plantfit

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  1. Went for the usual medical checkup a few years ago and the "rotund" practice nurse told me I should consider going on a diet, I said If she let me have the details I could go on the same diet as she was on, didn't go down too well to be honest, Lincolnshire folk don't have the same sense of humour as us Notts folk Rog
  2. Some years ago Dr David Bellamy was giving talks and presentations at the Attenborough nature reserve (before the visitor center was there) and because I was working at that quarry I volunteered to help him set up his stage and props for his talk, we got on well together and had a great discussion about the nature reserve there and he was really interested (or he showed he was) in the fact that I started my interest in ornithology at the reserve some thirty years before through an after hours club at school and that I had carried on the interest into my later life and what an ideal job I had t
  3. De hydrate ha ha nice one Brew Rog
  4. winter sunshine on the tree at the end of my garden Rog
  5. Any thing as long as you don't mix up Anusol with Autosol Rog
  6. Still use old faithful though Rog
  7. Not had chance to try this one yet but it seems to do everything from making yoghurt to baking and roasting Rog
  8. Pure talent mate, transformed an ordinary object into something beautiful Rog
  9. Getting Mrs BK to tuck you in could be the answer to that problem B Rog
  10. Been accumulating it since the 1950's mate Rog
  11. Poor management yet again letsavagoo just like it was in the late 90's early 2000's, buying frames and forks in from the far east at stupid cheap prices but never passed the savings onto the customer, just pure greed and poor management Rog
  12. Looks good in there though Barrie I thought it was some hidden reference to canals being taken over by railways, (I must stop thinking) Rog
  13. Picture taken this morning (Saturday 06.01.24) of the Newark barge floating pub on the river Trent near Trent bridge Newark Still a bit dark at 08.00 Rog
  14. Is that a bit of railway influence I can see through the hand hole? Rog
  15. I have had many cats in the past and have all been trained to use a litter tray and mainly stayed in their own garden but the things we have roaming around the place at the moment are fast becoming a pest, the owners or whatever you call them are not at all interested in what they get upto, the cats leave their house via an upstairs window and return the same way, for what it's worth I agree with every thing you say, I know this might upset a lot of members on here but when the grandchildren come in from playing in the garden covered in cat muck and I see clumps of feathers from dead birds und
  16. Not enough annual mileage on your car trogg, you need at least 6000 per year, the insurance companies assume you don't have enough experience driving on todays roads therefore you are more of a risk,I was told that by a good friend of mine in the business Rog
  17. He's dumped the van and got in a boat and that has took him downstream Phil Rog
  18. Just had a grey one sitting in the tree with the bird feeders on ready to pounce, I am not a happy person especially as I had to clean up after the things on my grass Rog
  19. Roses would look good on the side, although I do like to see castles I think they would look better in a taller background Rog
  20. Left an impression on you Ben Rog
  21. Could have been Ian because most of my paintings were s**t anyway Rog
  22. This is what happens when you let computers design things, at the moment computers have no imagination and certainly no soul, Rog
  23. looking good already, are you painting flowers or castles or sommat else, is it called "canal art", whatever it is I like it, keep the progress pictures coming Barrie Rog
  24. Thats about as far as I could get this morning, road between my place and Stapleford village flooded so is the road between me and Norton Disney so it was a five mile circular ride around the local lanes that were passable Rog