Autumn leaves, crackling fires, quokkas and puffins at the Bluestocking.

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A new thread - with apologies to the gerbils for leaving them out of the title.

I've just bought a couple of Kalanchoe but they don't multiply like that one, thank fuck. I remember they had one at my school, some of the little plantlets had fallen off and were growing on the shelf! I have an aversion to throwing away a plant, if I had one like that <shudder> they'd be everywhere! I've got a Sedum burro's tail and that's bad enough. Although, I've managed to convince myself that the 'beans' are just like fallen leaves, so I can bin them rather than grow them. I...I don't know why...just got a spider plant. It's not had babies yet. I'm dreading it 😫

I'm in awe.
I thought they were indestructible.

If I need to, can I ask you to pop round?

That's really impressive. They are the cockroaches of the plant kingdom!

The thing is, I don't set out to kill them. I genuinely do try to keep them alive. But under my tender ministrations they just shrivel up and die.

It does seem to be something about me personally.

I think their spirits must travel across the ether and land here Chers.
I took in a bedraggled spider plant to mind for the school holidays. Then I was told it's ok you can keep it. That was a year ago. Now the sodding things are everywhere.
Cunning plan: The School Christmas Fayre draws near....

That's impressive, Cher. I had a spider plant for so long that refused to die that in the end I have lost it. You wouldn't think planet were losable.

I was tidying papers and came across a cache of old Private Eye cartoons, I thought you'd like the cat one☺

I've figured out what to do with spider plants, I think. I root the spiderlings in water, I've grown on a few indoors but others are used as extra foliage in summer tubs outside. Then they just die off with the frost like any other tender plant.

Outdoor tub is a great idea. I've never tried them outside. If I don't shift most of them at Christmas, then summer pots and tubs it is. Thanks Errol

Genius, Errol.

Love it, Marie! I meant to say, for your benefit mostly, that when I wrote GPT for Great Pottery Throwdown, it reminded me that my DH had connections to a company called GPT, which was fine in English but when pronounced the French way it sounds like you're saying j'ai pete (with a couple of acute accents) i.e. I farted.

Just found this...

😂you've reminded me of my French friends' interpretation of a sign that said
NO PETS ALLOWED!😂

Whereas I'm reminded of my mother's tale of a naughty young person (possibly a day girl, they being known to be bold) who left a note in a classroom some time in the mid to late 1940s that read 'HOOF HEARTED'. This led to much hilarity when the teacher (possibly a nun) picked it up and read it out loud repeatedly, demanding to know who it belonged to and what it meant?

Speaking of French interpretations, we were over there on holiday recently and went to see some friends. They spotted the UK sticker on our car and told us with some amusement "Of course you realise half of France thinks that you're from Ukraine!"

The change from 'GB' is not well known or understood, it seems.

Genius idea. Put the spiders outside.

I like 'j'en ai marre', I'm fed up, pronounced Johnny Marr or near as damn it.

Unless you're in central London, in which case they happily overwinter. The previous owner of our first house had had the same idea. The only reason East London isn't just a huge mat of spider plants is because they'd also planted crocosmia, and the two were locked in permanent battle.

HAHAHAA! Great fun

My mate picked up a joke, and got grounded for saying it “ mum can you pass me the fork n knife,

Just popping in to wave at you all.
My binocular vision is poor so too much screen is tiring. Send gerbils!

Gerbils have brought in tea! You rest up.

Thanks android and gerbils. I'm liking the look of the buns! (DH got me a chocolate éclair today- extremely therapeutic)

There's not much a chocolate eclair won't fix.

Very true. And especially when you haven't had one for a very long time.