A Golden Age of Horticulture

There is no doubt that Covid-19 is a terrible thing, but as always there is a silver lining to be found. Being confined to home everyday, coupled with excellent weather since working from home became mandatory, has allowed me to spend far more time in the garden than is my custom and as a result I feel that we can expect great things from the garden this year. A key task is to remove the numerous piles of branches which

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It’s down!

At last! After months of knee breaking effort the new wooden floor is down. It is one continuous area covering the living room, hall and dining room made of 3mm walnut engineered wood. It replaces some truly awful and very badly installed laminate flooring which has been there since we moved in. The planks are all glued down to the concrete floor using slotted underlay. Mostly it went down fairly easily although it was difficult stopping the glue going everywhere.

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