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Still -3c here. Max 1c. But full sunshine and bright blue skies. Rather nice as tomorrow onwards it's back to warm and wet. Not sure if I will venture up the road to get a newspaper. Could do with some crampons, but not sure how they would be inside a shop.

There were lots of yellow and brown patches in the snow when I went up the road. No loo paper though.

Morning all. We’ve woken to another layer snow overnight. Not very deep but it has laid and covered everything. We have to pop out later to the famous DIY store for ( yet another) kitchen bin after ours broke yesterday. We have the push button type and the spring came springing out and broke a...

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...

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.

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

I have a couple of similar raised bed thingies that have been a great success @CostasK , recommended.

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.

Just normal room temperature, good light but no strong hot sunshine. Always flowers around the Christmas period.

If a long tailed tit loses its tail, is it now just a tit? It's not moulting season so I think this fellow must have been in the wars.Female blackcap was eating pyracantha berries today.Earlier in the week she was hogging the apple on the feeder, so the male had to make do with a...