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A walk in the woods this afternoon, cool and mossy with lots of ferns and rodent holes, and the wild damsons are dark now but still hard and sour and not quite ripe, another week perhaps. I also got the wind up because it sounded like a wild boar fairly close, so it cut my walk short. :lol:
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OH,


Please let us all know the result of the new whistle :wink: :D
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Yellow and purple Damsons littering the ground under their trees all round my bit of Hertfordshire. :D
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All is quite and peaceful in Milton Bryan.... :wink:
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Good morning all,

Another bright and sunny day here :)

Spent yesterday in London at my daughter's place. What with delays and diversions on the M20, and various road works in London, the drive was a bit stressful to say the least :x

Back to the peace and tranquillity of the allotment shortly :D
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Bushed. :D

Spent yesterday from 8am till 3pm mixing concrete, about six tons. Then drove to Heathrow & back to collect daughter returning from a week long stay with her Finnish friend.
Today, up late, lifted the corner of the workshop and put slightly thinner bricks under it to get the door back to being square in its frame, success. Chainsaw out, worked carefully on three tough ten inch diameter blackthorns grown through the allotment chainlink fence, leaving only the bits with wire in behind, then brought the chainlink back into line with the posts, it was a good foot away. Went over the road to Stan and felled two fifteen foot high, one foot thick leylandii stumps for him. Got out the strimmer, did the garden and the allotment edges, then got the mower and did the garden and the allotment track. Put everything away, cut my hair and had a bath, now a nice cold beer is calling me, so byee! :D
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That's nothing, i had to pick a couple of bunches of flowers. :)

All joking apart, it sounds as if the cold can of beer has been well earnt, good on you Peter.
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Cheers Peter, you deserve that :D

I only picked two big bunches of sweet peas :( But they do smell lovely :)
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Please can you all recall your share of White cabbage butterflies, as I now seem to have enough for the whole forum :(
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How can I?. :twisted:

The poor things said they wanted to go somewhere sweet smelling, with some cabbages and no hard work. :twisted:
As soon as they saw a post by a keen vegetable grower about gorgeous smelling sweetpeas they were interested, when they read your name they took off en masse.
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:lol: :lol: :lol:
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They were certainly out in large numbers here yesterday.
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Loads of them here too. Even a mating pair on top of the debris netting tunnel above the cauliflowers :)

Cheeky buggers :lol:
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It's quite on the forum today....

Are you all enjoying the warm weather ?

Or you are all chasing the White cabbage butterfly , :evil:
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Too hot, sat in a cold paddling pool for hours
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