2026 - What I did today.

I've cricked my back and have been out of action for nearly a week. P has be chopping tops off a very tall conifer hedge and the debris needed chopping up for the green bin collection tomorrow, so guess what I've been doing today. Two green bins filled to brim with P climbing inside to tamp them down. It was rather cold and I was very pleased to get back indoors and sitting down.

Hope your back improves soon. 

I have a squasher thing (technical term) for the bin. Like this https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71bm...L1500_.jpg  Its amazing how much more you can cram in!

I've cricked my back and have been out of action for nearly a week. P has be chopping tops off a very tall conifer hedge and the debris needed chopping up for the green bin collection tomorrow, so guess what I've been doing today. Two green bins filled to brim with P climbing inside to tamp them down. It was rather cold and I was very pleased to get back indoors and sitting down.

Hope your back improves soon. 

I have a squasher thing (technical term) for the bin. Like this https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71bm...L1500_.jpg  Its amazing how much more you can cram in!

Back's on the mend, thanks, it's only muscular and something that happens at least once a year. I've pulled these particular muscles by just sneezing in the past, this time was reaching over to close the car door. Daft really but its a sod when it happens and takes a week to get better.
That contraption is really good if you haven't got a Paul. It looks like an instrument of torture.

A bit more plasterboard put up and a big tidy up ready for the air source heat pump man . Who is coming tomorrow. Apparently going to take 5 days to complete the install. Nothing in the garden as weather has been mostly horrible.

P says pictures please. Heat pump not soggy garden 

A bit more plasterboard put up and a big tidy up ready for the air source heat pump man . Who is coming tomorrow. Apparently going to take 5 days to complete the install. Nothing in the garden as weather has been mostly horrible.

P says pictures please. Heat pump not soggy garden 

On the build thread   

Almost forgot. I did play in the garden for half an hour yesterday. Sieved the old compost from a hanging basket.
I tried for the second time to use my sieve like this https://amzn.eu/d/7DrxgkS
It’s going in the charity shop next time Bob is passing. Less than useless. First time it didn’t work. I guessed was because the compost was quite wet. But yesterday the compost from the hanging basket was very dry coir . That still didn’t go through.
Never waste your money on one of them. I only got one because it was second hand.