The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread V

[1DC]

7/15.. Been another nice day without rain, getting colder. The spring flowers and tree blossoms are out about a month early and I hope we arent going into a frost cycle to mess everything up. Went for a walk in the park and managed to get a seat in the cafe for a bacon sandwich, a bit of a crisis because they only had enough bacon for one sandwich which Mrs 1DC claimed and I had to settle for a sausage. I managed!

[jimtherev]

Afternoon folks. Hot and dry. Very noisy squirrels nesting in the thatch. Traps out, poison out, gun out.

Any travelling priests in your part of Bots?

Presbyterian Minister, CofE Vicar and RC Priest having a chat together about their bat infestation.
Minister: "I put 5 kilos of poison about the bell tower. They ate it all, and were queueing up at the door of the Manse next morning asking for more."
Vicar: "I got the farmer from the Tithe Farm in with his shotgun. A couple of bangs, and they all left. But back the next morning"
Priest: "I managed to catch most of them, baptised them, and I haven't seen any of them since."

[Opsboi]

The spring flowers and tree blossoms are out about a month early

My Japanese Cherry is beginning to blossom - it lost a couple of major branches during the winter storms, so we're going to enjoy its last hurrah before we get the tree surgeon around in about a month's time

It will come back, but we'll be gone by then

I've loved that tree for 30 years

[PHXPhlyer]

As this week is the quarterly bulk trash pickup for my area (just about anything but appliances and construction material) I managed to trim five of the seven Mexican Fan Palms that I can reach; the other two will be done tomorrow. The other dozen or so are between 25 and 40 feet tall. I no longer have the cojones to go up a 32' extension ladder with an electric pole saw to trim them.
I used to do them all but over the last 20 or years they seem to have pretty much doubled in height.
The tree trimmers charge $60 to well over $100 depending on height. That is a chunk of money that I am unwilling to part with at the moment. I will have to put up with the "beards" on those trees.
Those Mexican Palm fronds have curved teeth on either side of the stem and can do some serious damage to one's appendages. If they were to be used in warfare they would undoubtedly be outlawed under the Geneva Conventions as an inhumane weapon.

PP

[Karearea]

... Those Mexican Palm fronds have curved teeth on either side of the stem and can do some serious damage to one's appendages. If they were to be used in warfare they would undoubtedly be outlawed under the Geneva Conventions as an inhumane weapon. ...

They look dreadful!

The leaves on Norfolk Pine trees , are not fun to tread on in bare feet:

... Juvenile leaves awl-shaped, incurved, green, needle-like, to 1.2 cm. long. Adult leaves scale-like, 4-5 mm. long, incurved, densely arranged, bright dark green; on fertile branchlets overlapping, broadly ovate, spine-tipped, 6 mm. long by 4-6 mm. wide ...

[PHXPhlyer]

I love Norfolk Island pines as house plants. I don't generally have very good luck with them, however.
They are sold around Christmas here, sometimes decorated, in one to three foot sizes.
I will usually buy one after Christmas when they practically are giving them away.

PP

[Karearea]

^ they get bigger...

[PHXPhlyer]

Mine don't!

PP

[Ex-Ascot]

Morning folks. Broken Cu and hot. Genny running for mammoth watering.

Jimtherev:

Any travelling priests in your part of Bots?

Nice story and yes. We have flying priests who go to outposts and the safari camps to hold services.

Fox we have electric traps baited with cat food and slow release anticoagulant poison which doesn't kill anything which eats the carcass.

[OFSO]

Morning. Grey skies again. Rain is what we need.

[Boac]

Come home, then........we've got loads

[Karearea]

Widely felt. Take no notice of the 'extreme' felt reports from the North Island, some people do that to be funny which must be a nuisance for Geonet.

Stated to be Mag. 5.1 at this point.

https://www.geonet.org.nz/earthquake/2024p152292

Rattled things for 20-30 seconds here and set hanging items swaying.
Unsettling, as always.

[Hydromet]

^Friend who's holidaying on the South Island at present felt it.

[Wodrick]

Good Morning All

11°c gusting 40km/h and steady rain, that will stop soon.

Astonisingly quiet here this morning, I thought something was broken.

Have to plan eating this week as Wednesday is Andalucia Day and another bloody holiday. Why not haven’t had one since January 6th

[OFSO]

Yes, back to UK very soon. Umbrella mechanisms greased: shoes dubbined.

[OFSO]

An apology: in previous posts I might have suggested the French are a bunch of arrogant unwashed garlic chewers who block roads and pathways with cars, shopping trolleys, and prams full of cut-price Spanish diesel...

I must now say that the French in a small town up near Poitiers where my BIL is sorting out stroke (wife) and death (husband) of isolationist relatives, have been friendly, kind and helpful, in short, excellent friends and the sort of neighbours you want in a time of family crisis.

(NB the border-hoppers we get down here in Spain are still loathsome wretched specimens of humanity, though.)

[Ex-Ascot]

An apology: in previous posts I might have suggested the French are a bunch of arrogant unwashed garlic chewers who block roads and pathways with cars, shopping trolleys, and prams full of cut-price Spanish diesel...

I must now say that the French in a small town up near Poitiers where my BIL is sorting out stroke (wife) and death (husband) of isolationist relatives, have been friendly, kind and helpful, in short, excellent friends and the sort of neighbours you want in a time of family crisis.

(NB the border-hoppers we get down here in Spain are still loathsome wretched specimens of humanity, though.)

And, the ones who go to Amorgos in search of Le Grand Bleu. They think that they are being friendly shouting 'Bonjour' they get considerable verbal abuse from me.

[OFSO]

Pouring hard here. Been (literally) years since we heard the roar of rain on the roof....

[1DC]

Their you are see! A ll you had to do was say something nice about the French and it pi$$es down!

[Karearea]

Buongiorno.

11/15 in this Tuesday morning quiz: https://www.stuff.co.nz/quizzes/3501534 ... ry-27-2024