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Waste not, want not!

I’ve always said, I should write a book for farmers called, ‘1001 uses for bale twine’…

For the next few nights I think I might be taking a hot water bottle filled with chilled water that has been kept in the fridge for a few hours to bed with me. Tried it before in the last heatwave and it worked well.

Also a hint for anybody whose children have rabbits or guinea pigs: Put a plastic bottle containing frozen water in their hutches. When it's thawed through it can be rinsed and refrozen, and this will greatly increase the comfort of your little pets with furry coats.

Geoff And I bet there are are lot of smallholders using derelict old caravans as chicken coops!

Ah, baler twine .... When my OH worked as dry stone waller, mainly on farm land, we always had loads of bits of baler twine for the allotment (still have some in the garage now). And, of course, the twine kept his trousers up and his loose shirt flapping in the wind.

I have mentioned that Royal mail are going into delivering your NHS prescriptions. Just had an email from a large Chemists chain saying ditto. Must be a good money earner.

Both water butts now empty. Back to saving the washing up water. Think I heard the sound of a scythe being sharpened.

We had a bit of rain over night, just enough to damp down the dust a bit but little else, at least it was cooler.

Very hot here….just put some netting over part of my big greenhouse… how comes it wanted to hook on everything I didn’t want it to, but refused to hook on things I did want it to!!

Evening Clive, I know you are good with aviation flight paths so, do you know what the nine jets were up to, that flew in a large circle around Milton Bryan at 6.20pm this evening….pretty impressive.

Hello Old H, I'm not up to speed on things aviation as much as I once was...hours in the day etc etc...and tired old PC that won't let me look and run some radar mapping sites...
....but I was aware that the South Korean Black Eagles display team are in the UK for I suspect Farnborough and RIAT at Farford etc...and a quick google found a news link that gave them out and about your way on today...well done you. My like is to be just in the right place and see something special fly over. Listed on the news site as being over Old Warden at 6:18pm

This assumes that they had some black? in their colour scheme and weren't bright red

C.

The Black Eagles it was then, I knew you wouldn’t let me down……can’t wait to impress the locals with my aviation knowledge….

1976: from Somerset we went on a summer holiday to Muck off the west coast of Scotland for a week. It was fairly dry when we left but rained every day bar one on the small island. As we drove south the surrounding countryside changed from a lush green in Scotland through pale green to yellowish green to yellow and on reaching Somerset was closer to a brown than anything else.

Meanwhile: should I prune my cordon apple trees for shape now?

I remember '76, Haydock was the green cut off point on the M6 going South. Had a 0.3mm shower overnight. Forecast says 17 rising to 27 for today, we are a degree behind at the moment.

A bit of sun, and the country is coming to a standstill. Can't remember the RSM when I was in the Canal Zone as a young National Servicemen in the 1950's saying, stay in your tents lads, the suns a bit hot.

Light rain here and 18 degrees