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

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

Methinks Boris will be paddling along for some time yet.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

The Aussie Opal miners still use a Jack Hammer.

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

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...

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...

Buttered whilst still hot so the butter sinks in followed by a light covering of strawberry jam.

Many years ago i used to buy wood pigeons from my local butcher. They taste very nice but always remember to spit the lead pellets out. :(

Something a little less smelly than the previous pic. Hoping for a good crop of sweet cherry, variety Bing/Stella.

The school was indeed in Slade road near the Star cinema. The park was probably Brookvale park where i spent many hours fishing, boating & some sports. Loved that park.

I have some in my garden, Leucojum Gravetye Giant, too difficult to pronounce so like you i call them Giant Snowdrops.

When did they install floodlights?

I often went into Woolies Erdington for a bag of warm salted peanuts. There was so much pilfering going on, it`s no wonder they eventually went bust.

Slug pellets have been used by gardeners for many years & if it`s true that they are dangerous then it`s too late for us gardeners, we`re doomed, infamy infamy they`ve all got it in for me.! Sorry, i haven`t had my medication today.