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5 July 2013 at 22.39

Have repotted my cacti, removing and potting up all the baby cacti that were growing around them, I now have seven pots of baby cacti free to good home.   

They thrive on neglect, don't mind about not being hot or in too much/too little sun and when they flower you'll realise why my office companion Gary (198?) used to call them the Mexican-erection-plant.

5 July 2015 at 23:13

Deep joy.

Just rediscovered/remembered that S4C covers Le Tour De France live.   

Last year I enjoyed their commentary much more than ITV4 or Eurosport.  

And they have a pretty girl interviewer that the cyclists open up to much more than the men.  

Mind you she does home in more on Welsh cyclists (Geraint Thomas and Luke Rowe) than the others.

And I now know that the Welsh for Belgium is Gwlad-y-Belg.*

So if you're looking for me any afternoon for the next 3 weeks, near a tv knitting is a good bet.

5 July 2017 at 14:20

Just wished one of the aged Kingsmen a happy birthday on Fester's behalf and had this conversation.

"He's the same age as you."

"Oh I thought he was younger."

"Well, in that yours was on the 6th June and his is today.”

"Oh! I'd forgotten I'd had my birthday."

As my Granma used to say "Old age comes not alone" ....

 

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*Also that the Welsh equivalent for ‘like a bat out of hell’ is ‘fel cath ar dân’ – ‘like a cat on fire’.