Tea Room the 37th. A new one. Needs fitting out.

[UniS]

Here is Tea Room the 37th.
A new one.
Needs fitting out.

Please help.

[mistlethrush]

Sometimes a veg out day is good Scout!. You sound as though all your seeds are doing very well.

I got home from the playing on Sunday afternoon to find that the 'gutter' between the lawn and the flower beds in the front garden was full up with water... guess it had rained hard! Luckily I made a raised veg bed so that the veg doesn't float off.

[Scout19075]

GAH!

Something has munched on all of the cucumber (or were they peppers? I forgot to tag them....) while we were away. And the rain/hail from today seems to have flooded a couple of pots (which I've just gone and drained).

I forgot to mention, though, we finally have French Marigold sprouts (yay!) and our sunflowers seem to have doubled in size while we were away.

[Donki]

I suffer from pigeons...
They eat every young brassica or pea or bean....

[UniS]

lol at the image of donki suffering from pigeons. I can picture you stoicaly standing whist the airborne rats land on your whithers.

and poo on your haunches.

But worry not, here come the nmbs to scare them away with war Cry's.

music types any input welcome, dh is wallowing in midi files. pitting together something to prove to our church warden that we can "do" electronic music for hymns with out spending thousands of pounds.
Organists are in short supply round here.

[Donki]

Any sky rat being so foolish rude would find that I can aim my tail very precisely. Or I would roll. Pigeon paté..

[Scout19075]

at pigeon pate.

Sorry, UniS, I'm not able to help but hope you get it sorted.

I blame the snails. We have thousands loads of them. I rarely see a bird in my garden/s due to the local cats.

[CMOTDibbler]

I shall send you evilgingercat Donki, then you will suffer pigeons no more.

We don't have snails either, thanks to the chickens. Mind, we don't have many plants either as they eat those too

[Donki]

CMOT Maybe evilgingercat could pay a visit to my friend in York who is being plagued by a noisy and apparently nocturnal cuckoo?

[CMOTDibbler]

I shall parcel him up forthwith, just as soon as I have donned the necessary armour for cat box insertion

[Donki]

Does the cat box need to be armoured?
What do you think the postage will be?
Should I warn postie?

:-D

[CMOTDibbler]

Not the cat box, me! Putting him in the cat box requires attire similar to handling a cloud of knives.

At 7.40 this morning I was climbing on the landy to remove him from the roof as he likes to sit there and ignore me totally as I try to drive off. You can drive down the road with him still on there and he won't admit defeat

[Donki]

I meant the cat box as well - I wasn't sure how accomplished he might be at scything his way out of it!

[mistlethrush]

Donki - mistlehound does a good line in garden protection from pigeons. Mind you, I think that she got stung in her mouth by a bee last night as the previous time she had been looking about to bark very intently at the rosemary bush (which is full of flowers and therefore bees at the moment) - and I've caught her barking at them before. She also managed a nocturnal wander - quite how far she got I don't know - she might have just wandered up the drive to see if she could find anything interesting, but she might have got a lot further. DH is on 'stopping up the gap' duties today - we are getting a new fence but finding someone that will actually give a quote and then do the job is proving somewhat taxing.

[AnneOfCleavage]

We are plagued by snails but DH has just found out that if you manually pick them out of your garden daily then they don't get a chance to lay their eggs and breed new ones for next year. Me'thinks I'll employ DD to go round and hand pick them for the princely sum of 50p a day. We do have a bucket where we chuck them to drown enjoy a lovely swim but DD thinks it's a new play area and gives them slides etc so they bloody well climb out - gah!!

I opened my bin to check if the bin men had been and there was about 8 of them of them under the lid!! Seems DH is chucking a few in there who aren't quite... ahem... on their way to heaven.

[UniS]

I give snails flying lessons. Over our bank into the field below.

[AnneOfCleavage]

Yep, done that too but it doesn't eradicate them sadly. Also I threw one over my neighbours garden once and it came flying back so I daren't do that again - our fences are too high so I can't see if the coast is clear.

[UniS]

used to drown them in the pond, till I discovered that they can swim.

[Donki]

Lentil and tomato soup anyone?

[mistlethrush]

Sounds perfect Donki - yes please.

A few years ago I went down the garden in the late evening - warm, but it had been raining. I counted the snails as I trod on them and got to nearly 100 - and I had been going in the direction I wanted to, not going particularly out of my way, and there was lots of garden I didn't cover

[Donki]

It's thick and hearty.
Here you go. :)

[AnneOfCleavage]

Nothing worse than treading on a slug or snail bearfooted - yuk!! It takes weeks to clean the slime off.

Off to the circus tonight with DH sans DD so that's a treat. Got grandparents babysitting.

Thanks for the soup Donki, smells delicious

[CMOTDibbler]

We had a couple of houses with slug ishoos in the kitchen, and that was particularly unpleasant if one popped in there during the night.

Circus sounds great Anne

[Donki]

If you listen carefully on a calm, quiet summer evening, you can hear them munching on your veggies....

Evil things.

[Donki]

MT is that how you chose your nickname?

[Scout19075]

What is that bright, round ball in the sky?!