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[quote user="Barbel Bob"] [:'(] I have just spent 7 days clearing two large flower borders of a weed i have since found to be called lesser celandine, it has totally invaded my garden growing also in my grass!!!! I have removed them by hand getting rid of the roots also...I have chosen not to use weed killer this time in the borders but do not want to repeat the last 7 days EVER AGAIN! so want to hear about your experiences of this weed!!![/quote] I hate to tell you this but unless you have cleared the ground of every miniscule bulblet that lesser celandine reproduce from you are going to have an on going problem with this weed. Removing the weeds by hand dislodges the bulblets and also digging over the area brings dormant bulblets closer to the surface where they then germinate.  The only solution I found was to use a good weedkiller over a 2 year period.  Ist year treat with weed killer, then cover with weed suppressant, 2nd year uncover and treat new growth with weed killer.  After that I still had the odd ones coming up that I removed with a border trowel complete with the ball of soil. Don't put any of the weed on the compost heap you will just spread the problem when you use the compost.  

Most Pharmacies sell the purple spray, ask for Duphacyline spray.

Pleased to say I think I have found a new home for Hugo,  if it doesn't work out OH has agreed we will foster him until a new forever home can be found for him. Cockerel is now happily enjoying his new life with his harem of 10 girls.  

Thanks Clive, e-mail received and I have replied.

No reply to e-mail, I have had the offer of another cockerel but it is further away but I have promised I will let the other people know by lunchtime today if I want it.  Pity because I was going to have a talk about Hugo (the dog) to see if either he would fit in with my 2 dogs or I could help find a home for him.

E-mail sent earlier this morning,  I could come and collect cockerel tomorrow afternoon (Tues 3rd)

Do they still have the cockerel?

PM sent yesterday.

Why are some threads showing the last post date as being as far back as 2005?  Or is it just my computer?

[quote user="DanT"]Thats very trusting of you![/quote] Well the philosophy has worked for over 30 years.

Not sure if this of any use, just over the border in Haute Vienne. Samedi 15 et dimanche 16 novembre Journées des pépiniéristes à Châlus Les deux jours : exposition-vente arbres, arbustes, plantes vivaces, outillage de jardin, artisanats, métiers de bouche, automobile... Vente de câtaignes blanchies et de cidre. Some friends bought all their fruit trees from one of the stalls last year and they have grown really well.  

Pads,  I have sent you a pm.

Also tried them on Wednesday when the van was at Nexon.  The were hoping to also have Chalus as another pitch but the Mairie has refused them permission, giving the reason that there were already too many of these types of things in the town  - where/when?

I don't very often post but come on to the Forum most days to read what everyone is up to and was pleased to see Chris posting again the other day. So sorry to hear he fell off the wagon but at least he has the sense to know when he needs help, I wish him well and hope to see him back here soon. Do you know what sort of books he is looking for.  I have about 1000 up in the attic so am sure I could find something for him.

My mum told me to remember that it doesn't matter where he gets his appetite as long as he comes home for his dinner[;-)][:D]

My book says to plant semi ripe cuttings in a cold frame in summer.  I have never tried it as the low spreading one I had in the UK used to root its self on the trailing branches.

Have just found out the new mobile fish and chip van will be in St. Yrieix, Place de la Nation, on Sunday 21st from noon until late and in Nexon on Wednesdays from 5.00pm until late.  Apparently they are trying to get permission from other towns in the area.

Christine, that made me laugh because I don't have time to tidy up my cupboards, I spend most of my time searching for things OH has put down on any available space where he happens to be at the time and then can't remember where he left it, be it tools, paperwork, clothes, etc.

What a lovely clean and tidy workshop. I am fed up trying to keep our workshop in some sort of order and trying to find tools when I need them so now have my own shed and tool box and heads roll if anything is taken and not put back where it belongs.

Sunday night the top of my foot started itching, woke up in the early hours of Monday in pain, my foot felt and looked as though it had been scalded, complete with a big (about the size of a 2 Euro coin) fluid filled blister.  What on earth could have bitten me to have caused this?

Thank you ali-cat and Nell,  I have compromised and put some in the freezer raw with the marinade and will cook some and freeze them, be interesting to see which turns out best later.

Thank you ali-cal and Nell,  I have compromised and put some in the freezer raw with the marinade and will cook some and freeze them, be interesting to see which turns out best later.

Yesterday I put some chicken portions into marinade ready for some friends who were supposed to be coming for lunch today but had a phone call late last night cancelling as they have to fly back to UK rather urgently.  The marinades are oil based with various herbs and spices (made 4 different types), we will have some of them for lunch but can I freeze the remainder in their raw state in the marinade or should I cook and then freeze?

Our doctors surgery in the UK had a shelf with old Reader's Digest, some of them dating back to the 1980's, it used to be quite interesting reading. 

A large swathe of the forest on the hill opposite our house has already been cut down and they are still cutting, the sound of chain saws all day every day, seven days a week, is bad enough but the plaintive cry of some kind of raptor (I think they are Buzzards) as they circle overhead  is even worse, they circle for a couple of days and then they disappear, four pairs so far. Why do they have to cut all of this forest down now, why couldn't they wait a few months?