I thought we’d be stuck at home today waiting for the boiler service, but the nice young man arrived at 8am and was gone by 9am! Out for breakfast...
A coincidence, I washed our car yesterday. When we went out this morning, I looked up at the sunroof and there were over a dozen small dead flies...
Woke to howling wind and damp. A rain shower has just passed through, and it looks dismal out. Thankfully, both green bins are full, after...
A couple of hours digging up brambles this morning , the area I’m working in is actually starting to look different, definitely a result! Yet...
Spent two and a half hours in the garden( in two sessions to save my back) and dug up two huge gardening bags of brambles. The digging hoe was...
Sounds expensive but I suppose he/she could walk behind me carrying the gloves!
I use welding gloves for bramble removal, but they are a bit unwieldy for everyday chores. I’m seriously wondering whether I am going to have to...
I knew there was some other reason why I don’t bother growing roses here, apart from the fact that I’ve never really got my head round how and...
Pleased you asked about the Honesty plants, @Badly_Maintained. We pass lots of them on the roadside banks, but nowhere to stop to take a picture....
Huh, it’s raining here! A day at home for us. I’ll be helping OH attach some skirting boards to the bedroom wall, but hopefully pop out to at...
That sounds yummy, @AuntyRach! We had home made burgers ( low fat British mince with fines herbes) in panini with the usual trimmings, one of OH’s...
Got out to the garden for an hour this afternoon. Very bracing, but the sun was out. I dug up more nettles and brambles, and collected up some of...
@Ladybird4, we’ve had our son’s dog for holidays since she was a pup, and she is now 13! If she had been at all dog friendly, we would have had...
Got woken by the wind howling at 6am this morning. Its was pretty awful last night as well. However, we need stuff from Waitrose today, so we have...
Looks like I’m not the only one dragging the recycling bins down to the road this evening! Yet more rain here. We took ourselves out to the RSPB...
Very sensible to carry your mobile phone, @Dovefromabove. A lesson to all the rest of you out there, before you learn the hard way! Have some way...
Didn’t get any gardening done yesterday, yet again. We did get a really decent walk in the morning though, the first for ages. We really notice...
So sorry, @steephill. So young.
Can’t remember what the first one is, wood sorrel? Azalea, planted before we moved here Miniature Choisya dewitteana -white dazzler, hasn’t had...
I haven’t found the First Unread particularly helpful, as I seem to come onto the thread at the last posted message, and have to scroll back. The...
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