Whilst most land-based workers are well used to working in freezing temperatures come the winter it seems that midlands footballers are of a slightly less robust disposition. After having to cancel matches last year because of the frost Birmingham City FC has just spent half a million pounds installing under pitch heating and a new pitch profile. The work was completed in only four weeks and now Birmingham’s players will be able to continue playing no matter how chilly it gets. Not too sure about the carbon footprint implications of heating a field mind you!

Despite the call to “Buy British” it seems that UK supermarkets are leaving British plums to rot this year whilst stocking their shelves with imported products. Despite a bumper British harvest, supermarkets are stocking imported fruit blaming the unpredictable British weather and saying that they have to make contingency plans to import fruit in case the British harvest is poor and cannot now change these plans.

I’m just getting started with this blogging lark, I suppose everyone else is ahead of me and knows excactly how it works, nevertheless I intend to carry on and get to grips with it. 

So much of what we do now is controlled to some extent by our computers, whether we choose to admitt this fact is something else.  The long range weather forecast has enabled the silage making to get underway and in before the rain came in the early hours of this morning, it also meant I was able to get the horses in and tucked up in their stables before coming to work, so that they didn’t get too wet, Aaahh!  My teenagers are always asking ‘Mum do you know……?’, with a relatively clear conscious and without owning up to the fact that I haven’t really listened and also have probably forgotten whatever it is they are asking about years ago reply ‘Google it’.

I confidentially put new plants in over the weekend, knowing that they would receive a good watering this morning, so I haven’t had to do it.  I came up with the idea of recycling the old wheelbarrow that now has a number of wholes in the bottom, so pretty useless as a wheelbarrow, into a small vegetable garden, the snails dont seem to be able to climb up the frame, so for now my letuces are safe from their veracious appetites.  Hey, perhaps I should copyright the idea, I’m sure all you Garden Designers out there are looking for new ways of putting gardens together.

It’s really quite strange, when you are given the opportunity to say pretty much what you choose, it’s hard to come up with something that sounds reasonably interesting and amusing, no wonder I feel like Billy no mates sometimes, perhaps I’ve become just a boring old whatsit.

Has anybody got any other simple ideas for recycling old equipment?

How’s your Silage making going?