h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Is a blet made of bibles good at holding up your trousers?

if somewhat bulky...

I baught a new urn for the garden. It was on sale and after a little faux finishing, it looks like a genuine Victorian urn in the yard at the entrance to the bowling green that leads past my great-grandfather's cherub sculpture to the back garden.

your great-grandfather was a cherub?

does that make you a little angel?

Mr C did you make it look aged? I love the aged look in gardens.. our garden shed has that look.. when you can see it - the ivy and muscadine grapes seem to have just about swallowed it..

Yes, out garden is very established - a bit too established in places where the plants have choked each other out - so we've been sprucing it up with that new urn made to look old and a few new pathways through the perenial beds. The front bed, instead of a front yard, is 25' x 40' and a mix of large hosta, yucca, French lily-of-the-valley, butter-and-eggs, and pachysandra, all in the shade of a 300 year old maple. We chopped out several hundred hosta and laid a path of thick slates and built a step down to the driveway so one can walk through the front garden to fill the birdbath in the center and pull out the weeds, grape vines, and poison ivy that spring up. It's also a good setting for the Victorian schlptures of a little boy looking upwards and another of a duck, as well as a 1920s era edging machine (an early weed whacker). The new urn is covering the sewer cap where we used to have the birdbath, but it was too far from the window to be seen, so now that birdbath (faux bois, made from piped concrete and also my great-grandfather's) can sit in the staging garden (where we propagate perenials and annuals) and we've had HUNDREDS of birds visit it in the last few days due to the heat.

If you want to scare away some of the birds, just go out there wearing a plaid double-knit leisure suit with a "Barney" tie.

Goodness!

We have whole families of birds who live their lives in our garden and at this point several generations have been born and grown up there. We have cardinals, robins, blue birds, finches, titmouses (titmice???), hawks, owls, and the chicken.. Needless to say we go through lots of bird feed.

i love birds

yes captain we know - but we did not know you liked the feathered kind too!

* refills everyones glasses *

I don't think he concerns himself with those things, Light.

* giggles and passes the battinis round *

*sips her ini and loses herself in a fantasy involving PC (if he ever gets his cute little hiney home), soft music and a nice bit of whipped cream*

If he knows you are there and waiting there fantasising I am sure he will be home really really really soon!

*sigh* I wish...

He's stuck in Redmond for at least another couple days...

I still think I know where he would rather be!

Yeah. He says so too. I'm just melancholy today because this was the day he was supposed to come home and now he's not able to for a while.

Its really tough when that happens - tough for both of you!

Yeah.. he is also melancholy about it.. but the good news is he's staying in Redmond longer because the upper level management have asked for him specifically for some projects so it is good.

So its not just you who think he is great!

I hate the fact that to do a job I love I have to be away and dread having to stay away longer - I really miss OJ when I am away or he is

Still it means the girls can play


* tops up Batty's glass *