22nd July 2025On the 22nd, I got the next four edging stones clamped, laid and concreted in place. I covered over the concrete with soil to trap...
The rain was holding off, so I began excavating the final height of the lower entrance edging stone. This has been lowered to reduce the tripping...
21st July 2025With rain forecast mid to late morning, I wanted to try and get something useful done. So around 10am, I went out with the...
19th July 2025Re-seeding the top of the lawn, around the area of the sloped paving, has been a real challenge in the long hot dry Spring and...
17th/18th July 2025On the 17th, I spent around six hours, continuing the foundation for the edging. So many slates were buried in the grass,...
The spray doesn't go too high, but if the wind gets up, I can always turn one panel over to reduce the flow. The pump isn't far below the surface,...
I've also mentioned that I hope to make a stream next year. This is the approximate plan, starting beside the sun room patio and twisting down the...
16th July 2025The postman brought the solar powered pond pump today. It was a £10 Ebay find with a 1.5watt solar panel and 200 litres per hour...
15th July 2025This morning, I got both the palm trees removed from the planters and the flowers replanted. We're now looking for something...
Over to the West, the sky turned very black. I had just enough time to get the tools and compost into the workshop, when the lightning, thunder...
The old barrels really had seen better days. Earlier this year, we'd contemplated changing them next year, but having had a closer look over the...
Late in the day, we went out to another local garden centre and found a plastic pot of around 18 inches diameter. It wasn't too expensive and...
13th July 2025Sunday's garden centre trip was a hot one. We didn't find any plastic pots that would work as a pond, but did come back with some...
10/11th July 2025Micro Pond 2After making pond 1 and watching the video from the pondcam, it quickly became clear that any plants placed in...
No, I'm not a builder, but have always been able to turn my hand to any practical task using any tool. I don't often do any research on "How To"...
8th July 2025More butchery! The Yew trees are a bit of a pain to trim. They get very tall, are on uneven ground, making ladders dangerous and...
2nd July 2025The Canterbury bells, seen in the upper left, were dying off by early July, with most of the flowers now dead. So those and others...
1st July 2025In the back of the woodland, the White and Red campion had started flowering. I'm fairly sure these weren't purchased, so are most...
27th June 2025The veggies were doing well at the end of June. The dry first six months of the year meant very few slugs, so the strawberries...
This works. I used it to lift a 100Kg steel beam, 8 feet into the garage ceiling.[MEDIA]
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