As office manager, I regularly had to go on the roof of the buildings, plus up the scaffolding when we had refurbishment every five years. Also, as health and safety officer, there was no one to challenge me. But there is at home!! I've never been scared of heights though.
I have two phobias. Both are totally inexplicable and neither was passed on to me from anyone. One is so mental that I have never told another living soul nor will I.
My RTBC is that both my sets of greenhouse staging are complete and I am very pleased with me! Smug face!
Just realised that I haven't seen an ant in the porch or on the path nearby for several months - not since I started sprinkling clove oil on the doormat. I think they've relocated well away from the house. I'm happy to leave that colony in peace there. I was thinking that I might try the oil next time I find them in an inconvenient part of a flower bed. The only trouble is, they could always move to somewhere worse🙄
We have them under the patio, so when they fly, we close doors and windows at the back of the house.
One year, their exit route was just inside the back door. Having a conservatory full of flying ants was not funny. But it was only the once. I rapidly dealt with it, and we only get the odd few.
But some normal ants, always find their way indoors somehow. Open door or window, on us, or just by being plain sneaky.
Don't you just love it when something does exactly what it says on the tin! I bought some paint for the rust on the patio furniture. It's a perfect match and you need hardly any because the table and chairs are that mesh stuff. The only bad thing is that I'll have to do all the surfaces as the unpainted stuff looks tatty now but it won't take long.
My wife saw the Consultant again today, roughly 7 weeks after breaking her leg. He's very happy with the way it is healing with a good level of new bone growth. He has told her she can 'wean herself off the boot' (I'm not the boot by the way), but not to overdo it. Small steps, literally and metaphorically. He also said it could take up to 12 months to fully recover, but has put her mind at rest over the pain she feels in the leg at times. Perfectly normal he says and nothing to worry about, it's simply the body telling her to back off a bit.
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But there is at home!!
I've never been scared of heights though.
My RTBC is that both my sets of greenhouse staging are complete and I am very pleased with me! Smug face!
One year, their exit route was just inside the back door. Having a conservatory full of flying ants was not funny.
But it was only the once. I rapidly dealt with it, and we only get the odd few.
But some normal ants, always find their way indoors somehow. Open door or window, on us, or just by being plain sneaky.
I bought some paint for the rust on the patio furniture. It's a perfect match and you need hardly any because the table and chairs are that mesh stuff. The only bad thing is that I'll have to do all the surfaces as the unpainted stuff looks tatty now but it won't take long.
… 😳 I’ll get my coat 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.