It looks like the weather will prevent much work in the garden over the whole week-end, although fortunately I'm pretty much up to date with...
Thanks for the kind words. I really don't think about my age. If I think I'm able to tackle something, I just get on with it. I'll be 85 in April.
I got quite a bit done this afternoon. I pruned more off next door's silver birches where they overhang our garden. What I wanted to prune was...
I've always been a "busy person," so I can always find things to do.
Too wet to tackle the leaves today, but I did give the mossy patched on the lawn a dose of iron sulphate.
It's quite mild today, 13c. but damp. If the rain holds off, I'll collect leaves in the front garden. If it stays dry for a couple of days, I'll...
I finished wiring the two acer palmatums. I had plenty of net. I used it to cover my koi pool to protect it from falling leaves in the autumn....
Very frosty out, temperature at -1c. So probably no work in the garden, but I've chores to do. First load of washing is on.
It was a golf day today, so I didn't get into the garden until after 2.00pm. This only gave me a couple of hours to get things done. But I got...
What always puzzles me, is that "back in the day," it was illegal to have a TV in a car where the driver could see the screen. Now the dashboard...
As it was dry this afternoon, I pruned the last wisteria. [IMG] I removed quite a bit of old growth. I started at 2.00pm and it only took me...
I got into this wisteria on the pergola attached to the garage this afternoon. I do this around this time every year. I only needed my step-stool...
Have you a two piece post hole spade? These can be hired. When I erected a 6ft post and panel fence twenty years ago, between ours and a...
I made this video this evening of the new to me 1976 tuner/am. The track is by John Martyn from an album recorded in 1986. [MEDIA] It may...
Not quite as cold today, no rain, but too wet to do anything in the garden.
I collected my new Flymo Blower/Vac from Homebase, this morning. It's a bit fiddly changing from "blow to suck," but it works well and for the...
I've had this CD for well over two decades. [MEDIA] A really great song, written by two very talented songwriters. She wrote the words, he set...
We stood on the first tee this morning at 9.00am with the temperature at -1C. There was frost on the fairway, but further round the sun had melted...
Here's the new to me tuner/amp. It's about 40 years old. Total cost including a service, less than £100, so I'm well pleased, It's playing a...
Busy day (again) I seem to have less time than when I was working. Snow on the ground first thing, but it soon cleared. This morning I had to go...
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