david lawrence

Enjoying the pics and notes from the north if you’re passing the crask inn and have time for pics would be great to see them and show others possibly the best inn in the world

I think the garage thing is to encourage people to park in the garage not fill it with stuff. This leaves the street much less covered with parked cars. Seems to help in village where my sister lives

Mr Rowling the no dig guru suggested leaf curl can be down to cold nights

Looks lovely. Thought it was tooo windy for actual trees at bettyhill. Certainly was when I cycled past. What a slog

On nettles so that’s right but no obvs white on lower body and they seem very long and thin never seen them before would the heat and humidity drive them up to top of the nettles. No sign of nettles being eaten

It’s in bits in the shed drive unit out and being inspected after checking that parts available to repair it hoping mechanic had a good memory to put it together again 🫰🫰

Burnt a net bag full to cook some burgers etc for kids. Let them burn, cooked on the coals then extinguished the fire and ended up with some rough charcoal for the garden bio char type experiment two results from one bag of branch logs 👍👎?

Reverse drive is handy

Wrapped the runners up in fleece last night. If I hadn’t bothered they would be knacked. Gentle rain tonight 👍👍👍👍

How best to eradicate or more likely reduce mares tail growing in a riverside field. My friends are trying to make more of a mixed meadow instead of a grass field with some success apart from the dreaded mates tail Any thoughts ? thanks david

How about covering hoops separately and making two small ones. One with mesh and one buried?

I’ve tried them as giant plant pots but found they did go out of shape a few old posts could sort that though

My McCormick reverse drive tractor has losts its drive fault traced to hydrostatic unit the parts are available with possible large bill to fix depending what is found once unit opened up. Between 3,000 and 5,000?£ Sell it for parts and buy another get it fixed my budget would be £7-8000 what to do for the best any inside information????? david

Hi my little reverse drive tractor has lost its drive and it’s traced to hydrostatic drive unit the parts are available but bill for fixing could be 3000 to 5000 £ any ideas what I might get for it as a non runner ? where best to find a replacement or just give the go ahead to get it fixed I don’t have the time to or really knowledge to buy a better one in the sub £7 or £8 thousand bracket Whats the way forward ? thsnks david

I’ve got a push along blower which can also collect. Pointless really as bag fills in seconds