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Hi,This new Yamaha keyboard is amazing; I've set it up in the front room where I can play it at will. It only arrived on Monday and already I can play the opening notes of two songs; not a lot but rapid compared to playing the violin where it took forever just to play three notes.This...

My Kentia palm is producing new leaves and I could do with removing a large one as it's in front of the TV. It's got a wall light above it so it has some extra light in the evenings.I am feeding all my house plants and water them as needed all year round. And mist some too.I have a...

I see it often too. I don't see it when the new season maincrop spuds hit the shelves around September and there's no sign of black areas inside the spuds until around mid-December when I start to notice them. It's also this period (Sept-Dec) when spuds roast their best.Many years ago I met a...

I am less than sure... why would you build a product for a market (North American in this case), to accept the appropriate plug and then not ensure BMS compatibility? Fully accept that voltages and frequencies vary across the world, but those voltages have already been dealt with by the time it...

They keep up grading, (down grading in respect of hard drive space), the computer part of the act but never do much regarding how the thing is powered, its archaic, I can buy a power tool with two batteries, one on charge and one being used, it would then become truly portable.

Well done @AnniD

Yes, Project Gutenberg is a wonderful resource for all kinds of books. I remember reading this particular one some years ago. Even in those days I don’t think I could have wielded a fork of that size. And as for the cap, it would have been turned into a bird bath after five minutes.

Lady of the Lake has been blooming very well for me @Selleri and has been a great rose all around. I am abroad at the moment but there were still a few blooms when I left. It seems to be very happy, quite vigorous and forming a cloud of branches rather than only going straight up. I nearly got...

Agree, even the best PAS100 compost still contains plastic, which will take far longer to break down than the polymer on slow release fertiliser.Then you have farmers that are widely using PAS100, those microplastics don't even break down in the digestive systems of cattle let alone in the...

Consider threatening them with barbed wire - they'll soon perk up

For those of you wondering what to do with those empty plastic chocolate/biscuits tubs, if you live near to a Greene King pub they can be taken there. The money raised goes to Macmillan .Tub2Pub | Greene King for Good

I was thinking mine could make a good fence treatment, or preservative for any timber that is going into the ground, it has a very similar colour to creosote. I'm glad I didn't actually swallow any of it.My tongue still feels burnt, I'm having to drink lots of cold beer to sooth it.

Thank you; I feel you are right and this is what my gut tells me too. I don't know why we have to breed plants to become so 'over-showy'. Some doubles are so complicated looking, the lovely original flower is lost. I also read somewhere that double flowers are harder for bees to navigate,...