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The Heat Wave - What have you Gained / Lost - if anything?

  • 16-07-2018 09:39AM
    #1
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭


    Apart from a lot of sweat - for me probably not much!

    Neverthelesss, the pears on my pear tree have ripened on the branches for the first time ever and they are delicious. That's a GAIN.

    Now for the LOSS: The birds, who have been treated all year to fat balls, now realise there are far more tasty "balls" growing on the tree. They are making a meal of my lovely pears, knocking them off the tree and finishing them off on the ground. Dam* those blackbirds, crows, magpies, pigeons, starlings, robins and sparrows. They're all at it.


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  • #2
    Grayson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,408 ✭✭✭✭Grayson


    Lost sleep on the hottest nights. That's about it.


  • #3
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    acai berry wrote: »
    Apart from a lot of sweat - for me probably not a lot.

    Neverthelesss, the pears on my pear tree have ripened on the branches for the first time ever and they are delicious. That's a GAIN.

    Now for the LOSS: The birds who have been treated all year to fat balls, now realise there are far more tasty "balls" growing on the tree. They are making a meal of my lovely pears, knocking them off the tree and finishing them off on the ground. Dam* those blackbirds, crows, magpies, pigeons, starlings, robins and sparrows. They're all at it.

    Cut the tree down and less of your nonsense.


  • #4
    TheValeyard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,643 ✭✭✭✭TheValeyard


    Less grass to cut, gained weight from multiple bbq

    Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue



  • #5
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    Gained lots more sleep by having siestas and earlier bed times. Got more vitamin D.

    Lost weight about 2kgs as wasn't dashboard dining


  • #6
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,418 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    Lost a lawn and gained a great few months living in the garden . Gained patio doors open and lovely easy living on the garden chairs . Gained seeing a grandchild in the pool having fun and gained a most beautiful display of petunia who think they are in Greece !


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  • #7
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    corner of hells wrote: »
    Cut the tree down and less of your nonsense.
    You're exactly right, corner of hells. I've already booked the man, who's going to cut it down in autumn. The tree is over twenty five foot tall, even though it is slender and seems quite young. I'm not long living here, so don't know how old it is. I don't think I could put up with another year of these ungrateful thieves robbing my harvest, apart from the fact the tree is blocking the light from my neighbour's velux windows.


  • #8
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    Murray The Demonic TalkingSkull wrote: »
    Less grass to cut, gained weight from multiple bbq

    As long as you did not set off any forest fires, Murray The Demonic Talking Skull! ;):D


  • #9
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Gained lots more sleep by having siestas and earlier bed times. Got more vitamin D.

    Lost weight about 2kgs as wasn't dashboard dining

    Seems like a WIN WIN for you, jimbobaloobob :D


  • #10
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    Lost a lawn and gained a great few months living in the garden . Gained patio doors open and lovely easy living on the garden chairs . Gained seeing a grandchild in the pool having fun and gained a most beautiful display of petunia who think they are in Greece !

    What we dream about, iamwhoiam. The lawn is just hibernating, so will come back better than ever.


  • #11
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Gained lots more sleep by having siestas and earlier bed times. Got more vitamin D.

    Lost weight about 2kgs as wasn't dashboard dining

    Overall then, not a bad outcome for you, jimbobaloobob! ;):D


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  • #12
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    acai berry wrote: »
    Overall then, not a bad outcome for you, jimbobaloobob! ;):D
    Not only that, but you got two, now three, replies from me. LOLOL! :D


  • #13
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,418 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    acai berry wrote: »
    What we dream about, iamwhoiam. The lawn is just hibernating, so will come back better than ever.

    It was wonderful and still is . Not fussed about the lawn it will recover . The fun bit is where the kids pool was has a lovely lush green ring of grass where they must have splashed water over the edge !
    Grey yellow dusty lawn with a ring of rich green grass in the middle of it


  • #14
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Gained - a lovely colour and about a half a stone in weight. God damn barbeques, only have the thing about 3 months and we've gone through 2 bottle of gas already! Multiple insect bites

    Lost - a large part of my liver function, due to aforementioned non stop barbeques, the world cup and super valu flogging 12 cans for a tenner.


  • #15
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    It was wonderful and still is . Not fussed about the lawn it will recover . The fun bit is where the kids pool was has a lovely lush green ring of grass where they must have splashed water over the edge !
    Grey yellow dusty lawn with a ring of rich green grass in the middle of it

    Make sure to take a photo. :D


  • #16
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    sbsquarepants wrote: »
    Gained - a lovely colour and about a half a stone in weight. God damn barbeques, only have the thing about 3 months and we've gone through 2 bottle of gas already! Multiple insect bites

    Lost - a large part of my liver function, due to aforementioned non stop barbeques, the world cup and super valu flogging 12 cans for a tenner.

    Funny how we always find something else to blame for loss of liver function! Even the World Cup has to take some of the blame, not to mention Supervalu doing a service by lowering it prices. LOLOL! :D:D:D


  • #17
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    acai berry wrote: »
    Seems like a WIN WIN for you, jimbobaloobob :D

    Tried to make the best of it Acai. We might not get this opportunity again for some time.


  • #18
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    A harvest of oats, wheat and barley under my bird feeder. Looks a mess.

    The fun part is watching a crow pulling over a stem of barley with his beak, laying it on the ground and holding it down with one leg, while he picks the seeds off the ripened head with his beak. Far tastier, than what comes out of Maxi Zoo in a plastic bag or bucket! Certainly cuts down on "food miles"!


  • #19
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    Tried to make the best of it Acai. We might not get this opportunity again for some time.

    Not that I'd be looking for a repeat of this "opportunity". The heat kills me. A nice happy medium, weatherwise, would be my choice. Delighted to see some rain, yesterday.


  • #20
    iamwhoiam
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,418 ✭✭✭✭iamwhoiam


    acai berry wrote: »
    A harvest of oats, wheat and barley under my bird feeder. Looks a mess.

    The fun part is watching a crow pulling over a stem of barley with his beak, laying it on the ground and holding it down with one leg, while he picks the seeds off the ripened head with his beak. Far tastier, than what comes out of Maxi Zoo in a plastic bag or bucket! Certainly cuts down on "food miles"!

    We feed the goldfinches sunflower hearts .( Yes I know , spoiled little divils ) and we now have about 8/10 sunflowers plants growing under the feeder


  • #21
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    I had two days of driving rain intermittent with rolling mist, felt like it had never gone away.
    Give me the heat and sweating any day. Ill take the rain at night.


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  • #22
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    iamwhoiam wrote: »
    We feed the goldfinches sunflower hearts .( Yes I know , spoiled little divils ) and we now have about 8/10 sunflowers plants growing under the feeder

    LOL. That should be a sight to see, iamwhoiam. :D


  • #23
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    jimbobaloobob wrote: »
    I had two days of driving rain intermittent with rolling mist, felt like it had never gone away.
    Give me the heat and sweating any day. Ill take the rain at night.

    You're like my neighbour's son, jimbobaloobob. He can't wait to get his shirt off under the midday sun. The colour of him! I don't think he wears any suncream or other protection. His mother, who's in her eighties, also sits out, exposing a lot of skin. Like mother like son, I suppose.

    Not me! :eek: :o


  • #24
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    acai berry wrote: »
    Funny how we always find something else to blame for loss of liver function! Even the World Cup has to take some of the blame, not to mention Supervalu doing a service by lowering it prices. LOLOL! :D:D:D

    It was the perfect storm.....for a suggestible fool with poor impulse control like myself:D


  • #25
    corner of hells
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,439 ✭✭✭corner of hells


    acai berry wrote: »
    Apart from a lot of sweat - for me probably not much!

    Neverthelesss, the pears on my pear tree have ripened on the branches for the first time ever and they are delicious. That's a GAIN.

    Now for the LOSS: The birds, who have been treated all year to fat balls, now realise there are far more tasty "balls" growing on the tree. They are making a meal of my lovely pears, knocking them off the tree and finishing them off on the ground. Dam* those blackbirds, crows, magpies, pigeons, starlings, robins and sparrows. They're all at it.

    OP , it's nice the way you answer us all individually , in the long run however , one of us will rob your wallet.


  • #26
    deceit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,327 ✭✭✭deceit


    Lost 8.7kg from cycling to work. About 200km a week instead of driving.
    Lost my sleepless nights as now tired enough to sleep.
    Gained a tan from all the cycling.


  • #27
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    corner of hells wrote: »
    OP , it's nice the way you answer us all individually , in the long run however , one of us will rob your wallet.
    Story of my life, corner of hells! Thanks for the warning! :D:D:D


  • #28
    Hector Bellend
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭Hector Bellend


    I've rediscovered my love of hot sex


  • #29
    acai berry
    Closed Accounts Posts: 527 ✭✭✭acai berry


    Hector Bellend wrote: »
    I've rediscovered my love of hot sex

    LOL! Hector Bellend. That's why this thread is on AH - to allow for answers like yours! LOLOL! :D I was expecting one to turn up sooner or later. ;):p


  • #30
    jimbobaloobob
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭jimbobaloobob


    deceit wrote: »
    Lost 8.7kg from cycling to work. About 200km a week instead of driving.
    Lost my sleepless nights as now tired enough to sleep.
    Gained a tan from all the cycling.

    That's mighty weight loss fair play to you. Do you see yourself keeping up the commute some or most days of the week?


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  • #31
    Graces7
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    acai berry wrote: »
    You're exactly right, corner of hells. I've already booked the man, who's going to cut it down in autumn. The tree is over twenty five foot tall, even though it is slender and seems quite young. I'm not long living here, so don't know how old it is. I don't think I could put up with another year of these ungrateful thieves robbing my harvest, apart from the fact the tree is blocking the light from my neighbour's velux windows.

    Oh what a shame.. All you need do is pick the fruit just before it is ripe...that way it will keep months... Free pears! Yearn..


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