These winds are blowing the leaves off, great for making leaf mould, but more importantly I can see the Hazlenuts I missed earlier in the month, I seem to be the only person who does much foraging, there was a time when rural communities knew to supplement the garden produce. There are one or two wh...

Just a heads up, these East winds seem to be bringing a lot of migrant birds over, we are having large numbers of Waxwings in Scotland, they will spread out so keep you eyes peeled.

Redwings have been here a while and I saw my first fieldfares yesterday, so they'll be on their way ciderboys, keeping an eye out for waxwings too, we had some grey phalaropes blown over in the storm, proper lost their way they had.

Over the years I've picked up all sorts of information(mostly useless :D ) but when I was a moderator on another gardening forum I picked up a lot of sources of good info when I didn't know myself what the likely answer was, I kept all the links on my computer, sadly I now have a new computer so los...

Never grown them, but I well remember the advice of burying a dead sheep under a vine, never sure if this was a wind up or not and I have also heard of putting wool round them, but again no idea why. Funnily enough the RHS don't mention sheep at all lol https://www.rhs.org.uk/fruit/grapes/grow-your-...

Frosty outside and there's snow on the hills.

Good grief, take care OH

Rains stopped and the winds dropped, don't have to worry about the roof coming off tonight, to be fair this wee bungalow seems to be a toughie.

Carrot cake is one of your 5 a day, so is cider..................................well it is in this house............................

Cosy here with the stove lit and a Nespresso Cappuccino and a bit of home made carrot cake

Still here, half the village lost power, but it's back on again, the wind has dropped to a more normal 40mph but it is still raining hard. Roads and bridges have been swept away nearby, a lovely old bridge at the Bridge of Dun had partially collapsed last night and the road at Marykirk has been wash...

Dry sugar method Rhubarb wine you need 3lb rhubub bag of sugar wine yeast yeast nutrient Chop rhubub roughly into chunks, put in a bucket(mines a wine makers one with a lid) cover with the sugar leave for about three days stir occasionally. Strain juice into a demi john, rinse pulp with water to get...

They are setting up centres for those having to evacuate, Brechin not far from us gets the floods badly, we are on a hill top, so we might blown away, but shouldn't get the floods, we were cut off last week when it rained, don't think anyone is out in this at the moment.

60 mph winds and heavy rain, time for a coffee with a slug of Baileys in it.......................................

My greenhouse has double doors, the reason I chose glass over plastic is reinforced today, 60-70 mile an hour winds have destroyed some polytunnels nearby.