Tattoodave

Could be Cleethorpes or WC, foggy memory from last week, let along 40+ years ago, I just about remember who I am, on a really good day.

been there, but I'm on the Med side near Marbella.

Yes to Africa, China and India, no to South America, and I'm saying nothing about the Middle East. I can see Africa most days if the sky is clear. I just checked, I can make out the outline of the Rif mountains on the Morocco coast, though only just as it's hazy.

Japan, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Hawaii took me the 80's, all too far to fly back for a nighter.

If they were anytime between 1981 and 2001 then no, as I didn't set foot in the UK for those 20 years, at least I don't remember doing so.

It's no good me trying to remember, I'm sure I have ADHD, I can't think anything through to it's ooh butterflies!

It's the smell and sight of meat and fish, I just don't like it.

I do miss the run up to Christmas in downtown Toronto with the open air ice rink in front of City Hall, but travelling through the maze of underground malls isn't fun for a vegan. It got pretty raw in Minnesota a couple of times, my first winter there we had 44" of snow on October 14th and it was still there in places the next May. They say there's two seasons in Minnesota, winter and July, and the state bird is the mosquito.

I lived in Roseville Minnesota 1991 to 2000, then on Gloucester Street, Toronto from 2000 to 2011. I don't miss the winters at all.

That's probably gone way over the heads of most on here, but I'm chuckling inwardly. His show is very popular though, I used to watch it in Minnesota and Toronto when living there. I have an idiot nephew, I don't think they're that uncommon.

So you're now a Steve Smith lookalike? Do you get mistaken for him and are asked to be funny?

And I'm pretty sure I've met your lass somewhere before, though I don't know where.

Brooding and mildly menacing maybe, I don't like having to have my photo taken. One from 5 years ago

It was a garden I created, only 3 years old when the photo was taken, it had been all grass previously. I do know my plants, and how they work together. I was a head gardener of a 2.5 acre garden at one time, the tree that is breaking the horizon on the left at 11 o'clock is one I planted when it was about 2 feet tall.

Me before grey hair made me look ancient, I'll try and find a more recent one, this circa 93.

It's OK, but like any tune that has other versions the listener is prone to associate the tune with the one that's been heard most, and in my case it's that dire rubber-lipped wrinkly that struts like he might have cerebral palsy.

just ordered mine too Dave

Just to prove I'm not barking...

On closer inspection of Steve's clouds I saw this....

It must have run off Steve!

Day of the dead girl at a recent tattoo convention.

Tigridia's, from a packet of Lidl's bulbs. I've grown them before in colder climates and their flowers were much smaller, these were at least 3" across if not more.

I take it the various levels swivel? If so I'd have messed it up a lot more

Not my photo, but pretty special, a Mama Merganser with her creche of 76 ducklings

I like the Alstroemeria, they are at least from Peru, try Eucomis, though put them in a container as they might not be that hardy with you. Mirabilis jalapa ought to work too, easy enough to grow from seed, and once happy will self seed elsewhere in the garden. A yucca might give you added structure too.