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  1. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    You can get perennial sweet peas. Look the same as annual type but sadly with no scent.
  2. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    Are they Oriental Lillies Richard? Fantastic scent compared to Asiatic Lillies.
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    Worst car of the 1960's

    DSG gearboxes are brilliant.
  4. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    That is some scary bat Andrew. You are wise to be careful with them, they carry all kinds of disease some reckon that`s where covid originated. ( And you wouldn`t want Julie to turn into a vampire )
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    Gone out of fashion

    I was so vain as a teenager that i used hairspray.
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    Hairdressing & barbering

    Pete, where did you get my photo from. Did you rip it off the wall in the post office.? Jeez, now i`m gonna have to change my appearance in case i`m recognised.
  7. Smudger

    Hairdressing & barbering

    How much is a haircut these days? (Mens) I always cut my own so would be interesting to know how much i`m saving.
  8. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    I have never seen a woodpecker (apart from Loony Tunes ) or a Bullfinch, so envious !
  9. Smudger

    it's Richard Dye Birthday today

    Have a good one Richard, and look after that lovely garden of yours.
  10. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    Hi Mort, does your windmill/turbine produce any electricity & what does your solar panel charge? Neat garden by the way.
  11. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    Methinks Boris will be paddling along for some time yet.
  12. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    I`m sure someone will tell you they are not flowers but not me. I`m also sure they sell them in the UK so maybe they`re hardy ones? Flowers or not, they are gorgeous.
  13. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    I usually get a visit from a Sparrow hawk maybe once a year, but yesterday it visited 3 times & each time my Wife ran out clapping her hands to shoo it away. I tell her that even Sparrow Hawks have to eat but not in my garden she says ! Humans are strange.
  14. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    I made a starling proof feeder out of a propagator. I cut four small holes around the tray and the little birds can feed in peace.
  15. Smudger

    Good classical music on YouTube

    So true, there are places i`ll remember all my life.
  16. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    Senetti. Never seen or heard of these plants till recently. Bonny colours.. BTW, there is an app called seek, if you put it on your mobile, point it at the plant you would like to identify & hey presto ! Sometimes doesn`t work.
  17. Smudger

    Gone out of fashion

    The Aussie Opal miners still use a Jack Hammer.
  18. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    Who`s gonna get it, you or the birds !
  19. Smudger

    In the garden 2022

    Snails & slugs were decimating my newly planted Dahlias, so i sprinkled some slug pellets around the dahlias only to be informed by a neighbour that the pellets were banned for use in this country. Anyway the next two days i picked up nearly 20 snails & slugs that had eaten the pellets & and...
  20. Smudger

    Gone out of fashion

    I had no idea of what a slide rule was. Never heard of one till this topic came up on bhf. At school we only had a slate & a nail to scribble answers, then after a while someone invented chalk. Seriously though, i remember logarithms classes simply because that particular teacher was easily...
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