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So have they started yet?

Quite horrid out here, rainy and very windy. No chance I am going to get the second green bin filled. I'm not going outside for longer than it takes to take the full bin down to the road, and bring up the recycling containers before they get blown all over the place. Neither of us can manage a...

It was moderately windy on my walk so good job I wore my knitted hat as my hood kept blowing down. Quite dark and drizzly now so that’s me in for the afternoon.

On these cold evenings, Munchkin likes to pretend she is a log ...

I've reported 3 this morning on Fix My Street just to be a pain in the back side

I also enjoyed all 3 episodes.I only wish the really sad story behind Schreber and the Schrebergarten idea would be mentioned in these gardening programs. Don't use the English page in Wikipedia but if your browser allows, use the translation from the German page: Moritz Schreber –...

@lizzie27 , I’ve just had the very same problem and after googling it, I used ( quite a few )paracetamols getting rid of the gunk off the bottom of the iron.The iron has to be on , take the paracetamol and rub it across the affected area. I used up about five tablets as something had badly...

It's mainly dry today so i weeded the rhubarb patch and put a lot of old compost around them from 2 large containers that i grew the tomatoes in last year. It wasn't very warm to do it and my hands were very cold, but i wanted to do something.

I made a batch of rock cakes in the airfryer as an experiment. They came out very well. Unfortunately it does mean I’ll probably make them more often, as I no longer have to put the oven on. Just eaten two of them to test. Not going to do my weight any good.

After a several -5cs and gale force winds these last two weeks, the Acacia lost loads of buds and turned some leaves brown. The Calothamnus has brown tips too and the small pink Echium bought in the Summer looks dead. We still have February to get through!