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 Topic: how does your garden grow? |
Florence
Replies: 80
Views: 58949
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 Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Wed Jul 09, 25 11:10 am Subject: how does your garden grow? |
| Shame I didn't post the pictures better - should have been smaller in size. I'll know for next time. |
| Topic: Moving House |
Florence
Replies: 10
Views: 1142
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Wed Jul 09, 25 11:09 am Subject: Moving House |
No there isn't any reason why the housing association shouldn't do the necessary work. Second day of an outside clearing team of six with a few thousand £s of landscaping heavy gear.
They've spen ... |
| Topic: Moving House |
Florence
Replies: 10
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Tue Jul 08, 25 8:18 am Subject: Moving House |
Housing association put house over road on list of premises available for people to bid for even before the firm had finished taking the rubbish away. 
The neighbours in the private houses h ... |
| Topic: how does your garden grow? |
Florence
Replies: 80
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Mon Jul 07, 25 6:27 am Subject: how does your garden grow? |
https://i.ibb.co/9mRBb2fm/Back-Garden-2013.jpg
When I moved in - 2013 - if I'd had a market for dandelions job would have been a good one.
https://i.ibb.co/ZzbJy6CL/patio.jpghttps://i.ibb.co/dsTGz ... |
| Topic: green washers |
Florence
Replies: 6
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Forum: Conservation and Environment Posted: Sun Jul 06, 25 4:07 pm Subject: green washers |
| Know the area. From somewhat long ago. Looks like just a worse than usual case of the wrong planting at the wrong time for the area. The Bedford to Cambridge via Huntingdon area in general suffered fr ... |
| Topic: Moving House |
Florence
Replies: 10
Views: 1142
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Sun Jul 06, 25 3:36 pm Subject: Moving House |
dpack 
Luckily it turns out that the town in which the flat is still situated has a reasonably good grapevine. Only one trier slipped through the system as well as a stupid letter from ... |
| Topic: Moving House |
Florence
Replies: 10
Views: 1142
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Sat Jul 05, 25 5:59 am Subject: Moving House |
| Honest we must be a set of scavengers - line of old peoples' bungalows and at least one of us went over to see if the left over debris had anything worth taking before the clearance firm was ordered b ... |
| Topic: Moving House |
Florence
Replies: 10
Views: 1142
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Wed Jul 02, 25 5:09 am Subject: Moving House |
| House clearance in this corner of the village is a regular happening. Social housing, lot of older people, oddballs who would be well suited to dpack's days in Troll Towers and the plain "done a runne ... |
| Topic: Moving House |
Florence
Replies: 10
Views: 1142
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Tue Jul 01, 25 9:32 am Subject: Moving House |
Am watching the clearing of a three bedroom house over the road. Again. It's three bedroom and social. Second eviction since I've been here.
This time it's professional firm that clears "shit" not ... |
| Topic: how does your garden grow? |
Florence
Replies: 80
Views: 58949
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Thu Jun 26, 25 3:24 pm Subject: how does your garden grow? |
| I came back from a garden centre trip with a social group with only the plants that I had a mind to find to fill tubs. Very well behaved of me. Now to go and plant. |
| Topic: how does your garden grow? |
Florence
Replies: 80
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Forum: Grow Your Own Posted: Tue Jun 24, 25 6:56 pm Subject: how does your garden grow? |
More showers would help. A lack of almost gale force wind would be beneficial.
Other than that, the change over of the garden this season progresses nicely. Observers say there's a good display of ... |
| Topic: Dinner is what you can afford |
Florence
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Forum: Recipes, Preserving, Homebrewing Posted: Sat Jun 21, 25 6:50 am Subject: Dinner is what you can afford |
[url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cz094j3nl1ro]'Dismal' month for supermarkets pushes down retail sales
Question is - are we eating what we can afford, shopping more wisely, doing more beans ... |
| Topic: downsizing the contents |
Florence
Replies: 38
Views: 26191
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Fri Jun 20, 25 8:42 am Subject: downsizing the contents |
| I foresee another call for a local van to visit the local tip at the end of the gardening season. I couldn't carry it all on the bus (well 2 buses now) and they don't allow foot traffic into the tip a ... |
| Topic: Another (at lest third) look at the home plastic |
Florence
Replies: 27
Views: 10222
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Fri Jun 20, 25 8:38 am Subject: Another (at lest third) look at the home plastic |
My downfall is the large plastic tubs in use in the garden.
The overhanging hedge that the other housing association doesn't maintain limits a fair width of the garden and there's more in life tha ... |
| Topic: Another (at lest third) look at the home plastic |
Florence
Replies: 27
Views: 10222
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Forum: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Posted: Wed Jun 18, 25 3:56 pm Subject: Another (at lest third) look at the home plastic |
I use old takeaway plastic containers for individual meals portions.
TAKE AWAY MEALS  What are these things? Whole new concept. |
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