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Garden Pests

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This cheeky minx is making a mess of my  beds. I'm waiting for several deliveries, shrubs, vegetables, herbs and strawberries so I'm open to all suggestions of how to keep him/her (I feel him) off the nice clean soil.

I only went to take the brown bin round ...

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and spent over three hours working on the raised bins and being brave with spiders. I have a beehive compost bin I don't use but the spiders do and I needed to move it to re-site the brown bin. I also got the raised beds started ready for the plant arrival, am giving square foot gardening ago.

New raised beds

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I got them built and then realised filling them would be an issue due to the siting of our garden. If I'd investigated before having then built by Charleton Fencing I wouldn't have gone ahead. Thankfully I found AA Gardening and Landscape Services, they lined them and filled them for me. Just waiting for plants now.

Honours Achieved

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I did it , I have been granted an Upper Second-class Honours. Never did I expect to even gain a degree when I started my Open University journey in 2007. I cannot remember now how I came to be continuing my education with the OU other than I always say mathematics came to me. I started with a 10 credit openings course and said if I got through it I would consider working towards a Certificate in Mathematics, which I did. I am not good at mathematics or any learning really, I think I have a poor working memory. I understand what people are telling me or what I am reading, but what I cannot do is park that information to recall it and use it. At school my maths teacher would sit with me and go over an example and I would be happy I understood it, he'd say "Now you do the rest", but before he got to the front of the classroom I would have forgotten how I was supposed to do the calculations. So these last 7 years beginning with an Openings then moving onto a Certificate the