Trewidden Nursery had its twice annual opening today and we got a Banksia ericifolia, a native of eastern Australia, to
Banksia in the foreground plant on the north bank of the big garden. It needs a low pH or will get iron deficient so may need some iron chelate. Apparently phosphate fertilisers must be avoided, so no growmore!
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Garden update Autumn 2013
Dec 14, 2013
Autumn 2013
It’s a year now since we planted the windbreak hedge on the south side of the part of the big garden nearest the house.
Garden with hedge
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It is mostly Olearia virgata laxifolia with some Rosa rugosa and the old bay tree and olive we brought from Ipswich. The olearia has been a real success. They have grown from about 600mm when we planted them to over two metres. I cut them back to about 1.8 m a and thinned them out to lighten them a few weeks ago. I fed them well in the summer and they got a bit top heavy for our rather light soil.
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Witchfinder’s summer cruise 2005
Nov 16, 2012
[Written late summer 2005, but only just came to light again]
I can only take four weeks leave at one time in the summer but this year we wanted to Go Somewhere. This would be our third summer sailing Witchfinder General, a Sigma 362 and our first boat. Our first two summer cruises had seen us setting off from Suffolk and getting as far as Isle Of Wight along the English South Coast the first year; and Honfleur and the Cotentin peninsular along the French coast last year. Each of these trips had fitted into a fortnight and people kept telling us we had “done the hardest part”. Usually there are just the two of us, but this time we were joined by our son and his partner who have just taken up sailing but need experience to convince their insurer that they can be trusted to take their old (sorry, classic) wooden Nicholson out alone. So this year we decided to go further afield but where should we go? We thought we might get as far as Portugal, which would mean my extending my vacation to an unauthorised six or seven weeks, but would be happy with the Scillies or southern Brittany.
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House progressing
Jul 18, 2012
Sub-floor down, walls plastered… Beginning of July the builders started. It was a bit more radical than I expected!
They went right down to the stone, then waterproofed it and started applying layers of render to flatten and square off the walls.
One layer of render and first fix electrics One layer of render and first fix electrics
Plan ahead…
Mar 11, 2012
Signpost to Trewellard on road into Pendeen
Always use a proofreader who can read and write…
Mar 11, 2012
Signpost near Gurnard’s Head on the road from St Ives to Pendeen
Pendeen living
Dec 30, 2011
We have moved… We have moved to Pendeen on the north coast of the far west of Cornwall, 7 degrees, or half a time zone west of Ipswich.
Front (ie away from road) The house is about 150 years old: a granite tin miner’s cottage with three gardens and the front at the back (it shows its back to the road – the best side faces the garden).
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Chun Quoit and the Straw Dogs farm
Dec 21, 2011
In which we make it to Chun Quoit, but not to the Straw Dogs farm Jenny has located the farm where Straw Dogs was made and it is only a few hundred metres away so I set off to walk there, taking in Chun Quoit on the way. The weather was typical Pendeen – not cold but wet, misty and windy.
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5° 40′ W
Aug 04, 2011
20 Carn View Terrace TR19 7DU Not where the "A" pin is! Its the last but one on the left. See the plan also Ignore the “A” pin. Number 20 is the last but one from the bottom on the left. It is the one with the gable end facing the road, giving it a roof ridge in the shape of a T on its side.
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CItris – A console mode tetris in C#
Jul 23, 2011
A very simple console mode tetris in C# without using Object Oriented features.
citrus
Edexcel Level 3 BTEC National Unit 16 Procedural Programming distinguishes between procedural and object oriented programming techniques. Arguably this is an absurd distinction, but they are the awarding body so we have to go with what they say.
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