How are we getting through it?

[Leon]

Great plot you got there Leon, hope it's veg beds and not lawns you'll be developing!

This bit's going to be a big concrete plinth for my new shed to go on, but there'll be some raised beds down the end to start growing stuff in.  That'll be later this year I think.

[jimduncanuk]

This bit's going to be a big concrete plinth for my new shed to go on, but there'll be some raised beds down the end to start growing stuff in.  That'll be later this year I think.

If you are going to have electricity in your shed make sure you know where the power cable (hopefully armoured) will run before you lay the concrete plinth. It's a pain digging a trench for the cable through concrete.

[Leon]

If you are going to have electricity in your shed make sure you know where the power cable (hopefully armoured) will run before you lay the concrete plinth. It's a pain digging a trench for the cable through concrete.

We're going to run it above ground I think, it's only 8ft or so from the house so we'll build a frame across from the back wall to site the cables in.

[Westmarcher]

I just can't believe this is all in 10mm.

[Heedless Horseman]

I just can't believe this is all in 10mm.

Various 'digging' figs available...   

'Allotment / Garden Wars'... combat with sharpened spades!   

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

Now I know why I live in a 1st floor flat....

[Steve J]

Well the 2021 Census online form was very quick and easy to do, much more so than the last one that had to be filled in by hand IIRC.

[fsn]

Day 2 and no side effects. No discomfort in the arm, no flu like symptoms.

However I did have a very vivid dream. I was painting some British WWI figures using Humbrol 237, when my father dressed in a neat blue suit (with black collar and tie - which was unusual) announced he was no longer living in the house. He had with him a small brown suitcase and the bottom half of a 1980s computer paper box in which were various electrical parts and wires hanging over the side.  I asked him where he was going to sleep and he said in the car (which was the Nissan Almeira.) I was very concerned because he had p[art of his spine eaten away by cancer, so cut to me at work arguing with my wife (played by Jodie "Dr Who - sort of" Whittaker).  I told her I was going to sell the house and but a smaller house with my father. She then proceeded to introduce me to a number of cute children who all claimed I was their father - and they loved me.

I know what you're thinking - "Nobby, why were you painting British WWI figures with Humbrol 237?" - which is, as we all know, Desert Tan. The only explanation I have is that there has been a comment about Allenby on this forum and it must have got stuck ion my psyche.

[Ben Waterhouse]

Well the 2021 Census online form was very quick and easy to do, much more so than the last one that had to be filled in by hand IIRC.

Ditto, I've just pressed the send button!

[Lord Kermit of Birkenhead]

It's not a one day snap shot, I did it a couple of days ago, and at end of Feb, for which I got paid, am assuming that was a live test. Both seemed identical

[mmcv]

Yes I was able to fill it out in bed this morning easily enough. I seem to get phone signal there until it cuts out about eight. Currently found a square foot of the kitchen that gets a 4g signal 80% of the time. And was enjoying sitting at the end of our new garden listening to the birds and buying a few necessities online where I had signal for half an hour or so.

Two more days until internet goes in...

I'm going to have to start using a landline for the first time in a decade.

[sultanbev]

I asked for a paper copy of the census, my experience of government webforms has not been a good one. Filled it in and posted today.

[fred.]

We did the online one - oldest daughter, who has recently turned 18 was very keen to complete it. So I only had to do the bit about me - was very quick and easy, mainly just clicking the buttons against the options.

[Steve J]

With Spring here, but not quite in full swing, I've been planting seeds and in about a week, my dahlias and cosmos have already germinated . No matter how many times I do this, I still get immense pleasure when they first appear. Also today I took a nice long walk by the Avon and the local woods were full of birdsong, which was a pleasure to sit and listen to.

[Westmarcher]

I was a Census Enumerator during the 2011 census. A few exciting episodes with dogs gave me the "postman's experience" - the census form snatched out of your hand as you pushed it through the letterbox and the "there's no way I'm going into that front garden with that massive, aggressive canine growling away between the gate and the front door" moments. Then there was the time of the two old age pensioners who (in retrospect) both had dementia when (after delivering three census forms in person - "no, we didn't get one") I had to sit in their urine smelling house (poor souls) and help them fill in the forms (and even then, the contradictory stories - not their fault) as opposed to the time a resident appeared at the door with an open, bleeding eye wound (to this day, I still don't know what that was about - the eye was clearly gone - but there was a Rottweiler in the vicinity so I focused on the business at hand)!