We had a very productive weekend in the garden. One job we managed to get done was re-felting the shed roof. As promised, Joe saved the best strips of felt he took down from his own shed and brought them round. They weren’t in bad condition, certainly better than the felt that was on the roof already. I had also noticed a slight design flaw to the guttering system we installed. At the edge of the roof there was a slight fold in the felt that created a small lip, which we relied upon when placing the guttering underneath. However,…

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This weekend we didn’t manage to do anything in the garden, as we were away visiting family. We decided to set off on Friday evening, and just as we were leaving it started to rain. Understandably then, it was with great excitement that I rushed down the garden to check the water butt on our return this evening. I saw a neighbour on my way, and I asked how much rain we had had. She said that she leaves buckets out to catch the rain and that there wasn’t a great deal in them. I scurried on, quietly confident that…

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Another day, another step towards being (slightly) self-sufficient. Today my good friend Joe and I installed a water butt on the shed by the vegetable patch. The patch is a bit of a walk from the house, and the shed is right next to the patch, so it was something I’d considered from the start. Harvesting rainwater rather than using the mains is also of course the much greener (and self-sufficient) option. I was browsing the garden section of a shop a couple of weeks ago and saw they had water butts reduced from about £35 to £12.99. I considered…

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