Didn't do much in the garden today, part from giving it "another coat of looking at"[ATTACH]
A chair under the umbrella and a beer.[ATTACH]I've been looking forward to this for two weeks, since the area looked like this.[ATTACH]
My Hoselock reel turned up last week it was a doddle to put up. You can have the winding handle either side. The illustrations only show it for...
Our wisterias do produce several seed pods, but I start cutting back some of the foliage in September and they are still green at that time.
Really warm day. Did the final tidy and vaccing of the garage and rabbit shed.Decided to take the back-up freezers out of the shed and put them...
Took the last load of ex-pool stuff down to the tip.Started moving some stuff out of the garage and the tea-house into; "The Room."Perhaps I...
Got into a bit of gardening for a change. Gave all the pots a feed and the lawn some iron sulphate, tidied up some of the clematis. As usual...
Some more photos.Just the fountain and the low voltage spotlight on the fence, with an orange filter[ATTACH][ATTACH]Plus some more...
I was half-way through screwing down the decking in the former koi pool filter room, when at mid-day I got a phone call from a carrier to say they...
The leaky hose covers the bed next to the patio, the rockery and the long side bed and the bed in front of the back fence. It has a dedicated...
I've been quite busy again today, (no change there then, eh?) Golf in the morning, then went to Wilko's on my way home after lunch. The decking I...
A practice when moving Japanese koi is to add some oxygen to the bag. Those airfreighted to the UK from Japan are usually sedated too.It's a...
I've been working really hard tearing down the old filter room. Five hours yesterday, eight hours today.Koi Pool Close Down
This is where I was up to with clearing the former filter room by 7.00pm last night.[ATTACH]Early start this morning 10.00 am. It took me...
Played golf in the morning and started dismantling the pool and quarantine tank filters this afternoon. Finished at 7.00pm. As both the filters...
We've a small garden and I put these in about ten years ago. It's speed-fit pipe and two sprinkler heads from eBay. Solved the problem of watering...
I've disconnected and blanked off the water supply to the pool trickle change feed, the quarantine tank and its filter. I've sorted out the power...
I've just ordered a new Hoselock 25m reel to go on a wall. Because I'm sick of having to add bits of hose to water part of the garden. It was at...
It's worth a try.Make sure it's clean and completely dry before using it.Is it on a side seam?It might br worth tying some strong cord round...
Few pools are built these days with pump sumps. The modern equivalent is a Vortex.This is a 40 gallon rainwater butt set in concrete with a...
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