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in my bathroom is an old cast iron bath which, when I bought the new bathroom furniture I was going to replace but was told by many people not too as the old baths are best and you can get it re-enamelled, oh yeah, on an island off the north west coast, I was told a company comes over and does the work, well I never saw an ad for them but I do not buy the local rag every week, anyway last month I bought a copy and there was the ad ‘bath refurbishment’ so I phoned and the very nice man did the work this morning, just a new bath you maybe thinking well click to the other photo to see what fifty years of peaty water had done to it, amazing isn’t it!!!! I’m thrilled with the result and will no longer curse the people who told me to keep it,


over six years ago I rescued a camellia plant from the reduced shelf, it was a pathetic stick about as long as a pencil and thin as a matchstick, well 6+ years of copious amounts of tlc have given me beautiful results, now I think it has out grown it’s pot and so this winter I must give it more space, however if I put it in a lager pot I probably will not be able to continue to lift it, I would love to plant it in the garden but I am terrified the winter winds will kill it off, so my question is has any island gardener or someone you know got a camellia outside on the islands or anywhere where the winter winds are strong? Thanks in advance for any advice re camellias,


well it looked like the heavy brigade of rabbits was in the back larger garden this morning, 2 large rabbits looked like they were taking stock of the garden, they only seemed to eat a little grass, no plant damage, am I being lulled in to a false sense of ‘they seem to be alright’?
last night we had some rain,