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Treeplanter

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  1. First peas picked for dinner tonight, plenty more to harvest over the next few days, alderman was the variety will grow again I think.
  2. Just come back from holiday and the pods are forming on the peas which was a nice surprise, the pot marigolds flowering and attracting the black fly. Just sown 2x 24 cell tray of little gem and salad bowl lettuce to see us through and a few late runners to put in when I got space.
  3. Tried to send you a pm says you cannot receive them
  4. 20 odd years ago I worked as a groundsmen at an old country house that had been turned into a conference centre, we had about 20acres of grounds plus woodland and surrounded by 1000s of acres of farmland. There were reports locally of a big cat sighting a few miles down the road, anyhow i started finding the reminants of old sheep carcasses on the edge of our woodland and mentioned this to a couple of the maintenance lads, we all decided to do a big search of the woodland and came across a mauled roe deer that had been dragged and wedged in a fallen tree over some old metal railings one of the
  5. Had a walk round the gun battery by the needles Isle of Wight then walked up to the highest point I could find this was the view
  6. Don’t have much trouble with pigeons luckily it’s the bloody slugs and snails cause most damage, saying that I’ve probably jinxed it now I’ll go out tomorrow and the pigeons be on em lol.
  7. Lettuce, peas, carrots, onions and calabrese coming on well at min and few pot marigolds and nasturtiums to keep the mrs happy oh and a row of sunflowers to keep the kids interested
  8. Reminds me when one of my kids got to bring the class mascot (a fox lol) home for the weekend, she had to do a write up and take photos etc of what they got up to the weekend Not sure they liked the pics with the toy fox and a brace of pheasants in its mouth?
  9. That 1632 used come in silver years ago, used to be really fast stuff but the longevity was crap, how does that red hold up?
  10. Not seen any decent tv programs since the mid nineties, last decent one I see was the gamekeeper on bbc 1, can’t see them making anymore like that nowadays
  11. I use to use a carabiner on the lead and clip it on my belt when out with a new dog, frees up both arms for those high up shots.
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