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  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    Here is said Bar. The cheap vodka is for when you come around @DaveMehmet

    Looks like a new Weatherspoons :wink:
    Only if the bogs are 400 yards away 
  • Looks like a Punch and Judy booth
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    edited March 2021
    Looks like a Punch and Judy booth
    Sorry to disappoint you but I couldn’t fit a 200 seater venue in my back garden. Feel free to post a picture of the bar in your garden. 
  • LargeAddick
    LargeAddick Posts: 32,559
    Any advice or tips on how to prevent or deal with dog peeing on the lawn ultimately creating those yellow nitrogen rich patches ? I’ve tried soaking those areas when they pop up to dilute the nitrogen and even tried a volcanic rock in the dogs drinking water but it’s a losing battle. Any help appreciated. 
    Artificial grass is the answer. Means you save time with mowing etc.
  • Daarrzzetbum
    Daarrzzetbum Posts: 1,236
    My little bit of SE7 in tropical Daarrzet 😁😁
  • Love the Sun deck - bit tricky getting down after a few sherberts though. :smile:  
  • Arsenetatters
    Arsenetatters Posts: 5,974
    My little bit of SE7 in tropical Daarrzet 😁😁
    Looks like you’ve got a wood burning stove in - lovely.
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,810
    Found this little fella (not my son) when starting to clean the pond of leaves yesterday...he’s safely back in there now 
  • Curb_It
    Curb_It Posts: 21,220
    edited March 2021
    Do  you want some Charlton beer mats @ricky_otto ?  I've still got a few hanging around from the protests, some Roland's Ruin and a couple of others.  They are hopeless as beer mats but might look good.  Send me your address if so.  Will post but wont be until next week.


  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,034
    Found this little fella (not my son) when starting to clean the pond of leaves yesterday...he’s safely back in there now 
    What is it?
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  • se9addick said:
    Found this little fella (not my son) when starting to clean the pond of leaves yesterday...he’s safely back in there now 
    What is it?
    Whatever it is it’s as pissed as a newt.
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    se9addick said:
    Found this little fella (not my son) when starting to clean the pond of leaves yesterday...he’s safely back in there now 
    What is it?
    It's a smooth newt
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    As I scrolled down that looked like it was in a blender. 
  • Elthamaddick
    Elthamaddick Posts: 15,810
    no idea what it is, Oli (son) thinks it's a baby croc! - haha
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,331
    Dazzler21 said:
    As I scrolled down that looked like it was in a blender. 
    That would be a smoothie newt
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    no idea what it is, Oli (son) thinks it's a baby croc! - haha
    Definitely a Newt. Had them as pets as a kid. Would go over to this park that always had them swimming in there, would nick them and put them in our fish tank at home. They lived off the fish food. 
  • ricky_otto
    ricky_otto Posts: 22,600
    Curb_It said:
    Do  you want some Charlton beer mats @ricky_otto ?  I've still got a few hanging around from the protests, some Roland's Ruin and a couple of others.  They are hopeless as beer mats but might look good.  Send me your address if so.  Will post but wont be until next week.


    Nice one thank you! I’ll PM you. 
  • Daarrzzetbum
    Daarrzzetbum Posts: 1,236
    My little bit of SE7 in tropical Daarrzet 😁😁
    Looks like you’ve got a wood burning stove in - lovely.
    Sure have & it gets nice and warm on a cold night, it was always my intention to build one & lockdown last year was the time to do it.  Was going to build it with London Stocks, well frontage, but costs were far too much so used locally reclaimed bricks instead.  As we, main house, are south facing the pub gets the sun as it sets in the West 😁😁 now need to build the pizza oven and Bar B Q next to it. 
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    coffee drunk ,better get on with something 😎
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    coffee drunk ,better get on with something 😎
    How have bananas/palms etc coped with the frosts? 
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  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    Hi lolwray ,of the 12 bananas I have 6 are shooting so far, I'm in the process of repotting the larger plants at the moment, I left 4 in the ground over winter and they haven't started shooting but I think they will (hopefully), I treating them the same as my potted cannas and they come back every year. 
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    Just to add all the palms survived, 1 only just. 
  • Not impressed with this year's effort from my Acer, just two lousy leaves.

    To think it was only a twig 5 years ago.  I looked after it, fed it, spoke to it and now this ...

    Gardening does that though, just when you think you're winning it dumps you back down on the seat of your pants.

     
  • Dippenhall
    Dippenhall Posts: 3,919
    Came down this morning to find something had trashed part of the lavender bed.  Think it must be a badger.  Recently covered the bed in horse manure still containing quite a few brandlings.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,900
    I just wish the weather would do something...its still too cold for most things to really come on and still getting overnight frosts ....really haven't had a lot of rain and I am using pumped water from a well ...I dont normally resort to this until june ..
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    Took delivery of 24 lavender plants (line a path) and of course a couple of palms that are going into large pots. 
  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    Chamerops Humilis Cerifera, or hardy blue fan palm to me.
  • Trying out Minibel tomatoes for the first time this year. 

    I have ten growing here in the top secret nursery area behind my shed.  Apparently they only grow to 30 cm - seem to be developing nicely, plenty of blooms appearing. 

    Please excuse the rather ugly anti fox / cat fortifications.

  • jonseventyfive
    jonseventyfive Posts: 3,353
    Very nice, superb choice of planter I might add.
  • Last year I noticed a rather unusual pattern in one of my geraniums



    So I took a cutting from that area in the hope I could invent a new plant - thinking this time next year I could become a millionaire.



    The cutting has survived and is about to bloom.  How should I spend my money?  Give up my seat in the East stand and sit next to 'Sandy' in the directors box for a start eh?



      Time will tell Rodders, time will tell.