Moan, moan, moan----get it off your chest or have a chat

[Anthony Darby]

Was looking for a book to read when I remembered "The Worlds[sic] End" pub in Knaresborough (yes, expensive professional signs and they can't get the apostrophe right) (http://www.flickr.com/photos/foucalt/2577716403/) so I am now reading "Eats, Shoots and Leaves" complete with punctuation repair kit. Brilliant!

[annew]

Miss plaiced apostrophe's make my hackle's rise two.

[Anthony Darby]

  Maid, my day Anne.

[Paul T]

O, U 2 stoppit!

[Anthony Darby]

We're just trying to put you in a comma Paul!

[ranunculus]

We're just trying to put you in a comma Paul!

Sounds like you have effected his colon as well, Anthony!   

[Anthony Darby]

I'm sure the doc could hyphen it off?

[ranunculus]

I'm sure the doc could hyphen it off?

Would that result in a semi-colon?   No exclamation, Mark, Anthony!!!

[Anthony Darby]

I think I'm going to run amoc! (That's an inverted coma, by the way!)

[Graham Catlow]

*******foxes!!!!!

Unfortunately I am unable to prevent foxes from entering my garden. They often defecate which is really annoying but from time to time they really make a mess. I have to put mesh in many places to stop them digging but last night even that didn't stop them. The photo below shows an area that I had recently planted some newly acquired dactylorhiza. They were duly dug up and scattered around the bed. The labels were scattered and the mesh bent and twisted. Fortunately there was no root damage. They also made a mess of a pot of Primula scotica that I had been nurturing.

Graham

[Anthony Darby]

That's really annoying Graham. Are they just looking for worms? I have heard people scattering holly leaves over flower beds to deter cats and dogs, but I don't think that would outfox a hungry fox?

[angie]

Graham I am sorry to see the damage the foxes have done in your garden . My house has a wood two feet away at the back and open fields at the front. I see foxes, deer and badgers nearly every day, it's been 16 years that we have lived here and I have never seen anything in the garden, well that's a lie I have had the occasional rabbit
Our friends that only live a mile down the road from me had horrendous damage caused by deer this winter.
I think myself lucky. I don't know why they don't come in could it be the dog or the noise of the water at the pond I am not sure but I am grateful whatever it is that keeps them away.
In our last house we had a heard of cows in the garden the damage was unbelievable and the farmer brought to my attention that I had no gates to keep his cattle out so first thing that went up here was gates. Hope the fox docent come back tonight.

Angie
 

[Graham Catlow]

Hi Anthony,
I'm not sure what they are after. I do have mice in the garden and wonder if they can smell the nests and try digging down to them.
I once tried Berberis pruning's but regretted that when the spines fell off over the winter. It was very painful for some time after.
Graham

[Graham Catlow]

Graham I am sorry to see the damage the foxes have done in your garden . My house has a wood two feet away at the back and open fields at the front. I see foxes, deer and badgers nearly every day, it's been 16 years that we have lived here and I have never seen anything in the garden, well that's a lie I have had the occasional rabbit
Our friends that only live a mile down the road from me had horrendous damage caused by deer this winter.
I think myself lucky. I don't know why they don't come in could it be the dog or the noise of the water at the pond I am not sure but I am grateful whatever it is that keeps them away.
In our last house we had a heard of cows in the garden the damage was unbelievable and the farmer brought to my attention that I had no gates to keep his cattle out so first thing that went up here was gates. Hope the fox docent come back tonight.

Angie
 

Hi Angie,
Extra mesh added for tonight but the garden is starting to look like a scrap metal merchants.
I have a similar variety of animals in the vicinity except for the deer, but its the foxes that do the most damage, followed by the grey squirrels, (I'm sure I would forgive red ones if they were around . You are lucky nothing enters your garden.

Graham

[annew]

I've heard it said they might dig where bonemeal has been applied. Your avatar not much use as a deterrant then?