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Subject: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 16 Jun 03 - 07:28 PM I've finished my patio! Once upon a time, someone who owned our house thought it would be fun to put in a patio. So they did.... completely covering the damp course and blocking several air vents into the cellar/underfloor space. Since we had the back of the house underpinned (an incident with a broken foul drain and some dropped foundations), there was a nasty step up from the kitchen door to the garden. The following year my dad died and the time I took off work (not to mention my inheritance being some 50 plants) meant I could do something about the garden. It was totally redesigned, with raised beds and a same level path from the back door to the other end of the garden. This meant that the rest of the patio had to be dug up and removed to avoid a nasty step, and to give us more space to sit. Well, after 5 and more years of negotiating around a spoil heap of earth, rubble and rubbish, I've cleared all but the last buckets full! I've laid paving, bricks and concrete, built a pond, shifted countless bags of rubble and rubbish, made an archway, mended fences, planted, re-planted, nurtured and igored and finally, today, I laid the penultimate bag of concrete. As of tomorrow when it's set properly, I'll be able to put the bench out and bask in the sunshine and still have room to walk down the path! I'm a happy bunny! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: GUEST,Sorcha Date: 16 Jun 03 - 07:31 PM Way cool, Liz! We're working on ours too. Got all the flagstone we have laid (need more) most stuff planted, and spending a lot of time Surveying Our Domain. I know who 'we' usually is too......... |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: katlaughing Date: 16 Jun 03 - 07:32 PM Where were Ground Force all this time? They coulda done it in two days' time! **BG** Seriously, congratulations, that must feel wonderful! |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 16 Jun 03 - 07:36 PM Thanks, it does. Ground Force are wonderful but it wouldn't have been me doing it, unless I arranged it for someone else's surprise... Manitas hasn't really got a lot of time for the garden - he's allergic to most of it, so it was all for me and Bratling. It will be strange living without the spoil heap - it had featured quite heavily in family photos and at parties.... what will people sit on now? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: GUEST,leeneia Date: 16 Jun 03 - 10:41 PM Congratulations, LTS. What kind of flowers do you have in your garden? I am in love with a new rose that I planted in my garden. "Carefree Celebrity," a sturdy rose which resists disease very well. It has large roses of a pale peach color touched with tan, and the blossoms seem Victorian, somehow. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Jun 03 - 01:03 AM "Penultimate" means the next-to-the-last. . . sorry, it's one of those pet peeves of an English major. Sounds like a wonderful space you've created. I was curious today about the neighborhood where a friend lives in New York City. I entered his zip code (10011) at Realtor.com and saw a few tiny courtyards that drove the co-op prices into megabucks. It doesn't take much outdoors space, particularly if it's as well designed like you describe, to really add value to a place. Especially in an urban setting. And it's just in time for summer! SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Morticia Date: 17 Jun 03 - 04:09 AM well done Liz.....but I will miss the slag heap.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Dead Horse Date: 17 Jun 03 - 06:55 AM O.K. So now work begins on the kitchen/bedrooms? Plenty of MDF needed, I'll warrant. Hows about getting that poncy git on the telly with all the flouncy clobber to design you a new bathroom? Sort of "Regency with Rubber" comes to mind, or mebbe some flock wallpaper................. Decking! You never mentioned Decking! |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Emma B Date: 17 Jun 03 - 01:37 PM It took us only 15 years to get round to putting a pond in! We ahd a formal opening with friends who never believed we would finally do it (ribbon cutting) and poured in a generous libation of 'fizz' Within two weeks we had a newt, a couple of dozen snails and several frogs - It had to be the Cava! It is such a wonderful place to sit on evenings like the last few have been and woatch the damsel flies and tadpoles- ENJOY! |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage Date: 17 Jun 03 - 04:38 PM I'd like to put in a pond, but the trouble is the local warnings about mosquitos and things like West Nile virus. Are you doing anything special that keeps mosquitos out of the water that doesn't harm the rest of the critters? SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Catherine Jayne Date: 17 Jun 03 - 04:45 PM Congrats Liz...and no sign of Micca or a pickaxe!! I hope you weren't out there today in the thunder storm and all that rain!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 17 Jun 03 - 06:10 PM No Cats. I was standing in a bus queue on the way to Stratford in the thunderstorm... SRS - I know what penultimate means. I have the ultimate bag of concrete in the dining room, because I still have to lay a little by the fence which is not part of the patio. Had it been the last bag, I would have written so. Morty - the slag heap will be where she always is, stretched out on the lounger with a cold beer! Dead - the house has been decorated all through at least once, which is why it's taken 6 years to remove the spoil heap! Treated myself to a chocolate Cosmos plant, a thing like an arum lily, but custard yellow, some ageratum, some French garrymolds, some lobelia, and a pretty creamy peach rose I received as a present recently. Already there were roses, periwinkle, lavendar, buddlea, bleeding hearts, bloody cranesbill, Japanese anaemones and creeping Jenny. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Emma B Date: 17 Jun 03 - 06:21 PM We don't really have much of a problem with mossies in this part of England (yet!) SRS, but the midges and cledgies are bad enough. Most of the things in our garden seem to have a life style that involves eating each other anyway so what helps one critter is another critters supper |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: katlaughing Date: 17 Jun 03 - 06:26 PM My Harmony catalogue has Mosquito Dunks listed as effective in ponds. Here's what it says about them: Doughnut-shaped Mosquito Dunks float on water and slowly release bacillus thuringiensis - a natural pesticide lethal to mosquito larvae. Place all-natural dunks anywhere water is left standing for more than a week. Safe for birdbaths, rain barrels, ponds, ditches, tree holes, roof gutters, unused swimming pools, and anywhere else water collects. A single dunk destroys mosquito larvae in up to 100 square feet of water for a month. They are $12 per 6 in my catalogue. ANd, they also have other repellents listed. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 17 Jun 03 - 06:53 PM Despite it having no flowing water into or out of it, the pond is large enough to have evolved it's own wind blown 'current' - plus the leech and the flatworms will get anything that isn't a water snail or a daphnia or a water flea.... not had a problem with mossies at all. Snails were particularly lively yesterday - lots of them all stuck together in pairs... even the leech was looking sprightly! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Jun 03 - 01:52 AM Ooooh, now you're in for it! Snail little ones will be plentiful this summer! Sprats, or some such sticky name. BT is apparently good for a lot of pests, because it has also been recommended to help in the garden. You don't want to release it around beneficial larvae, but it's good for knocking out various critters that bore into squash plants and such. My ex-brother-in-law had a hot tub with an ozone bubbler (or something comparable) that cleaned the water without chlorine. I wonder if one of those might also be beneficial in a pond? SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Micca Date: 18 Jun 03 - 06:21 AM Stilly, I HOPE it wasnt an Ozone bubbler!! as real Ozone is VERY Toxic!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Noreen Date: 18 Jun 03 - 08:56 AM So is chlorine, Micca...! |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Tinker Date: 18 Jun 03 - 09:42 AM Oh maybe, just maybe, this will get me moving at my back 'patio'. Once upon a time someone put a kidney shaped piece of concrete around the back of the house and the very small back porch. It's awkward and unsightly and I just keep moving to the back garden and working where I get more reinforcement. Your efforts sound wonderful, congradulations.... It's raining here in Jersey today, AGAIN... so maybe I'll reread your initail post and try to figure out a plan. Tinker |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: GUEST,Stilly River Sage Date: 18 Jun 03 - 11:39 AM In an open environment, the ozone isn't a hazard, is the theory behind its use. And chlorine is horribly toxic, so perhaps it is something that is determined by degree of hazard. You know the smell the air gets right when it starts raining? I've always understood that to be the ozone in the air. It's that smell that you get in hot tubs that use this kind of system to keep the bio-hazards in the water away. SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: manitas_at_work Date: 18 Jun 03 - 11:56 AM If the ultimate bag of concrete is in the living room what's that in the back of the car? Is para-ultimate a word? |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: lady penelope Date: 18 Jun 03 - 02:46 PM "is para-ultimate a word?" well it is now Manitas! I like it. It's got a nice ring to it. Liiiz, you never told me you'd taken your mini mount snowden away! When's the christining party for the patio? Last time I was over we was still falling off the two-bricks-and-a-paving-slab-step. By the by, I've got some chocolate flower bulbs for you. I couldn't resist buying them when I saw them. Oh and well done on finishing. TTFN Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Catherine Jayne Date: 18 Jun 03 - 03:08 PM I was shown the new patio tonight by Bratling....complete with foot prints!! It looks grand!!! Well Done! Im with Lady Penelope....Whens the christening party!!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Dead Horse Date: 18 Jun 03 - 03:30 PM Keep 'em all at bay, Liz. They just wanna come and eat yer choccy plants! |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 18 Jun 03 - 05:28 PM Well I was sort of thinking Mid July - round about 19th? Anyone want to come and sit on a new patio and drink the fruits of Manitas' wine club? Manitas - have you never heard of poetic license - the other bag was in the dining room for so long it seemed part of the furniture - I just simply forgot it wasn't there any more! Tinker - I have pickaxe going spare if you want to borrow it...? Unless I decide to dig up the front garden as well................. It's been such a hard chore but I feel really rather good about myself that I've finally done it in spite of having a crappy year, crutches for 6 weeks, a dicky ticker indicator stuck to me (and wasn't THAT fun, digging with that on!!) and Bratling "helping".... The two bricks and a paving slab step has been reduced to just the two bricks - the paving slab is now part of the garden extension. That means getting another bag of concrete and making a proper mould for a step.... damn, I knew there was something...... And to be perfectly honest, I didn't so much remove it as just... relocate it... Snowdon is now Kew. Chocolate plants warmly welcomed, in fact, any plants really.... just let me get the lawn sorted first! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Emma B Date: 18 Jun 03 - 07:50 PM Our pond is now 3 years old and, as it is the only part of the garden that doesn't require watering the plants have thrived on total neglect so I have lots of spare flags (Yellow & purple), waterforget-me-nots and a whole pile of other attractive aquatic plants whose names I would have to look up and will require severe seperating later this year if I'm to have any visable water left Whereabouts are you? You mentioned Stratford earlier, might be possible to arrange something |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Tinker Date: 18 Jun 03 - 10:00 PM I think I'll wait till Fall to start chopping concrete. It's been unseasonablly cool here in New Jersey ( still in the 60's and 70's) but any day it could jerk over to seasonable and be 90. I would abandon the project half done in a flash... For now it's big enough to hold a grill and a couple of chairs. Perhaps I'll work on putting some flowers around the edges... |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Sorcha Date: 18 Jun 03 - 11:42 PM Liz is in London, UK |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 19 Jun 03 - 04:27 PM I'm near Stratford, only a couple of miles away, where are you? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: mouldy Date: 20 Jun 03 - 02:49 AM Well done Liz for doing all that graft yourself - you deserve a good rest on your patio! Isn't that yellow lily thing a Calla lily? The mozzies, or similar larval types, in the area of my pond have developed the knack of attaching themselves to the rocks the water runs over, and facing into the flow. The still water lily pot has no mozzies but daphnia, the odd beetly thing, and things with lots of legs in it. I acquired a leech or two in the top pond, probably off birds that had been dabbling in nearby dykes, and they keep the freshwater mussels company. A newt is in the bottom one. There are a couple of frogs and a young toad in the area recently, but they haven't been in the pond for a while. Nevertheless, the goldfish have been frisky (as have my snails too) and I have put two tiny larva sized babies into my lily pot for safe keeping. Last year's success is back with mum and dad/s and is over 2 inches long. Next week my yard is being rustic-paved, so I can call it a patio instead. I'm having a pergola built by the kitchen wall. Ian wants it roofed with perspex (so therefore it'll look more like a car-port)! Never fear, I have a couple of grape vines I can train underneath it, and the clear lid should act like a greenhouse... Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 20 Jun 03 - 07:19 PM A good rest? I've got the front garden to clear up now!!! Thanks all. Party to officially welcome it, our house, 19th July. PM me for details. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Morticia Date: 20 Jun 03 - 07:28 PM will there be vodka jelly, like last time? |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 Jun 03 - 03:36 AM Not like last time but yes, if you want there to be... it might even be gin jelly. Is that clippity clop of Dead Horse feet I hear pounding towards my door? LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Micca Date: 21 Jun 03 - 07:55 AM I Have " gazed on this creation .. and find it is good" Enjoyed coffee and sunshine and assorted Cats in the absence of a mound of assorted rubble, well done Liz, it looks real nice |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Gareth Date: 21 Jun 03 - 06:52 PM MMMM ! Interesting LiZ 2 Questions :- A/. Who (Ah la "Brookfield") Who is buried under the patio. B/. How mush sunlight does this pond have in Winter. And a problem :- The (sp) Anophales Mosquito was endemic - hence Malaria - to the Kent and Essex Marshes. (Just a Tad away from your Gaff) Seems to have died down in the last 50 years, but with Global Warming who knows, they may reapear. With the warmer urban micro cilmate experienced in London is your poond deep enough to support a colony of "StickleBacks" - They should feed off the Mossie lavae - or better still a colony of "Guppies". Just a thought. Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 21 Jun 03 - 07:03 PM Pond gets sunlight every day of the year, as long as the sun actually makes it through the clouds. It's exposed for the main part in summer and the latter part in winter of the afternoon. It's about 2-3 feet deep in one place. Don't want to introduce anything new to it, it might upset the balance I have. As I said, haven't had any Mossie larvae in it yet. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Morticia Date: 21 Jun 03 - 07:33 PM You will note she carefully didn't answer the question regarding who is buried under the patio......but Pixie was up there a couple of weekends ago which, I suspect, precipitated the unseemly haste to get the patio finished when six years had been perfectly sufficient before that..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: mouldy Date: 22 Jun 03 - 02:38 PM Does anybody know where I can get some sticklebacks from (aside from trying to nick some from the wild, which ain't ethical, even if I knew where there were some)? The local suppliers round here don't seem to have any. P'raps they're out of season! To think I used to get them from the canal when I was a kid...I kept some in a tank for a bit before releasing them back. (Both 3 and 5 spined varieties). Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Little Hawk Date: 22 Jun 03 - 03:00 PM It is with sorrow, Liz, that I must inform you that your name has been struck from the membership of the Master Procrastinators of the Western World. Please return your card and your code ring forthwith to the offices of the MPWW in beautiful downtown Orillia, Ontario, Canada, just across from the campus of the WSSBA. We demand adherence to the lowest standards, Liz, as you know, and you have unfortunately stepped beyond the allowable boundaries in completing your patio, even after 6 years. My regrets... - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: lady penelope Date: 22 Jun 03 - 03:40 PM LOL LittleHawk. Parker has fallen short of the Master Procrastinater's code by finishing the bathroom in a meer two years ( although we still haven't laid the lino in there yet ) But I'm glad to say that I still have a coat that I have failed to get beyond cutting out the pattern stage in 13 years. Mind you, it's amazing the fires that light under you when you want to sel your flat. It's getting it's first proper decorating in 10 years............ TTFN Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Morticia Date: 22 Jun 03 - 04:11 PM I have two arms and half a back of a jumper I started knitting in 1979....am I in? |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Noreen Date: 22 Jun 03 - 04:37 PM May I apply, Little Hawk? I have a part-completed 'Owl and the Pussycat' cross stitch hanging which I started when pregnant with som Tom, who has just celebrated his 16th birthday. Photograph of said item (attached to frame) will be furnished if you require evidence, just as soon as I get round to it... |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Jun 03 - 05:52 PM No, I have a blanket I started for my first cat to have kittens on in 1978. Cat and kittens were dust long ago, blanket still not finished. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 22 Jun 03 - 05:53 PM Can I retain my membership a while longer - I still haven't finished the corner, the ultimate bag of concrete is still in the car! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Little Hawk Date: 23 Jun 03 - 01:07 AM Aha! We now have several worthy new applicants for the Master Procrastinators of the Western World, located in beautiful downtown Orillia, the Mecca of procrastination. This is good. Noreen, Morticia, and lady penelope are all in with flying colors, and Liz the Squeak has provided new evidence which will cause the Board of the MPWW to reconsider terminating her membership. To give you an idea of what it takes to become a master procrastinator...there is a man in this town who has been planning to shave for the last 15 years, but he just hasn't gotten around to it yet. He tripped on his beard last week and sustained a bruised shin. There was also a shopping mall, "Quetton Place", scheduled to be constructed at Washago, north of here, back in the early 80's. It was never built. They finally took down the sign announcing its imminent arrival a couple of years ago. The lot where it was to have been built is still vacant, but is supporting some interesting varieties of local plant life. Then there's the Champlain Hotel in the middle of downtown Orillia...it has been closed up (awaiting renovation) for about ten years now. No one can afford to do the job, so there it sits. One guy who does not procrastinate well is George Bush, Jr., and you see the results...war and disaster. He should take a lesson or two from Jean Chretien (Canada's prime minister), who is better at doing nothing than most people are at doing anything. Jean Chretien is a source of inspiration to us all. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: mouldy Date: 23 Jun 03 - 02:58 AM 27 years ago a garage was built on our plot (not by us) and unless the subsequent occupants painted the boards round the top, it's been that long since it was done. They were only in the place about 5 or 6 years. We've been in nearly 16 years, and we haven't done it. Under the algae it's looking a bit "weathered", and every year I look at it from the kitchen window and make a promise I know I won't keep. It's not as if I can get at all of it, as it's built into a corner. The front and left side are accessible from our garden, the back from next door, if I lean over their wall (they are set higher up than us). Unfortunately (or conveniently, depending on your point of view) their 10 foot leylandii hedge runs down the other side. Now that I am learning Tai-Chi there is a danger that this may change: procrastination comes under the heading of "monkey thoughts", and I have just learned to "repulse the monkey". Of course, all this depends on me actually getting round to doing it at home... Andrea |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Micca Date: 23 Jun 03 - 04:29 AM Andrea, on the matter of procrastination at which the folk of the Western Isles of Scotland are renowned, someone was trying to explain the Spaanish concept "Manana" to an Islesman, he replied, "We have nothing in the Isles as urgent as that" |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Jun 03 - 03:16 PM Then there's the dress I started when my neice was a baby - she celebrated her 18th birthday this year and the dress is still in pieces.... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: lady penelope Date: 23 Jun 03 - 04:02 PM Does this mean the Master Procrastinators of the Western world will be handing out awards, to be commonly known as "rown tuits"? TTFN Lady P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 23 Jun 03 - 04:48 PM But surely, if they actually hand out the awards, they are negating their own criteria? I just hope they clear it up afterwards..... Anyway - anyone as wants to come, Saturday July 19th, any time after 3.00pm. PM me for the address if you don't already know it - we're in East London, not far from a District line station and on a fairly major bus route. Nothing so elaborate as Dave Bryant's affairs, but some beer, some music, some nibbly stuff, some concrete and everyone gets to take half a brick home with them afterwards if they want (saves me taking them to the tip!)..... Crash space is available, just let us know. I may even do pancakes for Sunday breakfast again. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: hesperis Date: 24 Jun 03 - 01:21 PM Western World? I guess it never got around to having an Eastern branch... |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Sorcha Date: 24 Jun 03 - 01:42 PM We finished the first half of the new deck Sunday and it's rained everyday since.............bloody English weather in Wyoming. |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Little Hawk Date: 24 Jun 03 - 05:38 PM Well, we haven't secured sufficient funds yet to open up a Far Eastern office for the MPWW. And I suspect we never will. Besides, then we'd have to change the name. - LH |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: hesperis Date: 25 Jun 03 - 05:05 AM I'm not talking aboout the Far East... I'm talking about the East. Eastern Hemisphere, Western Hemisphere... And if you need funds, I'm sure I can send you a cheque for the amount needed... later... after I finish writing the next great novel and find a publisher... and it starts selling... once I find the papers, they're packed somewhere... *grin* |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: John J Date: 25 Jun 03 - 12:39 PM Well done Liz! But I'm not sure about: "I've laid paving, bricks and concrete". Doesn't it give you a sore bum? Best wishes to you and Brattling for a happy future with your new and improved garden! John |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Jun 03 - 07:45 PM JohnJ - yes, and it buggers up the paintwork too. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Stilly River Sage Date: 26 Jun 03 - 04:56 PM I'm planning to pave over a section of yard next to a concrete patio with brick to extend the hard surface area. I'll dig up the turf, level the dirt, then fill with sand before placing the bricks and packing sand between them. Most of the bricks I'll use are stick in the dirt down at the bottom of the yard where the folks who built the house left them 25 years ago. I think I can probably stretch this project out for a year at least! Once I get it started, mind you. . . SRS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 26 Jun 03 - 05:35 PM Procrastinators - if it's any consolation, the ultimate bag of concrete is still in the car a week later..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 30 Jun 03 - 03:24 AM And now we have a fountain! Solar powered so of course, the sun has gone and we're up to our ankles in rain... but the water lily likes it. All I have to do now is find a way of getting it into the pond without leaving wires trailing all over the place - it has a remote solar panel and nice long flex. Bag of concrete has progressed from the car to the hallway.... Party still on for 19th July, all who wish may come. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 12 Jul 03 - 07:12 PM Refresh to remind people about next Saturday - come along to our place and admire/insult the new patio. Sat 19th, any time after 3. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Gareth Date: 12 Jul 03 - 07:20 PM Regret, Liz, my non attendance, but I'a booked for duty driver for the aged mother that weekend. Enjoy ! Gareth |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 13 Jul 03 - 04:06 AM Refresh - ments provided.... but bring something if you want..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Catherine Jayne Date: 13 Jul 03 - 08:42 AM do you want us to bring aything....beer...wine.....gin??...nibbles?? |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 13 Jul 03 - 06:59 PM If you want to bring something feel free.. no barbie as such, but there's a perfectly adequate working cooker in the kitchen. LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 14 Jul 03 - 04:50 AM Well I suppose I'll to resign from the Procrastinators Society - the last bag of concrete was laid yesterday, the plant pots are in position, the fountain has been jury rigged (anyone know anything about pumps?), the table made, the plants planted out and the bench swept..... what will I do with myself next summer? Do you mind if I resign later, just I'm a bit busy with this knitting I've been working on for a year or so..... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: It's taken 6 years but...... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 18 Jul 03 - 03:29 PM ER... I've just found another 2 bags of concrete.... can I have my membership back? Garden party still on tomorrow (19th July) for anyone who wants to come. LTS |
