I thought I start an"I'm going a little mad thread".....

[BBMmk2]

Oh believe me, how I yearn for pre-Covid-19 days! How I yearn to ve our and about, going to my favourite haunts. Oh yes, I have bad days. But I’m hanging in there.

[LMcD]

Pigcasso - latest artistic genius discovered:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=in4NKrB5D8Q

I would say her work is more Abstract Expressionist than Picasso.

I've rarely read a rasher statement.

[Flay]

I don't know if this was madness or genius.

A small area of my lawn sits over unremovable concrete covered by just a few inches of soil which dries out. So I had the inspired idea to mix in lots of the water-retaining granules used in hanging baskets (I hadn't used them before and was unaware of their extraordinary hydrophilic powers), and I replaced the square of turf.

After watering, to my amazement, each granule magicked into a 1cm cube of jelly and the turf levitated itself, bouncing back when I attempted to tread it down, like a trampoline!

So thinks: do I remove the soil/jelly mix, or should I make the whole lawn like this: a novel sprung lawn?

[ardcarp]

Are you sure you haven't been smoking anything.....?

[LMcD]

I don't know if this was madness or genius.

A small area of my lawn sits over unremovable concrete covered by just a few inches of soil which dries out. So I had the inspired idea to mix in lots of the water-retaining granules used in hanging baskets (I hadn't used them before and was unaware of their extraordinary hydrophilic powers), and I replaced the square of turf.

After watering, to my amazement, each granule magicked into a 1cm cube of jelly and the turf levitated itself, bouncing back when I attempted to tread it down, like a trampoline!

So thinks: do I remove the soil/jelly mix, or should I make the whole lawn like this: a novel sprung lawn?

'I Can Hear The Grass Grow' - another contribution, perhaps, for the Memorable Lyrics thread!

[Cockney Sparrow]

I don't know if this was madness or genius.

A small area of my lawn sits over unremovable concrete covered by just a few inches of soil which dries out. So I had the inspired idea to mix in lots of the water-retaining granules used in hanging baskets (I hadn't used them before and was unaware of their extraordinary hydrophilic powers), and I replaced the square of turf.

After watering, to my amazement, each granule magicked into a 1cm cube of jelly and the turf levitated itself, bouncing back when I attempted to tread it down, like a trampoline!

So thinks: do I remove the soil/jelly mix, or should I make the whole lawn like this: a novel sprung lawn?

You've got to post a video of this on You Tube or similar.......

[eighthobstruction]

I don't know if this was madness or genius.

A small area of my lawn sits over unremovable concrete covered by just a few inches of soil which dries out. So I had the inspired idea to mix in lots of the water-retaining granules used in hanging baskets (I hadn't used them before and was unaware of their extraordinary hydrophilic powers), and I replaced the square of turf.

After watering, to my amazement, each granule magicked into a 1cm cube of jelly and the turf levitated itself, bouncing back when I attempted to tread it down, like a trampoline!

So thinks: do I remove the soil/jelly mix, or should I make the whole lawn like this: a novel sprung lawn?

....well you know the man who invented Playdoh marketed it first as some bland sort of insulator....and now parents all over the world are picking it out of their shagpile....[really I just wanted to have sentence with 'shagpile' in it].....

[johncorrigan]

..[really I just wanted to have sentence with 'shagpile' in it].....

[Jonathan]

I have a new hobby. For the last three days, in the morning before breakfast I take a large yoghurt pot with lid (an HSSDU) into the back garden, pick off all the snails I can find clinging to plants and pop them into the pot. Then I transport them to a common about a quarter of a mile away, empty the pot about 2 metres from the wildlife pond and return home. I discover snails' homing instinct is poor over more than 20 metres. https://www.theguardian.com/environm...20-metres-away

Is this sanity or madness?

Perfectly sane! If you ever find any empty snail shells which are coiled the other way (sinistral -like Jeremy the so called lefty snail who was in the news a couple of years ago) please pm me. I'm an amateur conchologist and always on the lookout for sinistral molluscs.

[eighthobstruction]

Perfectly sane! If you ever find any empty snail shells which are coiled the other way (sinistral -like Jeremy the so called lefty snail who was in the news a couple of years ago) please pm me. I'm an amateur conchologist and always on the lookout for sinistral molluscs.

....isn't it a bit time consuming and finger-drumming....waiting for the snails to vacate their homes....so you can take them....

[Pulcinella]

....isn't it a bit time consuming and finger-drumming....waiting for the snails to vacate their homes....so you can take them....

I'm spending my time wondering what an HSSDU is (perhaps I missed it!): homemade snail and slug disposal unit?

[Bryn]

I'm spending my time wondering what an HSSDU is (perhaps I missed it!): homemade snail and slug disposal unit?

Apparently not "Health and Social Services Development Unit", in this case.

[eighthobstruction]

I'm spending my time wondering what an HSSDU is (perhaps I missed it!): homemade snail and slug disposal unit?

...PhD research no doubt .....is it called a 'box'....

[Serial_Apologist]

....isn't it a bit time consuming and finger-drumming....waiting for the snails to vacate their homes....so you can take them....

In any case you should make sure to wash hands thoroughly after touching snail shells - you never know who's had their hands on them.

[Count Boso]

I'm spending my time wondering what an HSSDU is (perhaps I missed it!): homemade snail and slug disposal unit?

Sorry, missed this. Decided it's now a HSSTU instead - Humane, Social (not anti-social as in flinging into neighbour's garden) Snail Transportation (rather than deportation) Unit. Not many this morning, mainly small ones, but it's about 34 so far after four days. The exercise is good and it gets me enthusiastically leaping out of bed early.

Will see if I can spot a shell that twines to the left. Hadn't really noticed this feature heretofore.