Marty

Sweet dreams, young fella.

If you really found it so funny, I can't help but laugh at the fact you gave it an Angry emoticon...

I'm away to bed. Catch yous all tomorrow! But before I go, I'll just drop this here. And dedicate it to Albert.

Oh, I certainly believe in miracles! I see them happen almost every day. I believe in magic, too.

Another view showing the current progress on clearing the overgrown sheds. Taken from the upper garden...

And, talking of food makes me think of passwords for some odd reason... Warning: Contains several instances of the F word.

Mushrooms, @Valkyrie! (Pity it wasn't green peas rather than beans )

Definitely does sound yummy! I will need to bake bread tomorrow. Mine will be normal yeast bread, using stoneground wholemeal flour. And this week marked the fifth anniversary of me starting to bake my own bread again, after a break of about 15 years.

Because of another Zoom session today, I didn't get as much work done outside as I would have liked to. I did, however, move the ladder even closer to the unsafe gable wall of the first of the two stone sheds and continued cutting away some of the overgrowth... And sure enough, a number of the stones on top of that wall collapsed as I was carefully cutting away the vines and ivy that were all that was really holding them in place. I knew I was safe, however, as I had the ladder up against the main boundary wall, and the way the stones were hanging meant they would fall away from me, and into the old shed. Here's a photo showing the current state of that gable. If you look carefully you can see I have since moved some of the fallen stones to just in front of the pile of cut branches outside the shed. Tomorrow (weather permitting) I intend moving the ladder to the other side of the boundary wall, and continuing clearing the overgrowth from that side. I think that will be the safer way to work at this stage...

Are you telling me some people actually don't?

Greetings, Page! All good in Pageville, I trust?

It could just be a faulty memory due to my advancing years, but I'm sure that when Drew started using that avatar a while back that he said he was only going to use it for 24 hours... (How much did you pay him, dugh?)

Drew? Being good? Is that actually possible?

Is that one of the hogging the bed cats that Bucket mentioned earlier?

Greetings, young Drew!

You deliberately catering to my armpit fetish there, Gary? If so, thanks!

I had to look up the meaning of parged (and parging) there, Gary! I see it is what I would call rendered (or rendering). Indeed my spell checker put squiggly red lines under your terms when I just retyped them. Which is strange, in a way, as when I googled the word one of the first sites suggested was the British Gypsum website. So the words are obviously part of the British English lexicon. It must just be an obscure technical term this side of the Pond. I'm not really happy with the rendering (parging) that has been done to much of the wall, as I would also prefer to see the exposed stonework. But I'll probably leave what is already there in place, at least for the time being. The exposed stonework may need a bit of mortar added between some of the stones; especially where the ivy has loosened the stones in a few places.

Greetings, young Albert!

You sound like you're still a teenager with that reply, Drew.

She's probably trying to tell you something, clo. (Did you remember to put her food in the bowl?)

Haven't you noticed that he often tends to use strange emoticons? I think it's something to do with his advancing years...

I have a niece who was born around the perihelion of the last appearance of Halley's Comet. Her parents named her Hayley.

And cucumber. And also make an early start with growing vegetable (and flower) seeds. In a temperate climate like mine a greenhouse (or maybe just a polytunnel) would definitely extend the growing season.

To be honest, I haven't made my mind up yet. It's not really a huge shed and, as I said yesterday, I don't really need the storage space. I am wondering whether to maybe remove both of the sheds and erect a lean-to greenhouse in their place against the boundary wall. I've also considered doing that in the upper garden, where such a structure would receive much more sunlight. If I were to do that, however, I would really need to get permission from the owner of the empty stone built neighbouring house, as the lean-to greenhouse would be attached to its gable end.