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Hey Nosey, where you hiding these days???

Did you find someone to take the orang utan picture?

That's so sad. I hope you didn't find out for a long time. Did you ever do anything about the raffle? I haven't been around long enough to know if it ever came to anything, but I would be interested if you haven't done it yet.

I just can't resist wrinkly dogs, the wrinklier the better. Yours are beautiful. My favorite is the fourth one, in the doorway. Brilliant idea having the tongue of the concrete head go down into the pond - was it part of the plan or did it come to you as you made it?

That is one amazing garden NP! I would have been there all the time looking at it when I was little! So much talent in one person - I was a Friday afternoon job when they'd run out of the artistic stocks.

Trouble with the surveys is that some of them are based abroad, where our regs don't cover them.

Hi NP, just seen your barn owls - great. I was woken by one a couple of years ago - thought it was a rabbit caught by a fox but the screaming just went on and on. I got up and looked in the end, jut in time to see it fly out of a tree really near the house - lucky or what? How long after you sold the pic did you get it back? Was it signed?

lol xx

I don't know about ivy on a wall but when you cut through the main stem of one growing on a tree it does take a long time to die off. It is really hard to get it off when its still green but if its left to go brown and dry it pulls off really easily. and the thicker pieces make really fantastic firelighters! (Gosh, three reallys, that's really too many...)

14-foot python??? And a child that must be about the same size as a 14-foot-python's natural prey??! Hope he keeps it very well fed!

Some people are either very stupid or very arrogant or both, and in either case can't imagine somthing that belongs to them turning on them, no matter how badly they treat it or how little respect they show it - *g* applies to pets, partners, children ... and, of course, their planet!

Just because one's property has never bitten yet is no guarantee that it never will - all animals will act according to their nature and bite back if sufficiently provoked or sufficiently hungry. Every potentially dangerous thing should be shown due respect - even household electricity will bite if not treated with respect for what it can do - and a 14-foot python would tend to command a tad more caution than your average doggie.

*s* Hitler tried UNnatural selection; by his own criteria, he'd have been first on his own list. And I'd have been in the queue right next to you: I'm disabled too, - vision and mobility - I'd have trouble outrunning a geriatric tortoise.

Agree with you about most people: think we're the only speices that could vanish from the face of the earth without upsetting the balance of nature. An insect is more important to the natural world than Homo Sap - nature can manage perfectly well without us, but remove the bees (as we are doing so successfully), and there goes nintety percent of flowering plants.

(Have you seen the Darwin Award site? the number of creative ways people have of removing themselves from the gene pool is awesome.)

*s* rambled a bit, but you raised so many interesting points!

No worries NP :-)

I try to reply to all pm's but don't always succeed!

I hope making the image bigger helps you NP? I would not worry too much either as I never assume its rudeness if I dont get a reply, I assume they are far too busy for the likes of me lol

We had an ivy causing similar problems to the house. I cut it off at the base and then pulled all the foliage off the wall before applying a stump killer to the roots. It never tried to come back. I can still remember the consternation of the sparrows when they came home to roost that evening and found it had gone.
I think that yours is still taking moisture from the wall via the roots that it uses to attach itself, Noseypotter. I am afraid that I would suggest removing it completely.

I've got two that I apparently haven't read - obviously forgot to tick the seen box. I really need to go in and delete most of them...

I'd be wanting to get that quantity of ivy off my wall completely - lord knows what state the brickwork and pointing are in under that.

Hi NP, I learnt on here last week, that if you press control and + repeatedly or control and -, that the page gets large or gets smaller, that may help you to see your messages better? Also there is a 'seen' option to press when you have read your messages. I delete most of mine having read them so I dont get muddled.

I would say that it's living in the fabric of the wall and that you'd have to use repeated applications of weedkiller to the foliage to ever kill the deep roots.

We were staying near Snape for a few days we passed the Festival ground on Sunday as it was finishing the queues to get on the road were horrendous , I read in the newspaper this morning that E-coli has been found in the water ,I don't think it was in the drinking water though ,I hope your daughter didn't drink any Sandra ! and didn't it rain , !!!
Hope to see you soon Leigh xx

nods and grins, dunno if it's the snakes or the rain that's kep them off. eHow said to move the snakes every couple of days to make them look alive - but that was for keeping birds off - or maybe they've finished killing off the plants that were attracting them! I did searh for "realistic", but it's a prob to keep some of them uncoiled unless I nail 'em down.

I had me picture taken with a boa, years ago - a bloke brought a couple of boas and vareious lizards to our Cub meeting and I got my nerve up and had a small boa over my shoulders. Hadn't realised how heavy they are, glad it was onoly a small one! hmm, not thought of that picture for ages, I'll have to see if I've still got it.

Squirrels and other wild animals have to be smart, that's natural selection in action - stupid ones don't last lopng enough to add to the gene pool. Hmm, I wonder what the human race would be like if that still applied to us ...

I do admire snake,s though preferrably at a respectful distance!

I remember when we were camping with the Cubs, years ago; the campsite had notices asking people not to disturb their local adder nest - lol no probs there! but it was rather weird when quietly sitting out on a fallen tree, to see grass moving ina line, apparently all on its own, as the local inhabitants went about their lawful business.

I did a search recently for squirrel repellants; eHow suggested a rubber snake, but they don't seem to make anything as boring as non-lethal or non-constricting snakes - had to settle for a boa in the end

I prefer plain and simple in most things, indoors and out - they can make big statements as well as being a lot easier to maintain than ornate designs or layouts. *s* sadly the "simple" look is often not simple to create!

lol just a bit

when done well, and on a large scale, they're spectacular. One I saw had diagonal stripes of different coloured plants; looked very impressive!

But I live in a council flat and I doubt they'd let me do anything like this "structural alterations" - they told me that I need planning permission even to erect a small gazebo to give myself a dry working space!

So I'll have to dream until I too win a triple rollover *s*

The photo's not mine to show you, but here's the page url: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_LOsE8ItM2eE/TSqbqwAXX0I/AAAAAAAAFCU/Dlm8hyQIdps/s1600/vertical+garden2.jpg

NP....lol If it's all the same to you I'll let you recycle the junk mail :)

I registered for all of those websites too so we wouldn't get junk mail and nuisance unsolicited phone calls but for some reason it doesn't always work out and we get odd bits of junk mail or those nuisance phone calls trying to do surveys or sell us something...they are fewer now though. Glad it has worked for you NP.

You've caught him perfectly Leigh, he has a lovely kind face :o)

*s* just Googled for images of living walls, and wow, they do look impresive! dunno how impressive it'd be scaled down - I've only got a couple of bits of tall wall in between the windows and back door, and they were reserved for hanging baskets. but having seen those pics ... x

amazing as ever NP...:-) great to see your still turning these out your sooo talented...
lattitude festival is full of pims and check picnic blankets..and painted sheep...my daughter is working there.

grins, I could have filled them in the past few days. Ah well. I'll try lining them with a binbag to see if that helps. Oh, if only my bit of wall had downpipes!

As ever Leigh, fabulous, you clever devil you.