Author: Andy

  • Squash Steaks

    Monty says these need to grow uppards. Verging on gardening if you ask me!

  • Record build time?

    Well we ordered our iKea set in April 2019 according to the labels on the box. It is now built and actually in a bedroom upstairs.  Is 16 months a long time… the instructions only run to like 4 pages anyway… maybe a world record?

  • It’s all alive in the pond!

    Big flowers and flying monsters! All we need now is the iSpy book of “Swamp Monsters” to start ticking them all off.

  • Green fingers strike again

    Dunno what it all is…. mostly legal though!

  • Its a fridge!

    After the previous fridge freezer packed in – we decided it was time to upgrade and downsize a little.  After ordering a red-one, which after 4 weeks of delays still hadn’t turned up (shame on Appliances Direct and the supplier Haier), we went with ao.com and ordered a black one, which turned up two days…

  • Green fingers

    Have made the tomatoes start to turn pink!

  • Its a Bed!

    Looks like a desk.  No its a bed.

  • Protect your pond!

    Due to Mr Dowell’s love of frogs, we had to come up with some way of discouraging them from the lake in the back garden. Our next product for Dragons Den is the “Mega Huge Frog Foot Print Psychological Deterrent”!  May have to work on the name – is a work in progress. This is…

  • Man make fire!

    Well it was sunny, we have no freezer, and a rusty bbq was sat at the end of the garden. Even the “light me” bag of charcoal that had sat in the garage for 2 years “worked”. Others took over the cooking duties once the flames had died down.  Rust flavoured burger – yum!

  • Pond ver 2.0

    Does diggin count as Gardening or Landscaping!