Is The Credit Crunch A Myth?
I wonder only becuase over the past couple of days, I’ve been to the local shopping center quite a lot and haven’t noticed that it’s empty.
People have been out spending money like the credit crunch doesn’t really exist! Maybe they are people who have saved money, but according to a friend of mine who went ourlet shopping over the weekend, the tills are empty of cash so it seems people are still making purchases on their credit cards!!!
I don’t think people want to know about a lean christmas and who can blame them. If we’re in for a long hard deep recession, then we may as well make the most of the last christmas before the plummet. It could be the last for a while where chrstmas cheer is readily available.
Foxes Gone but not forgotten
I think I have managed to get those pesky critters to leave my front garden alone, But there’s a cat that is still wondering around my front yard as if it lives there. Never mind, he/she’s next. I have my pepper power ready.
As winter approaches, the urban foxes are going to become more adventurous as they search for food, so I will have to watch out that they don’t return although I am hoping the cold will keep their numbers to a minimum,
Operation Rid Foxes Round One Complete
So round one is complete in my campaign to rid my front garden of those nasty critters who keep befouling and stinking up my pathway and hedges. I went to my local DIY store and got some pepper dust, som garden bags and rubble bags and lastly some bark chips, you know the decorative kind that smells really nice.
Firstly I had to clear up all the hedge clippings that had nicely dried up. I had wanted to burn these in my bin burner, but having just moved to a new neighbourhood, I don’t really know what they are like about burning stuff so I though better to just bag it up ready to take to the garden waste disposal center, wherever that is.
Next came the earth and stones that I cleared away from the side under the hedges that I had just cut back. This is an important step. You see the whole point of getting rid of repeat pest offenders, be they foxes, cats or dogs is to get rid of anything that they can recognise in the area, and that means anything with their scent on it. I took off about 2 inches of the top soil and the pebbles (decorative garden pebbles) and bagged that all up in rubble bags.
Finally in this my pest control preparation phase, I took a bucket of hot water, filled with bleach and detergent and washed down the path, the walls and the front steps and side of the walls of the front garden, again, what I am trying to do here is get rid of any traces of scent that they may have used to mark the territory. Finally throwing the detergent water in the soil where most of the fouling had taken place for good measure.
Once happy that this stage was complete, I dusted the soil and lower portion of the remaining hedge with the pepper dust and layed the new freshly scented bark chips. Topping off with another liberal dusting of pepper dust.
My only problem is that I have only done half of the front garden, but I am hoping to do the second half over this weekend providing the weather holds.
Furious Foxes
I went to bed furious tonight because the bloody foxes (or cats) keep using my front garden as their toilet. It’s such a pain when you walk into your gate and you get assaulted by the stinking foul smell emitting from somewhere under the bushes. I vowed that they are not going to win the battle and go to bed resolving to make their bathroom unusable from this day forward. Tomorrow the garden tools come out and I go to war on the blasted vermin.
My research says that I can find some fox/cat repellant but I don’t know yet whether the various options are safe for the plants. I think I will also get some bark chips so that I can have a pleasant smelling approach to my front door.
Is Haribo Owned By Satan?
Haribo are so evil, they have brought out the sour cherries from Tangfantastic in their own bag. I first saw them about a month or so ago, and just wept, because Haribo’s are my weakness, I eat a bag like it’s a bag of crisps.
I think the firm is owned by the devil, his point to lead us into temptation and deliver tooth cavities for all!
Running out of coffee
I ran out of coffee today, that is my freezer is full of coffee grounds and coffee beans, but the instant coffee jar ran empty today. Bummer!
I absolutely love coffee, so much so that I drink copious amounts of it every day, problem is I don’t have a coffee maker, I gave it away to my brother a few years back when I moved into a place where the kitchen was the size of a show box and there was no worktop space for the coffee maker machine.
Still I did buy a cute little espresso machine, but after 2-3 years now it doesn’t make the espresso so well and to be fair I can’t be asked with the fiddling every hour to make another cup.
I thought the solution would be to by a coffee press, on that takes one cup worth of coffee, but still it’s still a pain in the arse to get it all done, make a beautiful cup of ground, then once it’s finished and I want another (which is often the case) I have to go through the whole darn process again.
I want my coffee machine back! That way I can make a pot at a time, and if necessary decant it into a thermos flask and take this to my desk, that way I have hot coffee at my fingertips for a couple of hours at least
Olympic 100m Final
I just watched the mens Olympic 100m semi-finals on telly and saw Usain Bolt, world record holder cruise once more into the showdown final with a time of 9.85 seconds. Asafa Powell also made it into the finals taking his race very cool and coming in 9.91 seconds. The showdown with Tyson Gay won’t happen though as he came 5th in the semi’s.
Man alive, Usain Bolt looks like he’s jogging down that track, although he didn’t look as carefree as in his heats yesterday, the final which is in about another hour and a half is going to be an very exciting one and I think we will see a new world and olympic record, Asafa Powell, is gonna push Bolt, there’s pride in them Jamaicans and there will be no rollover, so although everyone expects that Usain Bolt will romp it, there’s still much to play for and anything can happen in an Olympic 100m Final
Cigar Store Carvings
Apparently now more than ever Cigar store carvings are still very popular. What are they? Well reading a pr from someone who owns an auction site, a cigar store carving is something that used to sit outside on the pavement and was meant to catch the eye of passers by, letting them know that cigars were sold inside.
These things are highly collectible it seems. Check this out… April 18 (I assume this year), Pook & Pook Auctioneers offered a Punch (as in punch and judy) cigar store figure attributed to the shop of Samuel Robb in its antique auction it was in great condition and sold for US $187,200. So look out for them, they could make you a fortune at an auction