I can count the couch as one of my successes when it comes to furniture making.

I might have made it a little too well, though, because there are times when it's really hard to get off it.

It has an inversely proportional thing going - the more likely it is that the words chores and drudgery could be used in the same sentence, the harder it is to get off the couch, ha ha

It's a good couch, though. Solid, sturdy, ugly as anything, ha ha.

I didn't want "pretty" furniture.

I had an ex who replaced every doorknob in the house with white china ones, with roses on them.

I have lived with "pretty", it's not me.

Functional. Functional is good. Functional with "I made it" is even better, ha ha.

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Out and about, I saw a bloke sprinting across a park, a pair of peewits, magpie larks, in hot pursuit.

You may not often think of peewits as particularly aggressive, unless they're trying to knock seven bells out of a car wing mirror, but these two were definitely letting the bloke know that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

There was a bit of a glitch with ebay, last night.

Just for an hour or so.

I tried logging in and kept being sent to the front page.

It seemed a bit strange because I could get  into ebay, but not into the forum.

I'll blame the full moon, ha ha.

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Yeah, I got the same result last night.   

I was howling, but I dunno about the full moon though

C & P from Blokes thread....

Ecar,  I've gotta say........my weeds that I sprayed with WD40 are looking very happy!

I don't think they're supposed to be happy, but very,very dead   

MacGyver is shocked

An artist's impression of me, at the computer (not understanding what's going on - nothing unusual in that, ha ha), if I were a moose.

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I'm sorry that the WD-40 didn't work, Stawks.

Blast, Damn, That other word I'm not allowed to say in print!

I thought it was a given that you could trust anything you read on the internet to be true and accurate.

Guffaw!

I don't know what would work as a "pet friendly" weed killer.

On a positive note, your weeds won't make squeaking noises if the wind blows, ha ha.

Consider me truly, wholeheartedly and utterly disappointed...

I knew I should have built my log cabin of solitude in the woods, years ago, that way I could stamp my foot and storm off to it, ha ha.

This is as equally disappointing as the time when my parents told me, as a child, that the Green Man was actually a metaphor.

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Stawks, most weedkillers are safe enough once they have dried.

We used to use a very potent weedkiller on our front path and driveway as well as broad leaf weedkiller on the lawn....just did it late in the day so it was dry before anyone was likely to walk on it.

The cat was an indoor cat anyway so not problem with her but we just made sure that the dog was securely locked in the backyard before it was done.  For the first 24 hours I carried him from the back yard to the front gate when we went for a walk to make quite sure there was no way he could pick up anything on his paws.

Lyndal, no way can I keep my cat indoors during the day.

And I'm not up to spraying weeds in the dark either

Brown vinegar seems to be working on some, not on others.

Boiling water works, but it's a lot of walking to get them all

I even poured salt on them.  After all it worked in the bible - killed

all their crops and nothing grew for 7 years!  That didn't work either.

I'm slowly losing the battle.    The sticky weeed I have to walk around

and pull that up by hand before it seeds.

Sticky weed, also known as asthma weed.

This is what I got from the internet -

It’s a tenacious plant, growing between cracks in the wall. It also takes salt spray and wind. Not only does it grow anywhere but it also spreads easily. The flowers are sticky so the perianth sticks to clothes and animal fur to spread. They are also spread by wind and water. One square metre of the plant can produce about 250,000 seeds.

Like I said.........a losing battle