Funny thing now - we have a self-propelled Flymo with a B & S engine....lousy design, but no problems starting it, really. And the garden tractor...
Hi, Walnut!So we're agreed - Tussock Moth but not!!! I was wondering if maybe it had been parasitised by an ichneumon fly or something and...
An age-old problem, I reckon! There was a thread recently about poor quality hose fittings, if I remember rightly.Most of these connectors have...
Agreed - good drivers can cope with speed, track conditions, etc. - but look what happened at Indianapolis when Michelin produced a tyre that...
Hi, Jen! Second plant is feverfew - supposedly good for headaches, but if you've got too much of it, it probably gives you one. It's a wild...
At least you HAVE builders - every day! French builders seem to arrive for a couple of hours, then shove off again! I'm dreading having the septic...
AND we won the cricket.... Thank you Mr. Panesar and whoever woke Mr. Harmison from his winter sleep...Great stuff from Lewis, I agree - but...
If the second one was in full sun, the camera's done very well! There's usually so much contrast that you get bits burnt out even in close-ups -...
Mmmmm.... NICE! And much greener than I'd imagined from the seaside pics you posted before. Are the eucaypts plantations? I suppose they must be....
Now that is SERIOUSLY gorgeous! I love the striped and picotee forms of lots of flowers. Better than the plain colours, quite often.Colour...
Bit puzzling, Glen! The caterpillar looks for all the world like it's going to be a Pale Tussock Moth - but they have more tufts sticking up along...
Snail's eggs!!! Got a pond, Lelly? Goldfish would probably love 'em!(Don't like creepies and crawlies and slithery things...? Not a Graham...
Yes, Kandy - it's a hornet. Not usually aggressive, and they're beneficial insects as they eat flies. They're colonial, like wasps, and make a...
Nothing to be found! But lots of people here have wells and use electric pumps for those - they just connect the output hose from the pump to a...
My sympathies, Geoff. Leaves a really nasty taste, doesn't it? A friend of mine used to describe such people as "a boil on the a*se of society"!...
Same here! Got a couple of P. canariensis at the supermarket for the equivalent of �£4 each - couple of feet tall at least, and in very good...
Probably right, Walnut! Most probably, in fact!!! But..... the black bands look straight rather than being shaped like a very broad "U". So...
We're both terribly sorry - it's awful, especially when it happens out of the blue like that. A shock you're totally unprepared for.You know...
Thought I'd pop this one in, too, as a curiosity - this phalaenopsis arrived as a birthday pressie last September, and these are the original...
Hi, Kedi! Did you see the insect at rest? If you did, and it held its wings parallel to its body, it was a damselfly. If it held them at right...
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