Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

[RED-DOG]

Yep, she's great.

I like this pic of her best.

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[Rod Paradise]

Tom what site are you hosting pics on now?None of the pictures you post are showing up for me anymore.

[Rod Paradise]

experiment with quoting Tom's pic to try and find why I'm not seeing it - unsuccessful.

[marcro]

All this bullying about hairstyles is a bit OTT IMO.

(OK, it was only tikay doing the verbals but I know others were laughing) 

(I wouldn't care, but it's not as if his follicles haven't heard the old, "Halt! Who goes there?)

Anyway... (I must learn to write without continually digressing. One day they will do away with brackets and then I'll be fecked)

Anyway, It made me think of an old rhyme, although where and by whom I heard it I cant remember.


I used to part my hair down the middle she said it was too severe.
So off I went and parted it across from ear to ear.
"How do you like my new hairstyle dear?" I asked my Irish Rose.
"Oh darling it looks wonderful." She whispered up my nose.

OK, let's be nice to Tom, & suggest he fixes his hair like this young lady.

She's the Deputy Chief Constable of Derbyshire Constabulary, & has been appearing on TV regularly giving updates on the Dam problem in Whaley Bridge. I think it's actually rather lovely, & a pleasant change to see a senior Police Officer with a touch of hair attitude.

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Apprpriately designed to allow her to put on a police helmet without messing up her hair!!

[Rod Paradise]

Solved it, problem at this end, was Sky putting their teenager setting on the new Broadband - blocks file sharing sites.

[RED-DOG]

Solved it, problem at this end, was Sky putting their teenager setting on the new Broadband - blocks file sharing sites.

That's what I said thought.

[RED-DOG]

The dogs do this every day in sticky-bud season.
I don't have the heart to stop them.

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[Pokerpops]

The dogs do this every day in sticky-bud season.
I don't have the heart to stop them.

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Our cocker gets them everywhere. It’s so therapeutic grooming them out.

[typhoon13]

The dogs do this every day in sticky-bud season.
I don't have the heart to stop them.

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Cleavers....number one culprit of admixture in Oilseed rape

[RED-DOG]

You're an onion Trev.

[RED-DOG]

Galium aparine with many common names including cleavers, clivers, bedstraw, goosegrass, catchweed, stickyweed, sticky bob, stickybud, stickyback, robin-run-the-hedge, sticky willy, sticky willow, stickyjack, stickeljack, grip grass and velcro plant, is a herbaceous annual plant of the family Rubiaceae.

Wiki

[typhoon13]

Sticky buds....many moons ago we knew these as the bud of the Horse Chestnut

Just before they come into leaf the buds are covered in a sticky resin, the old folk would even put them into vases instead of then wild flowers

Can you remember Rose Hip itching powder, had some fun with that beauty

[RED-DOG]

Yes, I learned about rose hip the hard way. (You didn't happen to be part of a gang that roamed the streets rubbing rose hips on to small boys during the early 60s did you Trev?)

Did you ever make pea shooters from cow parsley stalks and use hawthorn berries for ammo?

[typhoon13]

Yes, I learned about rose hip the hard way. (You didn't happen to be part of a gang that roamed the streets rubbing rose hips on to small boys during the early 60s did you Trev?)

Did you ever make pea shooters from cow parsley stalks and use hawthorn berries for ammo?

Use to creep up and put the itching powder down the back of peoples shirts obviously I would end up with itching back as well

Pea shooter, we would make them out of old elderflower branches

Talking of old Eldflower branches, you could also take the middle out, stick a match to it, get it smouldering and pretend you were smoking

[Rod Paradise]

The dogs do this every day in sticky-bud season.
I don't have the heart to stop them.

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Wow I thought my wee mutt was bad for them She usually finishes the summer looking like she's had a haircut from a blind man, as they get so matted in that  patches need trimmed out.

As for rose-hips my Dad had us out picking them for Mum to make rose hip syrup, soon learned about the itching powder properties

Didn't make peashooters like you though, there was an aluminium extrusion factory in town so everyone tried to nick suitable tubes