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A wonderful day in the garden

Yesterday was a wonderful sunny day and we managed to get lots of jobs done. After we sat in the sunshine enjoying cups of coffee. The weather has certainly been up and down as you can see from the photos shown here.

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More progress in the garden

We are making good progress now. The old shed pictured left has now been demolished and I have taken down 1 of our compost bins to make room for the new shed. The compost in the redundant bin has been sieved over the garden and we have some new strawberries under a cloche all ready for planting out. My new …

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Now running secure

A quick update to our last post you should now see the green secure tag in the web address for this site. It has proved to be remarkably easy. If you would like your site to have the same feature please let me recommend our web Hosts SoftDAta Internet They are now offering FREE #SSLs & #CloudFlare security & #CDN on all …

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Why we are moving to secure SSL

With the release of Chrome 56 this month, any website that is not running HTTPS will have a message appear in the location bar that says “Not Secure” on pages that collect passwords or credit cards. Google Chrome will label all non-HTTPS pages in incognito mode as “Not secure” because users using this mode have an increased expectation of privacy. …

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New shed on order and a start with plants

We have ordered a new shed for the garden. It is a big one, 18 x 10 but it will stand us in good stead for everything from a wood store to a potting shed and more. Today I have laso potted up some new strawberries and started chitting the new potatoes. Now if only we had some better weather.

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The Hanging gardens of Cinderford

Gardening in the Forest of Dean Well, not yet but hopefully by the summer Garden Progress so far We moved into this little cottage in July last year. As you can see from the picture a good third of the garden was down to a lawn. As we are retired that was the last thing we wanted. We have dug …

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I’m a contented man

Well, it has been an up and down year but I have to say I’m a happy and contented man. Last year we sold our house in Gloucester and bought a smashing little cottage in Cinderford in the Royal Forest of Dean. I sold my business – Softdata Internet and retired This has given me 2 things I have wanted …

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Police crackdown on wild boar poachers

Gloucestershire police and the forestry commission are launching a joint effort to halt the poaching of wild boar and deer from the Forest of Dean. Both meats have proved very popular and so it comes as no surprise that there are poachers about

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Christmas sprouts from the garden

Sprouts for Christmas Dinner For the first time in years I have been able to pick sprouts straight from the garden for our Christmas dinner. There isn’t much left this year but we have plenty of sprouts, leeks and cabages all ready for eating.

Cinderford residents given 3pm deadline to stop bridge blockade

Yesterday police were called when residents used their cars to blockade the small bridge over a stream which they say was built 60 years ago so householders could park their cars at the back of their homes. Police left when the residents moved a car blocking an access lane to allow a digger in to flatten a bund built last …