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I'm happily retired after a 40+ year career in "DP" / "IT" (mostly on the operations/management/sales sides) so I've seen a lot of (impressive) change and progress in that time. One thing that has always stuck in my mind is that when "PL1" was released, it was reported that the company (IBM I...

Is a raffle a competition?

Wow! Just Wow!

I'm fascinated by the vast variety of hover flies around the garden (I know that's not one in your photo) their role as pollinators, their vast variety, ability to mimic other insects and their weird lifecycle) is amazing.

They're the small (about 8" tall) white ones, they look a lot like wild garlic but with narrower leaves (a bit like daffodils) and come out just after the garlic has started to die off. They multiply vociferously. They look lovely while they're in bloom, but inmho the downsides far outweigh the...

Thanks for that, very helpful :thumbsup:

I got my plugs from hayloft-plants.co.uk

About 20 plus years ago I bought a gardening magazine that had 12 Allium bulbs attached to the front cover. I now have thousands of Alliums that come up every years for me to dig up and dispose of - and apart from the sackfull of dug-up bulbs that are currently awaiting transportation to the...

Thanks, that's very helpful. They're native biennials and i'm trying to establish a colony in the shadier back areas of my garden. I've removed some of the denser (silver birch) shade, and reduced the beech hedge, and have had some success earlier this year already - also with Teasels. My...

When I went to the Saturday morning pictures in the local scout hut in the mid 1960's the bloke used to undercut the sweet shops by selling black jacks at 5 for 1p. Anyone under the age of 40 won't understand any of that sentence.

So earlier this year I bought 3 dozen various Foxglove plug plants, each of which (tbh I've lost 2) has grown nicely and now been potted on into 3 inch pots and developing nicely in my shed-cum-greenhouse. I guess I need to move them outside for a couple of months (to adopt and harden off a...

The cheap old sun-facing thermometer on my patio says 103 degrees F (39.44 C), its showing 90 degrees in my potting shed (half glazed). Phew what a scorcher!

Agreed (through gritted teeth) - if only he could add some dress sense to his skillset, that shirt yesterday was goddam awful.

Yeh, but who here hasn't had a sandy eagle or two? :lolol:

Surely you could make a few quid selling decent replicas of that? Your favourite charity awaits.

North Stand Chat you say??? CHAT?? Surely in today's civilised world, where conversations can be held almost instantaneously by letter, telegram, messenger boy and the like, only women, greengrocers and villains "chat". I thought this forum was a genuine attempt for gentlemen supporters to...

I had new NSC working OK on my phone and have just deleted 7 days history on my Chrome ASUS and it seems that all is now right with the world (this sent from my Chrome Laptop)

i like it and ive particularly enjoyed the recent storyline about sheldons older brother and the reaction of the mums church-going friends

That made me smile =0)

I used to. But I retired a couple of years ago.