blakeyboy

Britney Spears married Bryan Ferry.......:)

Tonight I opened a Good Red, and I am currently annoying the neighbours with 'Highway Star' off 'Live in Japan'......... ( bloody loud, nice system) I keep forgetting how unbelievable a performance this is, and every now and again, I have to hammer it out to 'reset'......

Why am I still laughing at this??? Some crap jokes just work and work....!!

So impressed you bothered with the circumflex.....

The pennies are crap, but the pictures are bloody good.

Peter, those are better pictures than I see any auction houses use...a new career beckons?

Had this arrive this morning - four quid or thereabouts- high 9? Or high 90?

Sorry everyone, I couldn't resist.....

Ooo-er Missus indeed!!!!!!!

Paddy, you left off Erdogan, Bolsonaro, Assad, and the wonderfully named Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov.

At last we have cloudy weather. This gives all my plants in the shade a chance to catch up. Last week, on a sunny morning, light level on the patio was 100,000 + lux. In the shade in the area that gets evening sun, it was 2,500. The next morning, same time, it was cloudy. Patio light level 20,000 lux. Shady spot level was 7,800......!

So- if someone sells a coin to himself, doesn't he pay Ebay for the privilege?

That would be not much use to The Enlightened..... Did coins sell for less than expected? If so, then that's to be expected in lockdown, where you won't have a packed saleroom, so why put coins into an auction at the moment?

Ah...yeah...didn't think it through.......

I just wasn't thinking- I love a bargain - it was going cheep! I got mobbed by nearly twenty crows after that pun- they are a local gang called Corvid 19.... I can only apologise.

There were two in the bush worth just as much...

EIGHT?????!!! How the hell did two birds find enough caterpillars to raise that lot???? It must have been like Heathrow....

Where is mum with my breakfast?

Baby blue tits are just stupid fluffy lumps!

Trump isn't clever enough to realise how stupid he is.

Bloody spellcheck changing 'beer' into 'breeze'...drives you mad.....

Here's a shot of how pleasing just the foliage of Canna 'Durban' can be with the sun shining through it.....

While the awning was in bits, i scarily got the ladders to the guttering and fixed a leak- pva glue into a crack that will hopefully cure the drip. Great to gawp into all the gardens in the street for once. Such a shame this year- everyones gardens are fab, but no-one can see them! Here's a pick for Ozjohn- a caesalpinia gilliessii in a border in the UK bit of a rarity - no flowers yet...I wrap it each year but it may be worth the wait.....

Yes- i have an awning that I threw up years ago- wooden frame and polycarbonate, and once the sheeting had got old, a big hailstorm shot it, so this year, with more time and loads of sun, i decided to change it- imperial sheet out, metric sheet on. What a laugh. All with a grape vine to be supported through out the job.... Most important, I've discovered- if you are into tropical or tender plants, you must have a not in, but not out, halfway house, where you can drag plants under for the winter, This gives a bit of shelter from low temperatures, but more importantly, gives you control over watering. Keeping things on the dry side is like an extra 5˚ of frost hardiness. The best money I've ever spent is on this awning. Mind you, when it fell to bits, i did sing 'Awning has broken' , so I kept up standards.:) I've only got 10 by 5 metres to work with, and in a way, it's good. I have so many friends with 5 acres+, and they are not in control of 30% of any of it. All my investments have been in equipment, not houses, so the small garden is a lovely indulgence, not a chore...... Picture from window. early in the year, so all the tropical leaves etc haven't woken up properly yet.

Constantly hassled by a robin we've been training.