It’s gone mad in our garden, it is going to make replacing the fence a right pain. The other thing we’ve got is moss. Lots of moss. Lots and lots of moss. A whole business has grown up, “want the moss cleaned of your roof guv?”. Both due to reduction in acidification over the years.

 

Well, Stirling's passed on so they must mean Kate?

 

Could be Bros...

S

 

Suitable comment.

 

Although on second thoughts wouldn't that be Goss?

 

Compromise - Gross?

 

Lots of fences are supported by ivy.

 

Not the case here

 

You are right. I signed up for online access at my library, logged out and discovered I needed my library card number to login again. Found it (not been used for a decade) logged in OK. Then went to OED site and logged in via the library tab. Perfect! Absolutely amazed they pay for it in these straitened times.

 

I'm just happy to have given you a little ray of sunshine* in these dark times.

*Frel free to vomit at the sickliness of that remark

 

Probably his brother Pete.

 

The correct name for a conifer "flower". [I knew they weren't actually flowers.]

It's "strobilus".

S

 

Is this the flower you mean? I'm genuinely curious.

 

Damn my dyslexia, I read "conifer" as "cornflower". Wondered why there was a photo of a conifer strobilus. Yes, I did know.

 

During the presentation, they played that well-known Bill Hayley single ...

 

Yep.

But there's no way I'm climbing a bloody tree to check.

S

 

Sir Chris Hoy has a bike brand...just got one to fix. (And an orange with hope brakes...owner has been complimented on choice of steed).

I guess I'll be learning how to fix dropper post seals this week too.

 

Other cyclists to put their names to bikes are Chris Boardman (I've got two of his), Sir Bradley Wiggins and Victoria Pendleton.

 

Eddy Mercks, Mario Cipollini, Greg Lemond, to name a few more.

 

Sir Walter Raleigh?