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We've been out for lunch to a lovely pub near Chester, which had a half price offer on for mains. I had a really super piece of salmon, with crushed new potatoes and tenderstem in a white wine and king prawn sauce. OH had an excellent pizza. They are repeating the offer next week, so we might...

This afternoon I went through my seed tins. I know many of you will have done this and ordered new seed already. I often wait till after my Birthday nearer the end of the month as vouchers are always an easy thing for people to get. I am being sent offers for discounted prices nearly every...

Please give them my sympathies. That is the very last place in Canada I would want to live. They are probably the only smart people in the whole city!

Without frost some of those nasty pests and diseases will become opportunistic though and plants will suffer .

Those that do buy new cars may be back on the moan thread .

George likes to lick the olive juice off a dish (if I let him) but I’ve never tried him with a whole olive. They are all different aren’t they. George will avidly take a morsel from my fingers but Charlie prefer to have it off the floor. I don’t let them have human food much but they do like...

@stephenprudence thanks for making me totally envious! As it reached -4.7c here week before last, I don't think I'll be trying brugs outside! Though saying that, I knew someone in rural Nottinghamshire who did. He just cut them down and mulched over winter.

That’s brilliant! And such a bargain, I bet it would cost a fair bit to buy the ready made bag.

For gardeners in Hampshire: where do you get peat based substrates/composts? Garden centres around Portsmouth appear to go with peat-free composts. My nearest Poundland closed. The only options left are online.