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I'm so frustrated... I haven't been on here in so long because things keep going wrong! 
Our garden is still flooding, the field that we plan to have the veg beds in is surprisingly well drained, but we have to wade through the lawn to get to it, so can't mow or plough it until it drains away. We have a drainage ditch (dyke) down the side of our land, but that is almost full.
I did managed to clear one of the beds in the garden and plant loads of spring bulbs in it: alliums, tulips, daffs etc, but after some pretty horrible rain, they all floated to the top of the soil.
First our central heating broke and we eventually could afford to fix it, and that was cool because suddenly the house was warm, but...
Late last night water started leaking from the bathroom light fitting, so Mr OWG went into the loft and found a leak from one of the water tanks that we have up there (apparantly this means it's a fairly old-fashioned system). We couldn't see the leak and didn't really know what to do, so got a plumber out this morning.
He's drained the whole system (tanks, central heating etc) and had to un-plumb the tanks, manhandle both of them through the loft hatch, through the bedroom, down the stairs and outside. He has found hairline cracks in both of them, so we'll need both replacing
God knows how much this is going to cost. Although we can't really afford it, we have to get it done, as otherwise we've no hot water/heating!
The only thing I can take solace in at the moment is going through my seed catalogues and noting down my order. I made a little chart to compare prices with and will be placing my order split between about 3/4 companies.
I'm cheating a bit with some of the stuff as its my first year growing and am getting both seeds and plants, so I can try and germinate some of my own, but will have a head start with the plants
If you've got this far... thanks and sorry for off-loading on you all!
OWG
Our garden is still flooding, the field that we plan to have the veg beds in is surprisingly well drained, but we have to wade through the lawn to get to it, so can't mow or plough it until it drains away. We have a drainage ditch (dyke) down the side of our land, but that is almost full.
I did managed to clear one of the beds in the garden and plant loads of spring bulbs in it: alliums, tulips, daffs etc, but after some pretty horrible rain, they all floated to the top of the soil.
First our central heating broke and we eventually could afford to fix it, and that was cool because suddenly the house was warm, but...
Late last night water started leaking from the bathroom light fitting, so Mr OWG went into the loft and found a leak from one of the water tanks that we have up there (apparantly this means it's a fairly old-fashioned system). We couldn't see the leak and didn't really know what to do, so got a plumber out this morning.
He's drained the whole system (tanks, central heating etc) and had to un-plumb the tanks, manhandle both of them through the loft hatch, through the bedroom, down the stairs and outside. He has found hairline cracks in both of them, so we'll need both replacing
God knows how much this is going to cost. Although we can't really afford it, we have to get it done, as otherwise we've no hot water/heating!
The only thing I can take solace in at the moment is going through my seed catalogues and noting down my order. I made a little chart to compare prices with and will be placing my order split between about 3/4 companies.
I'm cheating a bit with some of the stuff as its my first year growing and am getting both seeds and plants, so I can try and germinate some of my own, but will have a head start with the plants
If you've got this far... thanks and sorry for off-loading on you all!
OWG
YAY
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