What is happening here? :)

kindredspirit · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 2:24 pm Post subject:

I can always build up the soil around the pole and thus decrease the height of the pole. More than one way to skin a cat! Smile

tagwex · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 7:31 pm Post subject:

What you good people do not appreciate is that now I know about this I am professionally bound to pass it on to the relevant authorities. Can you let me have Limerick County Council planning office phone number please KS just to save me the bother of looking it up you understand. Your only hope KS is that if you were to measure the height at 3.99m then you would be OK.

kindredspirit · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 8:41 pm Post subject:

I just climbed (in the dark) up the taller of the two poles, Tagwex, and , believe it or not, it measures 3.92 metres. Phew!!!! What a let-off. Smile

But I'm sending you a bill, Tagwex for ripped trousers, skinned knuckles and a disease in its formative stage, acrophobia. Mad

tagwex · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:09 pm Post subject:

Best of luck with that!!!

kindredspirit · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:16 pm Post subject:

I have your address (but I normally keep quiet about these things). How much do you think I should bill you? How much can you afford? Laughing

Margo · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:33 pm Post subject:

Can't believe the weather today. Got up to a white landscape and had snow non stop till about 2. Then the sun came out and melted it. Tonight we've had thunder and lightening.

tagwex · Posted: Mon Mar 02, 2015 9:37 pm Post subject:

1. You do not have my address but I do have yours!!!!!!!!!!!
2. You can bill me as much as you want to as I don't care!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
3. Well I don't have a big fancy yacht or cruiser or whatever you Jack Tars call it, and I don't have a private garden to rival the National Botanic Gardens and I don't have a pond the size of a small sea in my back garden for example buuuuuut I am happy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So what I can afford is irrelevant as I wont be paying you any of my hard earned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hahaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good guy · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 1:08 am Post subject:

Yes Margo, let's talk about the weather and let Kindred Spirit and T. rex fight it out.
We've had all kinds today: hail, sleet, snow, rain, thunder, now gales. It reminds me of one of the few poems I can remember fragments of from school. Something about "a dirty little coaster butting up the Channel in a mad March gale."
When I was a student I spent an earyl Easter holiday labouring, laying water mains in weather like this. My fellow students thought I'd been away for a sun holiday when I went back to college. Fat chance!

Oops! Was that a typo I saw?

kindredspirit · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 6:47 am Post subject:

tagwex · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:17 am Post subject:

T.rex?????
Was that the typo bad guy?

Margo · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:26 am Post subject:

Well I wanted to get outside today but its white again.

tagwex · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 9:31 am Post subject:

Humour, what humour KS? Didn't notice any, apart from the skinned knuckles etc., now I did laugh at that! Not begrudgery at all, total respect actually, you have worked hard for what you have and fair play to you as you have created your idyll and long may you enjoy it. This is one of those cases where, on reading back, the written word doesn't come across well without the intonation in the voice, the cheeky grin, a nudge nudge or a wink for the receiver to realise that it is a wind up. A few of my usual exclamation marks might have helped (I don't use those emoticons). If I was complaining, trust me you would know. Anyway I thought you always sailed away from trouble!!! Hellooo, still friends?

Good guy · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:39 am Post subject:

KS, when I saw your photo of last Monday, of the yokes erected, my first thought was that you were going to plant some "Jack and the Beanstalk" style beans on appropriately large supports - like those built by (was it Blowin) last year!

Don't mind Tagrex. He can't help it! His mammy had an awful time with him, I hear!

tagwex · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 10:46 am Post subject:

Yes it was Blowin.
How did you know I gave me Maaaa such a hard time? She used to beat me you know. Still does actually.

Margo · Posted: Tue Mar 03, 2015 11:23 am Post subject:

This is the view from my back garden this morning. Lovely Croagh Patrick