March 20, 2005 by John
The broad beans (variety=Sutton) we planted on 6th March are now “little aliens”, having sprouted in the last day or two, poking their little alien heads above the compost. These are a short (40cm) variety, and they worked really well as a bean hedge last year.
Other work in the garden today:
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March 13, 2005 by John
To compensate for Ireland losing to France, spent Sunday afternoon in the garden liberally scattering Marshall’s Organic Farmyard Manure and Silver Birch Mushroom Compost. The garden now stinks (so we apologise to the neighbours).
Seeds in the greenhouse are doing well – the sweet peas are well on, today we just spotted the first “little alien” of a broad bean, and the rocket in the drainpipe has just started to grow.
Spring has sprung. Weather forecast is for warmer but wetter weather. Maybe it’s time for war on slugs…
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March 8, 2005 by John
A domestic story for you. Today we’ve had a joiner (Peter from Ardmore Joinery, Glasgow) converting our old hotpress/airing cupboard from the old…
…to the new.
The new one is a bit more in proportion to the room, and doesn’t look like it is a 1970′s add-on. We’re very pleased with the job Peter did. He worked solidly from 0830 until 1830 to get it finished.
Once we slap a coat of paint on, it will look superb, and we can then get on and finish this, the last room in the house to be decorated. Jacqueline then has ideas about us going back to the beginning…
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February 28, 2005 by John
Managed to get out into the garden for a while yesterday, in between darting indoors to watch Ireland’s scrappy victory over England in the rugby.
The irises are in full bloom, both blue and purple varieties.
We planted our new pear tree, and sowed peas, broad beans, sweet peas, antirhinums, anemones and lilies. The greenhouse is now getting full, particularly with the heated propagator.
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February 28, 2005 by John
Those of you who follow my blog regularly (yes, that’s you, Ruth) will have noticed that my site was unavailable all weekend. So were the sites I manage, apbc.net, BiG and Adelaides.
This was due to a problem at my HostingHelper.co.uk, as they mentioned in an email:
Initially, Systems believed that a system file contained in /usr/lib was
corrupted. This was correct, however, after further investigation, it
appeared that multiple system files were in fact corrupted and we were
unable to re-build all of them and therefore, had to perform a o/s reload to
re-install the lib files.
However the problem was compounded ‘cos the server was down for a while, and ISP caches had been cleared:
Accounts are being re-instated. However, it appears that due to DNS
propagation that many clients are still unable to view their sites, because
their ISP have cached the sites when they were down.The server is now back up and running, but due to the isp’s caching sites
some people can not see there sites, and until the isp’s update there cache
of sites will not be able to.
This major outage has not happened for a while at HostingHelper.co.uk, and they are very good value at £2.99/month for unlimited subdomains and unlimited MySQL databases, but it does make me seriously consider moving to another hosting service.
If you’ve used a good, reliable, resilient host for PHP/MySQL with multiple domains and multiple databases, please comment below!
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