All OK, dug out my sunhat. Lunch and dinner outside. 18.7° pretty good for up here.

That was more like it 16.3°. My potato bed was prepared and sheeted over on 29th December so today I could take off the sheet and plant my 81 potatoes that were nicely chitted and replace the sheet. Also managed a bit of weeding of one of my drier bits, hopefully more will be fit for that in the com...

Another thoroughly miserable day, hope the forecast "spring" actually happens. Hope all the flower seedlings I've pricked out very small take OK, just desperate for something productive to do.

Not sure it is really Spring yet OH though today's lovely sunshine could fool you. All the gardening and wildlife programmes are always on about looking after the pollinators but they never seem to mention Ericas. Our heather bed is flowering well this year, difficult to photograph as it is quite st...

I'm trying to get our hot water cylinder replaced, not leaking but showing corrosion round the top that is a bit worrying, so have given the details to three plumbers but nobody has got back to me. At least if they asked for money up front it might indicate a bit of commitment! We also have a boreho...

Most kale flowering shoots are just as edible as PSB, particularly Kalettes and Russian Red.

Welcome back - just got to round up the rest of the contributors to this thread and we'll have a forum again.

Hope you had a good day.

Washed the polytunnel yesterday, started with the pressure washer until it decided it needed a rest when I tried to restart after lunch (just watched a video on how to service the pressure switch, may give it a try) and finished with a good soaking from leaky window brush. Today I planted the potato...

Never had anything to do with one but "Bokashi bins can process almost all food waste, including cooked food, meat, fish, dairy, bread, and small bones, which are often not suitable for traditional compost. The anaerobic, fermented system breaks down vegetable scraps, fruit peelings, coffee gro...

No we didn't have floods up here at 600 feet, some of the rivers lower down had their moments but mainly coped. January blues day today with misty drizzle all day feeling cold.

Glad you got it working, didn't notice originally there is a Christchurch station. I see you've had 140mm (you can change to imperial if you prefer) this month, you can imagine what our 227mm was like last month.

I post lots of weather stories and you can see my weather station data via the link at the bottom of my posts. It is hosted on a website called pwsweather.com. It is a worldwide site and you can find weather stations all over the world. There are some stations in Dorset, I haven't worked out which i...

And the blackbirds and robins are getting really stroppy where we feed them.

Good to see you back. Hope you can help win the Cyber war. I fear for our services particularly electricity. The National Grid is such a complex structure and we know they have under invested in the physical structure leaving it vulnerable to climate change storms, just have to hope they have been m...