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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 152578" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Definitely a guy thing. I would lay odds that he does this regularly at the slightest excuse (or non-excuse - hence "I thought you were in the bathroom" when he clearly didn't even check). He probably is doing it on the house because it's easier for him to note how high he got it to LAST time, so he can see if he has "improved" (ie is now "more of a man") since last time. Is the side of your house marked with course of bricks? Timber beams? Some other feature which can indicate height?</p><p></p><p>I'd be talking to him about the message of disrespect it sends. But I would not be looking for support on this one from husband - blokes just don't seem to think along the same lines as this, unless they're very rare indeed.</p><p></p><p>As for the garden - yes, it is good for the garden. But it should be watered down, not neat. And preferably, not fresh (can be too warm). Back in my late teens, my parents moved to a tiny coastal village way up north in the country. They had a vegetable garden (as they always did). The house (more like a shack) had no plumbing. We had an outside toilet (a drum, which got manually collected once a week by the "sanny man"). In tropical country towns, these outside toilets are full of wildlife - snakes and spiders, mostly. It's bad enough going in there in daylight, but after dark is really scary. (a well-known Aussie country song from the 70s was "There Was a Redback on the Toilet Seat When I Was There Last Night" - redback being our deadlier cousin of the Black Widow Spider).</p><p></p><p>So for night-time needs, we had a bucket. A communal bucket, kept in what we laughingly called "the bathroom" because one day we hoped it would be a bathroom, when we finally got plumbing.</p><p></p><p>Every morning we'd get the bucket (anywhere between quarter full and half full) and carry it to the tank stand outside (our only tap was on the rainwater tank). We'd top up the bucket to dilute the contents at least 50%, then go and pour it on the vegetable bed (tomatoes, mostly). And we got some wonderful tomatoes. Of course, we were careful to only pour the bucket contents onto the ground and not the plants, and we did wash our vegetables (in a different bucket) before eating them.</p><p></p><p>Lunchtime was the best - salad sandwiches, from ingredients picked fresh from the garden. A freshly cut lettuce (we never poured the bucket onto the lettuce, because nitrogen is bad for lettuces, it sends them bolting to seed), freshly picked tomatoes, an onion just uprooted, and a block of cheese fresh from the shop.</p><p></p><p>But that bucket - we always watered it down, a lot. The soil was not sandy, it was volcanic and rich, but we still had bigger tomatoes than the neighbours.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 152578, member: 1991"] Definitely a guy thing. I would lay odds that he does this regularly at the slightest excuse (or non-excuse - hence "I thought you were in the bathroom" when he clearly didn't even check). He probably is doing it on the house because it's easier for him to note how high he got it to LAST time, so he can see if he has "improved" (ie is now "more of a man") since last time. Is the side of your house marked with course of bricks? Timber beams? Some other feature which can indicate height? I'd be talking to him about the message of disrespect it sends. But I would not be looking for support on this one from husband - blokes just don't seem to think along the same lines as this, unless they're very rare indeed. As for the garden - yes, it is good for the garden. But it should be watered down, not neat. And preferably, not fresh (can be too warm). Back in my late teens, my parents moved to a tiny coastal village way up north in the country. They had a vegetable garden (as they always did). The house (more like a shack) had no plumbing. We had an outside toilet (a drum, which got manually collected once a week by the "sanny man"). In tropical country towns, these outside toilets are full of wildlife - snakes and spiders, mostly. It's bad enough going in there in daylight, but after dark is really scary. (a well-known Aussie country song from the 70s was "There Was a Redback on the Toilet Seat When I Was There Last Night" - redback being our deadlier cousin of the Black Widow Spider). So for night-time needs, we had a bucket. A communal bucket, kept in what we laughingly called "the bathroom" because one day we hoped it would be a bathroom, when we finally got plumbing. Every morning we'd get the bucket (anywhere between quarter full and half full) and carry it to the tank stand outside (our only tap was on the rainwater tank). We'd top up the bucket to dilute the contents at least 50%, then go and pour it on the vegetable bed (tomatoes, mostly). And we got some wonderful tomatoes. Of course, we were careful to only pour the bucket contents onto the ground and not the plants, and we did wash our vegetables (in a different bucket) before eating them. Lunchtime was the best - salad sandwiches, from ingredients picked fresh from the garden. A freshly cut lettuce (we never poured the bucket onto the lettuce, because nitrogen is bad for lettuces, it sends them bolting to seed), freshly picked tomatoes, an onion just uprooted, and a block of cheese fresh from the shop. But that bucket - we always watered it down, a lot. The soil was not sandy, it was volcanic and rich, but we still had bigger tomatoes than the neighbours. Marg [/QUOTE]
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