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

[Casalima]

Too warm here, and no rain. Everything is absolutely covered in yellow pine pollen - my blue car is almost green! Whinge, whinge ... 

[Michael J Campbell]

Wall to wall sunshine here all week with 16c .17c.and 18c. Not good for the bulbs in the alpine house. Tooooo warm tooooo early.

[art600]

Michael
I would gladly swap you weather for ours - it turned very chilly about 15.30 and I am sure we will have another frost tonight.

[Carol Shaw]

I think we certainly could start a new website - one for grumpy old men. We certainly would have plenty of material for criticism and could do so most willingly.
Paddy

Speaking as one of the grumpiest women I know, I demand to be included in this website 

David & I would certainly have the credentials to join

[Lesley Cox]

I think we certainly could start a new website - one for grumpy old men. We certainly would have plenty of material for criticism and could do so most willingly.

I'm with Maggi on this. Old women are QUITE as grumpy as old men, and to suggest otherwise is discriminatory. (I'd put a Grin thingy in here, but then you might think I'm not serious about it (not grin thingy).

[Paddy Tobin]

I agree with you completely, Lesley.

Paddy

[Anthony Darby]

I think a 14k gold ring I wore on my right hand went via my mum's garden waste bin too.

My father lost his wedding ring in the potato field. Many years later - after his death - it turned up again in the field. It is a smallish field that gave us new potatoes in the summer only.
I know this sounds like an urban legend but it is quite true.
Someday someone might find it.
Göte 

I lost my wedding ring on my honeymoon in Bali. It just slipped off while I was snorkelling. I spent a couple of hours hunting for it, snorkelling off a canoe I'd borrowed, but there are so many nooks and crannies in coral. Got another one made by Graeme Stewart the silversmith in the High Street in Dunblane. He'd vowed never to make another like it as it is in the shape of a snake made of the three colours of 18c gold!

[Carol Shaw]

Arg!!! Last week we had day time temperature of 14C in the shade and David was gardening in t-shirt and baggy shorts... plants we had hoped to take to Stirling Show were out and over in a blink! Yesterday it got colder and today it is barely above freezing, howling gales (which means with wind chill it is below freezing), sleet, hail and snow showers. The wee bulbs in the garden are anything but happy... and neither is himself!

[Tony Willis]

Just been to the garden centre for a bale of peat,I use about one a year. None to be seen so I enquired, only to find they have decided to help save the world and stopped stocking it. Not bright enough to stop stocking peat based ericaceous compost so clearly a political gesture.

I expect I will drive aimlessly around using fossil fuel until I find one still selling it

[mark smyth]

Tony thats because garden centres must be peat free by 2010

[Tony Willis]

Thanks Mark,on a day when I feel like kicking somebody or just jumping out of the window that makes me feel no better.

Here it is still only March 2009

[ranunculus]

I expect I will drive aimlessly around using fossil fuel until I find one still selling it

For peat's sake!!!   

[Maggi Young]

Thanks Mark,on a day when I feel like kicking somebody or just jumping out of the window that makes me feel no better.

Here it is still only March 2009

 Regretting buying that bungalow now, are you, Tony??

Have a bar of chocolate, it works for me...

[Tony Willis]

thanks Maggi   had a chocolate biscuit and you made me smile.Can a 60+ male have PMT, I think that's what it must be.

[Maggi Young]

PMT ? Pre-Malteser-Trauma.... of course!  'Tis a  widespread syndrome, easily enough cured, though