Yes I don't fancy the Soft Caress one. I have a traditional prickly one, but it's out of the way in the middle of my slope and the bigger it gets,...
I didn't even know I had box until the moths arrived. It's a short length of hedging on the side boundary of my front garden, which was either...
That's a nice looking Mahonia.
It's that time of the year when it's difficult to leave the supermarket without bulbs. This is my first purchase of the season, from Lidl. And the...
There's loads of different versions, I guess depending on what you're trying to grow and where you're trying to grow it!...
I've noticed an improvement in recent years. I walk along a road that has a McDonald's, and I used to get very annoyed by the amount of trash I...
I think it was always the case though. I remember being taken out litter picking in a lay-by by a main road when a small child. The litter was...
I have noticed that it's an acorn year this year and I'm seeing them lying on pavements where I hadn't even realised there was an oak nearby. Very...
Yes I think it must be cranberry. You have to be patient with fruit bushes, they can take a few years to get into their stride.
I had no idea about the fruit. I have been reading up and apparently they have 15 times as much lycopene as tomatoes, and they are nitrogen fixers...
Yes, last year when I still had a box hedge I saw masses of them. They would also hang out in the grass and fly up in clouds when I walked over...
I haven't seen a single box moth this year - there's nothing left for them to eat!
All the grass looks green from a distance now - not so good close up. My back lawn is recovering well though. I didn't cut it all summer and the...
Plenty of rain today. Pond has reached the overflow level.
That wasn't a poor guy. He was riding a bike with no brakes, which is illegal. He killed her. Cyclist Charlie Alliston guilty over pedestrian's death
I got a breast cancer research one a couple of weeks ago and as I'd just been turning out some cupboards I was able to fill it. Then I forgot to...
There are some books that have absolutely no worth to anyone though, e.g. "Windows Vista for Dummies". Though having said that, Amazon is offering...
Charity shops use to be able to sell on the unwearable stuff as "rag" to traders but the price has plummeted. 'Rag' price slump costs EACH charity...
A large amount of clothing ends up in Africa, where it undercuts the local textile industries and puts people out of work.
It's difficult to donate clothes because of fast fashion - there's a glut of poor quality stuff that's not worth buying second hand. The demand...
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