Hi Johnboy,
How funny to reappear when thought of And how nice to be thought of
Yes very busy time now, but so much rain, is making it difficult to get it all done.
Can't complain though, after the drought, promised I never would complain about it again

Bravo Mike! Waste not, want not!!

Sounds as if you are all having absolutely frightful weather over there. I even heard mention of a hurricane???? Horrible! My first visit to the UK in the 1980's we were on top of Nottingham castle when we saw a tornado go past!!! If we didn't have the pictures to prove it, I would seriously doubt w...

[quote="alan refail"][quote="DahlisMarie"]Yes, and keep in mind that some may say that the word "man" is a diminutive of the word "woman".....

But only if they don't know their Anglo-Saxon


Sorry Alan, that was my pathetic little attempt at a joke..

Yes, and keep in mind that some may say that the word "man" is a diminutive of the word "woman".....

Both sexes work very hard but with different goals.

Very good Weed

Old (or new) cheap plastic cutlery also comes in handy for labels if you have some stashed away. Big bags of lolly pop sticks are usually available in craft shops. Have not found a fool-proof pen myself yet. I now have no idea which of my tomato varieties are which so fool-proof is the operative wor...

Meant to add: My way of getting rid of grassy, weedy paths between and around beds is to carpet them. I just put down old strips of carpet (I had plenty, but one could always ask a carpet layer for offcut strips) on top of the grass and it works brilliant. It kills off any grass etc. underneath but ...

Hi Compo I'm sure the chicken pellets would be fine. I think anything and everything that is organic can be put in. My blood and bone here is animal rather than fish. Though I use a lot of seaweed fertilizer in the garden. I do also throw around a lot of what we have here called "Dynamic Lifter...

Oh dear, OH I am so sorry!

Compo It is only partly my own. Most of the idea is from reading about no-dig gardening and I just adapted it to whatever was better for me and what I have available.

Just wondering whether anyone may be interested in my lazy way of doing garden beds. I don't do digging anymore (or windows), so I do the following and it is totally successful for me. This has also been done out in the paddock, without having to dig up the soil. Beds were put down straight on top o...

[quote="Jenny Green Yes, well they can compete all they like. Neither of them are the capital! [/quote] Yes, but then again..Have you seen the capital???.... Actually I am one of the few that like Canberra. I live more or less right in the middle between Sydney and Canberra and I much prefer go...

[ No I lived in Melbourne long enough to call it home though. Jenny You know, there are some really terrible Sydney people who would say that you couldn't call living in Melbourne living in Australia You would have heard the "friendly" rivalry between the cities. Though I think that has d...

[quote="peter

That is 14lb to the stone and 2.2lb to the kg.

So 127Kg. [/quote]


Sooo, ookay.....you were just meant to be a lot taller

[ So that's 153 of me to every one of you. Okay, okay, lay off the fat jokes.. . Dahlis, the joke is on me, I'm 20 Stone.[/quote] Peter, I can't even remember "Stones" now. They forced metrics on us poor sods in the 1960's although I am still a feet and inches girl. However I had to learn...