• Hippo
    Hippo reacted to DanClarke's post in the thread I would just like to say with Like Like.
    I am happy to report that there may in fact be a god of Karma. :) My wife went to see her mother at the hospital today and the old gal was well out of it. Very confused and not good at all. :( But, it transpires that the carp BIL & his missus...
    May 30, 2025
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    Them tiny ants are a pain I use Nippon 2 days and thay varnish thay take it and feed the queen end of nest
    May 30, 2025
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    Not pregnant is she โ˜บโ˜บ
    May 30, 2025
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    Well what a day, and it ain'nt over yet. In order to work on the Pluriel I had to mow the "car park" In order to mow the car park, I had to fix the brushcutter/mulcher. Once fixed I had to find the abandoned petrol can in the wilderness, finally...
    May 30, 2025
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    Hello stranger, hope all is well!! :):):)
    May 30, 2025
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    I wonder how far in the future AI bots will be the norm ๐Ÿคจ
    May 30, 2025
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    All good thank you, how's the whiplashed neck?
    May 30, 2025
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    Luckily no. We are catching them in metal bottle screw caps, one for 1 litre fruit juice. a small dollop of jam in the middle surrounded by water. Also we wathci to see where they enter and put ant powder there. I have suggested to W that take...
    May 30, 2025
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    What you said made perfect sense but I had a look, you would not believe how far I had to dig to check that .... you were right! also thinking about it, very few plates woulfd have been enough alike to make casting a sensible proposition.
    May 30, 2025
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    Its been hammering down all morning, the poor lads got soaked. I had to open the front window of the machine to let the hot air out. ๐Ÿ˜…
    May 30, 2025
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    Where's ya bean, not that bean the other been. ๐Ÿคฃ ๐Ÿคฃ
    May 30, 2025
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    For our friends above the English borderline
    May 30, 2025
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    Morning All. :D Cool and overcast here. :( Got the G-kids here for 2 days (son at a trade show at the NEC). I have worked out what it was that made my shoulders hurt. A very big AXE/MAUL. I split a tree trunk round for the fire last week, it...
    May 30, 2025
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    See if she'll take the volvo as settlement.
    May 30, 2025
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    Mornin Drizzle and breezy Taking gf to hospital in Liverpool for tests today Getting a bit of vertigo recently, need to find the cause Still not sold me Volvo Still not divorced Need to get things moving Stay dry all :)
    May 30, 2025
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    Are thay the wood ants ? We get some horrendous nests in the Forrest some over a meter high and the lines of ants foraging can stretch for Klms When a nest is near the house I need to destroy it, got a vicious bite to ๐Ÿœ๐Ÿœ
    May 30, 2025
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    Good morning all. Hope all is well.
    May 30, 2025
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    Wrought iron I believe. Cast iron was too brittle.
    May 30, 2025
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    I really should take some vids. :)
    May 30, 2025
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    So you had a nice fillet then oh yer lurvly. :p Laughed at the La Clape ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ
    May 30, 2025
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    I heard that the reason the SS Great Britain managed to survive being as it was for so long was that its riveted cast iron hull resisted rust where a steel one would have rotted away. I'm sure you'll put pics up along the lines of "Wot I did at...
    May 30, 2025
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    and as we all know that @kevstar loves cookery notes... Just to say that my main course today was tournedos steak with truffle sauce, which was very nice indeed and that the trimmings and veg were exquisite too. W was vastly amused as I kept on...
    May 30, 2025
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    Ive got a riveted craft to scrap, under the water line is rotten & some of the rivets are leaking. It had a survey to get it coded but no chance of that happening.
    May 30, 2025
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    Our whole village is inundated with ants, right old pain. :(
    May 30, 2025
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    Me bugs came back so eye sprayed them again tonight. They is green fly. Some av wings which is how eye recognised them.
    May 28, 2025
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    The MIL has been visited, she says she is not in any great pain, but she is on IV meds and hydration. :) Thinks she ought to be allowed home now but the medics cannot let her go. She has some way to go before they can decide on the right...
    May 28, 2025
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    And you'd have to tell his Mum ...
    May 28, 2025
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    Hope you had a lovely day :). J
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