If it's dusty, should you wear a mask while you're doing that? I rather envy you, I am missing the traditional peat based compost - this stuff I've just bought seems very hard to keep moist for seedlings.
Just booked my 1st vaccination for tomorrow, it'll make a world of difference to my wife who got hers early due to a medical condition but has been so anxious about me (clearly the life cover isn't up to scratch 🤣🤣🤣)
So happy for you @Wilderbeast I am counting the 6 days to my 2nd, then I'll be counting the days 'til it kicks in
I have extrapolated and interpreted the information about BoJo's phone number being publicly available since 2006. Unless I missed it he has never complained about being inundated with calls, maybe not as popular as he thought he was/is QED - quod erat demonstrandum.
To be fair it was a suggestion from the kettle first thing this morning, we were just chatting about world issues.
"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it." Sir Terry Pratchett
Had my 2nd jab today. The place was really busy and the person who did my jab said it's the busiest day they've had so far. Great to see so many young people, young by my standards anyway, getting their 1st jabs.
The stone wall being built in my garden is underway (and the time capsule is finished). Last Tuesday the man and his digger arrived only to discover that the site was too constrained for the machine to get access. Instead he dug the foundations entirely by hand in one day: 15 metres x 75cm. The small saving grace is our soil is a friable loam and not claggy, stone filled clay. He even went so far as to say it was the best soil he had ever dug. Next day the grabber truck was due to arrive to take the soil away but first I advertised it on Freecycle and it all went that evening.
It wasn’t just the builder’s stamina and diligence that impressed me. He told me that just three months after meeting his girlfriend she was diagnosed with a very serious, life limiting brain tumour. He said he thought hard but kept on returning to the basic truth that he loved her and wanted to stand by her. That was three years ago and latest scans are encouraging. What a decent chap. He also took a bunch of flowers round to my neighbour by way of an apology for the noise and disruption.
Later next week the stonemason arrives to start building on top of the foundations.
@BenCotto , can you send him down here please. We're contemplating having our longish drive resurfaced and perhaps making it a bit wider at the same time. That involves moving plants and replacing a retaining wall built first. The drive is not quite wide enough for vans or indeed the ambulance which arrived to collect me after my back accident, they had to abandon it half way up and then carry me down on a stretcher. I'm not planning to repeat the feat but......
I like the thought of your time capsule, perhaps we can start a trend?
I thought it was interesting that the boffins had assumed no mowing at all was best, but discovered that once a month is best for pollinators. It gives flowers long enough to develop and then when they are chopped, plants like clover start the cycle over again.
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I've been rubbing it through a soil sieve and wetting it for a few days before use...
I have extrapolated and interpreted the information about BoJo's phone number being publicly available since 2006. Unless I missed it he has never complained about being inundated with calls, maybe not as popular as he thought he was/is QED - quod erat demonstrandum.
To be fair it was a suggestion from the kettle first thing this morning, we were just chatting about world issues.
It wasn’t just the builder’s stamina and diligence that impressed me. He told me that just three months after meeting his girlfriend she was diagnosed with a very serious, life limiting brain tumour. He said he thought hard but kept on returning to the basic truth that he loved her and wanted to stand by her. That was three years ago and latest scans are encouraging. What a decent chap. He also took a bunch of flowers round to my neighbour by way of an apology for the noise and disruption.
Later next week the stonemason arrives to start building on top of the foundations.
I like the thought of your time capsule, perhaps we can start a trend?
I thought it was interesting that the boffins had assumed no mowing at all was best, but discovered that once a month is best for pollinators. It gives flowers long enough to develop and then when they are chopped, plants like clover start the cycle over again.