Mick Dempsey

According to the missus.. ”always! Otherwise they won’t pollinate” Hope that’s clear,

Use it a lot Steve, it’s good stuff, especially really well rotted stuff. BUT... You need to add lime otherwise it gets too acid and the brassicas suffer.

Poor old girl. Igor has had a couple of funny turns lately, 5 minutes and it’s over. Something we live with I suppose.

Mostly the wife’s work, I’m all about the flower beds, but I do the donkey work (rotovating etc)

Potatoes have had a problem this year, cropping, but poorly, never flowered. Peas just being picked today, everything else good as gold. Sweet corn always a treat! Asparagus bed is worn out, might grass over and not bother replacing, can’t wait another 3 years, want to move by then. Should have planned to replace the current one a few years ago.

Yeah, I figured that. I have injured myself twice in those trees, they are like no other when it comes to splitting and branch breakout. I am kinda prejudiced!

Impressive!

They’re already dangerous bastards to climb when alive, dead I wouldn’t fancy it at all.

If I was you I’d poison the stumps afterwards, otherwise you might end up with a forest of suckers.

Are you taking the trees out?

Ailanthus.

Watching a Glastonbury highlights show. Make me a bit sad that’s it’s not on this year, but at least we’re spared the BLM political preaching that would no doubt clog the whole thing up. Every cloud and all that..

All my own fault. Bringing my old spikes out of retirement, which feel like medieval torture devices is punishment enough.

I ran over my carbon fibre spike with the loader, bust it. Wanker.

Yeah, welds, tell me about it!

I did not say that Les.

It is, of course, all about money. Sky and Bt can’t charge money for something that’s not happening, the premier league won’t get their money from the TV companies unless they finish it. I haven’t watched more than 10 minutes of any match post lockdown. A charade.

I was hoping that they’d annul the league and deny Liverpool the title, the sight of all those Liverpool fans wailing and gnashing their teeth would have raised the morale of the rest of the country as we come out of lockdown. But well done anyway.

Yeah well the bloody world has gone mad, maybe it always was. Head down, get your victories where you can, you’re free to say what you like, but there’s a difference between spending 10 years in a gulag, or a bullet in your head and losing your job/friends.

I watched the RLB thing develop on Twitter in real time. Absolutely ridiculous of course, totally unreasonable sacking, but there you go, what’s sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Customers often ask me this question, I always say “we can find out exactly if you like”

That’s a big lump to neg rig, nice job.

This BLM shit has gone too far. Watching the BBC going on about this plane in Burnley like it was a big deal. What did the banner say that was so offensive exactly? Its exactly what happens when you ram this bollocks too far down people’s throats, they see it for what it is push back against it. It is like a competition to see who can look the most virtuous, a bit like the clap for carers palaver which ended up with people accusing other streets/people of not clapping hard enough. It was getting like the cultural revolution in China. Whats next? I reckon it’s transgender rights, it’s the latest thing where we are being gaslit into thinking day is night, dogs are cats and you are cancelled if you point out the facts. You have to toe the line, wear the badge, repeat the mantra, put the appropriate thing up on social media. A school where my nephew and niece go has cancelled naming a wing after JK Rowling because of her ‘transphobic’ comments. All she did was point out that using the word ‘menstruators’ to describe biological women was stupid. Then wrote a considered piece about the whole issue, in which I challenge anyone to find anything ‘transphobic’ (get used to that word btw) Morning all anyway.

Red oak has smooth bark, at least younger trees do.

Not for red oak, I think the stuff with the lichen on is it.