Iām not sure @Jane_Williamson is proposing to share her kilo a day. 
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I canāt imagine the colour / smell of ones pee if sharing a kg a day between 2 
We share it with the neighbours and our eggs too.
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I can 
See, Tory? Told you 
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After moving the rockery, i have about 1/3 of the decking finished apart from the banister and the trellis infills, I just need Leroyās to get their finger out and get some stock in.
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Well done Colin - lookslike a very professional job 
It looks ok from 15 ft 
anything with screws and nails isnāt the easiest nowadays with me missing my fingers on my L hand, there was a lot of swearing goes on 
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I can well imagine! However, one of the advantages of getting older in my experience is that you canāt actually see errors in construction (or anything else) without glasses. Iāve taken to not wearing glasses unless I actually want to see something 
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Thatās what I thought until an eye problem resulted in 2 lens replacements.
Thanks to fantastic surgery, my vision is now better than 20:8 which means I can see things at 20m that the average person can only see at 8m. My errors have never seemed larger or more obvious!
But your decking looks excellent to me, @Griffin36 !
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Went in to Leroy Merlin and the assistant asked if I wanted decking - so I hit him first
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It looks as if it needs an elderly couple slowly dancing a forceful flamenca on it! I love the sound of their feet stamping on woodā¦
It sounds a bit daft Colin but I appreciate the work and precision of the diagonal cut on the bit of wood by the gravel.
Good job.
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First cuckoo just now! And we found a hedgehog in our garden this morning which is lovely news as we were worried we didnāt have any and have been making nice places for them around the garden for 12 years in the hope of attracting a family.
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Ba-doom, tish.
The old ones are the best.
Mind you, when anyone mentions decking I canāt help think of this video.
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The house we bought was a maison secondaire so the garden was deliberately low maintenance - the odd plant here and there surrounded by lawn. One of those plants was a sad looking twig that OH mowed over more often than not. Itās taken time, but after surrounding the twig with a flower bed to protect it from the mower, the ātwigā is now a wonderful pink tree peony. This year, nine flower heads and the promise of more for next. 
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Beautiful! So much further ahead than we areā¦tree peony not yet opened leaves yetā¦
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I didnāt know tree Peonies existed! What is the difference between them and ānormalā ones?
They are much bigger and blowsier and really special. Shrubs rather than herbaceous perennials. Expensive to buy, and can take a long time to get going and flower but when they do!!
The best ones to me are called intersectional peonies which are a cross between herbaceous and tree peoniesā¦
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