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by Clive.
Sun Mar 24, 2024 2:23 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 41
Views: 816

Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.

That must make me an old boy...as I can't remember either.. ;)

.. I have just now got two short rows of Bunyards Exhibition pushed in here...

It's certainly a bit all over the place...Roses are a couple of weeks up with level of leaf and ornamental cherry blossom seems well on too.

C.
by Clive.
Sun Mar 24, 2024 11:12 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 41
Views: 816

Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.

Convinced that time was racing by and how far behind I felt things vegetable planting wise were, I have just put in 6 short rows of Biztro shallots in the big garden...I pulled a bit of Winter dug ground over yesterday in front of the north wall and miraculously it stayed dry overnight...there were ...
by Clive.
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:18 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

I bet the farmers are getting really concerned now, as there was a lot of the Autumn sown crops they were unable to get in and some of the ones that did get sown have succumbed to the flooding. And now not being able to get the Spring stuff sown, must be very concerning for them. Think any cereal r...
by Clive.
Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:31 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

..and tonight is self inflicted hair cut time....different machine..."I liked it so much I bought the company" is the make.

It was very white frosty looking on the sides but has darkened with careful trimming...although no idea of what it's like at the back...

C.
by Clive.
Sat Mar 16, 2024 1:37 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

I've been looking at my lawn for weeks....waiting for a drier moment... Answer seems to be... that there isn't one...so today is the best I could muster. International travelling Rover mower started first pull on last years petrol in the tank.... The mower is Australian manufactured, sold new from a...
by Clive.
Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:30 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

But when does April start.? ;) ....as we had a lovely sunny start and then after lunch very April like showers kept running through.
Worked in the back greenhouse sorting through over wintered and failed to over winter things...

C.
by Clive.
Thu Mar 14, 2024 6:25 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Goodness, that really confirms that we are still the drier side of England..even though we are wetter than we can work with.

Our low flyer today was an A400 Atlas....I missed it....heard it whirring along...but as seems to be the norm' when something interesting goes by...I was in the loo.!

C.
by Clive.
Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:52 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Yesterday was depressing and dark. Grey with rain once again....however, having spread some riddled soil on a turf repair I had got some grass seed on just as the steady straight down rain commenced,...enough to wash it in without washing it away thankfully....so just maybe for once that was spot on...
by Clive.
Sun Mar 10, 2024 10:54 am
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Back to rain today.... Pleased now that I grabbed the moment yesterday and dragged the big Wolf 3 tine cultivator through a line of dug ground so it could dry in the sun and east wind to enable me to quickly push in a double row of Bunyard's Exhibition broad beans. The ground by afternoon was just w...
by Clive.
Fri Mar 08, 2024 7:02 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Dare I admit that I managed to get four short rows of Casablanca potatoes in this afternoon. On some lightly sloped ground in front of the big north wall..

Good to have some dry at last...courtesy of the East wind....blooming cold in it but gorgeous out of it..in the sunshine..


C.
by Clive.
Sun Mar 03, 2024 6:03 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

So once again I said to myself, I'm not going to buy any seed potatoes..... .......what happened... Down the garden centre car park to partake of the car wash service, to be all sorted and clean for mot test...two new tyres yesterday and a tracking check too. What do I do...I wander into the garden ...
by Clive.
Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:33 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Looks like we are going to get some much needed rain tomorrow….🙂 Just in case we had forgotten what rain looks like.... ;) I did some turf repairs yesterday and after dusting a little riddled soil over the patched turf, I joked...that we'll need a bit of rain now to wash it in.... so you can blame ...
by Clive.
Sun Feb 25, 2024 2:12 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

Suspect not resistor type, thinking of how it might have been generally at that time when Big Bertha was a young-un... it's not though a device i had any dealings with back in the day. There is a sort of distant dream to make one bedroom a hobby room...then some Hornby Dublo with its three rail tinp...
by Clive.
Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:35 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

I certainly miss PSB it was a staple via a few varieties but not at the moment due to reality of trying to keep things muddling along best I can. Yours will have rather less air miles than that on the shop shelf...which I look at but won't buy.. Got a few little jobs done in the big garden this, and...
by Clive.
Fri Feb 23, 2024 6:03 pm
Forum: General chatter
Topic: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.
Replies: 201
Views: 74841

Re: Late Winter Bits and Bobs.

This evenings planned new curtain hanging has been postponed...I'm sure I saw a bag full of curtain hooks...can I find them now.!! I can find every sort of Swish glider types, in the box found on the box room top shelf, but can't find the old fashioned hooks...for this curtain track that isn't Swish...