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sorry to see the fox damage!

@ectoplasmosis was it you who was talking about an extractor fan that is in the loft, extracted out the roof, meaning you can have a much more powerful fan as you can't hear it in the room? Thinking of something powerful for the kitchen but hate the noise.

Maybe im making it up.

Forum approved toilet? Coupled, modern, white. Cheers

cant see the pic but pretty unlikely to be ready now. Needs till late summer I think.

Managed to score some horse shit

you can now get an emulator called 'delta' on ios straight from the app store

thats a really good price compared to anything else I've seen

Pics please with banana for scale

Day 1

assume you got it delivered to the allotment?

and yes @Monster1985 once I've managed to chat to some of the people on the allotment and find out good contacts i'll do that. Need to be wary of contaminated manure? Plan to make as much of my own as well but will just need a starting delivery 👍

yes, same, don't want it to become expensive but would like to get stuff growing this year. I can hack away at brambles with a small pair of secateurs and dig out roots with a fork.

Compost will be the main thing if I need to buy in some.

Keeping an eye out on FB for a shed and a manual mower in the mean time.

need a tonne of compost as well to have a chance of growing anything this year..

Need some tools to sort the brambles, a shed, current mower is also mains electric so no use

At least the plot only cost £45

there were 20 free plots when I looked round mine (Merton council), think a lot of people that got them during covid have lost interest and are now too busy.

Just got the agreement signed and paid up my fees

Any tips for doing an allotment without a car appreciated - maybe its a sign to get a cargo bike

I respect the hustle

it didn't feel like a overwhelmingly large plot, there were full size 125sqm plots that were 90% brambles that I decided against..

There is more than enough plot for this year and can just take the rest of the year to get rid of the brambles.

Yes rhubarb, not much else, a plum tree on one edge but thats about it, pretty blank canvas.

Looks like I'm going to be joining the allotment club with a 75sqm plot.

What tools to remove brambles? chop them up and dig out roots?

anyone with a coloured formica worktop able to comment on its durability, is it similar to standard laminate worktops?

lovely. Except the garden which seems a bit naff

Sad times, it would have been a year and a half old when I cut it back in autumn. It doubled in size, flowered then died.

hm, there was no young growth, it was all looking brown so I cut it all back!

Euphorbia characias subsp. wulfenii

When should euphorbia start to grow/show signs of life?

The stalks on mine started to brown and so I pruned it all back to the base late autumn but its not showing any sign of life at all, think it might be dead..

missed the Braun love a couple pages back (ignore the date, old pic)

most of the claybrook tiles ive been looking at are around £65/m2

no, the skirting would start where the black box ends (left & right)

If I calculated the width from wall to wall rather than skirting to skirting then there might be space for a slither of tiles on left or right side, then skirting on top.

Would that look better though..

Im tiling the small entrance area to our house

by my calculations the number of tiles width ways fits almost perfectly but will maybe leave a 10-15mm gap at each side. What are you supposed to do here, just grout 15mm each side? adjust spacing between each tile by an extra mm? (currently there is 5mm gap between each).

Its too small a gap that cutting a slither of tile would look odd but would a large-ish grout gap look equally weird?

Basically I am tempted to rip down all the gypsum and re-lime it

Quite a lot of work/money to not be 100% sure it will solve the issue tho

Here's a section of wall that also had a similar patch so I investigated. The lime(?) did seem damp under it, so beyond surface level condensation?? but then not surprising given any moisture has nowhere to go under the gypsum and concrete render on the external.

sorry should have said, solid brick wall, no cavity