Recent content by Pixbarmy

Great for fence painting, then watching the paint dry instead of the telly/football! :)

My chinese "shed" is now completed. I won't be putting anything in there that needs to be kept dry ( Isn't that what sheds are for?). The corrugated, flimsy sides and roof, are all fixed into channels, which hold the water, until they are full and then spill over inside the shed, because the...

My "shed" is finished, so I shall carry on in WCMUT!

Chenglish instructions and assembly drawings that look like those joke tech drawings that change from one end of the structure to the other (eternal staircase etc!). I am pleased to say, that all the parts and fixings were in the box but the suggestion that two people MAY be needed, should read...

My dentist used to leave my gums bleeding after a "clean". They have to ask now, if you want one as (dentists?hygienists) opinions vary as to the effectiveness and if the extra "cleaning" causes more damage than it cures. I now decline, use a more "aggressive" toothpaste once a week, in...

WAMT? Neighbour's clematis all over my fence, causing it to lean. They seem to have "trained" it through my trellis!!! Not any more it isn't!! Build your own trellis! My trellis was in immediate danger of being pulled over by the weight, so I snipped the "loops" of branches that were...

Let's hope that these "Gods" dont rain like kings and queens!

I bought a self assembly garden storage unit. Rain stopped play, so had the driver stick it in the garage. I was just about to start building it in there when I realised that it's 6 foot by 3 foot and the rear door (to the garden) is only 2 foot nine inches! Doh! Wait for weather to improve...

UPDATE:- The concrete is laid! Despite a shower during the process! The scoresheet reads Pixbarmy 1 Rain lost! Debated about the finish but as it will be under a load of new pots and planters (higher level preferably), the standard tamped finish it is. The last time I did a steel trowelled...

After spending days, clearing out old bushes, trees, root systems and soil from a verge in the garden, bagging up and redistributing the soil to the front garden, preparing the sub-soil for the blinding and laying it, toddling off to the builders merchants, several times for the ballast and...

Great news! All doing well in their new homes. Also, one of the path side plants has started to go straight up for the sun, now that the overhanging bushes have been moved. It used to look as if it was crawling on its knees but is now proud to be alive!

Fuel shortages and high fuel prices? Nah! :)

Not being known as a green fingered person ( I kill a lot of stuff!), I have managed to move three large plants and they have not only survived the move but appear to be doing well! Time will tell! :)

Rang 4 local companies to buy turf for my garden over the last few days. Left messages and emails but not one of them have responded. I want to buy local, not get poor grass from B&Q! :headbang:

Days after we cancelled the sale of our bungalow (we would have had to move into temporary accom ) my wife was diagnosed with renal cancer and had to be rushed in for an emergency kidney (+other bits) removal! He works in mysterious ways!