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Stayed with a friend studying in Oxford for the weekend; the rooms in his building, though quite new (can't imagine them being more than thirty years old) have one *extremely* irritating feature: they have no showers. Each room has an en-suite with bath, but not a shower in sight, and the faucets are so irregularly shaped as to be un-fittable with those faucet-to-shower converters  (irritatingly, the word "faucet" isn't in my computer's dictionary). Remember my grandmother had a bath with a gigantic "surround" shower; the whole contraption had more stops than a village organ. I would insert an image here from google images, only I can't think what on earth to search for! edit: oh wait, here's one similar, but not quite as elaborate:  |
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« Reply #1171 on: 23:24:19, 25-06-2007 » |
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faucets faucet-to-shower converters (irritatingly, the word "faucet" isn't in my computer's dictionary) incre, I have one word of advice for you: TAP  |
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The city is a process which always veers away from the form envisaged and desired, ... whose revenge upon its architects and planners undoes every dream of mastery. It is [also] one of the sites where Dasein is assigned the impossible task of putting right what can never be put right. - Rob Lapsley
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« Reply #1172 on: 23:37:30, 25-06-2007 » |
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faucets faucet-to-shower converters (irritatingly, the word "faucet" isn't in my computer's dictionary) incre, I have one word of advice for you: TAP *grumble* Where'll it all end? Next I'll be talking about "power outlets", "checking accounts", "boondoggles" and god knows what else, and then where will I be? |
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« Reply #1173 on: 00:46:59, 26-06-2007 » |
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...in Radio Shack, asking for a "2MB, 5W 4.5A dongle"?
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« Reply #1174 on: 22:47:29, 26-06-2007 » |
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My snails and slugs seem addicted to ligularia. So perhaps people could plant that to detract the blighters from other plants. A pond with frogs helps too - munch munch!
And hardy geraniums are brilliant for hiding frogs.
My favourite is g. Macrorhyzome - lovely smelling when you accidentally tread on it.
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Ah, another slug and snail method for you to try.... BEER! They love it. And gradually drown / drink themselves to death. A hell of a way to go, if you don't believe in distracting the blighters with Ligularia. So far, I think they rather like Kronenbourg 1664, but I'm trying them out on the (cheaper) Waitrose own. Tommo hic |
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« Reply #1175 on: 02:14:39, 27-06-2007 » |
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« Reply #1176 on: 07:09:30, 28-06-2007 » |
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My snails and slugs seem addicted to ligularia. So perhaps people could plant that to detract the blighters from other plants. A pond with frogs helps too - munch munch!
And hardy geraniums are brilliant for hiding frogs.
My favourite is g. Macrorhyzome - lovely smelling when you accidentally tread on it.
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Ah, another slug and snail method for you to try.... BEER! They love it. And gradually drown / drink themselves to death. A hell of a way to go, if you don't believe in distracting the blighters with Ligularia. So far, I think they rather like Kronenbourg 1664, but I'm trying them out on the (cheaper) Waitrose own. Tommo hic melon! slugs and snails love melon. place quarters in the garden and after a few hours it'll be covered in them. then throw them over into next doors garden, because they moved out weeks ago. ahem. |
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« Reply #1177 on: 11:37:36, 28-06-2007 » |
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Oh dear, oh dear. Decisions, decisions! Which 12.00 press conference to tune into, Gordon Brown's announcement of his Cabinet or the Spice Girls reunion? It's a close call.
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« Reply #1178 on: 11:43:38, 28-06-2007 » |
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Oh dear, oh dear. Decisions, decisions! Which 12.00 press conference to tune into, Gordon Brown's announcement of his Cabinet or the Spice Girls reunion? It's a close call. Either would mean missing Home and Away on C5 at the same time. |
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« Reply #1179 on: 16:21:22, 28-06-2007 » |
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Oh dear, oh dear. Decisions, decisions! Which 12.00 press conference to tune into, Gordon Brown's announcement of his Cabinet or the Spice Girls reunion? It's a close call. Either would mean missing Home and Away on C5 at the same time. Streuth! |
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« Reply #1180 on: 23:12:45, 28-06-2007 » |
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I've been logged on here for 6 days 1 minute. That sounds like an awful lot of time. Perhaps I ought to practise my piano more instead.  |
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We pass this way but once. This is not a rehearsal!
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« Reply #1181 on: 10:52:46, 29-06-2007 » |
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This is rather cute, in its own way (hamster/keyboard): http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/63664/detail/EDIT: actually, I take that back. It's not really that cute anymore to me. To make up for it, here are some all-purpose captioned pictures from icanhascheezburger that might prove useful in a wide variety of circumstances:   |
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« Reply #1182 on: 11:58:19, 29-06-2007 » |
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"Bring back Face The Music". Good grief, it looks as if they have, what a weird idea. BBC4 on Sunday. Chairman John Sergeant, teams Steven Isserlis and Rory Bremner and Katie Derham and Rainer Hersch ( who he ? ). Can John Sergeant play the dummy keyboard ?
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« Reply #1183 on: 12:05:42, 29-06-2007 » |
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Is it just me or does anyone else think that Isserlis sounds the way his hair looks?  No? Ok, just leaving ..... |
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« Reply #1184 on: 12:15:32, 29-06-2007 » |
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Well, Mort, I can't speak for his playing, since he hardly ever plays anything that interests me particularly, but if he plays like that haircut (if you can call it that) it must be awful.
Note the sensitive artistic look in his eyes too. What an intensely musical fellow he must be.
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