Gardening Tips
Your fortnightly gardening tips for indoors and outdoors |
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Clean Mowers
Lawns won't need cutting for the next few months and mowers should be cleaned before
storing away. Get it serviced, or replace broken or worn parts now, so that it will be
ready to use as soon as it is needed in early spring. The cable on electric mowers must be
replaced if worn or damaged. Rotary mowers need less care in keeping their blades sharp,
but if they are worn or chipped, they must be replaced.
Grass clippings cause corrosion to metal parts and should be removed with a brush and
plastic scraper. Cleaning grass from plastic areas will also help prevent fresh clippings
sticking to chutes and surfaces in use. Before adjusting or sharpening the blades of a
cylinder mower brush away the dead grass. It is possible to sharpen blades at home, but if
stones have damaged them, they should be reground professionally. Oil lubricates moving
parts, prevents rust and is particularly useful if the mower is stored in an unheated
garage or shed. All metal garden tools benefit from a protective coating of oil or WD-40
through winter, too.
Poinsettias
Unlike azaleas and cyclamen these pot plants need warmth. Buy them now from a heated shop
or nursery and avoid cheap plants on markets. Look for the small yellow flowers in the
centre of the coloured bracts - the more the better. If the flowers are falling or have
already gone, the plant is past its best and should be passed by. |
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More 1500s facts?
Baths consisted of a big tub filled with hot water. The man of the house had the privilege
of the nice clean water, then all the other sons and men, then the women and finally the
children-last of all the babies. By then the water was so dirty you could actually lose
someone in it.
Hence the saying, "Don't throw the baby out with the bath water." |
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| Embarrassing
Stories |
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| As I walked to work, out of nowhere the heavens opened and
I got drenched. I couldn't understand why that night the regulars kept staring at me until
one of them pointed out that I might as well be naked as not only had my top gone see
through, but also my underwear! To this day, I still carry spares in my handbag! |
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Are
Santa's little helpers
subordinate clauses? |
Celebrating
A Norfolk Christmas
The last of this year's evenings in the Sheringham Museum's programme of winter talks
takes place on Thursday 18th December starting at 7.30 p.m. in the St Andrews Church Hall,
Cromer Road, Sheringham.
It will see the return of a firm favourite-Keith Skipper, who will be taking ''A Norfolk
Christmas'' as his theme with readings ranging from the Paston Letters to the Boy John
books, followed by some homespun humour and anecdotes loosely related to the festive
season and his main theme.
As Keith has said, ''this promises to be Sheringham's cultural highlight of the year.''
The good news is that he promised not to sing!
Entrance is £1.50 per head (£1 for members of the Museum Trust and Sheringham
Preservation Society) inclusive of tea / coffee and biscuits. There will be a raffle for
Museum funds. |
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What is the speed of dark?
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