...

2009-07-02T21:11:03.334+01:00

Jill - How on earth do you cope with such a complicated refuse collection system? We complain about ours but at least it is fairly simple
Blue box for glass, emptied once per month (you can have as many boxes as you need for this), One Green lid wheelie for all paper, cardboard, metal tins of all kinds, plastic bottles. butter and yogurt pots etc. and one black lid wheelie for all non-recyclable waste including food waste etc. If you want one there is a brown lidded wheelie charged at £20 per year for garden rubbish. All 3 wheelies are emptied every two weeks, thus we have a collection every week by our own council collection teams (no contractors)
You have my sympathy.

Re: yellow duck watering can - Millicent asked me...

2009-07-02T19:59:39.678+01:00

Re: yellow duck watering can - Millicent asked me if it was a 'mummy' duck. Yes, I said, whereupon she went to the bathroom and retrieved the 'baby' ducks she plays with in the bath ........ and had a wonderful time with them all in the paddling pool!

Haven't had time for any tennis - but I have run up a flag against the grunters so shan't watch them. (But Laura Robson is showing great promise - a true prospect for the future).

Even I found it a 'bit' hot today - and I love the heat. So, I know both G. and Jill will have suffered.