The really boring and totally pointless snippets thread IV

[llondel]

I helped a bee out of the house the other day too. I'd been aware of an irritating buzz from the light and finally got around to going to squash the annoying fly. Then I saw it was a bee and switched from an attitude of murderous intent to sympathy and assistance. Took a couple of goes, I remembered after the first go to turn the light off, and the bee made it out the door.

[OFSO]

Cold wind tonight for my midnight walk. Parties going on in the park from the sounds, although not a light to be seen.

[OFSO]

Morning, all out there. Sun and wind here. Must get a walk in before the paths fill up...

[Ibbie]

Morning folks

20c here with a high of 26c suggested which I think is on the low side.

Shall also exit, stage right, with Ed for another walk before the temperatures get higher.

Garden furniture painting to be completed upon return .

[barkingmad]

On permanent standby in my garden room, where most aviating insect life decides to explore when the door is open in good weather, I keep a small tumbler from the G&T armoury and an election polling card for the purposes of capturing intact and releasing any bees which are unable to find the exit door.
Any other nuisances are rapidly dealt with by a deliciously satisfying ‘electric tennis racket’ which sorts out the flying menaces.
Has anyone tried stroking the back of the big furry bumble bees, an activity which apparently they find so enjoyable that they just sit entranced? I recall doing it as a youngster with bumbles but I haven’t risked it since.

http://www.gardening-for-wildlife.com/bumble-bees.html

With the benefit of hindsight I won’t be doing it again, they’ve got a task to do and even if I could pluck up the courage to try, I don’t want to risk giving them Covid-19...!

[TheGreenGoblin]

It is my better half's mom's 87th birthday today so she has just finished baking her dear mom a big coffee and walnut cake and so I am here, for the first time since I was kid, sitting licking the icing bowl and am happy to record that the icing sugary experience has not lost any of its illicit lustre in the intervening 55 years or so since I last did the same...

Num num!

[Pontius Navigator]

Sun and wind up here too, early morning walk with the dog, high as a kite with the wind and dawn scents. Neighbour at the end let his two dogs out running free, they tagged along for a time.

[CharlieOneSix]

........Has anyone tried stroking the back of the big furry bumble bees.....

It's been quite noticeable on my walks recently that there are far more big furry bumble bees than usual at this time of year. Good to see that.

Overcast with rain and a chilly 11C here today. Wind was gusting 51 earlier but moderating slightly now. I think I'll have a Cornish Pasty for lunch...then after Dexter Dog has had his walk maybe a cheery Doris Day movie to ward off the foul weather outside.

[Pontius Navigator]

They need to be furry up north

[4mastacker]

My cotoneaster seems like a magnet for bees at the moment, it's absolutely crawling with them. Most are bumble bees of one sort or another but there seems to be very few honey bees about. I expect we will see more of the honey bees once the lavender is in bloom.

[Pontius Navigator]

We have an apiarist down the road. All we see are honey bees, dopey too as we keep having to carry them outside.

[Ex-Ascot]

Afternoon folks. We have had some very troublesome aggressive bees here who try to nest under a bird bath. Got in a bee keeper once (reflective S.A. chap) even with all the protective gear he got stung to hell. Sorry to say but first sign of any bee activity there now we spray. We have been stung so many times.

Good news bad news. A nice little mongoose on the lawn this morning, there is a black mamba around. Hope he got it.

Escorted to hospital by the CID this morning for blood letting (DNA check). A nurse stabbed me in the finger squeezed out about a gallon of blood, no general or even local anesthetic, no pain killers, no cup of tea and no plaster. Heathens. Mrs Ex-Ascot said it didn't hurt her. The police were 15 mins late and refused to get an ambulance to take me home.

Only good thing is that if you go to the hospital here (not recommended) you queue for hours to register then hours to be seen. With the coppers you just walk straight in.

[OFSO]

A walk to The Broadway this morning to buy big thick stocky English asparagus, twice the price of imported stuff, £4.50 a pack. A nagging cold wind along the Regents Canal, interspersed with sun and clouds. I actually buttoned up my Tyrwhitt tweed coat (what the unversed call a jacket) and marvelled at the long-legged firm-breasted young ladies jogging by with acres of flesh exposed. My very much infirm old flesh being tucked away from the wind, and I fell asleep in the warmth of the flat when I got home.....

[Pontius Navigator]

and didn't wake until 1.23pm

[ian16th]

I actually buttoned up my Tyrwhitt tweed coat (what the unversed call a jacket)

I had a Harris Tweed jacket from Dunn's that lasted for donkeys years. It sort of shrank, and wouldn't button, I handed it down to my son. He thought that the 'retro style' was cool, and he appreciated its warmth.

Dunno if it went to Oz and got passed to grandson. No way it would have worn out.

[ricardian]

I had a Harris Tweed jacket from Dunn's that lasted for donkeys years. It sort of shrank, and wouldn't button, I handed it down to my son. He thought that the 'retro style' was cool, and he appreciated its warmth.
Dunno if it went to Oz and got passed to grandson. No way it would have worn out.

It was such a shame that Dunn's went out of business. Even though I am 6ft 4ins tall and far from slim they still found jackets, trousers, coats & shirts to fit me. I even had one made-to-measure sports coat (which after 30+ years is now a bit tight across the shoulders)

[ian16th]

The 1st time I used a Credit Card was in Dunn's, Camden Town.

It was pouring down and I was sheltering in a shop doorway. I realised that the shop window had umbrella's in it. I was stood in the doorway of Dunn's.

I went in bought a nice Fox framed, Malacca cane handled one for £5.00. It lasted for yonks.

Dunn's sold good kit.

[Magnus]

My tweed "bunnet", as we Scots call them, is a Dunn & Co. Rutland County Cap. Bought in their Dundee store, many years ago.

[Woody]

Only good thing is that if you go to the hospital here (not recommended) you queue for hours to register then hours to be seen. With the coppers you just walk straight in.

Just like A&E here

[1DC]

One thing is guaranteed if you go to our local hospital, you will see a couple of coppers with a drugged and/or drunken chav of either sex.