Thread: Under bombardment!

We are are having normal, unseasonal, English, weather. It has been warm and sunny and I have been spending a lot of time down the shed. It is a pleasant place buried in the green bottom of the garden under an Oak, and usually very peaceful. This year the oak is fighting back, it has produced a massive crop of acorns and every time the wind touches it it showers them down to bounce off the shed roof or 'near miss' me when I go out.

I would love to have a massive oak tree in my yard. There used to be a beautiful cherry blossom tree that would cover the ground in a blanket of pink petals when it shed, but the people that lived here before us cut it down before we moved in. I was devasted.

Originally Posted by Olly Buckle

normal, unseasonal, English, weather.

that is hilarious, we have some trees like that(though not oaks) that shed every spring their fruit - cant remember how its called - and it stinks and its slippery, srsly - you can just be knocked on the ground by it!
happy winter!

It could be worse, Olly. You could live under a coconut palm. Or a porcupine saguaro.

It would be much worse if it had any sense of aim Mod. I did think it purely random, but I am pretty sure it waits until I am down there. Of course it might be protective, surrounding the shed with a wall of bombardment. The idea that chemo. drugs make you paranoid is pure myth by the way.

Another myth-busted!
Porcupine saguaros don't exist, btw, except in one of my manuscripts. I don't think there's an oak tree in this whole city, though. Or a coconut palm. Not enough H20. Speaking of which, here's a chemistry joke for you, Olly, just for you.

Two men go into a bar. One orders just plain H2O. The other says "I'll have H2O, too."
One of them got very sick.
Why?

Originally Posted by moderan

Another myth-busted!
Porcupine saguaros don't exist, btw, except in one of my manuscripts. I don't think there's an oak tree in this whole city, though. Or a coconut palm. Not enough H20. Speaking of which, here's a chemistry joke for you, Olly, just for you.

Two men go into a bar. One orders just plain H2O. The other says "I'll have H2O, too."
One of them got very sick.
Why?

Green tea deficiency?

The per-oxide bond between two oxygen atoms is very weak and easily broken, so H2O2 quickly acts as an oxidising bleach.

Yes. H2O2, aka hydrogen peroxide.