Sorry, Sub bach, I just don't like it. It's just the bee in my bonnet.

Alan

Before Lidl gets any more free publicity on this forum, perhaps I can redress the balance by asking you Lidl admirers to look at m I came across this on the Wikipedia entry for Lidl (references at the bottom of the article). Or you could Google Lidl (and while you're at it ASDA/Walmart) to read abou...

Hi all
Thanks for your comments. I look forward to catching the programme if it is reshown next week. We Welsh, yet again, were given two hours of ***** rugby on BBC 2
Alan

Barney The trouble with bounties for killing wild animals is: who decides what to get rid of? As a poultry keeper (and cat owner) I prefer foxes out of the way, but how many people like watching the little dears at play? What about the red kite, which we have got back in Wales? Or hedgehogs? Or badg...

It sure does

If anyone's still confused by rods, poles etc, how about nails, palms, spans and shaftments?

A look at this will keep the brain cells active and provide an alternative to metric.

http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/custom.html

Happy measuring

Alan

OH

So glad the names made you smile

Cofion gorau
Regards

Alan

Hi Peter I loved your list of measurements especially the sulung. For those who have now mastered their rods, poles or perches, here are few more from medieval Wales. some still continue in Welsh place-names 4 Erw, acre = 1 Tyddyn, smallholding 4 Tyddyn = 1 Rhandir, district 4 Rhandir = 1 Gafael, ba...

Since you ask OH here goes Owain Glyndŵr was our last destructive Welsh rebel -have a look at m Vomit because that's what young gulls get their parents to do to get food (also because his constant whingeing made us sick ) Vimto (last year's chick)is an anagram of Vomit (and also a sickly drink ...

Usually house sparrows (100 from last year's hatch), flocks of starlings (the first we have ever seen here), blue tits, chaffinches, greenfinch, great tit, blackbirds (few sightings so far this winter), songthrushes, mistle thrushes, crows, rooks, jackdaws, one sparrowhawk recently, robins, pied wag...

Sometimes they turn up to be counted - other times they don't. Two years ago I saw about two birds in the hour. This year I am confidently expecting the usual variety including last year's hatches of about 100 sparrows and the recently arrived flock of starlings - the first we have seen here in seve...

Allan

They grow but don't fruit - which is the important bit. Wish they did. It would be great for my wife who used to collect them to supplement her boarding school diet in Godalming Surrey many years ago.

Alan

Not quite warm enough here to grow sweet chestnuts - wish we could.

There may be some useful information here (US site).

http://chestnut.cas.psu.edu/Procedures/planting.htm

Go n'éirí an t-ádh leat
Good luck.

Never used one. But I looked at the website. £9.95 seems a lot to reprocess newsprint. I have always used and reused plastic pots, got free from a Parks Dept skip years ago. I think this counts as good recycling. I don't find anything resents planting out from pots or modules if it has developed a p...

And there was I trying to get back in their good books after saving my own seed stock for years.

I hope my order from Tuckers this year doesn't consist of giant spuds

Hi Shallot Man Further to my first post, here is an Amaerican take on the seed potato situation. It is from William Woys Weaver, Heirloom Vegetable Gardening ,Henry Holt, New York, 1997. "Regardless of the variety, all potatoes are planted essentially the same way. Seed potatoes...are cut into ...