Learning to walk before I run

Suffolk_lass

Personally I would leave about 20-30cm trunk and paint the whole thing. The black bag over it (and tied round the bottom of it) does several things:
1. Stops light so no sprouting from remnants of life
2. Stops accidental contact with other plants like your honeysuckle,
3. Prevents dilution of concentrated SBK, if it should rain
4. Prevents other birds or animals (your cat, children, you and Mrs ed) from any possible contact with a nasty poison
5. You can find it easily to check it is dead, and again next spring, to double check

Suffolk_lass

A dozen bottles of organic prosecco 

South_coast

edinburgher said:

Added £15 to OP pot, voucher will offset our massive S&S order coming at the start of the month 

I thought that was S&S ISA for a moment then, and was just about to congratulate you!

What is a tree of heaven 🤔? Feel like I have missed something here!

edinburgher

@South_coast Re ISA, chance would be a fine thing 😂

Tree of heaven = invasive Chinese tree that can grow to be 60' high and has managed to plant itself 2' from the side of my house! 😱

edinburgher

What a !!!!!! weekend! 😂

Mrs E took DD1 to the cinema today, I had 3 hours of Peppa Pig fuelled toddler time. Tried to break it up with a trip to the café but DD2 wanted to clear out the second she had finished her wee smoothie and I regretted the expense. Who can't make a decent blueberry muffin? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Since then I have taken DD1 swimming and made her gamja bokkeum (sticky soy sauce potatoes) and reheated pulled pork with nice wee vine tomatoes for dinner.

I've still got the fish tank, the tumble dryer and drains to clean, plants to water and my own dinner to sort.

Did a survey for £4-5 during swimming lesson, £20 paid into my ISA to buy a £25 slice of my dividend "pie" tomorrow.

Scunnered.

beanielou

Scunnered is just such a good Scottish word. To add to that I would be crabbit after the weekend that you have had. 

KajiKita

You need a man-cave! 😉😊

KK

edinburgher

Thanks Beanie.

I feel like such an ungrateful sod at times. Beautiful wife and kids, well paid job (that I hate), decent health and live in a peaceful country. Wishing my life away! ☺️

Edit: £15 OPed and 1.5 hours of overtime at time-and-a-half.

Edit the 2nd: DD2 mercifully didn't demand my presence at bedtime, so I cleaned the algae covered aquarium (only 1 tiny fish left now) 😅, the kitchen and the tumble dryer filter. Cleaning the sink drains and sawing back the tree got away from me. 

Now going to have a medicinal drink and play some computer games 🎯 

South_coast

Thanks for the tree explanation! I was sure it was some kind of nickname that everyone else understood apart from me, but I've googled it and it is in fact....a tree called tree of heaven 🤣!

Sorry about the cr*p weekend. They can't be helped every now and again. I would definitely ignore the drains and tree for now!

Watty1

Maybe every now and again we need crap weekends to enjoy the really good ones (yeah I know, trite eh?)