Yeah, well. Now we have to wait for another surveyor to come and look at the damp in one of the walls. All adds to the stress.
Surveyor came, 33 minutes later he was away. No major issues, he said. so all we can do now is wait and see what the buyer will do.
Sitting here waiting for the surveyor to come tomorrow to examine the property. Hope the report is favourable and the purchaser carries on with...
Ta!. Very quiet day and normal meals, no party for us.
With all of us working it did not take long to dig out the dirt to about 18 inches deep. The next step was to fetch the soil. I wanted the gang to...
I went. When I got home I got changed and had a wash. Before tea I went into the yard and began tidying up my 'rubbish'. It did not take long to...
Our house had a long back yard, surfaced with tiles. These had been laid on a bed of foundry ash. Many of them were loose and fairly easily...
This is the first part of how I got into gardening. Grandad's Sweet peas Uncle Joe had bought an old car and rebuilt it. During the summer he...
If you have trouble getting the seeds to germinate in the soil, you can do it on coffee filter paper and then sow the growing seeds afterwards....
Taste good when roasted, but they also are very good when boiled, and creamed like mashed potatoes. We like a spicy Parsnip soup too. Also...
They need a period of frost to change the starch in them into sugar so they become sweeter. However, if frost is not forthcoming then blanching...
Only 10 miles from us too!
No photos these days. BUT when I was teaching I was very pleased to find a history book with images of the town I was brought up in. I was even...
Yes, the Castle is open, or at least a lot of it. It was still used as a private dwelling until recently. We do not usually go round the interior...
Magnolias certainly do produce fruits. otherwise how would they propagate themselves in the wild? Ours have red seed pods on most years. I have...
We have been going out this week since winter is a coming in. https://imgur.com/a/9CisjX8
When the Botanists did the DNA testing and found that it was not a Eupatorium.
Took me a while to find its name. Bartlettina sordida (previously eupatorium sordidum). If you mean this plant. [ATTACH]
Today. https://imgur.com/a/ZTqBtnU
Glad you enjoyed them. We were a little disappointed, we had hoped there would be more colour, but a lot of the leaves had gone altogether....
