All around the shops....

If anyone spots me harvesting and eating flowers from my garden then it will be something like nasturtium (which I basically regard as for eating purposes).

Watch out for caterpillars! They love them too.

Allira

^If anyone spots me harvesting and eating flowers from my garden then it will be something like nasturtium (which I basically regard as for eating purposes).^

Watch out for caterpillars! They love them too.

Don't they just - the little "darlings" (it was another word I thought of first).

Though they are easier to deal with than green leafy veg - with the slugs attacking as soon as my back is turned and out I go hoping for some chard or spinach or something and they've descended and left it full of holes (yep I know it's still technically edible - but it's more than a little offputting).

I still struggle in a variety of ways that there's a lot more rain than I'm used to here and try not to think about the fact that I never ever once noticed slugs on what I was growing for a while in containers back in my home city. So none there - but loads here???!!! I know what I had there was a tiny little backyard of concrete slabs leading out to back lane - so where would the slugs have emerged from - whereas here they're probably lurking in loads of crevices, etc, etc.

...and you don't want to know about the blimmin' ants. Back there I had one attack of ants once - where I spotted some getting in via the grille in sitting room floor after I'd been away for a few days and promptly broke off phonecall I was on to hoover them up quick and Job Done....end of.

Here - every summer for the last few years at the back of my house and I've been steadily working my way through a variety of ways of bopping them one and yet they're back again and with a few of those huge ones (flying ants) with them.

I don't know which I swear about most sometimes - loads more "livestock" and weeds than I've been used to or just how far I have to travel to get to somebody/something I require instead of doing a short walk to it.

Fingers crossed then. It did - finally - turn up this afternoon.

As anticipated = it is more than a little slimey and totally unusable (though I've followed the suggestion of sticking some stalks in earth just in case it grows on).

I found that Amazon phone number and finally got through the "menu" to a person and he's agreed to a refund. Side note - why does no-one ever ever apologise for things going wrong? I know it wouldnt have been his fault personally - but "I'm sorry to hear of this" or something would have been nice. Anyways - all being well and that refund should turn up as knocked-off what I owe them on next months statement.

Da iawn chi Cariad

I have found that returns to Amazon for a refund are really easy now - find your order; there will be several options, choose return and fill in the reason and then you get a page to book a collection.
I did one last night, it got picked up by the postman this morning. No need to print out a label or hike off to the post office. And it’s free!
Much better than it used to be.

pce612

I have found that returns to Amazon for a refund are really easy now - find your order; there will be several options, choose return and fill in the reason and then you get a page to book a collection.
I did one last night, it got picked up by the postman this morning. No need to print out a label or hike off to the post office. And it’s free!
Much better than it used to be.

I'll have to check that out.

Goodness knows it was not straightforward telling them to give me a refund yesterday. Got through on the phone (finally - after I'd got through the chatbot) - first guy sent email saying "giftcard" refund. Cue for a 2nd conversation with another one to point out "Not giftcard - refund via credit card is what I said". There he was gone part way through the conversation. Cue 3rd phonecall and finally got a more experienced person who got the message "credit card....credit card....credit card only" and sounds like refund is due to be properly sorted at last. Whew!

In my experience when Amazon say if it hasn't turned up by tomorrow you can cancel, it won't ever turn up!