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  • One Bin Emptied

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    I keep going on about that big pile of cr*p – all 800kg worth. I don’t know how much there is left to go, but I am glad that I …

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  • Early Morning Gardening

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    At this time of year, it is light in the early morning, but still gets dark very quickly after work. If I am to get anything done in the garden, …

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  • A Seriously Big Pile of…

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    I’m not very good at estimating quantities and so things reached an all new level of absurdity with the order and arrival of this: That is almost 1 tonne of …

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  • Amaryllis – Starting Over

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    The Amaryllis has finished flowering now and there are a couple of things I did this weekend in order to get it prepared for the coming year. Firstly, I snapped …

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  • Ailing Bay

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    For a while we’ve had a young bay in a pot. It was doing fine until the back end of this winter when after some rather cold harsh winds and …

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  • Potting and Pottering

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    Today was a good day. It began with a trip to the Garden Centre to pick up some compost. I used it while working with the garden pots for most …

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  • Amaryllis Flowers

    by Sunil
    by Sunil

    I’ve been conned. It’s the second flower spike on the Amaryllis, it has opened to reveal only three flowers instead of the four that I was expecting (since I got …

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