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Gilliganisle is right - they don't like the essential oils which are contained in many of the herbs which are in the labiate family (mint, sage, savory, rosemary) if it were me and you could stand it - plant a few in this bed and let them relocate naturally. They have lots of their chemical content in thier roots etc and therefore as they permeate (sp) the soil they don't like the smell/taste I guess.

Or if you've a compost heap set up away from the I'd move the nest into that spade full by spade full until you can plant that bed.

Dunno if that any help?

*Morning*
I'm coming around to having wellies in every shape and form - whilst I can only wear one pair at a time - I can look longingly at the rest.

xx

We watched the same movie last night!!

Karmacat

:j:j:j you're stars, both of you! I don't *think* I believe that rosemary is one of the herbs they don't like - there's a beautiful rosemary bush about three feet high, maybe two feet from this site (although maybe thats why I've only seen one in the house, and that only this week). But mint - excellent. I want to grow my own mint anyway. And the soil I take out to plant the mint, I could certainly put into the compost bin - its a bin, not a heap, I presume they don't mind? Its not very full

Glad you're with me on the glass of wine thing and the film thing respectively!

I haven't done a *thing* today - well, I've decluttered by reading a few local freebie magazines, but thats it :rotfl: I think I tired myself out yesterday I did waltz slowly over to the village for the local fete after all, and discovered yet another footpath within 6 minutes of my house - it really gives an idea of what a medieval village must have been like, before streets quite got going.

In the spirit of doing *some* decluttering, I shall excavate what booze I have left, and drink a glass

vl2588

If only we could time travel to a medieval village for a short while to see it for ourselves!

Karmacat

Wouldn't that be great! I was thinking of the layouts they find in geophys work in Time Team, all the little huts higgledy piggledy off the main street, which is what must have been happening here ....

Anyway, I did do a *little* bit yesterday - started sealing the gaps in my bedroom ceiling between the wooden battens and the plasterwork. Why, you may ask, did I do that, with all the stuff thats got to be done? What was she thinking?

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I'll tell you what I was thinking possibly one influence to me waking up very early is that my bedroom faces east - it has white wide-slat venetian blinds, very nice, but don't actually keep very much of the early morning sun out. I can't put curtains up till these gaps are sealed, tho, because I've seen spiders dangling down from them, and if they dangle themselves into the curtains, I will *not* be pleased. So the gaps have to go - and they should anyway, the surveyor mentioned them before I bought the house, for heaven's sake!

And to help declutter the kitchen, I opened one of the few bottles of spirits I have left - cider brandy - whoops - I had a big glass, which was obviously too big for me, my stomach rebelled, and voila, instant weight loss _pale_ :eek: but all is :cool: now :rotfl:

And I'm off out today, which is why a slow yesterday was fine - to my sister's, we're off to a National Trust property to have a butcher's, as she has free passes. And if there are any mint plants, I might buy some, tho I *do* have one or two that'll do

Lula-Hula

Ugh to things dangling off curtains.

For months DD was complaining about scratchy noises in the night & one night we discovered the culprit was actually a huge hairy eight legged beast who was sneaking in through the airbrick & stomping all over the poster that was covering said airbrick :eek:.

We caught it & released it into the wild & sealed the airbirck up pretty quick. I've heard mention that conkers on your windowsills prevents them from coming in ... & lavender hung at the window prevents flies etc. Definitely worth a try.

Enjoy your day out

xx

gilligansyle

Ooh, good tip about flies etc. Will have a go with lavender, have lots of it in pots in the garden. I always intend to make lavender bags, then forget.

KC enjoy your day out.

Karmacat

Good lord! Um, there's a vent to an old chimney in my bedroom :eek::eek::eek: I have the sudden urge to seal it with a permeable membrane

vl2588

Which NT property? Hope you had fun!

Karmacat

Hiya! It was fantastic - Standen, in Sussex, an arts and crafts property built in the 1890s - absolutely unique house, the nearest I've seen to it was Churchill's house - Chartwell? - but this was a lot warmer, and also more embracing of technology - even at that stage, they had electric lights as standard.

And we went to the tip again

Oh, and I found a little tiny fennel plant for 50p - very dry, I hope it survives here. I had half a dozen self seeded ones that I brought with me, and they've all died from the snowy weather.

Feeling v dozy now - off to bed. Night night all

Cheery_Daff

Can you take fennel from cuttings KC? Because I've got a HUGE healthy plant you can have some of if you want! Bah - if you'd caught me yesterday before I dug out all the seedlings all over my vegetable bed you could have had some of those - pah!