have just been standing in front of a stove for 3 hours:you_crazy :you_crazy tomorrow it

will be 6 hours:hopeless: :hopeless:

But people want to eat 🙂 And i want to earn money 🙂

I am stuck in the office but luckily we can have the doors open. I must collect up the papers that the electric fan has blown onto the ground before they end up in the yard and I have to chase them across rural Suffolk.

those midges are a formidable foe for their size.

http://www.treesforlife.org.uk/tfl.midge.html

(perhaps you should introduce those insectivorous plants to your garden?)

whilst trekking to the small beach party at the weekend (had to walk about 3.75 miles from the nearest train station [1]) I went through a footpath passing between two fields; in one part where trees had been permitted to grow there were clouds of midges.

I am not ashamed to say I ran like hell through this bit (and did not get bitten). Maybe the English ones do not bite though.

[1] the resorts own station had been removed as the cliffs gave way due to sea erosion and it was unsafe to keep running trains there!

Love beeing back..

They have missed me :you_crazy :you_crazy

And i have missed them..

i used to have sundews but the problem is that the garden is actually pretty dry and when i was away they dried out and died:hopeless:

midges come from my neighbours ‘pond’ in the field AFAICT bbut the good news is we have swifts in vast numbers this year:groucho: and i have noticed a impressively reduced number of midges since they arrived:wink:

its the numbers of them that come up on a cool evening thats scary…:weee:

best solution is to be inside when they are swarming…..

Theorhetically the Renault 5 should be ok to go through MOT when I’ve put some carb cleaner through it but it does have a bad knocking when cornering (which as it’s a GTX tends to be done at high speed), checked the bearings and no probs there so we’re going to check out the drive shafts etc. The fourtrak is a rebuild job, we’ve got a running donor (4 wheel drive is knackered on the donor) so we’ve got to swap the turbo’s, starter motor, replace windscreen and sort some of the electrics. We’ve also got 2 range rovers that will will turn into one good one one day 🙂 Main problem is lack of cash, we’ve just spent 2 years rennovating a house and now we need someone to buy it (£300k if someones got a giro coming in soon) Me ma’s got a house to rennovate in Italy, which is why we need to get the fourtrak on the go to tug her van over with (incidently, if anyone’s up for a bit of graft over there, food and booze will be provided) PS Renault 5 was £85 and has served well for 2 years, I love Diss auctions 😉

Hi Chillidog 🙂 The property is in Le Marche, mid east coast. My skills are pretty much the same as yours which is definitly gonna be needed, sepecialy the shovel bit I reckon 🙂 I’ll throw up a site with pics when we get chance, one of her main drives is to incorporate as much eco friendly stuff as poss including powere generation etc.

That’s barry of ya man.
Full Power!