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So that's why i feel so light headed.....

Outdoors this morning, there are Gnats flying round the outdoor light, and then amazingly, a Bat flying around..

I must go and look if they are about this way too....a formation of Gnats..

Were they Yellow or Red Gnats..


Clive.

The pond was "boiling" with frogs today but no spawn as yet.
Warm but mainly very grey.

Evening Clive, i think they were the rarer Yellow Jack Gnats.

Yellow Jack Gnats... a very good sighting indeed.


-15C to +15C in not so many days....

Clive.

we've had bees today and the birdsong has been amazing!

Started on indoor sowing today - broad beans in root trainers - tomatoes, peppers and lettuce. Feel a lot better having made a start.

And the weather looks very promising for the next five days too.

..and do we need some promising weather for the next 5 days too....with vehicle and many many foot steps of folk carrying heavy things back across the front lawns and the now very flat front gravel drive......There was still the front and back doors to the marquee to assemble from scratch and fit when I left for home yesterday evening.

....and some lovely sunny weather is needed this afternoon for the arrival of the happy couple, family and friends

I made a bit of time yesterday morning to do some flower seed sowing in seed pans, now in the propagator. Sam was out with the big mower adding stripes to all the big lawns.

It is lovely sunny as I type...and 2 C showing on the weather station.

Clive.

Morning Clive, i do hope yourself, Sam and the volunteers, get some lovely feedback from the guests. You all certainly deserve it.
I'm sure it all looks stunning for this time of the year......

Bless the mini-blowtorch.

The sulphur candle wick stopped burning when it reached the sulphur pellets last weekend, pulled it up a bit & relit it using the blowtorch, I now have a sulphur fogged greenhouse.

While it was going I went and dug 6'x21' on the allotment.

I hope you are never let loose with a flame thrower, Peter.

Well done on the digging front........

For relit read melted the whole lot and got it to work as advertised.

I do have a propane roofers torch, it is very good for ground clearance.

Don't come near me with that blow lamp.....

...I seem to have a little diesel upon my clothing...............

...best don't ask...............

Perhaps I should have the night in the greenhouse...??!!

Clive.