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  1. blakeyboy
    Ban 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' !!! Madness.
  2. blakeyboy
    This has just sold for £797. I can't find anything about it- I can't find it in Krause. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/China-1926-20-cent-Dragon-amp-Phoenix-ref-HRC-16-/284351166847?hash=item4234a6797f%3Ag%3AJ8cAAOSwRIlg2f8i&nma=true&si=vmD7EGpQa9qpEyRVsfXWdWanlsw%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557 Is this a fake? just a token?
  3. blakeyboy
    .....I've dropped me orange......
  4. blakeyboy
    Their ads are excoriating. Such overpriced tat, a mock 'official' mint, and poor idiots 'investing'.....makes the Franklin Mint look like Walt Disney.....
  5. blakeyboy
    Is that a Gin Palace in the distance?
  6. blakeyboy
    Ah yes- but has your, what sounds like a North facing front garden, got a big sky? Our friend has a newish farmhouse, and the back is North facing, but huge sky. It's amazing what does well there - sun-loving stuff I struggle with in my small south-facing back garden. Big big sky makes things so much easier.
  7. blakeyboy
    What I find with a 'disappointing' wet month in early summer is the spin-off, if you have a small garden where plants often struggle for light: in a cloudy month, the light levels are lower, but the light is diffused, so it gets into the dark corners, where direct sun never would. Consequently, all the edges and underplanting that frame a garden come to life and shows off for once. This year is their time.
  8. blakeyboy
    My favourite Canna: 'Shenandoah'. Queen Victoria's favourite as well. Great dark leaves, but you can _never_ capture with a camera just how unusual and captivating the pink hue is- nothing else like it. A bugger to grow- needs heat- you can lose one to a cold spell at the drop of a hat.
  9. blakeyboy
    Pictures please! Mines gone mad:
  10. blakeyboy
    I think there should be paulo minus colloquil because I'm omnimus commotus.....
  11. blakeyboy
    Cor confractus deversorium.
  12. blakeyboy
    I don't understand this thread now it's developed. I have some rather nice Swedish and Finnish glassware. I have some nice paintings. I have some nice small sculpture pieces. I have them all because they appealed to me, and continue to do so. They also have an accruing monetary value, which is nice to know for emergencies. I do not feel the need to pay for someone's opinion of them, and put them in plastic cases.
  13. blakeyboy
    Yep- a very very old plant- a relic of the Jurassic. I just kept pulling up each piece I saw and it gave up. Roots can only hold so much sugar to fuel new growth, and if you pull shoots before they have had time to photosynthesise much more sugar to replenish the root stores, it eventually just runs out of fuel. Same trick works with bind weed, but with both plants you have to really be on the case at least twice a week. One season, gone.
  14. blakeyboy
    I was in Furnace Creek, Death Valley a few years ago and it was 47˚C which was enough. I heard today that somewhere in California has done the highest _minimum_ temperature ever in the Northern Hemisphere: 42˚C in the middle of the night!!!! Can you imagine trying to sleep? I lost a night's sleep once in 34˚C and it was psychological torture.
  15. blakeyboy
    'arse-covering time'......! Excellent!
  16. blakeyboy
    Are you talking about Keir Starmer?
  17. blakeyboy
    Actually it's more like 43%, but Erica is waiting for more info on how it's made up....
  18. blakeyboy
    My wife sold 20 coin lots last week, which totalled £315. Out of this we got £181....... That's a 47% fee, or is my maths wrong?
  19. blakeyboy
    I sold some Vicky double florins last week, I thought that the 100 years of patina was by far the most attractive part of the coins.
  20. blakeyboy
    Just done me 1000 Forum reputation points. I'm now retiring to the Bahamas. If only....
  21. blakeyboy
    I had squirrels breaking into my peanut bird feeders, until I doused the nuts in tabasco. The pilfering stopped _immediately_ . A squirrel sitting on the fence freaked out, frantically wiping it's face on the fence, trying to stop the burning was hilarious. They never came back.
  22. blakeyboy
    I think that machine is quite a-peeling. I can only apologise.
  23. blakeyboy
    Hmmm... very interesting. Any similarities between our world and theirs? https://www.wired.co.uk/article/pokemon-card-grading?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
  24. blakeyboy
    My wife has put some coins on fleabay. More in the future- having a clearcut and trying to generate some much-needed funds. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/384227244903?hash=item5975ba7b67:g:eUQAAOSww0Zgyxw0
  25. blakeyboy
    And a good question. I think it's just that it's been under the radar, since the spacings look even, unlike other ones.
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