Any advice on how to stop squirrels nicking bulbs? My crocuses are prey to a big cocky white-chested brute of a squirrel this year; the bugger even sneaks down behind my back and digs while I'm in the garden. Looking around online, I find the standard advice is to lay wire netting - but I want to add plants above the bulbs (cyclamen and such).

Hi I am steadily working through a novel Is anyone else doing the same who would like me to critique theres if they could do the same for me. Or just give some points of view on it.

Just now i am on a sticking point at tenses when writing and not sure if what i have written is working well.

Not much happening here today...

:-(

It's ours - today. Me and the missis. Never known how to refer to her - nor she to me. We hate husband/wife. We dislike the pious 'partner' - we're married! 'The other half' 'him/her indoors' and all the other euphemisms have drawbacks. Maybe I'll just stick to her name - Chrisa.

Still, it's an achievement I reckon. And we have three lovely grown-up kids who still talk to us, who live independent and fulfilling lives and who go merrily along, making their own mistakes but not often repeating ours.

I feel very special today.

http://www.abctales.com/will2/i_went_to_the_dentist_the_other_day

I love this!

It's just so... irreverent. Don't know what it's part of, or even if it is part of anything, or if it simply is what it is - a rant about the exuberant cost of dentistry. I don't even know if it's meant to be funny, but it made me laugh. Feels somewhat like a standup routine - cf. Jack Dee or the like.

Anyway, whatever it's "meant" to be, keep'em coming, will2!

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I really enjoyed this. Memorable and funny.

http://www.abctales.com/rigmarole/thats_all_i_dont_think_of_you_often

http://www.abctales.com/brighton_rock/shared

Choked me up, this'un.

Brighton, you old softy!

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Brilliantly written, Lisa! And clever too, going into the Finnish Mythology

I am trying desperately to track down the following books for my dissertation. I have managed to find them on Amazon but they are hugely expensive and way out of my price league. If anyone has any ideas I would be grateful to hear them.

Many thanks
A.

'The Annotated Wizard of Oz' by Michael Patrick Hearn

'Wizard of Oz By L.Frank Baum- American Culture and Society' by W. Leach

'Over The Rainbow. Wizard of Oz as a Secular Myth of America.' by Nathanson and Young.