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Author Archives: james
Memory Lane, 13th November 2022: Juice, juice baby
It’s that time again. Always seems to come around so soon even though it’s mid-November already. The apple press is on its annual outing… Looks very appealing (I tried to make that more like appleing, but it just didn’t work … Continue reading
Something undead is in the workshop
I posted back in February that I had a couple of LED striplights in the workshop that weren’t working and that I was going to try to replace the capacitors in the power supply to see if that would fix … Continue reading
No dig diary, 6th April 2024
A third consecutive day of sowing! As much because thanks to “Storm Kathleen” there’s little else can be done today. Salad onions have not done well so far this year, so I have sown more, as well as peas for … Continue reading
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Tagged basil, larkspur, peas, rudbeckia, scabious, spring onions
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Memory Lane, 12th November 2022: This really is the last of the peppers
Today I picked everything that was left in the polytunnel, regardless of whether it was ripe or not. Nothing much useful is going to happen from this point on, so leaving them will just mean they start rotting. Some gorgeous … Continue reading
No dig diary, 5th April 2024
More sowing today. And more poppies too, though this time for show rather than for seeds that will be eaten. And then some yellow beetroot, four seeds to a cell to be thinned to four plants if more germinate.
No dig diary, 4th April 2024
I actually sowed some seeds today! That was all I did in the garden, mind. The veggie plot itself is a complete horrorshow because of the mud. So, into module trays went some early calabrese, “normal” calabrese, red cabbage and … Continue reading
Sawdust for sprinkling on an open, err, well, you’ll get the idea…
I’ve “made friends” with a local business that does lots of cutting wood. And now they offer me their waste sawdust, which I will use as “cover material” for my compost toilet. There’s plenty of it, too. Today I was … Continue reading
What have you put in my drawers?
As reported recently, I made a third insert for one of our kitchen drawers. Cleaned up and sanded down, here’s it.
Is this even allowed?
I reckon that Halfords and other car battery suppliers who offer an installation service must keep a legion of malnourished five year olds on site to actually do the swap. This is a new battery for a Skoda Octavia roughly … Continue reading
Some forgotten CAD work
For the drawer inserts that I posted about earlier. That’s “Cardboard Aided Design” 😀 This is how I started, as given the space available and the number of shapes and sizes to be accommodated, I had no idea whether what … Continue reading