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It's the second one I've seen. The last was in a house in the next village maybe 20 years ago.

I've not seen one of these voltage controlled circuit breakers for a few years! Tbh I'm surprised the DNO fitted a new head and meter with it there. Done a few years back when we were having lots of local power issues. The seals are even initialled and match the signature on the meter labels. This is a self contained, metered supply separate to the house off a pole in a old, block built cooper's shed. Think double garage size with a solid dividing wall. There's a bit of T&E coming out the bottom of the VOCB feeding a rusty, lidless ancient cu, the other side of the wall. That's a whole other story, falling apart etc. Feeding just lights and a couple of sockets for the garage & all in VIR. They want to feed a new annexe and have already run a 16mm2, 2-core SWA in a duct underground. A yellow duct no less! I'm not sure if that's worse than the usually used / seen blue! Too late now to even give them any tape for the trench as it's all concreted over. I was thinking they should go REC2 then Henleys after the meter. Then one set of tails to a new, local cu the other side of the wall and sort those lights and sockets out. Another set of tails to a 100mA time delay RCD then an 80A switch fuse feeding the SWA to the annexe. They've a BG split board for the annexe. As it is it's actually better as it is than many round here. All farms or ex smallholdings! 😂

The hair and a fresh application of coffee grounds last night: Are you supposed to spread the hair thinner?

A relative suggested they've had excellent first years growing veg then the second year seen the plants decimated by pests. Maybe "they" are then in the soil, multiplying ready for next year? More hair applied to the nibbled beans tonight, purple dyed hair to be exact! Dyed hair withstanding I'm trying not to use anything artificial. That extends to oil used on the gardening tools. Rather than 3 in 1, WD40 etc is vegetable oil an option? Was even thinking to spray inside my box section frames.

Western yellow centipede is the best guess. A lot bigger than the 70mm I've read they grow to!

The times I've heard that...

Make 'em:

Now I'm scared! 😬 I thought I'd seen whatever it is the other evening but now there is no mistake. I was just out slugging on the bean patch. There was "something" on the ground about 4" long. As the torchlight hit it disappeared underground but so fast I thought I was hallucinating. Where it went underground was a say 5mm dia hole. I gingerly probed it with the Leatherman blade but backed off as it's dark and I've seen Tremors! Any ideas?

Lidl.

I put some seeds in the little pots, in compost.

12 Harrier F1 butternut squash and 45 tongue of fire red runners. The trays from when SWMBO did her hanging baskets:

Got as far as filling a bucket with nettles last year after a tip on here. Promptly forgot about it until it dawned what the smell was! Then the bucket dried out. Seem to recall you're supposed to dilute 10:1 as it's strong stuff. Just given the soil around each plant about 100ml of this made up, organic fertiliser:

Small weeds are still growing up around the beans so I'm not so sure the coffee is doing major harm?

@SteamyTea the bloke who wrote that is wong... Seriously though, point taken though a bit late now On the effectiveness as a slug/snail deterrent it's either that or the garlic water that's keeping them away it seems. Only two plants out of 50 have been nibbled and I found the culprit on one and dealt with it (small slug). I've also been putting human hair around the plants. If the caffeine is having a suppressing effect I wonder if it's worth giving each plant a liquid feed now?

I believe it depends which side you hang your keys?

Probably don't give one either!

...and back again

Coming up married for 31 years. I love shifting tonnes of soil, by hand, from A to B. I'll often shift it back to A just to keep out of the house...

Fit Geberit or Grohe. Everything else is crap. All the Geberit drawings are on their site. With Geberit it's all serviceable through the flush plate. https://www.geberit.co.uk/products/bathroom-products/concealed-cisterns/

More coffee Sir? Ring fencing the plants with grounds, so far so good: I still need to clear a "no man's land" / small mower's width around the 4 sides. Hope to get the metal frame re-erected with new printed connectors and reinforcing gussets riveted on. That'll give me scope for future netting. In the short term I might use it as framing to grow some butternut squash up on the sunny side.

No macro button?

Went round the beans late yesterday evening with the coffee grounds I'd left to dry in the sun. Further reading says a weak spray solution of coffee is better than the grounds. Also that it is a neurotoxin to slugs and snails. On the down side it can apparently deter/affect beneficial creepy crawlies. @saveasteading any capsules from coffee machines where I work get recycled separately. The grounds I'm getting come from freshly ground beans. It's from the posh floors where money seems no object and staff welfare is paramount. Everything is top quality. I'm allowed to fish it out of the rubbish 😂

Beans are in! A scoop of compost in each hole. The expresso cup removed and plant popped in. Then a bit of soil packed around it & watered. Lastly a spray of garlic water around the perimeter. Fingers crossed.

Love it! 👍

Got the BiL to kindly take a few inches more out of the new patio area. It exposed the old water pipe that used to feed the piggery that was adjacent years ago. Should have plenty of depth now for some hardcore now and end up with this area level with the floor inside the house. The long term plan is to lower all the paved areas around the house.