There are things I miss about about living there in the circumstances I did.
I couldn't do the things I did then in the heat and terrain now. It's easy to overlook the fact that it was a job I got paid to do; not much, but there were other benefits. Trying to maintain the land, fencing and...
It almost got to 25C (77F) here a couple of days ago. That was enough for me. I don't not understand how I used to cope with heat in Spain.
Having the right type of building helps a lot. No air conditioning in my house or the main house in Spain with outside temperatures at 36C to 40C in the...
The hours I've spent hunting mosquitoes. I even made a fly swat with a skirt to stop the air movement during strike from blowing the mosquitoes out the side of the swat.:th
No worries IM. I just wouldn't want you to think you could go off and quietly die of Covid without notifying BYC first. It's awfully bad for the caring community image. :p
I made this for the allotment chickens. While we didn't and are unlikely to get temperatures as high as 115 last year got into the mid 90s.
It's a prototype I should add.
Two layers of 90% shade cloth with an air gap on top;
The sides will also have two layers when it's finished.
Three layers...
The brussel sprout seeds I sowed didn't show.:( I'm still trying to work out what will and what won't grow here with minimum maintainence. The chickens have had most of the lower branch fruit buds which I don't mind but I'm not planning on feeding a murder of crows and a bunch of fat arsed...
I've had the watering debate a few times now. It wasn't uncommon when I was in Catalonia and to a lesser extent here at the allotments to find people watering with a hosepipe in full sunlight.
I've tried pointing out that a look at the skies when it rains, and when it doesn't gives a clue about...
When I moved back to the UK most of everything went to shite and that included my diet. Unlike many, when I'm under a lot of stress I tend to lose weight and I discovered over the two years, one in Catalonia while I watched a difficult situation graduate to an impossible situation and the next...
I moved the raspberry bushes. It went better than I expected. There is only one that is looking a bit sickly and I haven't lost hope for it yet.
Next are a couple of gooseberry bushes that got planted on one of the paths of all places. I'm expecting these to be a bit trickier. I've managed to...
There will I'm sure come a point when we can slow down the ageing process, but what will happen with the brain? I was talking with my elder sister and she's 4 years older than me and what she says she has lost/is losing is tolerance. I'm pretty short on that now.:rolleyes:
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