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Reply | Benters' buttwatch alert! (n/t)
at 13:17 4 Jul 2025
FFS……and you said it in that lovely Carol Scottish accent too.
World has gone mad [Post edited 4 Jul 13:19]
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Reply | Benters' buttwatch alert!
at 10:20 4 Jul 2025
My weather app was saying the same thing but appears to have changed this morning to infrequent showers for a few hours early tomorrow morning. |
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Reply | Benters' buttwatch alert!
at 10:18 4 Jul 2025
Indeed you do Carol. The weather reports are the highlight of my early morning perusal at the telebox and sets my working day up with a hop, skip and jump out of the back door and into the van.
Lots of hedge cutting coming up in the next few weeks dear boy #prayforLancelotintheheat. |
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Reply | Benters' buttwatch alert!
at 08:18 4 Jul 2025
Morning Carol. This gardening malarkey is getting more difficult year on year. Grass cutting has pretty much ceased again and I’m even loath to cut the hedges too much at the moment.
How are you coping?? xoxo |
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Reply | There are you happy now?
at 07:18 2 Jul 2025
Morning Benters.
Raining here in Stoke Ash too, much nicer freshness to the air and the lovely smell of precipitation.
Hope we get a decent amount today and it soaks into the ground a bit. |
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Reply | Narrrwichhh
at 18:03 1 Jul 2025
The open top bus is on route as we speak. |
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Reply | What is going on with the weather then?
at 16:29 1 Jul 2025
I agree. I’m putting a small pond in place of my modest vegetable patch in winter as it’s been a disaster for germinating the seeds this year. It’s not worth the effort and extra expense any more but I’m hoping to attract a bit more wildlife into the garden by doing so. |
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Reply | What is going on with the weather then?
at 15:01 1 Jul 2025
It’s certainly becoming more difficult. I would imagine Bankster is finding the same too.
For example, and this is just one of several I could give, my season for planting native hedges, orchards and trees bare rooted would always start the first week of November through until the first week of April. In more recent years, the plants are still producing new growth, are fully leafed and not dormant. Plantings have been delayed by a month or more and due to much warmer spring conditions, the latest I’ll comfortably be happy to plant them is mid March so in effect losing up to six weeks. You then have the problem of keeping them alive during the first growing year so that is also impacting on things due to our lack of regular rainfall.
Gardening will have to adapt as I see it going forward using more drought tolerant plants. I’m not a doom merchant and there will be ways and means that become available, plant breeding etc but it’s most definitely real and here to stay. |
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Reply | What is going on with the weather then?
at 11:03 1 Jul 2025
Indeed. The seasons are much less defined than in the past.
Strange things happening to the native plants also. I speak from experience as I’ve tended gardens in the Suffolk/Norfolk area for the better part of 50 years and it’s certainly getting more difficult to plan ahead because of the weather patterns changing.
Expect to see more non indigenous plants and insects taking hold here in the future. |
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Reply | 10’000 steps a day
at 08:04 1 Jul 2025
Morning Benters.
As you well know being a gardener, it is fairly easy to do 10,000 steps walking behind a mower, cutting hedges etc and there isn’t many days where I won’t have done at least that amount.
Heading towards the old retirement age so I keep a weekly eye on these things and am doing more steps per day now than in previous years. Hope things are going well for you dear boy. |
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Thread | Neil Young.
at 23:42 28 Jun 2025
Brilliant set. That is all. |
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Reply | Nodge at home …..
at 12:58 26 Jun 2025
I’m hoping it gets switched to Sunday as will be on a bus from Tbilisi to Kutaisi on the Saturday. My son has just messaged to say there is an Irish bar that shows the football in the city centre so all is not lost. |
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Reply | Nodge at home …..
at 12:10 26 Jun 2025
Bloody typical. Away on holiday, and doubt very much we’ll be able to find somewhere to watch it either. |
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Reply | Rain?!? FFS.
at 07:51 24 Jun 2025
Great, isn’t it. Should help to kick start some of my mowing jobs.
Pray for the gardeners  |
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Reply | Define ‘Norwichy’
at 20:34 11 Jun 2025
Norwichy. Seventeenth century slang word for Sh1te. Used mainly by the upper classes of Norfolk nowadays.
“I say Tarquin, The canaries are particularly Norwichy again this afternoon old bean”
Also a more recent addition to the English dictionary meaning to participate. |
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Reply | Tbilisi and Kutaisi.
at 21:40 10 Jun 2025
Cheers. Some great advice and pointers. Will be travelling about a fair bit and using the cities as a base. |
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Thread | Tbilisi and Kutaisi.
at 13:20 10 Jun 2025
Visiting Georgia for a week early October with my globe trotting son. Splitting the time between the two aforementioned cities. Been on our radar for a while now and wondering what advice anyone who’s been recently might have for places to see, do’s and don’ts etc, etc.
Thanks in advance. |
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