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Pa Snip wrote:True Peter but they all appear to have websites that I for one am not going to click on the link to.

Members no more.

I'll have to trawl the non-posting members for dodgy websites I think.
Still if they've never posted no one will look at their website link?

peter wrote:

Pa Snip wrote:True Peter but they all appear to have websites that I for one am not going to click on the link to.

Members no more.

I'll have to trawl the non-posting members for dodgy websites I think.
Still if they've never posted no one will look at their website link?

Peter,
The start of a new year is a timely point to say thanks for the work you do

Good point about if they never posted, does tend to make me wonder why they bother, would imagine very few would come across their profile except on alleged birthday. weird people or what !!!

I totally agree with Pa Snip, regarding the thanks for Peter's work.....so a big thank you from me too, Peter, it is very much appreciated.

All the best peter from me also

Thank you, , no worries.

Making a new cold frame today, as my old one had rotted away....but it is rather cold on the fingers i must say.

Our back garden and my allotment site lie on the same side of a shallow valley and are now frost bound, due to our house and the site tree border respectively, the sun doesn't clear frost or dry rain during the winter months.

Took the dog out, sorted the wood stove for later and about to clean the cooker when interrupted by daughter wanting to cook pasta. So eating some reheated chilli and the dog wanders up, checks what I'm eating, then goes past and looks at the wood burner, then at me, then back at the stove and sighs.

He's then padded to the sofa, got up on his blanket, gave me a disgusted look and gone to sleep.

Gone off me cos I haven't lit the stove.

Sunny so decided to go to plot.
Yeah sunny alright,
yeah blue skies alright

Arrive site to find that once again no one else is there and I am on my own

Open shed door, Thermometer hung on inside of door reads minus 3. its plus 2 in the open sunlight.

Wind is only peaking at around 4mph, but is a chill North Easterly

Need some sprouts, Montgomery looking good, pick 2lbs. Still more to come.

Bedford sprouts all blown. Far too much for chickens so keep some for them and put rest of Bedford's on compost heap.

Go to one cold frame where by coincidence I have Bedford Champion Onions growing. De-weed and water them. Cover again with glass.

Decide its too damn chilly and come home just before mid-day.

Now 2.20pm. and looks brilliant out there, wishing I hadn't come home

I've been for a 4 mile walk on the sunny side of the valley and have seen huge flocks of Red wing eating the hawthorn berries. My only gardening exercise is cleaning the hen hut oh and I've been gritting the steep hill next to our house after seeing a woman fall flat on her back on the ice.

I was the only one down at lottie today too. Was lovely & sunny and 5 degrees.

I got cracking on the strawberry bed. Removed the timber frame to stop the woodlice nibbling the fruit this year & managed to clear the bed & have a nice wee bundle of baby runner plants. I was amazed how many tried to flower late, I cut off loads of stems of spent flowers. Still have some escapees outside the bed to dig but am muddling with extending the bed as nothing grows well on the next bed so they have a reprieve while I mull it over.

Looking at my phone weather there are 3 sunny days coming and no rain all week so hopefully can get the burn done next week. I expect everyone will be down & the wind will be in the wrong direction then. I would ask Mr Westi to do it during the week but he gets a bit over enthusiastic & would melt all my environmesh & black membrane paths - not to mention burning the fence! He's had the hedgerow alight before, hence why burning spot has been moved!

Just had a walk down the other end of the village and the roads and paths are lethal with ice...

Just driven Mrs S to work, using main road rather than country lanes.
Minus 3 here.

The birds in the garden are wonderful this morning. Flocks of bullfinch, goldfinch, bluetits, and siskin, a Tawny owl and a greater spotted woodpecker plus all the usual and the robin singing away in the pear tree. It's milder too with blue sky and a rosy pink sunrise. What a lovely start to the day.

The weather forecast says that it's raining in the north! Not here and not yet anyway

mild morning out this morning. + 6 degrees, overcast grey sky at first but now lightening up slightly
Roads moist but not through rain

Will see what it's like in a couple of hours before venturing up to plot.

Just started raining, so glad i worked at a pace this morning and got a rather large conifer hedge cut and cleared....i hate only getting jobs half done.

Wednesday already....where is this year going...