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Or.... is she getting married and this was an excercise for her hen party? 

You're welcome Kate.

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Here you are Kate.

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Good afternoon all,

Yesterday we came back home after a lovely holiday. We've been touring in Germany for about three weeks and have had all types of weather. Luckily we sleep in our own car otherwise we would have certainly been washed away in the Black Forest. Downpours and extremely heavy thunderstorms are not good for sleeping, that's for sure!! But a big piece of Black Forest Cake made up for it all.

I haven't seen too much of the Olympics but I did watch Andy and Roger; Andy fully deserved to win. I am now waiting for our "hero" (on the horizontal bar) to win tomorrow.

It's beautiful weather outside so I'm going to do some (very much needed) gardening. It seems we've had an explosion of weeds  

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Power tools -  electric or petrol? Electricity and water =  not a good idea, petrol should be able to do the trick.

Jo, before we moved house I always had a check, check, double check before I went to bed; now we often find we haven't locked the back door or the garage at all -  we just tend to forget. We must be living in a safe street...                                           Normally I'm the same as you, I do not trust people very quickly

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Yes Alina, the amount of fungal spores in the air is not provable yet (to my knowledge) and there are many other variables - I do agree on that one.

It's just that I've been reading a lot about the issue (CODIT) and have seen some awful damage in the many years that I worked at a tree nursery, that I've come to this conclusion. We did experiment (not scientificely) and painting large wounds in those cases was never  beneficial to the trees. Small wounds however, did sometimes benefit when the weather had been dry. 

As I said, this is only my opinion so hopefully some others will let Elsapelle know what they think.

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Kate, my Granny was like that,you know. In her younger years all the children had to help but as she grew older she insisted on doing it herself until she got to 92 when her brain started to go wooshywoo.

Sounds familiar Geoff. My front door also needs painting but because of the "unstable weather" ( our forecasters know how to cover themselves eh) I can't do it so this door has been "naked" from 29th March.

Jo, don't you get a shower detector  for your region via the computer so you can check when it will be raining? I check mine all the time these days. 

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I'm sorry, but I disagree with Alina about painting the wounds. Nowadays it is widely recognized that painting wounds of trees isn't necessary at all because the trees are perfectly capable of helping themselves by shutting the wounds of from the healthy wood. If and when wounds are still wet this wetness gets closed in and will continue to give way to fungal infections so the tree will get damaged even more.

Try keeping the wounds as dry as possible ( maybe put an umbrella over the stem and then some plastic to cover that ). Indeed you should see some new growth this year. This is my opinion and others may differ.

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Interesting question TT2. I have to say I don't have any experience with that but I found this link: http://air-purifier-reviewsite.com/blog/15-house-plants-you-can-use-as-air-purifiers/

I don't know how many you'll need for such a space and my guess is that you're going to need a lot of them, depending on what causes the odour and how bad the smell is.

Another idea might be to use odour absorbing paint, which is available nowadays.

Good luck with getting rid of smelly showers.

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Morning all,

Sunshine and rain are fighting for their position on this side of The Channel today. Normally we are in the dry corner so it won't be too bad I hope. Had planned to do some work in the front garden today.

Yes Geoff, the weekend has been the best in ages. Loads of fun and dancing and of course seeing family members that live on the other side of the country. 'Twas a bit like a reunion.     

No news of job yet....It won't be long before I'll ask you all to cross fingers and toes again.