First gardening job today after 3 weeks convalescence (strictly enforced by Mrs LS!). My tomatoes were virtually climbing out of their small pots...
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Just about managed to pot on some tomatoes and then felt so weak I had to go in and lie down. We're both suffering and can't quite remember a...
dBase II for me, which used to run in it's interpreted form until someone introduced the Clipper compiler and then an upgrade to dBase III. I used...
Do you mean the Jaz drive? (There is also something called Jazz drive which is a relatively recent cloud storage solution.) This was a physical...
In those early years we used Lotus 1-2-3, dBase, & Wordperfect as our lab office suite. I became a dBase programmer for my sins. Email, as I...
Re: floppy disksI remember them. Well floppy they were. Probably pre-dated Windows, but then again my memory has gone the same way as many of...
I remember when we first got connected. There was no broadband. We used a thing called a modem - a US Robotics modem to be exact (which I've still...
First blue butterfly of the year in the garden today. Holly Blue I reckon. No holly in our garden but it seemed to keep gravitating towards the...
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Possibly Calamagrostis 'Overdam'. Good price. @Plantminded will probably know.
Well we haven't and we love it.
I'm still photographing Forget-Me-Nots (when the breeze finally dies down!) cos' they really reward close attention. These taken with 100mm macro...
Saw my first Redstart of the season today. Quite early this year due to the settled weather. This male gave me the run-around before I finally got...
Brunnera 'Jack Frost'[ATTACH]Primula vulgaris[ATTACH]Mrs LS dumped old bulbs in this tub between the compost heap & the bins and...
Went plant hunting this morning and bought a new Berberis (Neon) so planting that was the first job after lunch. Then I set to with the border...
I needed a low-growing shrub to fill a gap in front of my new rambling rose so I went looking for the Berberis varieties that were recommended by...
First two House Martins over the house this morning. Just prospecting - they'll be feeding over water a few miles away and won't return to nest...
Spent ages digging out Helianthus rhizomes from under the lawn and amongst other plants in the bed. When I first set eyes on a stand of perennial...
Mixed day today. Started off applying reflective paint to the large flat roof of our extension (after jet washing the dirt & algae off it earlier...
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