Last job last night was watering the pots. When I got to the hebe on the steps outside the French windows (photo from a couple of months back)....
Bit of a pain today. Dug out the grass in the rockery. Had to drag away the rose pots to get at it, then it was a hands and knees job. Had to try...
Collected a couple of watches from Timpsons. This one I've had for several years, it's a Rotary Dolphin standard, I bought new on eBay. The vendor...
I gave the acer in the front garden a bit of a prune. At this time of the year it looks a bit like a pin cushion with new growth sticking out in...
It's rained most of the day so I've not bothered
Just a couple of hours as it looks like rain. I got into the wisterias as the unwanted growth was rampant. There was also some "bunching" at the...
Standing in an unnecessarily long queue at the checkouts in Tesco this morning (only three checkouts open!) I was next to what was left of their...
Dealing with the heat can be a problem. Taking a couple of cooling showers during the day, actually is quite an effort and as our bathroom is at...
"I'm a man of simple tastes," (when it comes top food on the occasions I have to prepare it myself). Today for lunch, I had a 145g can of...
Eleven of us played golf this morning, starting at 9.00am, in two four-balls and one three-ball. I was with the three ball out first. I had a 50...
Far too hot to do anything today other than some watering. I watched and recorded two Bette Davis films on BBC2. "Dark Victory" and "Now...
I wasn't happy with this bit of extra path I'd added under this acer palmatum a couple of weeks ago, where the grass refused to grow. it looked a...
Yesterday, we had a lot of ants in several places. The poor sambucus in its tub was covered in them. But a libral scattering of ant powder last...
I think I might have offended him by picking up his house with him in it and whisking it away to bench in my shed. When I opened the lid I'm sure...
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Having watched a few videos of hedgehog tick removal on YouTube. I thought I'd better check 'arry out. It's a right pain to get at his house...
Not doing much today. Gave the lawn a feed. Fought my way into the azaleas in the bed on the side of the patio, to remove some convulvulus that...
Famously sang this hit UK song which he recorded in 1963, from the Centre Court stand, in 1996 when play was stopped for hours due to rain. The...
They are called felt roofs, it's a generic term, but they aren't actually made of felt. Felt roofs are very common in the UK for garden buildings...
