Search found 5605 matches
- Tue Jul 23, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: What do you do with old 'rubbish'?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 142
Re: What do you do with old 'rubbish'?
I have two or three old frying pans. I don't need or want them any more. I don't want t o put them in the bin, ie landfill. And the snobby charity shops won't have them. (I've not even asked.) I remember when I was a skint student I'd have jumped at the chance of kit like this. What should I do wit...
- Sat Jul 06, 2024 11:33 am
- Forum: Birds, Animals and Livestock
- Topic: Swallows
- Replies: 3
- Views: 584
Re: Swallows
I read that people on the north African coast have been using huge cheap nets to catch migrating birds.
- Thu Jun 13, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 142
- Views: 9418
Re: Early Summer Bits and Bobs.
Our Allotment Association had to switch to card as we bank at Barclays and our branch has shut. SumUp was on offer at Toolstation before Christmas at 30% discount so £70 for the tech. Their charges are stated on their website as: "A standard fee of 1.69% per transaction applies for all our card...
- Tue May 28, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Early Summer Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 142
- Views: 9418
Re: Early Summer Bits and Bobs.
Spent the long weekend mostly reroofing a 12'x8' pent roof shed tall front. Complicated by the fact I extended it on the site, down-slope, with the tall bit of roof abutting the right side. Where I had doubled up 3/4" plywood header board with an aluminium panel holding the edge of the Onduline...
- Mon May 20, 2024 1:46 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Robins
- Replies: 3
- Views: 672
Robins
After rotavating I had a few hours fun with robins, one was investigating the rotovated soil and carrying off beakfulls of wrigglies to a nest somewhere. Then another turned up and a fight ensued on top of next doors salad/cabbage tall netting cage, both zoomed off. The original (I think) resumed ac...
- Thu May 09, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Christmas!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 310852
Re: Christmas!
Magazine doesn't see the need for more moderators with the volume of activity on here. If you can point out any more of his posts, which the "Ban Hammer" tool was supposed to remove I can individually delete them. But unless I peruse every thread in past months I'm unable to find them as h...
- Thu May 09, 2024 8:05 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Christmas!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 310852
Re: Christmas!
Darui was banned and the repost editing Stravaig's post has been removed.
In total I removed one on April 21st and edited out his links on another on May 1st.
He cannot post or follow you around since he was banned on April 8th 2024.
I'm the sole active moderator on here.
In total I removed one on April 21st and edited out his links on another on May 1st.
He cannot post or follow you around since he was banned on April 8th 2024.
I'm the sole active moderator on here.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 1:45 pm
- Forum: Weeds, Pests and Diseases
- Topic: What are these invading the plot?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2035
Re: What are these invading the plot?
Closest two matches match I can find in the Phone App "LeafSnap" are:
1 Sibthorpia Peregrina AKA Madeira Moneywort, "it forms dense mats of finely pubescent leaves and miniature yellow flowers."
2 Bramble.
1 Sibthorpia Peregrina AKA Madeira Moneywort, "it forms dense mats of finely pubescent leaves and miniature yellow flowers."
2 Bramble.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Going Green, but not doing so?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1147
Going Green, but not doing so?
Our Allotment provider wants to go green and is advising "a dilute solution of salt" to kill weeds. Thoughts and opinions welcome. I note the RHS counsel against it and point to the Health & Safety Executive as regards what is legal to use. https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/weeds-on-hard-su...
- Wed Apr 10, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 225
- Views: 15830
Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Off to Colchester again then?
I believe that's where it is now.
glasshouse. / (ˈɡlɑːsˌhaʊs) / noun. British a glass building, esp a greenhouse, used for growing plants in protected or controlled conditions. obsolete, informal, mainly British a military detention centre.
I believe that's where it is now.
glasshouse. / (ˈɡlɑːsˌhaʊs) / noun. British a glass building, esp a greenhouse, used for growing plants in protected or controlled conditions. obsolete, informal, mainly British a military detention centre.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Gift bags for home made Christmas pressies.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8315
Re: Gift bags for home made Christmas pressies.
OH, Lizzie was always up for a giggle, especially with "The Grock in the Frock"!
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 4:17 pm
- Forum: Best practices
- Topic: Solar Pest Repeller
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3486
Re: Solar Pest Repeller
Hmmm the joys of differential pricing £11.99 up here
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 8:55 am
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 225
- Views: 15830
Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Sadly no, my older dog is not as mobile as he used to be.
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 8:56 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 225
- Views: 15830
Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Thought we'd have a sodden match today as I was preparing the container bar. Dark slate clouds to our west, a flurry of hail and a strong shower. All changed by kickoff time, bright sunshine with lighter coloured clouds. A good crowd and thankfully after being thrashed away last week, a convincing w...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: General chatter
- Topic: Spring Bits and Bobs.
- Replies: 225
- Views: 15830
Re: Spring Bits and Bobs.
Brief shower this morning, determinably overcast. Yesterdays success was second coat of barn paint on concrete shed door and frame, made a chain of two padlocks and the bits on the door & frame to leave it secure but no painted bits touching each other. Walked the dogs and when we got back it wa...