When we were moving in last summer, our neighbour was trimming his hedge. Only he wasn't, because he'd trimmed through the cable on his hedge trimmer and had gone out to buy himself a new one. He gave me the old one, saying he was very happy with the new one, and if I wanted to mend the old one I could keep it (otherwise I could throw it out, ( Read more... )

Over the last few days, I have mostly been filling in online requests for seed catalogues. It seemed they all arrived yesterday, so now all I have to do is pick some. Annuals, since we'll probably move before this garden gets too established, and I want results, and I want them nowAfter seeing it on Gardener's World at the end of the last series ( Read more... )

I need to dig the garden in smaller bursts, but more often, so that the muscles that seem only to get used for digging don't scream at me the following day. We had 2000 litres of compost delivered, only they couldn't tip it over the wall, so it went on the driveway and between us, Mrs Socks and I had to shift it all onto the front garden before ( Read more... )

Spent a lovely weekend in Llangattock, eating lots of lovely things and making the odd trip out. Decided the reason I would like to live there is because it's a area of produce - I don't need Farmers Markets to buy locally produced food around there, I just need to use the shops. Or go direct to the producers or something. I don't suppose there' ( Read more... )

My boss now tells me that I should have stacked my concrete slabs leaning inwards thusly:

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instead of foolishly stacking them against the low brick wall between the garden and the driveway

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We woke this morning to find the low brick wall was rather lower, and on the driveway, rather than between it and the garden

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According to the TTA, Mrs Socks is literate, numerate and has sufficient ICT skills to be a qualified teacher.

Congratulations to her for passing her Maths test today.

Still recovering from cooking for 150 people (launch party for the Marriage Course at St Aldate's) on Wednesday night. Embarrassingly, I think I have pulled a muscle in my left arm by carrying 45 lettuces (and 5 litres of cream) from Sainsbury's ( Read more... )

Having taken a week of leave to decorate this room, it appears it's going to take a week of Sundays to finish it off. Simply stated, there's not enough time in the evening - once we've vegged for half an hour, one of us has cooked, both of us have eaten, and we've realised we need stronger fixings, so had a mad rush to get to B+Q before it closes ( Read more... )

Who moved my bin?

I've been away for two weeks, and I'm not reading that much LJ, so if anyone has anything really interesting that I will have missed, let me know ( Read more... )