Moan, Moan, Moan - 2011

[Lesley Cox]

I'll bet you can fry an egg though Cliff. : 

No, but I can grill a pilchard ... they crack eventually!   

You must be using a decent light then, which leads me to another moan, (I'm a grumpy old woman) the so called - can't remember what they're called, but the kind made of coils instead of a bulbous shape - lightbulbs, may be economic to use and may save the country millions in power, so we're told, but you can't read by the damn things. The light is so poor that you need 6 clustered around your book to see a word. I hate them and am replacing all ours with the old kind.

At one stage during our last (Labour) government, it was going to be made mandatory to use that kind and the old ones were to be no longer for sale. The new (right wing National) govt. dumped that little bit of legislation thank goodness, the only decent thing they HAVE done, in the last almost 3 years.

[alpines]

It happens in the USA also Martin......They warn us that the pictures might be disturbing to some viewers. Just a shame they don't warn us when the politicians are coming on the news. Now that IS disturbing.

[Lesley Cox]

Oh Anne, I almost weep for you (after I had my little schadenfreude moment of course . What a dreadful accident. But you are not alone. A couple of years ago I dropped a tray containing 20 small pots of newly sown seeds when I tripped on a gum tree root. I shovelled then swept everything up and put it all into the tray with labels but minus the pots but not a blind thing has germinated in the time.

[alpines]

Need I say more? This shot was taken at 5pm today in the shade of the porch.....8 day forecast ? 7 days above 90 and 1 at 89. Did I really complain about the snow earlier this year?

[angie]

Now that is hot. My friends in Oklahoma have said they feel like vampires, everything is getting done in the evening. They said they have had around the 100 degrees for ages. I moan about our horrible weather in Aberdeen but I can honestly say I would be moaning if I was getting those temperatures. I would love to live somewhere that gets a temperature of around 25c  for 10 months of the year. I just hate having one day warm and the next day freezing.

Angie

[alpines]

You definitely couldn't live here Angie.....your chocolate would be in a permanent state of fluidity

[angie]

You definitely couldn't live here Angie.....your chocolate would be in a permanent state of fluidity

Dont worry I still would enjoy. I think it would be so lovely to sit out in a evening and have nice warm air about you. Bliss.

Angie

[Lesley Cox]

Well chocolate sauce is very good too.

[johnw]

Much more weather like this and I'll start slicing this poor plant up.  

johnw - +17c and torrents.

[Lesley Cox]

Sorry to be dense, but....why?

[johnw]

Sorry to be dense, but....why?

Lophophora williamsii.

johnw

[rob krejzl]

Much more weather like this and I'll start slicing this poor plant up.

But you'd probably feel worse before you felt better.

[Lesley Cox]

Dense...denser...?

[rob krejzl]

Lesley,

This one has 'ethnobotanical' uses.

[Susan]

Lesley, I am so pleased you are totally innocent of the properties of Lophophora williamsii.

"In New Zealand it is illegal to cultivate or prepare any plant of the cacti species Lophophora williamsii or Lophophora lewinii for the purpose of the production of mescaline."

So there you are. Just shows that your mis-spent youth wasn't all that mis-spent after all!

Susan