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Ha ha ha, that's exactly where it was!

I had dinner with him before tcrno6 and then met him again, on the Bielerhohe Pass where I took a photo of him. An excellent and interesting man.

Dr Doug Midgen?

I got 20% off from Fired Earth so it's definitely worth asking.

The kitchen ceiling came down yesterday and the 6" x 2" timbers for the new suspended floor arrived. Quite a few leaks have been coming through from the bath above so that'll need some new silicon. Despite there being a dust door, there's a very fine layer of dust all through the house and the novelty of cooking dinner in the pissing rain on a small camp stove has worn off 😂
I have realised that I'd never be able to cope with a new build or extension. Thoughts and prayers to all the heroes that have.

One not so well, on deaths door it seems.

Cripes, cabinets out. Seems 1990 was the last time the cabinets were changed. Also seems 1990 was the year Millwall went down and Poll Tax came in. Seems pretty real now. Standard of existing wiring and plumbing not installed by us is pretty terrible/you're gonna die mate if you touch this.
Cooking dinner on the camping stove tonight.

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Cobbles looked pretty slippery on the live stream. Best of luck everyone!

Cheers, I purchased it of ebay from Blackpool for £60 with broken glass.
Removed the glass & stripped it down with the speedheater.
Ended up being quite the project by the time it was glazed, installed, locks fitted then painted. Nothing worthwhile is ever easy though.

So, the stripout of our 1.8 x 2.2m 1930s house galley kitchen starts tomorrow. It's currently a horrid mix of 1990s mismatching cabinets and surfaces the previous occupants found.
I restored and installed the sunray door a year or so ago. Floor all coming up, services to be all moved, new subfloor with wet underfloor heating and limestone flooring. Hoping for a mm perfect transition from hallway boards to kitchen floor. Ikea Metod. Bit scared that it'll go over budget from a labour perspective. Builder reckons 3 weeks. Here are some before pics.

Now in my third year of potatoes, I've gone for Maris Pipers this year and one is fruiting. Not something I've seen before with the first and second earlies I've had. Pretty purple flowers too.

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Seems to be loads of butterflies and moths about this year. Had four of these drinking from the Echinacea this morning.

I get a steamy compost facial every morning so don't adhere to the once a week thing. I think that's nonsense. I wouldn't put the ash in there and leave the carbon source to be brown leaves and cardboard / paper. Just get loads of grass clippings and mix them in and you'll be sweet.

Fill it half with grass clippings or hedge clippings, mix in a whole load of paper or cardboard and you should be good to go. Make sure the vent is open only a couple of mm and if its been raining hard for an extended period like recently, there's a possibility the carbon filter has become over soggy so take it out and leave it in the sun for an hour to dry out . What have you been putting in there? Takes a while to get the hang of it but keep going. Wouldn't bother with the hot water bottle.
Post a pic of the current contents.

Mine is the older 200l model with the slightly different top and the plinth wasn't available when I got it so don't have one. I used to run it off into a takeaway container however now just open the tap and run let it run off straight into the vegetable patch. The worms love it.
I don't bother with wood chips. The odd bit of Christmas tree woody bits takes care of this. I used to shred all cardboard and paper as well however have learnt that as long as you rip it into reasonably sized bits, you'll be fine too.
We're a family of 4 in mid terraced house with a narrow but long back garden and a small front garden. Empty it approx once each quarter. As long as you get the carbon and nitrogen ratios right, it won't smell and you'll have the healthiest garden you've ever had and the bin will be in the green zone temp wise. I won't lie, emptying can be a bit of a chore but nothing worthwhile is ever easy.

Nothing IMHO from the 3 years that I've been doing it. Just got to get the C/N ratios right and the temps stay right in the green zone.

Excellent, I admire your energy. As I get older, the energy for modern life isn't as strong as it used to be but you're still out there grinding away. Respect.

Keep spamming away. Your garden is lovely. This thread combined with the odd RHS /NT/ English heritage visit gives me plenty to aspire too.
Hopefully, my Echinacea will be as good as yours on a few years. Off to investigate that specific geum.

If you're going to spend that sum on compost, why not double down and buy a hot compost bin then have a never ending method of soil improver for free?

Looks like a great haul. I've been inspired by your orange geum and am going to get one for next year.
Just purchased some muscari and tulip bulbs from Bloms to get in in October.

Good question and rather unorthodox.
My 6 year old loves snails and slugs so rounds them up and plays with them. Does a good job as she knows all the hiding places. Every evening when they're in their "snail hotel", I relocate them to a festival calls Snailpalooza. I tell her that's in the back alley and they have food and drink there but really, it's in the hot compost bin. Can send her over if you like?

After a failed attempt at growing Echinacea last year (taken by the slugs), all three of our Echinacea Purpurea Magnus plants are coming into flower. They look really nice and love the droopyness.
Saw them at Wisley a few years ago and loved their form.