Same here. Though I did take half a dozen bin bags down to the tip with the old pool liners. On the way back I had to go into Sainsbury's for some...
Chucked some more compost on the filled in pond and gave the acer a lot more water. I managed to get the last two small bags of mortar from the...
It's not exactly what I wanted. In an ideal world I'd have carried on with more brick pavers to extend the arc as far as where the pool collar is...
"Pond Gone!" It took six 60ltr bags of compost and one of top soil to nearly fill it and I still need another bag. I gave it a good watering...
As it was dry I made a start on this this morning. Of course within an hour, it had started to rain a bit but I carried on.. Draining the pond is...
We've decided to get rid of the "frog pond" we've had for over thirty years, it's as old as the former koi pool. [IMG] The problem as you will...
Worth mentioning here as I "like" a lot of posts. But with me it is just a way of acknowledging that I've bothered to read it. So if the post...
Every gardener and those who are just "garden managers" like myself, needs a shed. This is mine, I built nearly fifty years ago, originally for...
'arry isn't at all toilet trained, sometimes, when what's going in at one end today, what went in yesterday, may be coming out at the other end at...
Found myself a small job. I've had this chairside table for about twenty years (from the days when things were made in "real wood" not Contiplas...
As they say, "each to their own." I don't own a smartphone. I do have a versitile "pay as you go" mobile phone, for calls texts and rarely,...
In the past, I've used Ecel spreadsheets to manage my finances. But when I changed laptops Microsoft wanted me to pay for it again. I wasn't...
Yes, it's best to be absolutely certain what you want before getting an estimate. Any later changes are classed as "extras" and it's where some...
I spent an hour on the phone with my bank this afternoon. I'd gone on-line to access my bank account, but although I could "see it," it wouldn't...
Another night of heavy rain left puddles in the areas where the water drains off through holes in the patio's perimeter walls. It was up to the...
Here in the "Tropic of Trafford," as I call it, (South Manchester) we are sheltered by hills on three sides. So we don't normally get extremes of...
If you've a garden. there are some jobs, like weeding and mowing that "come with the territory." So there's no point complaining. But these in...
It's never too early to start training. I'm gently persuading it to achieve a more balanced distribution of branches. I'll leave it like this for...
It was a golf day today, but I when I came home I thought that it might rain tomorrow, so I went over to Eccles and bought the caps and batons...
Correct! That's why they are so popular and we bought it.
