Real spring bits and bobs

[peter]

Fourteen & a half mile cross country walk with dogs and wife today.
Excellent pub lunch outside the Catherine Wheel at Albury in Herts, accompanied in my case hy Twitchel from the Buntingford Brewery.

[Geoff]

Started raining mid morning and still at it - typical BH after all. Planted some perennials accumulated courtesy of the wife's birthday before it started so they should be happy. Potted up lots of Brassica seedlings in the greenhouse later. What a contrast to yesterday with birthday lunch in the garden with lots of people to show round, several now claim to want a polytunnel but I doubt it will happen.

[oldherbaceous]

Morning Geoff, maybe you could offer your polytunnel errecting skills, for free.

Nice steady rain here this morning, just the job, as i planted lots of plants out yesterday, including 100 runner bean plants for Old Codger, as he is most unwell.

[Arnie]

Hi OH,

good job old codger has you for friend I do hope he gets better soon

regards

Arnie

[Geoff]

Wouldn't mind helping the one lot. Found out they've put their house on the market because they've bought a croft between Lochalsh and Plockton, a favourite area of mine, and are intending to build an eco house with a big polytunnel.

[Monika]

Very, very steady light rain here today - it's not even wetted the ground under the trees. Please, anybody who has too much of it, can you send some our way?
Hopefully, it will carry on and get through to the roots of plants.

[Westi]

Steady rain all day today with tomorrow looking the same, timely as well as also put in lots of plants. Not 100 runner beans but managed 60 cabbages - don't ask can't say NO & couldn't even give them away to neighbours, but waste not - want not! (101 ways with cabbage anyone? - it will be a bit like giving away courgettes I'm expecting )

Monika if I could influence mother nature I'd give you some as it is perfect just steady, not heavy to wash away the top soil and followed 2 days of sunny weather.

Westi

[retropants]

absolutely weed it down all day here, it has recently stopped for about an hour, but I think it has jsut started again. it was warm, not hot, sunny and very windy yesterday.

[donedigging]

It has rained here all day...so haven't got much done

O.H
I am sorry to hear that Old Codger is poorly, hope its nothing serious. Please send him my kindest regards and hope he makes a speedy recovery. ( if only to check you have planted his beans the right way up )

[Geoff]

Bah to the late Spring - planted out my Dahlias today when the rain stopped early evening.

[oldherbaceous]

Dear Donedigging, i will pass you message on.

[vegpatchmum]

We've had loads of rain today but we really did need it!

VPM
x

[peter]

.......
Managed, with help from a friend, to get the pullstart off my JCB strimmer and re-cord it. Sits between engine and shaft, so have to take off shaft and an adaptor which screws onto the engine output shaft. Had to open the crankcase and jam the engine with a clean bit of wood to unscrew the adaptor. Which then allows you to remove the plastic engine housing, front half, that holds the starter. As for what had to happen before that, lets just say it was fiddly.

And after all that I had to replace the fuel feed pipe as it snapped off when the fuel tank was detatched during the "fiddly stuff".
So once all reassembled it decided not to start.

A squirt of fuel into the intake with the airfilter off saw it start and run briefly, other priorities saw it back in the shed until today.

Took off and (mostly) disassembled and reassembled the carburetor, the primer bulb then started to pump fuel, but not very well, did the manual flooding with a syringe into the throttle area and once started it stayed running!

I have a working strimmer.

[Shallot Man]

peter. seems like a full overhaul then.