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Good morning all.My car is going to a local garage to be serviced this morning. It's French, so back to front, but we aren't in France and the garage have done it before.We are off to Eastbourne tomorrow, will stay in a hotel. Cedric's daughter is in hospital in Brighton but the family lives...

And looking at spaces where something has failed to spring into life, scratching your head to try to remember what it was!

I know two women on this estate, who separately go up the road (less than a mile) and have a coffee in the local cafe. One even drives up and has to find somewhere to park. One did suggest we go together. No thanks - I'd rather have a coffee at home. Certainly wouldn't pay £5.

Good morning all,cloudy windy with a high of 13c, plenty of rain from lunch time by the looks of it,just when the gardens were drying out nicely.

Between our two veggie plots we, sort of, let it go wild with some encouragement from us. The area used to have root vegetables but that is too much work for me - particularly as they are cheap in the shops The 'Wild Area' and fruit trees are behind it. The rhubarb patch is 73 years old and...

Pear blossom (Pyrus salicifolia)

Started my first batch two weeks agoSunchocola Rose de Berne Grushovka Starfighter Rebel Prime Bolivian Orange Cherry Stupice Red Alert Blondkopfchen Honeymoon Piel del Melocoton Cosmonaut Volkov Nello's PlumAll rose their heads quickly apart from the Honeymoon and one of the Grushovkas...

Sometimes the contacts on the SD card get greasy. I have some electrical contact spray cleaner, but if you don't, a gentle rub with a soft pencil rubber can clean the contacts enough. Also, as @pete says, the laptop receiving contacts could be iffy, so by using a Usb connected reader (they're...

Slowcoach! Mine is 6.3 - but upload registers as zero

That sounds interesting, I must look up their events as we could combine it with a Carmarthen trip. (We popped into their cafe on Friday after an appt at the auction place)

Not buzzing or flying but sunbathing. I stopped counting the ladybirds when the numbers went past 50.

Dangerous!