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I've got an internal brick wall with radiators on both sides... I'd never thought about it as a potential issue

Added these two white shelves to our kitchen alcove. All the stuff on them was previously on the wooden unit on the left, and by taking the plates and bowls out of a cupboard we've managed to space all our dry goods/canned goods/herbs and spices out so it's actually usable.

A mini-Spxtz is on the way in December, so I'm fully expecting to run out of space in the whole flat. Luckily the ceilings are high....

I was asking about something similar a few months ago. I think you said that Howdens in Possil might be good, but that could have just been for cabinet doors... @Bobbo had this suggestion: https://www.lfgss.com/comments/15135666/

All Horses Are Bastards. I typed it in caps but Microcosm lowercased it.

#AHAB

I know where it is, I'm just stuck at my desk at the moment despite this amazing weather...

I'm in Glasgow, so the soil is nearly always saturated with water. Good for stopping the plot drying out in summer, but shit for anything that involves digging/forking because the soil is always heavier and claggier.

Progress... a bit of frost burn or sunburn on the spuds where they were in contact with the fleece during the cold snap, but that's supposed to be it for this year, so got the beans, peas and courgettes in. Put down nematodes to keep the slugs away for a few weeks while everything gets established.

We've got bindweed in one of our beds - is the only solution to dig as much of it out as we can? Weed suppressing membrane doesn't seem to faze it as it just grows sideways til it finds the edge.

Oh bugger, I should have checked before I went to tag this one just now...

Great to see that they're giving binmen free tickets to the football. Proper respect for frontline workers there.

Is that a binman scarecrow/effigy? Sinister.

Congratulations on your job Martin! (It's Matt - Phil Thomas's partner).

It opens inward, so a panic bar wouldn't be much use I think! We're also looking at escape ladders for the other end of the flat - just trying to find somewhere strong enough to mount some Petzl Coeur bolts or similar.

We've got a storm door (outer door onto the stairwell of our tenement) that we currently double lock at night with a deadbolt. That door is our main egress if there was a fire, and we're aware that it's not a good plan to have a need to fumble for a key in an emergency. Our previous place had a large bolt which did the job - all I can find online are relatively puny tower bolts or very agricultural looking bolts for farm gates etc.

Does anyone know where I might find a very large bolt akin to the one in the photo below? Pen for scale.

You can Google 'Pollokshields fire 2019' and 'Pollokshields fire 2020' to see why we're keen to get this sorted...

It apparently got down to minus two here on Saturday night (Scotland)... we covered everything that we didn't think was frost-hardy with agricultural fleece but going to go this afternoon and see what the damage is. We've pretty much held off planting out, except for spuds and onions, so looking forward to getting going properly now.

Ah I think I've got it - will try and get there this weekend if someone doesn't beat me to it

Been trying to work out where this is... lock gate means canal right?

I've got an Arcteryx Sawyer jacket which I bought for walking, for its length -i was fed up of getting the stuff in my pockets wet when the rain ran off shorter jackets. It's basically replaced my cycling waterproof though, because I find it more useful to have a jacket I can wear for both.

My only complaint is that the hip pockets aren't pitched right for a backpack with a hip strap, cos it's a 'city' jacket.

The water comes in from the left so that buried tap is upstream of all the plumbing in the house. Only one stopcock needed.

The kitchen

Yep he's coming on Monday to move it up to the pink pipe on the left of that photo. Before we found it we had to turn off the whole building when we needed something done upstream of the isolation valves... unfortunately one of the shops under the block has a mains coffee machine so we were having to get the plumber out at 6am before they opened! Not such an issue during lockdown though.

Finally found our stopcock. Under the bathroom floorboards, which until recently had lino on top. And the tap was buried in ash and other shite (we're on a top floor flat!). Bloody tenements.

I've used a Drobo NAS with WD Red drives for work purposes, was a very robust setup but it was out of your budget by an order of magnitude (we couldn't use cloud storage cos it was historic research data with restrictive permissions). If you don't need to keep the stuff offline then cloud storage is by far a cheaper option.

Apologies if this has been covered upthread - now that I'm working from home I'm finding I'm drinking far too much coffee. Can anyone recommend a good decaf (from someone that delivers nationally would be a plus - I'm in Glasgow)? Cheers!

This looks great! Where did you get the seeds?