YUK!

Well said tradio :thumbup:

Like the Mafia buying schools and hospitals, Yuk!

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There is no humour in any of the religious books to my knowledge, makes me wonder why we have a sense of humour at all. Some of us that is...

Exactly! Like buying a property abroad, pour all your hard earned dough into a dream home in the sun, and then the local laws conveniently change and your property is yours no more.

Hi Michael, I watched the Time Team crew in action somewhere up north, excavating a water mill, it turned out to be just one of 3 in the immediate area and dated back to Roman times, this also had its original wheel changed to iron. Nice informative blog and great photos..thanks for sharing..:-)

Look good enough to eat??? How little they know..LOL!
Thanks for the photo but especially the links, how little I knew also..:-)

Hi Michael, :-) During the 60s I fell in love with vintage cameras and almost took to collecting them. I had about 5 or 6 at one time but decided against buying more, sometimes now I wish I had. This is a lovely clear detailed photograph which brings back fond memory's for me..thanks for sharing.

Hi MRR thanks for the comment, much appreciated :-)

Hi Michael :-) Nice to see you are clicking away again. Glad you are getting things sorted out finally. A vary nice varied set of garden art, its almost like being there myself. Hope to see more of your comments etc with the onset of the dark winter nights.:-)

Hi Michael :-) Lovely set! glad to see you are finding some time to keep shooting. I was shooting Hoverfly's in my garden yesterday :-) Speak soon

Hi steve :-) Ironically morphine was her best friend before she died, but not home made..lol I am surprised my young nephew never took advantage of this crop, he lived with her for 3 years and liked his pot. lol

Hi BC :) My mother had rows and rows of poppies in her garden and despite being told they were illegal, she refused to get rid of them The type she had were:

Lachryma Papaveris Poppy tears, Opium is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Opium contains approximately 12% morphine, an alkaloid, which is frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade. The latex also includes the alkaloid codeine and its similarly structured cousin thebaine. It also contains non-analgesic alkaloids such as papaverine and noscapine. The traditional, labor-intensive, method of obtaining the latex is to scratch ("score") the immature seed pods (fruits) by hand; the latex leaks out and dries to a sticky yellowish residue that is later scraped off, and dehydrated. The word "meconium" (derived from the Greek for "opium-like", but now used to refer to infant stools) historically referred to related, weaker preparations made from other parts of the poppy or different species of poppies. I'm not sure what the UK laws are regarding this but she wouldn't get rid of them anyway :)

Hi Steve :) I'm not sure if it was struggling for survival or not because I helped it up onto the Lilly pad a couple of times but it kept going back into the water, later on I had a another look and it had gone. :shock: tfc :)