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Post by lymaze on Jul 12, 2009 18:13:38 GMT
Dear old Jezza. Don't give up on the t-shirts. You can still wear them and look good.  I particularly like you in just a plain grey one. In fact, any man can look good in one of those. The Ban The Bomb t-shirt (CND) one is worn by someone I work with and always makes me laugh (at him). ;D  |
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Post by Maid of Astolat on Jul 12, 2009 18:13:56 GMT
Ah! the voice of wisdom UM  I got away with it then. |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jul 12, 2009 18:23:42 GMT
Yeah, Jeremy would look good in an old sack!!  |
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jul 18, 2009 22:19:50 GMT
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Post by lymaze on Jul 19, 2009 7:12:24 GMT
Jezza should give up on the boys fansites and try some female ones. Although there may be a fair amount of "squealing" we also have more going on in life and are a little less cynical and geeky. |
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Post by misspan on Jul 19, 2009 10:11:21 GMT
My car does that - if I leave the keys in the ignition, if I leave the lights on, even if I leave the blooming indicator on when I switch off the engine....it gets very annoying - but if I hear it a lot it clearly means I need the reminder haha
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jul 19, 2009 13:57:25 GMT
I think Jeremy would be slightly embarrassed, but in a nice way, if he knew what we thought of him. I love him. He makes me happy and makes my life better in all sorts of ways.  Mojo - What I meant was his other column. On the website it is in the section called Comments in the columnists bit. Sorry, I didn't explain things properly. |
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Post by Wyvern on Jul 19, 2009 14:30:28 GMT
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jul 19, 2009 14:34:00 GMT
Thank you Wy! There are no joys to gardening though, well, not to me anyway. |
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Post by maureen on Jul 19, 2009 14:46:25 GMT
I just read this and have to agree with you, UM. I don't find any joy in gardening either. It doesn't matter how often I go in the back yard to prune, it still looks like a jungle in a matter of days during the warmer weather. I never really did have much of a green thumb anyway though. I've neglected it this year and it still looks the same as it would if I was tending to it regularly.  Oh well. |
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Post by Wyvern on Jul 19, 2009 14:56:28 GMT
I hate gardening. It's never-ending torture, and I'm allergic to pretty much everything that bites, stings or scratches me. Last time I attempted gardening, I was actually properly ill for a couple of days afterwards because I was very badly bitten and reacted quite severely. Don't get me wrong, I like flowers, and I like relaxing in the garden, but Jeremy's exactly right when he mentions why that doesn't work either.
The only way gardens work is if someone else does them for you, or you concrete the grass over and paint it green. Or, of course, you make it out of Plasticine.
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jul 19, 2009 15:26:22 GMT
Aww Wy, that's awful.  Mojo, if you all saw the state of my 'garden' you would be appalled. I just don't care for it. When I have the time/inclination I will sort it out properly and I won't be putting gravel down either. I am not providing amunition for the local tw*tty kids to throw it a people's windows. |
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Post by lymaze on Jul 19, 2009 16:36:54 GMT
"Did you know that 27% of adult male heart-attack victims are struck down while cutting the grass? You didn’t? That’s because it's not true. But I bet the real figure is huge. " ;D He's right really and I do love gardening but my back garden is like a jungle of trees and bushes that I cut back (take note Jezza) hard and which therefore grow twice as fast and are now taking up half the small garden and the front is a crap lawn with many pretty dandelions and bushes which I don't cut back hard enough and therefore have grown twice as tall as they should. I can't get in or out of the house anymore. I work all week and don't have the time always to be out there doing it for the rest of the time. I would like nothing more than to gravel over the lawn and put the car on it but I'm not allowed. |
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Post by maureen on Jul 19, 2009 16:40:32 GMT
That's two of us, UM. I like your idea of covering with gravel, Ly.
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Post by ulstermayniac on Jul 19, 2009 16:42:18 GMT
Why are you not allowed? It doesn't matter whether you prune or not, things grow and keep on growing until you pull them up by the roots, which isn't always easy. |
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Post by maureen on Jul 19, 2009 16:44:04 GMT
Very true. And things you don't want back there pop up whether you like it or not. Do you get those horrible sticker weeds that grow really fast, tangle your good plants and ooz a smelly, white liquid when you cut them? I don't like those.
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Post by lymaze on Jul 19, 2009 16:46:44 GMT
Yes, I get those sticky weeds and the pretty kind of daisy vine stuff which smothers everything the same. We're not allowed UM as it's in the Deeds that the front gardens must remain open plan and as gardens, so that your neighbours can let their dogs on them whenever they like. (Well that last bit isn't actually on the Deeds.... ;D ) |
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Post by Wyvern on Jul 19, 2009 17:12:08 GMT
My pet hate is bindweed. Ironically I'm not allergic to it, and when the big white bell-shaped flowers come out against the big, flat leaves, it's really pretty, but my god, does it grow until it smothers and strangles everything in its path. Evil stuff. I think I'll take the approach to gardening the US miltary developed in Vietnam in future.
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Post by lew on Jul 19, 2009 17:35:18 GMT
Actually this has been happening here where I live, (people selling bits of their gardens) I and they all back onto a river, now our houses are old so in passed wisdom it was deemed that our gardens should be rather large or very large to allow for flooding, move on to eighty odd years, we have half wit town planners whom see fit to allow building, though the development of houses that went up 18 months ago now have subsidence, moral, don't allow building on land unfit for building and well gardens, should be gardens and I love my garden though at the moment it's going through a bit of a change, my chooks need a home, an office/very large shed for me ;D |
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Post by lymaze on Jul 25, 2009 21:52:31 GMT
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Post by vanderdb9 on Jul 25, 2009 22:44:17 GMT
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Post by lindenchase on Jul 26, 2009 8:23:28 GMT
I had a quick look at Wikipedia for the density of the population: Uk: 246/km2 - 637 sq/mile France: 115/km2 - 297/ sq mile Netherlands: 396/km2 - 1025 sq/mile So maybe while Jezza works out his plan to conquer France, he can think of ways to squeeze some Dutchies in as well. We'll behave. |
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Post by lymaze on Aug 1, 2009 22:15:24 GMT
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 1, 2009 22:31:29 GMT
It's making me feel a bit homesick for my parents' village.
Probably because I have swine flu and therefore have little time left for this world.
Their village show was last week and it sounds very much like the one Jeremy describes, though on a smaller scale and possibly with fewer sheep testicles (they're more involved in dairy farming in that part of Devon). Really... that last paragraph will probably make me cry if I read it again.
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Post by inky on Aug 1, 2009 22:37:15 GMT
Having spent most of the day at a similar event, I'm with Jezzer. There is nothing like a village/country day out |
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Post by nobody on Aug 1, 2009 23:03:00 GMT
I live in a ex mining town and i think our brass band has bit the dust.
Also can't go to the summer show this year because the council has decided to book the sugar babies so you had to order a free ticket.
Which means people who are not from our area are getting a free show paid for from our taxes.
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Post by lymaze on Aug 9, 2009 11:34:53 GMT
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Post by TheDaisy on Aug 10, 2009 12:01:52 GMT
I don't want to go into Jezza's old dears home  I don't like cabbage. I hope he's not going to take up a new career as chairperson of the Sunnybanks Retirement home ;D |
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Post by Wyvern on Aug 10, 2009 12:04:44 GMT
When I am old I want to be a combination of Diana Trent from Waiting for God and the women from the poem Warning by Jenny Joseph ("When I am an old woman I shall wear purple").
As long as I have my marbles, I am not going to sit quietly in a bath chair and dribble. If I do start to sit quietly in a bath chair and dribble, you all have my permission to take me outside and shoot me.
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Post by nobody on Aug 10, 2009 12:31:05 GMT
I had a grandmother who had top go into a home but she still had all her marbles she was just a bit wobbly. Luckily it was a good home trips out' garden and things to do. Also it was only a short walk away ;D. I will tell you one thing those places are the bitchest places on the face on the planet they all sit in there little groups talking about one of the other groups. lol My mum though worked in one near me which is for people who have late alzheimers or are too difficult for other homes alcoholics or people with schizophrenia ect i hope i die before i have to go in a place like that. |
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I particularly like you in just a plain grey one. In fact, any man can look good in one of those. The Ban The Bomb t-shirt (CND) one is worn by someone I work with and always makes me laugh (at him). ;D 
I got away with it then. 
Oh well.
I held you, you felt me, I touched you, you kissed me.......
I don't like cabbage.