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I am signing out for this evening so I will wish you all goodnight and see you in the morning. I do hope your night is not disturbed

That was a quick warm up period. You must project calmness that Dewi picked up on right away! Good going @Michael Hewett .

We are enjoying watching the birds feeding on the fallen apples in the garden. We have a large flock of redwings and fieldfares. But the biggest surprise has been the number of blackbirds. Just now 12 males fly in together. But they don't like the winter thrushes and chase them off. There are...

Don't know you're born!

Grusian red cabbage casserole in the making.

On the right is Saxifraga stolonifera, it's a lovely trailing plant, I had one many years ago. On the left is Agave potatorum ouhl-ralgin variegata (bit of a mouthful !) I've never seen or heard of it, It's a very small variety and apparently rare, which I didn't know until I googled it. I like...

I've grown that in the past @Hanglow was a good one but not blight tolerant

We lagged our outside condensate pipe in our old house with that foam piping which is split down one side. Never had a problem with it freezing up after that.

The weather warnings for snow and ice were nothing to cheer about, but I was rather charmed to read this snippet in the news.‘With names like Sir Andy Flurry, Robert Brrrns, and Plougher O'Scotland, the Scottish gritter and snowplough fleet is out in force, across the nation's road network.’

Yes you're right, it is individual squares, different sizes, but that is why I say it is easy. You are only ever working on one round of one square at a time. Yours sounds lovely - what a shame that you no longer have it.

I am trying out Karala for the first time, a mild one due to my stomach not being able to handle hot ones any more (the one with 4 - 5 seeds in the packet). If they become leggy I prune the main stem back to 6 inches.