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A furniture dealer from Dublin decided to expand the line of furniture in his store, so he decided to go to Paris to see what he could find. After arriving in Paris he met with some manufacturers and selected a line that he thought would sell well back home in Dublin.To celebrate the new...

When we moved in here, part of the wall between us and the farming neighbours had been demolished by cattle & replaced temporarily with pallets. We had it rebuilt, but incorporated a hedgehog-sized hole where there was evidence a hog had been climbing through a broken pallet. The builders were...

I was not aware it was prostrate but don't mind if it is. Here is the description given from the supplier in Italy ...'Clearview David' is an erect, bushy evergreen shrub, up to 1.5 meters tall and wide. Its narrow, needle-like leaves, reminiscent of rosemary, are dark green and persistent....

Thanks @AnniD, dinner will have to be earlier tomorrow then!

We used to call fridays 'Poets' day........P*** Off Early Tomorrow's Saturday.

After a dull and windy morning the sun suddenly came out at lunchtime and cheered us up. So we went out in the car and it tipped it with rain. Very variable.7c for most of the night.Variable tomorrow again.

Our surgery works in reverse. They ring us and say they need to book us in to see the doctor/nurse/blood test - can you make it on such and such date and time. We had three of these calls this week - two for me and one for hubby. They never leave us alone. And there are only two part time doctors.

And this mornig - the stem to the right has grown so fast , it looks as though it may well overtake it older sister ! Jenny namaste

Thanks @Busy-Lizzie, I might try pruning the osmanthus first - it really is getting too big for its boots and I didn't get round to it last year.This LWP rose was only planted to balance out the first on the other side of the Osmanthus. My beloved cat's ashes are beneath it (he was a small...

I usually get my Sungold from DT Brown - never had a problem with them.

I'm think of doing that but making the low step all the way across the front of the greenhouse Where we should be able to walk across it from either end or from the front. Simon will be here on Monday and all of us can discuss it.It also depends on whether the remaining ballast, sand and...