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I heard the first one on Tuesday this week. I don't have lilac but my quince have thewir leaves and flower buds. It does feel like it's been a cold and slow spring this year, although daffs were roughly on usual schedule, the leaves are slow coming on the trees. GC

Don't forget the other non-food items. We use the Ecover range as we have private drainage. Back in November, I took advantage of the Black Friday deals on Amazon to stock up on 5L containers of all the usual things (washing up liquid, laundry liquid, hand soap etc) at 35% to 50% off. They are...

The situation with aviation fuel seems most challenging. Uk imports most, but does refine quite a bit of petrol and diesel although not as much as it used to. Thing is, refineries are set up for a particular type of oil, so North Sea light crude is no use as feedstock for a refinery set up for...

@fleetwalker : you might want to look up "Fandabi Dozi" on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/@FandabiDozi He has done quite a lot about the Great Kilt: GC

I am a fan of the M&S "flex fit" tencel underthings. No hard edges to dig in, comfortable, wash well and last well. GC

@TeeDee: , @Toddy : I would suspect that Son 1 knows that a feed plugged into a house in a power cut can back-feed the powerline and hence electrocute a power line worker. Clearly, the plug-in system only works when there is a meter that can somehow mitigate the risk of power feeding from the...

Yesterday I moved my 2 Morello cherries out from the overwintering greenhouse into a raised bed in one of the new polytunnels. Whilst they will grow outdoors, it's just too wet for them to be happy there. The grapevine and kiwi fruit were moved into their tunnels, made up some raised beds today...

Just as likely to have been someone high on drugs or had one too many... or even showing off to mates and losing control. A Suzuki Swift is a fairly typical "young lads" first car after all, and I suspect that any half-competent would-be terrorist would choose something a bit bigger and a higher...

@Toddy : yeah, the Numpty factor is critical. Typically, a Numpty will do themselves more damage with something like a longbow, but a more "point and press" type device is within capability. @Herman30 : you clearly missed the bit about being designed purely to cause harm :p . A crossbow is...

Update on The Polytunnel Saga..... Well, I received the 2 tunnels (each 6 metres by 3 metres) OK, and stacked the parts undercover. Read the instructions, watched the videos, checked the parts all there. Then I began..... (1) No way on this planet could I get the ground anchors in. Too many...

I tend to take the view that if something is BOTH something which is a projectile device which is only designed to cause harm to something (gun, crossbow, bow, slingshot/catapult) AND is designed so that a novice can pick it up and reliably do a level of harm with minimal practice, then...

The spring is on "usual" schedule around here, daffodills out around St David's day. The 4 days of warm calm weather last week was welcome, it has brought on the trees a bit, allowed me to finally get the covers on my new polytunnels, and move all my overwintering plants into them from the...

Of course, one could say you chose the wrong metal, apparently Tungsten has leapt in price recently...... as it's needed for munitions. GC

Quite a bit actually. The moon landing tech was specific to the application, and we cannot easily reproduce it. Any given technology, whether a cathedral or the moon landings, grows out of the skills and capabilities of the society of the time. For example. In the 1960's and 1970's, computers...

I decided to bring forward my purchase of fertilizer (mainly organic but also some inorganic) to this week. Prices of these are going only one way, and once the current stock is bought up, the next lot will be higher prices. I will use it anyway, but by buying now I pay less. (Seeds (open...

All back to what one means by the word "prepping." The idea of having enough food put by for a few days whilst being "normal" to some, is "prepping" to others. I don't think it's a class thing so much as lifestyle, and indeed when I was a bairn, the working classes would put a bit extra by when...

FInishing work for the covers that we onto my polytunnel frames yesterday. This week, had a day for them to dry out, a day to do the hotspot tape and a day yesterday when my other half helped me put the covers on. Have the doors to finish off now then I can decant all the stuff crammed into...

Softening up, initial messaging to reduce the hammer blow if fuel rationing is required in a few weeks time. There's a You Tube channel which is of a tone i would describe as "mild prepper" and which I strongly suspect is a govt psy-ops channel. They reiterate the govt guidance on resiliance...

A dozen bags of anthracite and 4 nets of wood randoms from the local fuel cash and carry. Usual monthly top up. Thankfully the price has not gone up as these are locally sourced fuels. GC

I know it's difficult, but watching my MiL, the longer the stay in hospital, the more the elderly seem to degrade..... yet once out she improved, and this time, she has been moved to a community hospital from the main big hospital as a stepping stone to back home and her alertness and cognition...