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pollyanna_26

Money according to my English Radio Times , Big Dreams is on BBC2 Wales at 6.30pm today . All radio times have a regional variations list on each days programme page . It's a column down the right hand side . I use it sometimes before I give Mar in Scotland a heads up on things that will interest her .
You can always scan through in the newsagents if you don't want to buy , but please spend while doing so and keep small business alive .
polly

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Money according to my English Radio Times , Big Dreams is on BBC2 Wales at 6.30pm today . All radio times have a regional variations list on each days programme page . It's a column down the right hand side . I use it sometimes before I give Mar in Scotland a heads up on things that will interest her .
You can always scan through in the newsagents if you don't want to buy , but please spend while doing so and keep small business alive .
polly

Floss -I don't like the cheap tv magazines and not sure they'd list any of "my" programmes that aren't shown in this area.

But this suggestion could work - I'll check out the Radio Times. From what you say - the standard programmes are down as "mains" and, if I think one of "mine" might be missing then I'll check it out on the regional "sub-titles" bit to see if it's being shown some other time. Darn re the Monty Don programme this week - I've just watched it through on Iplayer again this time too...

Think I'm probably doing pretty well at keeping local businesses alive. I must be pretty popular round here by now with the builders with the amount of money I keep handing them for work on my house LOL. Or should I say - eek! - having guesstimated out recently just how much I've spent on the house since moving here. It was an "ohmyGAWD" moment....

EDIT; Did find out recently that I can still buy any Boots products I require - without having to send off for them/buy them elsewhere. The tiny local Boots told me that they can order in any of their goods they haven't got in stock and they will be in the shop the next day and no extra charge for them not having had them there. I didn't know that. Now I do - that's one little shopping aspect sorted out. I found that the small chain opticians here will also do the same.

pollyanna_26

Money I've been using the Boots order in store for some years . As we are at the Pharmacy on a weekly basis it's easy for me . I avoid home delivery as much as possible as things alter all the time here and I'm never quite sure if I'll be home or not on delivery day . I was overjoyed to find two good booksellers on Amaz*n . They sell for less and use minimal packaging and Royal Mail delivery . My lovely postman gets things through the letterbox if possible and failing that knows where to put them and leaves a " you know where it is " note through the letterbox .

After all the Ikea chat I found something amazing online . Anyone seen the flatpack garden ? Wow , a 9ft high growing structure you can sit inside surrounded by your vegetables , herbs and other plants . 17 plywood sheets - I imagine they would be marine ply - and 500 screws :eek: The plywood needs cutting into the smaller sizes for assembly but I had the mad moment of " I could do that " No you couldn't polly that ship has sailed .
I am now pondering how the heck you reach , plant , tend and harvest 9ft high plant levels . You probably need a high platform ladder inside or climbing gear . It hasn't been priced yet as they've just started marketing .
Go on Lyn , google it and show HWK . It will probably make his day but I will not be held responsable when he starts drawing the plans and sourcing the wood for his own version :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Back later
polly - who has just remembered that my very big and heavy wooden arbour has 4 industrial grade corner brackets securing each leg to the paving or it would have been toppled years ago by the wind . The ikea one would be doing a dorothy and landing in Oz .

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Oh yes I did POLLY and it looks amazing, I was wondering just where you'd keep something that size though in an ordinary home?

pollyanna_26

Lyn I thought it was for indoors but the pictures I've seen show it set up on wet paving in what looks like a shopping area hence my mention of marine ply .
Someone needs to stop me because I've been drawing diagrams while trying to get the laptop and charger to speak to each other again which thankfully they now are .
I've come up with a six ft high structure either a octagon or hexagon in shape . A circle would require steaming and bending the timber and I'm to old to go there now . As always there is much hardwood in the garage and mine would have both screws and brackets . I think that's possible to make work and I do have space outdoors . Please someone make me put this at the very bottom of the really needs doing list , I blame the grandads who shaped my gardening , solutions to things and the I could make that with a bit of twine and a few bits and pieces attitude . If you were local I'd be the one fingering fabrics and turning things inside out to view the shoddy seams and hems . I have moved furniture to inspect the back , been down on the floor to look underneath and each offspring in turn did the roll eyes but do exactly the same today . So thanks grandads we may be eccentric in the eyes of the world but we're capable .
I don't know if I've mentioned this before but one of the funniest sights I saw in the last few years was when eldest and I had been to the Tatton flower show . We always go to Knutsford afterwards as we both love the village . We'd been in a L .Ashley store in Yorkshire a few weeks earlier on had done the check the back , take a drawer out , is it glued together or has proper joints , look underneath and is that really wood bit ? It was quite a price which we decided was deluded after our inspection .
When we got to the top of the hill on Knutsford high street we decided to go into the LA store , they had a sale on so we wanted to look at the fabric . As we walked towards the entrance delivery men with the firms logo on their shirts emerged carrying the dresser in question and a moment later one or both lost their grip and we gazed in horrified fascination as the whole thing fell to bits in front off us . We felt so sorry for the two men lord knows what the outcome was for them , We didn't negotiate the debris and go into the store instead both ran across to a tiny park . We fell onto a bench and this sounds dreadful we laughed ourselves sick . Even on the long drive home we kept trying to to talk of other things but would start laughing again . It was like a flat pack without any means of support .
polly

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Don't think circular think hexagonal??? easier to make if you have an angle cutter but perhaps not quite so strong as a structure and you could consider making it the same circumference but only 6 feet high? and instead of growing things on top of the highest tier perhaps grow things that would dangle down to make picking easier, maybe strawberries or some sort of squash/gourd.

You don't have to do it all at once, ongoing project for rainy days???

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pollyanna_26 wrote: »

Money I've been using the Boots order in store for some years . As we are at the Pharmacy on a weekly basis it's easy for me . I avoid home delivery as much as possible as things alter all the time here and I'm never quite sure if I'll be home or not on delivery day . I was overjoyed to find two good booksellers on Amaz*n . They sell for less and use minimal packaging and Royal Mail delivery . My lovely postman gets things through the letterbox if possible and failing that knows where to put them and leaves a " you know where it is " note through the letterbox .

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I rarely go into Boots - so only found out that "we can order" set-up when I was looking for something so small/commonplace I was surprised even a tiny one didnt have it. At least I'm not the only one that was surprised/pleased to learn that - as I told another friend of mine that had moved here from Somewhere Bigger about this and she hadnt known either.

I do order rather a lot of books from Amazon and, since moving here, have joined a book group. So I'm buying at least one a month then. Do you mind sharing who these two particular booksellers are please?

pollyanna_26

Money I'm not sure if this is allowed but if you look at the book on the main page you will often see a link to other sellers . Click on that and choose your option .
I buy from either wordery or book dapoaitory and both use royal mail delivery in minimal packaging - no big box with something small in the bottom . You generally get a little bookmark , a while ago BD were including colouring ones which dd enjoyed colouring . My first enclosed with Wordery was " the book is always best " as one who can't get on with ebooks they were my kind of people .
I know both have their own online sites but they don't sell lower there .
My two Rhonda Hetzel hardbacks were both bought from Bd . Totally unavailable here . I ordered from the uk site and the first arrived from NZ in a week and a half , the second from AUS two weeks and free delivery .

Lyn You're spot on it is an indoor garden , I've just checked . How would that work unless you had a manor house or large penthouse ?
An army of staff would be required as the mess would be awful . It isn't a little pot plant . Looking at the pale serene interior they've shot those indoor scenes in the mind boggles . My mind goes back to four children , at least one if not more cats plus the random cats who would appear in distress and adopt us . Keeping a christmas tree upright with a token amount of decorations still in situ was enough for me . Oliver of running up the tree , ringing his bell and emerging from the middle having been dozing while the search party were combing the area would have had a field day with that . He would find the most difficult to reach area and watch the rescue party struggle . He would demand his friend Billy blackbird be allowed in to do the fly pasts while they shouted at each other no folks outdoors only !!!
One of the things I like is that spotting that image last night has fired my imagination regarding variations to supplement my rectangular and square wood raised beds .
I'm a sucker for anything with a small footprint . About ten years ago I upcycled a heavy 6ft wide desk from the two eldest girls room .It's now a six deep drawer chest in a tiny amount of space rather than twin three drawer pedestals with a 6' top and large central knee hole space . Putting both sets of drawers one top of one another and sawing and routing the top to restore the bevelled edge has made something useful and less dominant space wise and with the pine varnish a distant memory it has a few coats of the multi primer and a couple of flat white eggshell . It gives me joy when I look at it .

That garden adapted might appeal in their own version to Fuda and husband . It could occupy a small space in the courtyard garden if available and he's a natural at that sort of thing and sourcing materials ..
Anyway I'll stop waffling and go and do something useful but boring .
polly x

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Oh POLLY, it came to me as I walked Cookie, we're both missing a trick here. Have you thought of shelving your already anchored down Pergola? you could put in straight shelves and use the uprights for runner beans and other climbers grown in pots on the outside of the structure and space your shelves so you can grow maximum volume and then have hanging baskets from the overheads for things like tumbler tomatoes, strawberries and even chillis, you would get a massive return if you grew things that were quick growing and you'd be able to replant all through the growing season!!!

pollyanna_26

Oh Lyn we have much in common . I ponder things all the time in the oddest of places . Sadly anything that could be shelved or hung from brackets was done decades ago along with vertical growing ' living walls and many other such ideas .
I made a radical change about 20 or so years ago and started back from scratch . I was tired of damage to the plants and shrubs from strong winds and salt , many plants wouldn't survive winter including some perennials and shrubs .
I widened out the borders to start growing a shelter belt of tall growing , mostly flowering evergreens . Adding perennials and bulbs both among the trees and shrubs and in large pots gave me a framework .
The addition of raised beds and pots for veg , fruit and herbs worked well and other additions including a big herb bed ( soon to disappear ) work well .
I can see possibilities with a heavy duty structure in a small footprint but not circular . I have a number of 3ft high deep eight sided planters and they work very well and are of a simple construction . They were bought ready made but have been easy to replace a length of wood with a bit of rot .
I'm afraid the arbour is sacred . Until a few years ago the Tumblers and some of the strawberries were in 16inch baskets on large brackets hanging from it but however they were netted the birds and others did damage . I found they fared much better and cropped better in deep high pots . Surrounding them with the neverending pot marigolds which form an effective barrier has been very effective .
So the arbour is now my peaceful place . It gets the best of the sun and is covered in evergreen honeysuckles and different seasonal clematis - the alpines are showing their growth now and should flower soon .
Thank you for pondering , oh and I have the tools , builders merchants and trade centre girl me
Love
polly xx