In my week of household disasters put a pan of onions and mince on last night and promptly forgot about it (got distracted gossiping as you do). It is thick black. Boiling hot water and washing up...
A large, well established, Canadian lumber camp advertised that they were looking for a good lumberjack. The very next day, a skinny little man showed up at the camp with his axe, and knocked on the...
For those of you who have a pet dog, if/when it poops in your garden, what do you do with it when you've picked it up? We had a golden retriever sixteen years ago and for the life of us we can't...
I have just found a dead green finch laying under the bird feeders, I had been watching it feed a short while ago, it looks as if it just fell dead suddenly, it looked fit and healthy and was quite...
I have decided to have a too tall and partly dead Lilandii hedge removed and replaced with a fence but feel I need to plant some evergreen shrubs in front of the fence as cover and nesting place for...
morning all this fine Tuesday..Boaty will be hot footing it to Cornwall for a wee break...perhaps we will hear from him soon..meanwhile hope you are all in fine fettle xx
Just picked about a pound of huge blackberries....it seems to be a good year for them around here.
I am going to make a nice blackberry and apple crumble, with custard of course !...
Friday. Cloudy and a lot cooler this morning. A bit of breeze blowing. Tiggy rootled about for an hour or so, He's gone to bed now. Nothing much doing today, so it's looking like some gardening might...
Since I first put up my bird feeders I have been visited by many lesser and greater spotted woodpeckers and we had the babies in the spring too. Now there are none visiting the feeder at all. Is this...
my honeysuckle seemed to be dying so I gave it a good haircut in the hope of reviving it, I notice now that some new buds have started to form, so think it may be ok, but what was wrong with it? oh...