Monthly Archives: April 2024

Spears at lunchtime

Posted on April 17, 2024 by james

It’s been two and a half years in the making, but this morning my wife persuaded me to cut these so we could have them with lunch. After such a long wait it was quite exciting to finally get to … Continue reading →

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More beehive repairs

Posted on April 17, 2024 by james

I’m not entirely sure where the time went today, but a fair bit of it was spent working on more beehive parts. I filled a few dents in some poly brood boxes and repainted them (and in a poly roof), … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 21st December 2022: Winter salads

Posted on April 17, 2024 by james

Winter salads in the melon house and polytunnel, looking pretty healthy. With a bit of luck these should keep us going until Spring when we have salads growing out in the main plot once again.

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Didn’t see that coming over the Horizon

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

One of the most odd things about the recent days of the inquiry into the Post Office Horizon scandal has been the apparent ignorance of the senior staff involved. We’re frequently told that such people have to be paid frankly … Continue reading →

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Personal freedom? What “personal freedom”?

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

Presumably Liz Truss must have turned off her irony meter when addressing parliament today to oppose Richy Sunak’s bill that imposes a cut-off for the age at which people are allowed to buy cigarettes. It would limit personal freedom, she … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 9th December 2022: Progress on the compost toilet

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

After getting the front and back sorted, I decided that actually the back wasn’t sufficiently high, so I made the sides a little higher and I’ll add an “extension” to the back to match them afterwards. After extending the back … Continue reading →

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Feeling a bit low

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

As I posted yesterday, this was how the current compost heap looked on Sunday evening. I threw a bit more stuff on and today buried a couple of dead rats in it, but having had forty-eight hours to get going, … Continue reading →

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An unexpected present

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

My daughter arrived home yesterday with a car load of cardboard that her employer didn’t want. He’d told her to put it in the bin and she told him that I had a better use for it to make no … Continue reading →

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Get it while it’s hot!

Posted on April 16, 2024 by james

As we put a lot of material into the compost heap this weekend I thought I’d check the temperature. I really ought to find some convenient way to use at least some of that heat, but this far I don’t … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane, 6th December 2022: Compost toilet begins in earnest

Posted on April 15, 2024 by james

The floor that I posted about not long ago is now actually supporting something! I’ve started making the framing for the toilet from tanalised 3×2. Front and back first, so I can measure off the exact slope for the tops … Continue reading →

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