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Had a shower yesterday afternoon fairly light but slow moving.Sunny this morning and cold at 2c. There was a slight patchy ground frost.

Hello everyone. The quiz last night was great fun even though we lost by a couple of points. That seems to be our general performance all this season but even though we never seem to just make that winning move we all still enjoy the nights. The half time sandwiches were delicious....

Thank you @Michael Hewett and @Scroggin He wouldn't have anything to eat so we had a emergency appointment at the vets, it cost £85. that's without any medication. He took his temperature that was normal, he said that it's a irritated colon so he gave him a steroid injection to soothe it and it...

I deny "wanton", but admit to an element of neglect, m'lord!

Here are my giant Kelsae this morning, I accidentally left them outdoors unprotected overnight so they have had a slight frost. I expect they won't be much troubled. I have about a dozen smaller Kelsae seedlings in a greenhouse

Hope, they recover. Mine been travelling for a week now - to the greenhouse and back home for the night. Hopefully they can stay in the greenhouse from tomorrow. It was only +4c during this night. Soil in the greenhouse is +12c in 20 cm depth.

I've just sniffed my cristata. It also has a bit of scent. And the dendrobium is definitely sweetly scented.

On a PC or laptop i use the HOME button on the keybroad

I went to Bath to London Camera Exchange, had a spare SD card and took pictures from the same spot, same poor light condition with my Pentax and the R10, 1.2kg vs. 705gr. Back home, colour profile was good, the picture differences were like day and night, literally :-). I called them that I'm...

Some pictures from a few days ago when there was a gap in the showers and wind. Yellow flowered LamiumRed flowered LamiumPulmonariaDrimys with some Juneberry flowersDarwin's barberryBlackthornForget me not in the new rhubarb patchAlso posted a video from today of some of what has...

They breed in my shed and under my potting table and next to my potting table...........

12 April 20264 swallows they also spotted a sparrow hawk so I heard them before I saw them.

How lovely, @shiney ! Our smoke detectors are battery driven, @lizzie27, and should be good for 10 years, nothing like that old. Dust is a very likely cause of the problem. Or insects. We have been surprised before with finding woodlice inside light fittings and behind wall sockets. Rather...