Luckily the early fireworks around here were an anomaly - I then had a quiet evening before the main lot started at about 11:55pm. I live up on a...
I have just put up one very small shelf, which I've been putting off for the whole break because I hate drilling jobs. I have very hard concrete...
Heavy rain, gusty winds and low visibility here. Still mild but expecting it to get cold overnight.
Oh god there's fireworks going off here already.
Hellebore "Cinnamon Snow" that I bought a few weeks back and just planted out yesterday. Also fuschia "Annabel" has opened a flower. [ATTACH]...
Still got a few flowers on the Erysimums in the front garden.[ATTACH]
Lots of people will be travelling to Scotland specifically for the celebrations too. So they are likely to suffer travel disruption and then find...
Gloomy here though I can see some patches of blue sky in the distance. It doesn't seem windy when you look at the trees but the dark clouds are...
I have just finished listening to a book on the origins of the English language, which said that the contribution made by Celtic languages has...
When learning French at school the teachers always tried to make us speak with a French accent and do the rolled "r" etc - which is actually...
Thanks, I did try that at the time. Now I just check my alerts then go to straight to the "New Posts" menu option and I'm happy using the forum...
Thanks, that sounds like the issue I was having. I definitely looked at all the settings and unclicked the "and email me".
As a non-driver, I've been wondering why all cars looked so boring these days. Predominantly silver, white and black. Not good colours for...
I have just been thinning out my big clump of hazel, I now have a large selection of hazel poles of various lengths and thicknesses.There's so...
I tried following threads when I first joined but gave up on it because I couldn't get it to stop emailing me, no matter what I did in the settings.
The trouble is that if too many old threads get resurrected they make it harder to find the more recent, genuine posts. And a lot of those threads...
They are still sold in great numbers. One of the modern uses for them is to put on the pole of a bird feeder to stop a squirrel accessing it. Have...
English would be difficult for a foreigner to master; after all most of us natives don't master it. But it's easy to learn to the extent that they...
Anyone doing the BSBI New Year Plant Hunt? https://bsbi.org/new-year-plant-hunt I went out today and found 25 different plants flowering.Dog's...
I listened to the first one on Audible and decided they are not for me.
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