Preparedness for when

mardatha

Please don't be in a rush to hand my weather back, it's ok - you can hang onto it for a few months yet!

Karmacat

The Scottish weather has temporarily retreated from the far south of England here, tho its v v windy still ... that was a remarkable day yesterday, in a bad way I refused to put the heating on, but I had two layers of fleece on

mardatha

Do not send it back!! I wont pay the postage!

ivyleaf

Sunny here atm but still pretty windy. I had to put socks and a fleece cardi on yesterday and wear a rain jacket when we went out, and the same today, it feels quite odd after several weeks of not needing to.

ETA Actually Just stopped being sunny. Oh well.

Pollyjuice

Hello again. Thank you for all your tips on the brambles. I have found that I do have mares tail :mad: .

I went to the garden centre and bought a tray of leeks and some very sorry looking cabbage plants for 50p. They have been in for 2 days and with this rain they are coming round, so hopefully I'll have cabbages later in the year :T .

I am please to say I am now back up to 24 toilet rolls, though still a long way off your record GQ . I will build up my stock as I do prefer to have more in.

Body now recovered from last weeks digging and I was going to go back and dig some more but just started to rain, so I'll have a cup of tea and home made scone and look forward to reading more of your wonderful comments.

Keep safe.

Doveling

Got a good winter 3 in 1 jacket today. Very pleased with it.

A while ago we were offered a chicken coop and small run. Don't know whether to take up the offer or not.
Bit worried about vermin.
We kept hens at our previous house but here the garden is much smaller and we have some decking, sheds and three gardens adjoining ours.
I also saw a rat running across the picnic area at the park across the road from us.
Anyone an urban hen-keeper on here? Advice please

Also need to get some mouse mesh for the airbricks round our house.
Jax no longer allows any cats in our garden :rotfl:

Runcorn_Bridge

Off to watch this classic film this evening, in the open in a park in a nearby town, can't wait.
Going with my DD and DSiL. I'm bringing the wine, olives and 'nice nuts', they'll get the glasses, 'butties' and nibbles.
Definitely taking my thick cardy, fleece, waterproof jacket and a blanket - it'll get very chilly when the sun goes down and there's been a cool breeze blowing all week.
I'm really quite exited.

GreyQueen

Pollyjuice wrote: »

I am please to say I am now back up to 24 toilet rolls, though still a long way off your record GQ . I will build up my stock as I do prefer to have more in.

I'm down to a mere 54 rolls; 4 x 12 packs in shed and 6 of a 12 pack in the bathroom.

Cunning plan is to switch out the shed ones for the new version of the same, which has each roll having the same length as two old rolls, so I will have 24 rolls up there, taking up less space, but with the same acreage, as it were.

Heads up if anyone has a £stretcher near them, they have tuna flakes, three-can packs (3 x 165g or 115g drained weight) for £1. I got two packs of them for the stores, long-dated until 2018, too.

After 24+ hours of rain, it finally cleared out for a couple of hours and I went up to the allotmentino. Have transplanted 122 leeks from their seedling rows into their final growing position. Have a few more I could transplant but I need to shift the tater crop first. Also picked and podded lots of broad beans.

Beans, beans, the musical fruit,
The more your eat, the more you toot.
Beans, beans, good for the heart,
The more you eat, the more you XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX *

* Edited for taste and decency.:rotfl:

thriftwizard

Doveling, I keep chickens in a smallish urban garden, near the centre of town with 4/5 gardens adjoining. We currently have 5 big girls, one fair-sized bantam and a large chick being raised by said bantam. They live in a converted 6' x 8' shed with a 10' run attached, but the bantam & chick are free-range. As is Bianca the Chalk Hill Pearl, who can fly, & just lets herself out of the run. She's no trouble, though, so we just let her be; she gets very nervy if confined.

I keep their feed in a galvanised metal feed bin inside the shed, so there's no big store of it available for vermin. There are undoubtedly mice in the shed, but when my neighbour over the road had a rat in her shed, the rat-catcher informed me that if you have mice, you almost certainly don't have rats; rats eat mice, and they're very efficient. Chickens also eat mice... they're better mousers than our 3 cats, to be honest. Forget the fluffy exterior; a chicken in pursuit of a mouse is a velociraptor with feathers.

We don't keep a cockerel any more; we did, for about 5 years, but when Honest John, who had a mellow little crow & was an amiable little fellow, was succeeded by his son Claude (or Clod) who was a LOT louder, we decided just to keep females; they don't need males for efficient egg production. Ours are fed on leftovers, slugs, weeds & foraged greenery as well as layer's pellets & a scattering of corn, and seem to do quite well on chocolate cake & macaroni cheese! Wild birds finish up any leftover crumbs; the garden's alive with them.

I'd encourage you to go for it. One thing though; do you have obliging neighbours who will feed them if you want to go away?

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GreyQueen wrote: »

so I will have 24 rolls up there, taking up less space, but with the same acreage, as it were.

I think we a new word to describe TP coverage.

How about "arserage"?

Heads up if anyone has a £stretcher near them, they have tuna flakes, three-can packs (3 x 165g or 115g drained weight) for £1. I got two packs of them for the stores, long-dated until 2018, too.

Sadly, of no use to me.

Perhaps Buggalugs would appreciate a few cans.