On 7/1/09 10:38, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:16:50 +0000, Sacha wrote:

-6C here last night and a white start to the day.

It's thawed here and is around +4C

Someone sent this to another group - wonderful photos but not much going on
there in the way of gardening! Nor here, I may say.
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)

On 7/1/09 10:51, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:47:02 +0000, Sacha wrote:

On 7/1/09 10:38, in article ,
"Martin" wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 10:16:50 +0000, Sacha wrote:

-6C here last night and a white start to the day.

It's thawed here and is around +4C

Someone sent this to another group - wonderful photos but not much going on
there in the way of gardening!

You forgot the photos, Sacha.

Sigh. The times I do that! My apologies.
http://www.nos.nl/nosjournaal/artike...aatsfotos.html

Nor here, I may say.

The birds have been sowing bird seed. There is a brand of mixed seed that is
sold by our local garden centre that none of the birds will eat. I suspect it
contains pesticide or mold.

It's very dangerous for them to be given old or mouldy seed. And in this
dry weather we need to remember to put out shallow dishes of water for them.
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Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
(new website online)

On 7 Jan, 12:20, Martin wrote:
On Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:44:42 +0000, Sacha wrote:
On 7/1/09 10:51, in article ,


Dishes of warm water, dishes of cold water rapidly freeze.

Dishes of cold water hot water freezes more quickly.

I know it sounds strange but have a look at

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physic...hot_water.html

as a start.

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Holcus

"Mike" wrote after
Sacha wrote:

Someone sent this to another group - wonderful photos but not much going
on
there in the way of gardening! Nor here, I may say.

I got some great winter photos in the freeze up but digging up some
parsnips on the allotment was a bit of a pain to say the least.

I jokingly said I'd better take the pickaxe to get some up, wish I had.

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Regards
Bob Hobden