ErUpNorth

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 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...

I went down the potting shed on Sunday in search of something to store my seed potatoes in.  I'd bought three lots on the Saturday, first earlies, second earlies and main crop.  Now I don't know where to store the second earlies and main crop, they need to be kept in a cool light place.  The first earlies are currently in egg boxes in the kitchen where I am hoping they will chit nicely.  The other two sets are sitting in the dining room but they can't stay there permanently.  I will continue to ponder this problem as last year I kept them in the dark in the potting shed, but that produced long white roots which is not good. My sortie down the garden tempted me to do a bit of weeding around the potting shed and in last year's cabbage/broccoli patch.  I started to turn over the new vegetable patch but that required a bit more back breaking work, although it is turning over nicely.  I'm not impatient about creating new borders, I cover an area of lawn ...