Sunday, 22 March 2026

Three Spring Things

From Facebook Archives

22 March 2009 at 21:34

I’ve been given 3 bunches of pink carnations and 3 boxes of Thornton chocolate creams (mint,orange,violet).  Yummy Mummy's Day.

22 March 2015 at 15:01

Today I have planted: 
Heinz Tomato Ketchup freebie seeds, Sweet Baby tomato seeds, Alicante tomato seeds, marrow, pumpkin, and butternut squash all in boxes on the front windowsill (aka the greenhouse); 
Tom Thumb lettuce, Rocket and Mr Fotherington's Asian leaves in a slug protected planter on the garden table; 
and cress in an eggbox on the bedroom windowsill. 
If all goes too well I may be looking for homes for seedlings in a few weeks’ time.
McChurch  I can`t believe tomato ketchup can be grown from seeds.  Does it grow actually in the bottles?
Mrs Poet  Can you grow ketchup?
Ms Brysio Bugail  You two beat me to it, that was my reaction, what a sense of humour... !??
Mr StBernard  Give me a shout if you have too many tomato plants

22 March 2018 at 14:37

The warm weather has made the frogs really jiggy.   
There are 7 clumps of spawn, the most we’ve ever had.   
Mrs Quilt is coming over to take a cupful for her water-feature.
πŸŽ•πŸΈπŸ… 
We no longer plant tomato seeds but get plants at local allotment sales.  That way we don’t have an excess of seedlings to deal with, and the plants we get are varied and healthy.


 

Saturday, 21 March 2026

After The Equinox

From Facebook archives

21 March 2009 at 09:48

4 pints of milk have been stolen from my doorstep again.   
At least this time the bastards didn't leave a drained bottle in the hedge.
Nice policeman due at 11.

21 March 2010 at 21:27

Actually turned off the central heating this evening - God bless cavity wall insulation

21 March 2011 at 17:05

Feeling pi**ed off.
With herself as much as anybody else ...
Ernextdoor  Why Ms B????? xx Pop round xx
Hagrid  Why? Have u had one of those days? X
Bentonbag  Sometimes the road we travel is all up hill

21 March 2023 at 08.23

Mother seldom resorted to vulgarity but I'm afraid I'm going to resort to one of her sayings when nearing the end of her tether...
This rain is getting on my tit ends!

Thursday, 19 March 2026

Birdfood

From Facebook Archives

19 March 2023 at 11.43

Two greenfinch on the seed feeder
and Miss Doozer reports a pair of bullfinch on hers.
Miss Doozer  TITS!
Bentonbag  "like coconuts and robins like worms" 
Miss Doozer  and coal tits too.
Drummerman  We’ve got great tits here.
🐦🐦🐦 
My mother used to repeat the, possibly apocryphal, tale of the early BBC newsreader 
Richard Baker who, from time to time, would host radio programmes.   
A lady wrote in to the Home Service (now Radio 4) to complain that on switching on her wireless set she had heard him say “tits like coconuts” and immediately turned it off in disgust.   
He apparently replied that that was a shame because had the lady listened a little longer to the programme she would have realised it was about attracting birds into one’s garden and the full phrase was “tits like coconuts and robins like worms.”
 
Middlesister was quite amused a while ago when during a phonecall I suddenly cried 
"There's tits on my nuts!"
To which she replied 
"Better than the other way around."