I’ve just tried one of the chilli’s I’ve grown for the first time. They’re like eating lumps of burning coal. 🫨
I made a madras (which is quite hot to begin with) and put half a chilli in my portion. It was like having a gob full of thermite. 
I had to pour over half a tub of natural yogurt just to be able to eat it. 
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Right, let me get this straight in my head.
Your tree is causing a mess in a neighbours garden, ruining her plants, so she complains.
You eventually get round to sorting it out, making sure she is very aware of the fact by showing her the letter.
And now you are being very harsh towards her because she is upset that her garden is likely going to be further ruined by tree cutters stomping all over her plants.
The very least you could do is buy her some new plants / offer to help clear up the mess / tell the tree cutters to avoid ruining her garden.
Your tree = Your mess = You help clear it up without further damage.
Totally wrong . I can’t be liable for what workmen do. Maybe you should study the law before commenting
@realspeed I cannot bring myself to say something other than those are harsh words to say of anyone let alone a neighbour.
Surely you do not mean what you write “Totally wrong . I can’t be liable for what workmen do. Maybe you should study the law before commenting” surely you would not appreciate someone doing the same to your garden. A little care and thought rather than name calling and ignoring may be more gentlemanly/neighbourlyemphasised text
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as you both have not the slightest idea of the situationlet me enlighten you. This person has been complaining since we moved in 9/10 years about that leafs and acorns falling in her garden and been asking me to do something about it. As the trees have P.T.0’s I am restricted to the work allowed . this amount to removing dead branches and cleaning trhe trunks.
next step was to ent the environmental officer of the council to see what he would allow. Site visit areement of removal of 4 mters overal of the branches. GREAT ! yes? ern no. This guy was two faced with no guts and allowed only 1 mtr. no surgeon and we had several look and said impossible to do.
So been to a lot of trouble to go down the “legal” route and all the neighbours said ok ,including her. Today managed to get someone to carry out the work. when started climbing the trees huge branches were rotten, even those looking ok had gone at the ends
photo. not even 1% of what was removed
my concern was what if one fell on a person??? so for safety we are getting the work carried out’
This "lady " kicked up a fuss saying she was going to sue if a couple of her roses were damaged.
Just think would could have happened if she was in the garden. so the workmen went around and cleared up everthing for her and no damage caused. Next thing she was asking them to attend to her oak tree as well.
video of work needed doing. our garden in almost complete darkness most of the day
now
just the far end tree to do and allowing the sun light through
after all this some dotty lady, who is only there some of the time, it was her mums house, and she can’t let it go. would be ideal for a young family
believe me to get this far has been a battle over 18 months. So a neighbour on the other side of my fence who raised no objections with the planning application. was shown out of courtesy to her by myself the council decision ,starts complaining about her bloody roses getting damaged (which they wern’t) I think i have every right to call her what I did
The tomatoes in the garden have shown reluctance to go red but they are starting to now. The ones on the allotment in a polytunnel have gone red far earlier. Could say the polytunnel was making the difference but the ones in my garden polytunnel are still mostly green. Must be the light I suppose…
The thornless blackberry plant is doing well this year but the recent heavy rain has spoiled them to a degree. Might be better if the weather stays dry for a while…
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The last of the tomatoes. I don’t think they’d ripen up any more in the polytunnel, so I’ve strung them up indoors. Might do better here. Worth a try anyway…
taken today @5.00pm on the 14 feb 2025. this flower has been out for a few weeks now in the middle of the winter
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Hopefully it’s not too late to tell you that you have a very beautiful garden, Mags. I love it.
Thank you Pimmy, that is very kind of you… 
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Pleasures!
I like the garden a bit on the wild side and the lawn has quite a covering of buttercups and daisies. In all the years that I have let the daisies grow, there has never been another like this one. It must be 10 years since this photo was taken but it has never happened again…
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Wow, i have never seen things like this.
I named it the ‘crazy daisy’ at the time. 
The Evening Primroses have started flowering. Each flower only lasts about a day once fully open but it does tend to only open a couple at a time, so the whole plant is in flower for quite a while…
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Not bad for a £10 Asda special. Supermarket plants can often look a bit droopy because of lack of water. See past that and buy anyway. They look better when home and given a little care…
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Is it possible to eat fresh evening primrose flowers, just like we use its oil?
I don’t know about that Pimmy. The insects seem to be OK about eating a chunk two out of the leaves but that’s probably not to much to go by.
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Time for the Wild Roses to open. The bees love them. I know they are wild, or at least very upset, because the thorns are really vicious.
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