Yawn.... Wakey.. Wakey...!!!! MK3..

Good morning everyone,

Wow! penny, that's cold

I've managed to get a little bit of gardening done in the last couple of days and have started on tidying up the edges of the lawns. Only another 600 ft to go

It's a bit icy out there at the moment but I have to sort out our drains. When we have a lot of rain the soakaway from our cesspool stops working because the ground is saturated. The drains then back up and sometimes (as has happened now) they don't clear themselves and get blocked. Now they've backed up right to the house so I shall have to get Mrs shiney to help me lift the three manhole covers so I can get to work on them. Not the best of jobs

Have a great day :D

 

Good morning Shiney and all my other friends hope you are all OK,Its the 1rst of February to day,but I am not going to say A pinch and a punch for the first day of the month that would be silly everyone have a good day and please stay safe.

 

Good morning TakeM02 thank you I built to my own specifications so I have only myself to blame, but its flying now,its got more memory than a herd of elephants 8 gigabytes and rising.The problems occurred when I changed to Google Chrome but its OK now.

 

Good day everyone, good to see you all.. Drizzly & cold here.. Goodness Penny, only -19 today..!!!! Bet you have a T-shirt on then...!

Fingers crossed then that Punxsutawney Phil will have good news.. Let us know.. :D

Have a good day everyone..

 

Good morning everyone,

The drain job yesterday was rather unpleasant. Mrs shiney helped me lift the manhole covers which have the paving slabs built into them. It took two hours of rodding to get it cleared right down to the cesspit and then I came across another problem .
Before I could finish the job I needed to hose down the rods as I was taking them apart, hose down the patio around the manholes, get Mrs shiney to give a hand putting the covers back and then hose down the covers.
Normally this would be fairly easy, although mucky, but the hose was completely frozen. I had to find my spare 75' hose somewhere in the back of the shed, remove all the connectors from the frozen hose (including the one to connect to the tap), fit them on the spare, hose everything down, take everything apart and then refit the main hose. All this was made a lot harder by having frozen fingers that couldn't feel much.
On the up side, I had a good laugh when Mrs shiney came out with an improvised face mask on because of the awful smell . By the time she came out I had got used to the smell and hardly noticed it. The smell didn't bother Oscar and he was there 'helping' me all the time until I got the hose out.

The charity that we support with our open garden and our other fundraising efforts has just made a little video about themselves and posted it on You Tube. I'll post it on a thread somewhere on here when I get a moment. :thumb:

Have a great day :D

 

Good morning Shiney and all my other friends here at Gardeners Corner,I do hope that you are all OK and well on this lovely day,congratulations Shiney on a job well done.Yesterday I finished painting the shed changing it from a dreary dark green to an amazing bright blue that's brightened the entire garden up,and yours truly,to day I intend to masonry paint all the surrounding walls in the garden a brilliant white if I can see through the fog and rain everyone have a grand day and please stay safe .

 

Hi woo, it sounds as though you'll be brightening up the neighbourhood as well as brightening up our day. :D

 

Good Day Penny, good to hear from you, I was worried you may have had a heavy snowfall, but seems you got off lucky..

I hope everyone else is OK & having a good day..!!

 

Good afternoon everyone,I am a little late to day ,hope you are all OK and well,the sun is shining here and a blue sky is with it,what a combination:Thanx: have a lovely day my friends and please stay safe.