Had to give both cars a quick clean , mine got covered in mud going to allotment from a tractor 🚜 that had just ploughed a field and o/h from a road sweeper due to road works
I spent most of the weekend cleaning my car up to sell. I haven't given it a good clean for myself but the paint looked a little tired. It had a pressure wash over, good clean inside and out, then I clay-barred all the tar off the paint and gave it a good polish. Annoyingly I was having to dodge the showers to do it so it took ages and then it snowed just late enough to stop me waxing it afterwards so I'll have to do that tomorrow.
I checked the garden over after all the wind too and found one of my really nice saxifrages had collapsed from vine weevil grub damage. I'm fuming as it was looking great all winter and flowers really nicely in the spring with tall plumes of white flower spikes. I hope the rosettes will transplant but it's the wrong time of year to do it really.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
I don’t like gales either, but I suppose if we choose to live in these solitary wild places we must expect it. I personally would rather put up with weather conditions here than live in a town.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
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