[Nimrod48]

Originally Posted by jim

1.5 million in just one camp! How. How could humans do this to others. This touchs on another thread about racism. This is where extreme racism leads us. Sadly the human race has learnt nothing from this. just take a look around the world since then, it still goes on. You leave me in sombre mood Mo.

As a young lad in the early 1960s I worked with several ladies that had been enslaved in these hell holes each one still bearing the tatooed number on their wrists as a permanent reminder of those lost years of their lives.
Their accounts of daily life in such places was too much for my young mind to comprehend at the time ....too unreal....too brutal but each one having the scars physicaly & no doubt mentaly to show what ordeals they went through.
These dear people are probably at rest now but I remember their kindness to me as a youngster just starting out in life,.....where ever the victims of this outrage may lie may their perfect souls rest in peace.

[jim]

Originally Posted by FormerViperDriver

Yep, and a lot of people today apparently cannot envisage what can (nay, WILL) happen if radical Islam is not stopped now. Too bad for us. 9/11 was just a preview...

FVD

There is no doubt in my mind that 9/11 was indeed just a preview, however I also feel that the Iraq conflict has made the situation far worse.

[mikeb1958]

Originally Posted by SKUNKY

What are you guys planting in your flower gardens this year?
...besides honeysuckle?

Only plants that seem to grow is in my yard is weeds. The littl' buggers pop up faster than ole PeeWee Herman in a movie theater

[MoMo]

Only plants that seem to grow is in my yard is weeds. The littl' buggers pop up faster than ole PeeWee Herman in a movie theater Mikeb1958

You have to become a slave to your garden, Mike, in order to keep those ol' weeds at bay. I think that perhaps it may be a bit of a chore to most people, but to dedicated gardeners in the U.K. it is a necessity. Constant weeding is the only way in which you can foster your garden and encourage growth.

Also, it gives you the opportunity to return to the soil and to get closer to our collective, peasant 'roots'. 99% of us have come from a " horny-handed, son of the soil "- type background which we have graduated from over the last 100-200 years. It is good to get in touch with the soil which sustains us.

After weeding, feeding plants and dealing with pests takes even more time.

This investment of time and money is worth the effort when you survey your property on a late, warm summer evening, and the air is held by an atmosphere of leafy levitation and pervaded by the sweet aroma of night-scented stock. Such evenings are like gold and honey suspended in a glass of 30 year-old malt whisky. Not to be missed.

MoMo

[flyXwire]

Originally Posted by MoMo

You have to become a slave to your garden, Mike, in order to keep those ol' weeds at bay. I think that perhaps it may be a bit of a chore to most people, but to dedicated gardeners in the U.K. it is a necessity. Constant weeding is the only way in which you can foster your garden and encourage growth.

Also, it gives you the opportunity to return to the soil and to get closer to our collective, peasant 'roots'. 99% of us have come from a " horny-handed, son of the soil "- type background which we have graduated from over the last 100-200 years. It is good to get in touch with the soil which sustains us.

After weeding, feeding plants and dealing with pests takes even more time.

This investment of time and money is worth the effort when you survey your property on a late, warm summer evening, and the air is held by an atmosphere of leafy levitation and pervaded by the sweet aroma of night-scented stock. Such evenings are like gold and honey suspended in a glass of 30 year-old malt whisky. Not to be missed.

MoMo

It seems like this is the only 'pastime' (pulling the weeds) I'm stuck with at the moment besides collecting diecasts. It's a chore but at least I get to go out of
the house once in awhile.

[MoMo]

It seems like this is the only 'pastime' (pulling the weeds) I'm stuck with at the moment besides collecting diecasts. It's a chore but at least I get to go out of
the house once in awhile.

Just be happy that you're allowed out of the house, now and then. In the U.K. all men who do gardening have an institution called " THE GARDEN SHED ". This garden shed is a small wooden shack at the bottom of the garden where you keep all the tools for the garden, mower, compost, plant food, etc.

Now, here's the good part: women do not go near these male sanctums for various tribal reasons. Therefore, you can keep all your secret stuff there. You've given up smoking for 16 years? An illicit packet of fags may be found lurking among the plant pots! And so on........

In the USA the family double garage tends to serve the same purpose, but the garden shed has a better location. This preserve of male signority may be further defended by encouraging nettles, poison ivy and other jaggy plants to prosper round it. Bliss!

MoMo

[SKUNKY]

Originally Posted by MoMo

An illicit packet of fags may be found lurking among the plant pots!

Have you notified the police?...

[flyXwire]

Originally Posted by SKUNKY

Have you notified the police?...

LOL! I could always count on you, Skunky, to notice these things.

[Nimrod48]

Originally Posted by MoMo

Just be happy that you're allowed out of the house, now and then. In the U.K. all men who do gardening have an institution called " THE GARDEN SHED ". This garden shed is a small wooden shack at the bottom of the garden where you keep all the tools for the garden, mower, compost, plant food, etc.

Now, here's the good part: women do not go near these male sanctums for various tribal reasons. Therefore, you can keep all your secret stuff there. You've given up smoking for 16 years? An illicit packet of fags may be found lurking among the plant pots! And so on........

In the USA the family double garage tends to serve the same purpose, but the garden shed has a better location. This preserve of male signority may be further defended by encouraging nettles, poison ivy and other jaggy plants to prosper round it. Bliss!

MoMo

I find that a cobweb or two does the trick at keeping unwanted visitors away from the shed or loft "she who must be obeyed" can not cope with anything with more than four legs.

[MoMo]

I find that a cobweb or two does the trick at keeping unwanted visitors away from the shed or loft "she who must be obeyed" can not cope with anything with more than four legs.

Good trick, Nimrod48. Last weekend I informed my wife that I spied the initial construction work of a wasps' byke ( Scots word for a nest ) and that it may not be too safe to go in there!

When we return to our house in Galloway, I expect that the byke will have grown. I hate wasps! I think that I'll have to call in someone to deal with it because I have an irrational fear of the damned things.

Do skunks eat wasps?