tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post7850076831384198482..comments2023-10-12T15:59:35.120+01:00Comments on radiogandy: Joan's - Nails - Old Spottracyjameshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00914991294683176018noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-63671379967284945782008-06-24T20:53:00.000+01:002008-06-24T20:53:00.000+01:00We have loosetrife too - had a lot more, but I pul...We have loosetrife too - had a lot more, but I pulled some up as it was threatening to take over the pink geranium. I moved some down the end of the garden, where nothing much grows (except weeds) it can run riot there.<BR/><BR/>Bungus, your neighbour sounds thoroughly obnoxious. Hopefully he will have a heart attack in the near future....just enough of one to keep him indoors. <BR/><BR/>I will try and sort out googlemail etc. when I come home - am off to Lake District on Thursday till Monday. The Woolfest - all things woolly, spinning, knitting, real live animals, etc.etc.<BR/><BR/>G. your pottato discs - I have a packet of frozen ones that I cook just how you describe, although they only take 5 mins and are really already cooked.<BR/><BR/>Do we have any tennis fans here? I am very addicted to the game and Wimbledon in particular (only time I ever played truant was to go to Wimbledon, we lived quite near, nd in those days you could queue up and go in and stand, and later on beg tickets off people who were leaving). Our school was very 'strong' on tennis, but I had such hay hayfever I couldn't play and I was sent on an umpire's course and used to sit in one of those high chairs and be the referee. Tennis is a real test of skill and brains (unlike football....).<BR/><BR/>I will give the Culture Show another chance tonight. <BR/><BR/>I also heard about the rice shortage - weren't some supermarkets rationing it? I bought two kilo packets.<BR/><BR/>We have heard that our Woolworths is going to close and become a Waitrose - suits me fine, we have to go to Ealing or Richmond. This one won't be as big, though, and can't think where they will park - probably in Sainsburys, minutes away (but you have to spend £5 to get free parking).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-78683390852951156622008-06-24T20:45:00.000+01:002008-06-24T20:45:00.000+01:00I've had a reasonably good 2 days at work because ...I've had a reasonably good 2 days at work because I have not been in the office. Yesterday was a trip to Northampton and Kettering. Although the M1 is very boring I console myself with the thought of 40p a mile and some good radio or, failing that, music on the car CD player.<BR/><BR/>Today was a trip to Rumbles cafe at Clipstone followed by North Notts College. If you haven't been I highly recommend a trip to Rumbles. It's at Vicar Water Country Park and the cafe, although a commercial venture, is a training ground for people with learning difficulties/disabilities. The coffee and food is very good and the staff very friendly.<BR/><BR/>RG, your interpretation of <I>pissaro'd</I> is not what I had in mind but I like it. I meant it as a reference to the weather but your version is far more creative. Those were the days indeed. Thanks for the instructions on how to get to Bill's mother's; I will go and photograph the sky above her garden. Again!<BR/><BR/>I presume with your merged photo you wanted the right half on the left and the left half on the right? I haven't used Photoshop merge so cannot comment on its performance, but surely it's just a matter of going back to the original two images and putting them the other way round? <BR/><BR/>Bungus, which Sutton do you mean? I have noticed a permanent black cloud above Kirkby-in-Ashfield. Could it be the same one? <BR/><BR/><I>The Bone Collector</I> is an excellent film but I don't remember the one dollar bill photo. Perhaps I should watch it again; I am not doubting your word by the way.<BR/><BR/>Loosestrife seems a fairly apt name of a plant to sow on your boundary. Wasn't your neighbour technically trespassing? If so, you should have carried out a citizens arrest and, using reasonable force, smacked him with whatever came to hand. "He fell down the stairs, Sarge."<BR/><BR/><I>Strife from the neighbour<BR/>Decimating the border<BR/>What a silly man</I><BR/><BR/>If there really is a shortage of rice and if it really is going up in price, maybe we should all be logging on to www.freerice.com on a regular basis and answering the questions thereon.<BR/><BR/><I>Free rice, free rice, free<BR/>Rice, free rice, free rice, free rice<BR/>Free rice, free rice, please</I><BR/><BR/>RobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-26832387085966535222008-06-24T09:48:00.000+01:002008-06-24T09:48:00.000+01:00In a Monday late night film "The Bone Collector"(B...In a Monday late night film "The Bone Collector"(BBC1), a New York SCO photographed a footprint with a dollar bill alongside it. <BR/>I suppose it is about the same monetary value as a 50p piece and serves just as well to establish scale.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23282643.post-80172601901135374942008-06-24T08:51:00.000+01:002008-06-24T08:51:00.000+01:00On Monday I had an unfortunate altercation with ou...On Monday I had an unfortunate altercation with our neighbour |(the one of ‘high hedge’ history). <BR/>It started when I saw him on our drive, removing some poppies which I had grown along the narrow border at the side of our drive (the boundary line is set to become a disputatious matter). <BR/>I went out to remonstrate and became embroiled in a full-scale argument in which I managed to retain my cool better than he did. He complained among other things that I had used weedkiller on some of his plants. He was correct but, I should perhaps point out, they were thistles growing just his side of the (disputed) boundary. <BR/>We failed to agree on anything and it concluded with him saying, “What are you doing here, anyway. Aren’t you supposed to be dead?”<BR/>I responded, “I may outlive you,” which is not unlikely if he goes off like that very often. Apoplectic is the word that comes to mind. He simply cannot perceive of anyone having a point of view that does not accord with his. He is about as reasonable as President Mugabe.<BR/>After I came in he continued to remove all poppies and foxgloves along with the weeds that had grown on both sides. I have never before seen him work so hard (his son usually does the hard labour) and at least it is tidier now, at the expense of decorative quality.<BR/><BR/>Aldi are offering a waterproof camera usable up to 30m deep. That means you should just be able to catch the deepest diving puffins. There’s a challenge.<BR/><BR/>Unless I have misunderstood what you are saying, I think you achieved your loosestrife objective. Please save me some seed to plant alongside the drive.<BR/><BR/>Your bespoke denim shirt/gilet should enhance your explorer image. I am told the Amazon is very nice at this time of year.<BR/><BR/>I take it 'vodafone gadget' is a ‘dongle’ euphemism? You’ll be calling a WC a toilet next. Or a WC bowl a lavatory basin (which, for those unfamiliar with building terminology, is wherein one washes one’s face, etc).<BR/><BR/>Thanks for the excellent shot of Daybrook Laundry (it is about a year since I visited the site! (not a few weeks ago).<BR/>I imagine the planning problem relates to the fact that the building is ‘listed’.<BR/>Would you be kind enough to send me a copy of the photo by gmail (and of any others). <BR/>If I publish it, which is unlikely unless I get around to producing my personal choice of Notts buildings I shall acknowledge the source. I cannot yet be satisfied with a title – something like ‘Tied Up in Notts’.<BR/><BR/>I heard some months ago that rice would be in demand and the price shoot up accordingly. Perhaps the Chinese can now afford to eat it instead of exporting it. I bought a bag of Basmati.<BR/> <BR/>So far as I know, I have never tasted Maris Bard.<BR/>I bought a pack of frozen mash for S to experiment with. Only £1 a kilo which is not bad if it proves acceptable.<BR/><BR/>I accept that heroin and morphine are basically the same thing although I would expect the latter to be more refined.<BR/><BR/>I think you have answered Rob’s query aabout Bill’s mother more than adequately. He should be able to find it to take photos. <BR/>Is the bus the 101. I say that because the blackness seen from Ollerton is invariably somewhere Sutton way on.<BR/><BR/>Jill:<BR/>If googlemail is a problem, why not send all emails with a picture from Picasa?<BR/><BR/>What a kind and thoughtful man, your grandfather.<BR/><BR/>Rob:<BR/>See above for Bill’s mother (you’ll find her under the black).<BR/><BR/>I too, much like the haiku. <BR/>Here’s another<BR/><BR/>Joy takes many forms.<BR/>In Pissaro’s case it is<BR/>Painting ladies’ fans.<BR/><BR/>(A ticklish subject, would you say?).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com