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SteveT Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you use a feed, then you shouldn't have to > change it at all, I wouldn't have thought... > > The garden man can confirm, as I'm sure he doesn't > change the contents of all of his boxes each and > every year. xxxxxx The reason for changing the compost in the context of vine weevils is that if you have vine weevils in the compost and you don't change it, you are likely to have vine weevils breeding in the compost. If you don't have vine weevils then yes in theory you could just add a feed to last year's compost. If you are growing perennial plants in it, that's probably fine, though personally I would always replace the top few centimetres at least. If you are growing bedding plants or other short-lived plants, however, the compost will probably be full of old plant roots etc even after you have removed the plants. Also you are likely to spread pests and diseases from year to year. For the sake of a few pounds' worth of new compost, I would always renew the compost for seasonal plants.

DirtyBox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > All they need is a name and address, xxxxxxx They can get those off the electoral register, why would they bother going through recycling bags at dead of night?

Oh come on, Marmite rice cakes are yummy!!!! But back to the point, I called in at the Co-op on my way home from work tonight. Good: Bags of veggie stuff reduced to 25p (11p in the case of beansprouts). Sadly I was so knackered when I got in at 8pm I couldn't be bothered to cook them :)) so probably they'll be a soggy mess by tomorrow. Good and Bad: Organic free range chicken pieces, but only thighs and drumsticks, who the hell eats those unless they're having a barbie?? Bad: Still loads of empty shelves, and still my vin de choix (?) has not reappeared :-S

Knomester Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I > like them to be gooey on the inside with just a > thin layer of crispiness on top. xxxxxxx YES :)-D

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Found an infestation under my bathroom rug, they > had eaten through the underneath of it and there > were loads of eggs, many hatching. > Sprayed 'em with the nearest thing to hand, xxxxxxxx OMG I have looked everywhere and can't find any eggs, larvae, whatever, is it my ailing eyesight or are they microscopic, I can see the moths but what do these other things look like?????? Anyone got any pix or any links to any pix online, I need to know what I am supposed to be looking for, and then they are toast!!!!

She has always answered my questions or comments very promptly, and sometimes followed them up long afterwards if she has further information on a subject.

TheArtfulDogger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >> > She doesn't look old enough to have left school, > let alone vote... > xxxxxxx Yeh, let's all vote for candidates according to how old they look, that's a good idea. Not. Let's vote for someone who looks the part (middle-aged man in a suit, perhaps) regardless of how incompetent they are.

May be cheaper, but they've run out of my must-have wine of the moment - which admittedly they had at a good price - and don't appear to be getting any more in :-S They do have Fairtrade wine though, which is good (the fair trade bit, not necessarily the wine!)

I've just seen one flying around, and wasn't quick enough to squash it before it disappeared behind my desk, damn. So why aren't they going for my traps??

I don't understand this. Colin (pest control guy) came round. He couldn't find a nest anywhere. He gave me loads of sticky traps with the aim of identifying where the worst of the infestation was. They haven't caught a single moth. However I've killed maybe three or four I've found elsewhere since then, in different places. I've examined everything really closely and I can't see anything anywhere which looks like a moth larvae or grub. I understand it's the male moths that fly about, so the ones I've killed must be females? So where are all the males? I don't really want to fill the place with chemicals - several sorts to kill all stages of the lifecycle - and so I've been to John Lewis and spent a fortune on cedarwood and lavender stuff (already had some but discovered it needed sanding down as the smell had gone) but I'm a bit unsure how effective this is likely to be. Anyone know why my traps wouldn't be catching moths? I've put them on and near things that seem to have attracted them in the past, ie that have been munched. ETA: I was a bit put out when my neighbour said this was the first year they haven't had moths - clearly they've all migrated to mine :))

I phoned Southwark about a dog barking all day in its garden last year, I think it must have been when the owner was out and wasn't aware that it was barking. They came round virtually immediately and spoke to the owner and the dog has been quiet since (I hope for good reasons!)

Actually in retrospect I think he was probably both. Definitely a nutter though. Actually come to think of it, the first thing he did when we arrived at friend's cottage once was to turn tail and run headlong down the hill back to the car park, because he had seen a crowd of people through the window and couldn't cope. Oh God that's just reminded me of many other similar incidents. Yep. Nutter. ETA: Sorry if my use of the word nutter has offended anybody :-$

Oh for goodness sake. Just because you don't like these things doesn't mean to say that nobody else does. I read the magazine, and I am looking forward to playing table tennis in the park. I think it's a great use of council tax and makes the borough a nicer and more interesting place to live in.

Had mine ages ago, well it seems like ages abo, but as has been said above, you don't need it to vote in either local or national elections.

Didn't look like a hot water bottle, no.

Southwark Noise Control are generally very effective in my experience. I'm surprised contacting them hasn't worked. Have you involved the (other) neighbours? Have you kept a record of when the noise happens? Have you tried to record it (eg on a mobile) at all? Have you approached the owner of the dog?

I once went out with someone who as soon as he went anywhere new got down on the floor and sniffed the carpet (or would probably be some other floor covering these days). Nutter or sensitive? You decide.

Jesus Christ, what are you on Woof? I think I may have asked you this before :))

Epimedium. Sorted.

Boy with the Moon and Stars on his Head - Cat Stevens Edited to add: Respect to PeckhamGateCrasher :))

omniprescient Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Quote: > > 'This non-sectarian technique aims for the total > eradication of mental impurities and the resultant > highest happiness of full liberation" > > > The same result can be achieved simply by the > consumption of a bottle or two of Buckfast Tonic > Wine. Just substitue the word "faculties" for > "impurities". xxxxxxx :)-D :)) The thing is - it's true!! Have you not noticed - SPIRITual - the clue is in the spirit. Fact :) I'm not joking, btw :)

If you stand at the bus stop outside the Post Office on Lordship Lane, it looks like there is a bus coming. But actually it is something red sticking out from a shop, possibly the newsagents, just up the road. I have known this for years but STILL I THINK IT IS A BUS COMING!! (6):)):-$

Memo to self: Do not drink to excess whilst watching Shameless :))

Christ, while I was composing that post a zillion other people intervened :-$ :))

I'm a woman, and yeh it's true - this time I really don't know who to vote for. But are there not men who also don't know who to vote for?? Apart from a Liberal (sic) blip once and voting SNP when I lived in Scotland, I've always voted Labour in general elections. Green and other stuff in local elections. And now - ???? Well it deffo won't be Tory, but I dislike (edited from hate) Gordon Brown as a person but his policies seem OK, and I was never anti the Iraq war because all very well looking at things with hindsight, and blah blah blah. OK I've had too much Brown Brothers Dry Muscat. And I do remember the euphoria when Labour got in after zillions of years of Tory rule. :-$