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Got a text message from my doctors, you need to make an appointment for a blood test.I get on the phone, use our automated service to book an appointment, key in your date of birth, key in your phone number, enter an 8 digit pass code. At this point I gave up and joined the queue to speak to...

@Liriodendron, Dordogne hasn't suffered much from the latest storm. There has been a lot of wind and snow further north. It will be cold and quite sunny for the next 3 or 4 days but wet and mild for Wednesday when we arrive back and the following week.

Interesting. Thanks for the tip We all need a cheering up. I can’t wait to get the chilli seeds into the soil. Another two weeks to wait.

3 Tote bags using up odds and ends of yarn for the McMillan box.

Holboellia latifolia is not one I grow; I do have H coriacea and H brachyandra. H coriacea RHS describe it as rampant; I can vouch for that I exiled it from it's first home to behind the compost heap where it's making successful attempts to take over the scrub behind my property in March it...

What was that @Escarpment ?

Heh, no. They're (supposedly) single use/biodegradable non woven seedling bags. I just keep washing and re-using them.

Welcome back @CostasK, hope your garden will be ok in the morning.

I've still got a few to pick tooAlso got lots of kallettes to pick as well, hopefully this cold spell has made them tastierI did a bit of pruning over Xmas, mainly the grapes and redcurrants. Hoping this year I'll get a small harvest of grapes it's their third year now.