I've been quite busy during the last fortnight and hadn't had time to update the website. I've been in London (twice - once with work and then back for a weekend break) and also on a training course in Wales. I'm about to upload some of the London photos, backdated to last weekend.

This morning I did a bit of work in the garden. Some of the seedlings in the propagator had got rather tall, and were pressing against the lid. Most of these are now safely in the garden, either in 'cloches' made from fizzy drinks bottles, or with a ring of copper around them to protect them from slugs.

The copper rings were made by cutting a section from the middle of a 2 litre drinks bottle, and wrapping copper tape around it. The tape is a thin self-adhesive ribbon of copper designed for wrapping around plant pots. They make a decent portable slug defence for young plants.