Early Spring Bits and Bobs.

[robo]

Who has pinched our nice weather, bloody cold , windy and miserable here

[Monika]

Same here - heavily overcast all day, followed by drizzle tonight. and the NW wind is nasty. We worked on the allotment all yesterday morning, wrapped up to the nines, but at least the digging kept us warm. But today I stayed in the more sheltered garden and planted the first broad beans and peas (started off in roottrainers).

One of our sons-in-law was climbing in the Lake District yesterday and stood on High Crag (about 750m) in the clouds and howling wind .....

[retropants]

we had a nice day yesterday (sorry Robo & Monika) We gave last year's potato bed a good going over, then added some compost and planted onion and shallot sets. Put up some trellis for the sweet peas and a few other odds and ends. I am at the stage every year where I really resent being at work, and want to go and do some more in the greenhouse or at the plot!

[peter]

Another hright, sunny, warm day, starting to compensate for all that ruddy rain!
Council don't think they can do stopcock this week, quelle surprise. Works bit has heen burgled over weekend.

[peter]

Not as much sunshine today and some non-allotment stuff done as well, but 400 onion sets have been set out. #neverwant toseeanotheronionset

[Monika]

Again heavily overcast and cold wind here today, but I am surprised how quickly the soil has dried. When I dug up the last kale plants on the allotment, I just shook the soil off the roots before throwing them onto the compost heap. The pea and broad bean bed is now ready for this year's sowing.

At least, as you may have read/heard, we are living within two miles of the UKs most pleasant town (Skipton) with our postcode the most desirable one! I must admit, we wouldn't want to move.

[peter]

Merry Tiller fired up and cut down my spade digging of last week. Thiz despite bding kept in a leaky shdd.

Howsrd 350 on thd other hajd:

Started ok, wouldnt run without choke and then sooted the plug.
Checked stuff, cleaned plug, same result.
Checked again, starter rope snapped.
Repaired that, only the actuators won't swing out as freely as they should, rebuilt starter three times, no improvement.
Still demands choke.
Short stripped the carburettor, might have a failing gasket.
Put it back in the dry, frost free heated, clean, workshop shed and swore - lots.

New sparkplug and some cut your own gasket materisl, as well as a tube of liqued gasket tomorrow. Annoying because could have blitzed all the previously dug to seedbed and squash patch including moving the squash patch weed membrane on to the blitzed srea in thd time I've spent sat on a toolbox fiddling with spanners etc.

[alan refail]

Tgat roughsxreem jetyvoarf id reakky kettung ypu dowm, Oeter

[retropants]

Popped down to the plot for a couple of hours this afternoon, to finish off some timber edging for the greenhouse beds. Broke the drill bit! So, I guess that'll have to wait til Sunday then

[peter]

Tgat roughsxreem jetyvoarf id reakky kettung ypu dowm, Oeter

Large fingers, small (virtual) keys.

Also horticultural engineering coated fingers, thoroughly pumiced since then.

[oldherbaceous]

And i was imagining empty beer cans on your work bench, from the frustration.

[Ricard with an H]

Who has pinched our nice weather, bloody cold , windy and miserable here

Every year I become a part-time arborist for a few weeks to easily two months, I choose my work periods carefully to get dry/calm periods and before we get leaf on the trees.

I was on a roll with two cubic meters of ash cut from felled overhanging boughs and now I'm onto dusting and cleaning together with a bit of ironing.

[peter]

And i was imagining empty beer cans on your work bench, from the frustration.

Canned beer?

Definitely not, can only get decent stuff in bottles.

[oldherbaceous]

Sorry old boy, not sure what i was thinking of....

[retropants]

It's blowing a gale outside this evening. A bit of rain, but not too much. Very glad I didn't cycle to work today!