Yup.
Today I tried this for the first time
First attempt produced knots which are clumsy, but at least functional.
Velcro is what you need!
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Ours does every year, only about a dozen blooms and they have a pinky tinge while the earlier ones are pure white
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Admiring the cut flowers, many from the garden. Fuck knows what they are, but the orange ones are nice.
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Look like crocosmia. Mine are nowhere near flowering yet.
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Been to have a look at this beast.
Pits stop for a shandy and pub lunch
Then off to Dungeness for tea.
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It’s not as good as toilet paper.
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At a horsey thingy.
Not a FoL, just some randoms:
Nice gaff:
Horsebox pron:
allegedly it cost
and they had 2 of them and a matching team motorhome.
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There is biiiiig money involved with nags. While I’m at Settle fun Mrs M will be at a Western horse thing in Lincolnshireshire. Mega bucks horses and kit will be much in evidence - top prize? A trophy 
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Yeah, we were at a show at Bolesworth Castle today not the big International eventing thing they do there, just a thing for young horses, and the amount of money in evidence was eye watering, from £1m horse transporters to £250 jodhpurs. There’s a foal auction tomorrow and the guide prices were all well into 5 figures.
Oh and a steak sandwich from a van cost £12 and a side of chips a fiver. A callipo lolly was £3.50…
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Welcome to the wonderful world of horse shit 
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There’s a whole different horsey world out there to the one we inhabit.
Those horse boxes you showed are owned by a family concern - breeders and bringer-ons.
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I was in your neck of the woods. I looked in the window at Timepiece in the grand arcade, I look in the watch thread here now and again but I had no idea that people were paying 15k+ for a watch.
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Filling this 3 gallon bucket with yellow gage plums (sample on the right)
from the middle tree (job to be repeated with the Victorias on the left in a few more days)
5kg plums plus 5kg sugar in here, with a bit of ginger, boil for a bit
and finally into 30 jars
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Wife of the old wammers, sadly no longer with us, down in the New Forrest had a stable of those Western horses. Breeder and all that.
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What was the muffin exchange rate?
The muffins were kept safe in the VIP area, only for Sheikhs and CEOs of energy companies, not for the likes of us.
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One of the nicest houses I’ve seen, he had garages for his sportscars and she has the stables.
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The Western horse community know each other well. I’ll have to ask if the lady was known to our friend 