REEEEALLY OT. Flowers.

Snowleopard wrote

Evening primrose is pretty. I got some of them.

 

steve auvache wrote

I don't feed it, I just re-pot every three or four years with ordinary
garden soil. Put outdoors after last frost.
I have no idea what the recognised method is because I never read any
garden books, I just got lucky with this one.

Last point - the blooms' seductive aroma appears to attract all slugs
within a radius of 800yards and they demolish the bloom in a feeding
frenzy. Same as with my lupins. (I don't like to use poison, I want them
alive so I can tell them what utter bastards they are, and anyway the
local frogs and toads probably appreciate an un-poisoned diet.)

 

If it works don't change it.

Fucking freeloading vegetarians, cunts the lot of them.

What!!! A garden without poison is a wasteland given over to nature.
Poison is only a start.

 

steve auvache wrote

OK, I'll go out tonight with air rifle and torch, and shoot a few
amphibians, and also see if I can pot the local hedgehogs.

 

<G> Cnut.

 

Are Hedgehogs freeloading vegetarian scum? I think not, they are
omnivorous and like nothing more than a nice insect or three, amphibians
equally. These are you friends. Poison a veggie by all means, in fact
have some encouragement from me but the enemy of your enemy is your
veggie eating friend.

 

steve auvache wrote

Good point. Now, slugs are a rather small target for the rifle so
perhaps I could prepare some Nitrogen Triodide and place it around the
plants, and hopefully it might blow the little bastards to pieces.

 

steve auvache wrote

Hey Steve - I've spent the last hour or two speaking nicely to it, and
when I had a closer look there were four more flower buds and two fresh
little pea-sized offsets.

Send me your address and I'll bung them in the post -
c c u @ o d i e i w d m n c . k
here's the missing bits (ROT13):
n g f j b f q i r . r b . b h

 

Yes please.

Either I have missed a trick somewhere (entirely possible) or that
doesn't work out to any email address that I can recognise as being at
all sensible.

If you care to mail me dont_spam is currently live and filterless,
steve@ is always live.

 

steve auvache wrote

My brain hurts after putting that together ...
(Rot only the bottom line then move each letter two lines up to fill the
gaps, or something like that.)

Done, or almost done ...

 

FFS man, don't inflict your paranoia on others in that way. Not without
a clue anyway. I wasted five minutes of what little life I have left
not getting anywhere with that because you are scared the world might
see you. I could have been shagging or something.

 

steve auvache wrote

Heh.
It's because I changed to Broadband at the beginning of the year and
have been enjoying a spam-free existence since, apart from somebody
apparently in Japan who sends half a dozen 419s every week.

 

But remember - some slugs are carnivorous (and cannibalistic) and eat
other slugs so don't kill them..

Phil.

 

I'm a little worried about Beav. Any relation to Prince Charles?

Here's the flower:

http://big.rosbif.org/misc/P1000370.MOV

 

Where the sun don't shine?

Anyroad, YGM and thanks.


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Twat I said I'd just pressed the wrong button and it was the missus I was
talking to, not the fucking flower. Mind you, I didn't get any smart arse
answers from the flower, so mayne there's something in the Charles thing
after all.

Any relation to Prince Charles?

Only by ear.

Oddly, I don't get anything but "done" at the bottom of the page.


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I've also added it as a zip file:

http://big.rosbif.org/misc/P1000370.zip

 

It wants me to install quicktime on my puter and given that last time I
did this I battled for weeks to get rid of the litter that itunes left
lying around another oath was sworn and will be adhered to.

 

steve auvache wrote

Quicktime Alternative, free
www.free-codecs.com/download/QuickTime_Alternative.htm

Also, if you're interested, Real Alternative
www.free-codecs.com/download/Real_Alternative.htm

 

Good man. Cheers


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