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[Enid]

Thank goodness you have a new one!!!! the other one made me feel queasy Is that you then? Enid

[warrenpenalver]

sorry!! the last one summed up how i felt most the time (and hence why i get through laptops frequently ).

 

This one is me and my friend the pineapple.

[TheNeil]

This one is me and my friend the pineapple.

I like your friend's hair

[warrenpenalver]

Yeah its spikey!!!

 

I wanted to plant him in the garden of my new house but apparently he wont grow into a tree.

 

Last plant i had was a cactus and i killed it. I kept giving it simulated "monsoons" like in the desert and flooding it like it would do in real life but i think i fed it too much as it died rather than growing big.

 

oh plus i kept forgetting its spikey and picking it up and getting thorns in my hand.

[justamum]

Last plant i had was a cactus and i killed it. I kept giving it simulated "monsoons" like in the desert and flooding it like it would do in real life but i think i fed it too much as it died rather than growing big.

 

I guess your next career won't be as a landscape gardener then!

 

If you cut the top off you 'new friend' and put it on a plate of water...just little don't drown it ...... it should grow roots and you should then be able to plant in a pot as an indoor plant

 

growing tropical plants

 

BUT as I say to my son plants like to paddle not drown...they can't swim

[warrenpenalver]

thanks justamum!!

 

I shall try that!!!

[justamum]

if you master that you could try mustard and cress seeds on damp cotton wool or kitchen roll

 

Actually to be serious growing something you can eat is very rewarding and the actual cultivating is therapeutic.

 

And I am not ASD and kept forgetting about the spines on cacti, and they are a devil to get out, but that's due to 'senior moments!'

[warrenpenalver]

cress works well on wet carpets!!!

 

I was taught that trick by the navy!! It would happen to a persons room when they went to sea and theyd come back to a cress "lawn" on thier carpet

[justamum]

I was taught that trick by the navy!! It would happen to a persons room when they went to sea and theyd come back to a cress "lawn" on thier carpet

 

Ah yes I forgotten about you Navy boys and your games!!!!! Ex 'reserves' myself too many years ago to remember before us 'girls' were allowed on board officially except as guests to be taunted and to be spied upon round corners!

[warrenpenalver]

its not that bad these days!!

 

these tricks normally end up as revenge tricks and it all spirals out of control. My best one was to put flour into the ventilation to the cabin of the pilots so they woke up covered in flour like it had been snowing

[justamum]

[warrenpenalver]

thier revenge was to hide an alarm clock set to go off at 3am in the suspended ceiling space

[Enid]

That is so funny When I was a waitress/chambermaid in a hotel with my friends, many many years ago, before kids and life kicked us in the face, we used to pay lechurous/drunken men back by making apple pie beds and putting a tin box under their bed with a clock inside set for 3am!!!! We never admitted it was us till this day, but boy was it fun! Thanks for this thread Warren, it has reminded me of who I was, and still am underneath the layers, screaming to get out AAAAGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH. Enid

[justamum]

yes apple pie beds

 

One one of my long stays in hospital (hypermobility syndrome intensive therapy) the nurses did this to me. However as I had been 'got' like that before I saw the signs and played along. I 'complained' bitterly the next morning that I had a really uncomfortable night all squashed up. Good job I am up for a laugh!