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Thanks so much @Tinwheeler I will investigate.

@marchie did you lay a membrane over the earth. Reason I ask is that we replaced our lawns with gravel without a membrane and we get a lot of bother with weeds.

David

Looking good @marchie

Still no rain here. I got excited late Monday afternoon because rain clouds blew in on a sudden gusty wind so I got the washing in and quickly finished my gardening but it blew over without a drop of rain and an hour later the sun came out. Tuesday started off grey and slightly damp then the sun came out and it has been a lovely sunny day today but with a decidedly chilly wind. I planted my dahlias on Monday which wasnt easy as the ground is rock hard. There has been a lot of watering.

Regarding parking - we live on a busy road and have room to park 3 cars side by side on our drive. I find it surprising and very annoying how some people think it is OK to park on the road outside our house blocking one if not both of our cars in.

Great photos @moulesy Have a great time at the setter get together.

Glad to hear that you have your new caravan @KjellNN Exciting times ahead

Great photos, @moulesy hope you get decent weather for the charity walk on Sunday.

A good piece of work there @marchie looks grand.

Lovely sunny day again with just a gentle cool breeze. We had a very pleasant walk around Cocksburn Reservoir and then the short White Hill trail. Spotted these practice sculptures close to the path.

After a brew back at the van I went for a walk up to the Wallace Monument, past numerous more sculptures, and had a good view across the rally field and the distant Highlands.

Dug out overgrown borders aroung garage and alongside the parking for the M/Home; then 1700kg of Scottish Pebbles arrived [special offer at MKM Building Supplies, £30 cheaper than last year so grabbed them before price reeturns to normal on 1st May]. Started to lay the pebbles in the new trench alongside the parking then had a bright idea of using spare hexagonal slabs from last residence to make stepping stone path, so raked out the newly laid pebbles and started again - oops!

Steve

Diesel up here is today at least 187.9p, and some places are 193.9p. The petrol we bought today was 153.9p.

@KjellNN - hope you enjoy your new van - I'm sure it's quite an exciting time for you. One thing I did when we got ours was to change the existing Truma (external) and Reich (inboard tank) pumps over to Whale Highflows - that improved the pressure and flow rate of the shower considerably. I also swapped the standard shower head for an Ecocamel and that helped as well. The shower in the van is now almost as good as that at home.

Went to a local independent garage to fill the Safefill bottle before we go away next month. I also topped the car up with diesel and at £1.73 a litre it was 5p/litre cheaper than our local Tesco. And they expect us to believe that there's no profiteering going on!

@Wherenext I noticed today he has parked his car on his other next door drive which won't be a problem because the owner lives in India and only comes to the UK for a couple of months a year, although that is in doubt this year because he suffered a stroke earlier in the year. I am perfectly willing to accommodate neighbours if they need to park across our drive as our next door does when he brings his twin axle caravan home in readiness to go away so for security he hitches up and parks across our drive, at least he asks!

David