Sunday, April 08, 2007
Candymen
Seen my second hummer. Windows open, loud music, didn't see the occupant. The first was in Yarmouth in the Isle of Wight. What people buy these ridiculous vehicles for I can't imagine. Perhaps they are the latest fashion item for candymen. Tax 'em off the road!
Plus further sightings of the special van that goes around valeting wheely bins. I think the drill is that the wheely bin is put inside the van where it is hosed down, presumably with some tastefully scented detergent. Does one pay so much for inside and so much for outside? Does it have to be empty before the valet will do his business - and if so how do you coordinate his movements with those of the waste operatives? How much does one pay? Will it catch on any better than the floral/foliage covers which one can stick on the outside of wheely bins to brighten them up/camauflage them? Ours is ivy flavoured. A custom from Scotland I think, but a custom which only has two punters in our road. Perhaps they would do better if the stickons had rather more lively patterns. Celebrity faces? If one was a celebrity, would one care to have one's face adorning a wheely bid?
Reasonably amount of planting today. Another shortish row of Centurion onion sets. A seed bed of Autumn Mammoth leeks and a seed bed of Beford brussel sprouts. Never grown the latter before - but enough people on the allotment field do so I don't see why I shouldn't manage.
Hops sprouting well. The largest hop has a shoot more than a foot high, the other two following a bit behind.
Transplanted dandelion starting to pick up with a second flower.
Some of the willow sticks which I am using to mark rows have been well chewed at the ends on the ground. Presumably mice going for the sap - of which one would not have thought there was all that much in the circumstances. Squirrels must be more intelligent, stripping the buds ends of live sticks. Ruined a young horse chestnut tree in the garden doing this - although they did not seem to bother with adult trees which could far better cope with the damage. So perhaps not so intelligent after all.
Plus further sightings of the special van that goes around valeting wheely bins. I think the drill is that the wheely bin is put inside the van where it is hosed down, presumably with some tastefully scented detergent. Does one pay so much for inside and so much for outside? Does it have to be empty before the valet will do his business - and if so how do you coordinate his movements with those of the waste operatives? How much does one pay? Will it catch on any better than the floral/foliage covers which one can stick on the outside of wheely bins to brighten them up/camauflage them? Ours is ivy flavoured. A custom from Scotland I think, but a custom which only has two punters in our road. Perhaps they would do better if the stickons had rather more lively patterns. Celebrity faces? If one was a celebrity, would one care to have one's face adorning a wheely bid?
Reasonably amount of planting today. Another shortish row of Centurion onion sets. A seed bed of Autumn Mammoth leeks and a seed bed of Beford brussel sprouts. Never grown the latter before - but enough people on the allotment field do so I don't see why I shouldn't manage.
Hops sprouting well. The largest hop has a shoot more than a foot high, the other two following a bit behind.
Transplanted dandelion starting to pick up with a second flower.
Some of the willow sticks which I am using to mark rows have been well chewed at the ends on the ground. Presumably mice going for the sap - of which one would not have thought there was all that much in the circumstances. Squirrels must be more intelligent, stripping the buds ends of live sticks. Ruined a young horse chestnut tree in the garden doing this - although they did not seem to bother with adult trees which could far better cope with the damage. So perhaps not so intelligent after all.
# posted by Jim @ 7:48 AM 
