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Post by Fortmax2020 on Feb 28, 2024 22:10:51 GMT
Had hoped to get out and cut back some bushes and things in the garden today. My father decided he wanted to come around for his fourth attempt at rehanging our back gates instead. They still need more adjusting even now.
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 28, 2024 22:26:50 GMT
Four will be Fantastic.
-Ralph
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Post by Rich on Feb 28, 2024 22:34:21 GMT
I know that feeling well. School doesn't help. Weekends tend to become somewhat pressured. I'd love it if I could have the occasional day where I don't feel completely exhausted. I'm cautiously optimistic I can get the balance a bit better next year. After a decade as a HoY, I'm moving sideways to a couple of smaller academic TLRs. I dream of being somewhat in control of my own time. |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 29, 2024 19:51:28 GMT
I made a resolution this year that the ten and a half hours I spend in school every weekday should be enough and that I was going to reclaim at least weekday evenings to do something else. That worked for a while, but has crumbled through the spring term.
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Post by Rich on Feb 29, 2024 22:01:44 GMT
Spring term is always the worst for me. I'm forever wishing May would come so I can say goodbye to my exam classes even though they're the best to teach.
Back on topic... Damn the squirrels! Damn them all!
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Post by Nigel on Mar 4, 2024 20:07:32 GMT
I've been itching to get out into the garden since January and yesterday finally had the time and the weather. In fact, after a cold snap the few days before, it was a surprisingly warm, sunny day. (Wet and windy today.) The garden's now ready for the spring, after removing last year's dead growth, weeding and general tidying up.
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 7, 2024 23:38:12 GMT
I really want to get out and do some jobs in my garden before more things wake up but I can't find any time at all. Middle age seems to consist of not being able to do the jobs I want to do because the jobs I _have_ to do take priority. Things that aren't jobs of any sort rarely get a look in. I think you've just summed up middle age there, good buddy. |
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 7, 2024 23:42:26 GMT
I've been meaning to dig a pond in my garden for... two years..?
Bugger, it might be three years.
It's probably three years.
(When calculating things in middle-age, always add a year to the length of time you thought from which things have occurred.)
Oh gods, I'm middle-aged...
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 8, 2024 12:20:56 GMT
We filled our pond in. Too much work involved in repairing and maintaining it. It was the Pright thing to do.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2024 12:22:01 GMT
I could dig a pond for you!
-Ralph
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 8, 2024 12:29:19 GMT
You can prototype in your own garden. Attract some ducks in.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2024 13:52:28 GMT
Mrs Ralph won't let me build a pond.  -Ralph |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 8, 2024 14:11:21 GMT
There is a reason she is your responsible adult.....
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2024 14:58:07 GMT
I've always wanted a pond!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Shockprowl on Mar 8, 2024 18:33:02 GMT
Put your food down, Doc'! Tell her it's the first thing you need in a wildlife friendly garden!
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 8, 2024 18:49:50 GMT
Put your food down, Doc'! Tell her it's the first thing you need in a wildlife friendly garden! Yes, put it down. Hunger strike! |
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2024 18:54:47 GMT
Hunger strike!
If I build a pond, the ducks will come!
-Ralph
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 8, 2024 22:17:16 GMT
This house had a pond when we moved in. It proved time consuming and unrewarding to manage so I filled it in.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Mar 9, 2024 14:53:00 GMT
The only good thing ours did was attract a heron to the garden.
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 9, 2024 18:56:47 GMT
Herons are great!!!
-Ralph
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Post by Stomski on Apr 12, 2024 6:33:13 GMT
4/5 pumpkin seeds sprouted. Purple carrots doing well. Cucumbers doing well. Chillis (3 varieties), 5/12, but they can take longer to come up. Cape gooseberries... Nothing!! Goal this weekend is to repot and start hardening up outside during the day for the carrots and cucumber plants. Pumpkins all ready for hardening as planted the seeds in pots not seed tray/propogators. |
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Post by Rich on Apr 12, 2024 8:02:42 GMT
Not a conscious decision, but I seem to be keeping it simple so far this year and just trying to maintain everything. Haven't really had the time for anything else and the wet weather has definitely had an impact.
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Post by Fortmax2020 on Apr 12, 2024 12:25:19 GMT
Have managed to start weeding this week but everything still very wet so not much done.
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Post by Shockprowl on Apr 12, 2024 17:46:20 GMT
Our 'crops' are doing well this year so far.
Runner beans, french beans, sweet pea, sunflowers, and THE MYSTERY SEEDS.
Also done some pruning, some weeding, and clearing for FINALLY digging my pond!
I WILL HAVE AMPHIBIANS IN MY GARDEN!
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Post by The Doctor on Apr 12, 2024 21:10:30 GMT
FREE THE FROGS!
-Ralph
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Post by Stomski on May 3, 2024 12:25:48 GMT
Cucumbers and carrots doing ok.
Pumpkins, not so much. One twisted round in the wind, another in the front garden had someone climb over the 3 foot wall and stomp on it, smaller one in the back garden not grown much. May only have one plant out of my batch survive!
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Post by The Doctor on May 3, 2024 15:27:17 GMT
We have birds nesting above the office window. Chicks hatched this week. They are very noisy! Keeping an eye out in case any fall into the garden as it is cat country here.
-Ralph
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Post by Stomski on May 3, 2024 16:18:36 GMT
We have birds nesting above the office window. Chicks hatched this week. They are very noisy! Keeping an eye out in case any fall into the garden as it is cat country here. -Ralph Yeah, if the cats get to them first, what'll you have for dinner? |
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Post by Bogatan on May 3, 2024 17:56:46 GMT
Most of last years carrots have been attacked by slugs or something but a few are reinvigorated and Im hoping for seeds soon. Ditto the beetroot? IS it beetroot, I dont know....
Compost bag is doing okay though I should have been turning it more so I dont think I'll have usable soil for this summer.
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Post by The Doctor on May 6, 2024 17:08:36 GMT
We have birds nesting above the office window. Chicks hatched this week. They are very noisy! Keeping an eye out in case any fall into the garden as it is cat country here. -Ralph They are starlings as we got a proper look at Mummy Bird feeding them! -Ralph |
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