Our postie seems to be getting a bit concerned about the mail I am getting,I have seen him coming up the path squeezing the envelopes, and I swear he was just about to sniff it today when I unexpectadly answered the door. I have had a lot of overseas packages recently marked seeds. I am expecting to get raided any day now especially as the grow lights have been on in the greenhouse when it is dark outside. So if I vanish off the site for a while would someone make enquiries and come and bail me out please?
XX Jeannine
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You're well dodgy Jeannine. I'll still bail you out though! ;D
Ours wouldn't deliver some seeds and I had to go down to the main to collect and pay £1.16...
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Was that because the postage was not enough or did he think it was shady XX Jeannine
Yes your card is marked Jeannine - I could just imagine a Hull raid on a woman 'growing her own' LOL....
Jeannine are you from Hull or have you just recently moved there???
Know the feeling Jeannine, our roofers have looked at the vast quantity of tomato plants in my bathroom and by the looks on their faces, they have decided that they are something quite different!
You could always tell them that when they're ready they can have a few ounces each Coz ;D
Lorna's had a bad bout of sciatica after hand weeding between the cracks in her paving stones, so I sent her a sachet of Wilko's Pathclear.....or at least that's our story and we're sticking to it :o.....seam of packet burst in the post and there's all this white powder everywhere..... ;D
Wouldn't mind a couple of lines of Wilko's Pathclear up my nose Lish! Might get rid of the dandelions up me nostrils ;D
I'll PM you with my address!
Judging by what I am reading from you too, there has been more than Pathclear up your noses, you sound more off the wall than I do!!
By the way, I have funny looking tiny ickle mushrooms growing in my cow poo!!
Olive Oil .Originally from Hull , moved to Canada in 70s,right on the us/Canadian border, lived Canada weekdays and moved accross the border at weekends and holidays.
Came back in 2000.
Feel more Canadian than British as I have spent more of my adult life there than here, so I still feel like a tourist.
XX Jeannine
I think all postman are generaly nosey gits, a lot of my mates are postman and my mate delivers my post and he's always asking what's this and what was that, nosey fecker. ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Trixiebelle on April 17, 2007, 17:45:35
Wouldn't mind a couple of lines
this thread really is going into freefall.
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my postman has also given me strange looks usualy bcause i am just getting into the shower so pop head out upstairs window hiding my modesty and yell down to him to hide it behind the flowerpot :)
i think he just rings the bell now to see if i expose myself... ;D
Mrs KP if you are laughing as hard as yor smiley thingy you'll look as you have been using the Pathclear too.
XX Jeannine
Is it any good for stress incontinence?
Nah it makes it worse, but you don't give a d**n lmao
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Lish is telling the truth AND I didn't want to waste any so I put a piece of A4 paper on the breakfast bar and carefully emptied the loose powder from the envelope on to the paper, I went up garden to get the watering can and middle daughter arrived. She said "Mum, what is this white powder doing on the breakfast bar?" On top of that I have recently been on steroids and my son keeps saying his Mum is on the dope!!!!
My Mother (in New Zealand) keeps posting me strange things that i don't really want most of the time. She posted me a large parcel that contained a white powder.....it turned out to be baking powder! She thought i might need it because in NZ you can buy 500g boxes of it but in the UK it's in little containers which she had apparently noticed on her visit over.
She had it packed in a foil envelope I'm surprised customs didn't spot it and send it for testing.
I don't know how she got the bunch of dried flowers through without interception either!
Kea, I don't think customs care. I had a 20lb commercial pack of a baking stuff called Clear Gel shipped over and they didn't even open it, it was fine white powder too!!
That's probably because the 'customs sniffer dogs' get a whiff of baking ingredients and have a little conversation between themselves:
BONZO SNIFFER DOG: "HEY! I've sniffed out a package of white powder. It looks like Clear Gel. Shall we report it to our humans?"
FIDO SNIFFER DOG: "NAH! Let's bake pies instead"
BONZO SNIFFER DOG: "Can you bake pies then Fido?"
FIDO SNIFFER DOG: "Erm .. no actually. I can't mix the pastry because my toe-nails are too long"
BONZO SNIFFER DOG: "I think you need to report it to the SDU (Sniffer Dog Union)"
Stop it, I can't get to the bathroom fast enough, and with all these ruddy veggies I could be in trouble !! XX Jeannine
baking powder or baking soda is really useful
http://www.bakingsodabook.co.uk/
ie - You can clean your shovels and garden tools with a thick paste of vinegar and baking soda before putting them away at the end of the summer it will help prelong their life while preventing rust at the same time.
NZ customs usually check stuff going out as well as coming in due to worries about smuggling rare species. The sniffer dogs at the airports in NZ are looking for plant material etc coming in. My son got stopped by a dog as he was using his school bag as hand luggage and the dog could smell the banana that he'd had in his lunchbox in the bag at school about 4 days earlier!
My husband (English) thought I was obsessive over the cleaning of our walking boots until we waited at agricultural control for 45 mins while our boots were steamed. If they'd been obvious soil etc on them it might have been 3 weeks wait, they even steamed my sons brand new unworn boots. ironically they didn't even look at our other footwear!
When we were leaving I saw someone trying to take a tree fern out of the country but it was confiscated..so they do check going out as well.