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Here's my not so landscaped garden, and the grass needs mowing again. But at the moment I feel damn fortunate to have a garden I can sit in for as long as I like, especially nice in the good weather we've currently got.

This one arrived in an email today - first belly laugh I've had in ages!

He speaks English but I understand little...

Here are a few of my recent acquisitions, though over the last couple of months rather than week as I have only just got round to taking photographs. Some are rare, some cheap and others just quirky. First a nice 1862 F39 that was a Buy it now of about £10 from a European Ebay site.

Yes, and what a comedown from the 80s when I was a computer programmer for them, and we got generous staff discounts.

Tree Peony doing it's stuff. I do wish it repeat flowered...

Wasn't Burberry considered to be the choice of "chavs", when that word was fashionable a few years back? I remember going to the pub with a mate about 2005, and when we came out there was a sticker on his car which said "oi chav, your car is shit".

Well, actually put ' Berbers', if you look closely, so Terry, you were closer with 'Burberry', which I read as 'Barberry' which is the common name for it...:)

You got some nice pieces there Jerry. Think I was the under bidder on this 1875H, which was being sold as a likely forgery...…….but it looked bona fide to me too!

That's very good...!

OMG wheres the flyspray LOL

Specsavers down under have a good range of ads. Look for Specsavers banned ad on Youtube. Certainly wouldn't be shown in the UK But these might well be:

And a lovely 1862 'three extra plumes', also from Ebay at about £1250 with costs.

I've spent a good few hours over Easter watching the solitary bees round the bug hotel. It's been like Biggin Hill some days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rErO8E6WNMI Seeing them emerge into the world is quite satisfying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q73F5LpcU1M

Well that clears it up - I was still working out what sort of plant a Burberry was and whether I could make wine from the fruit!

I see you've used the correct spelling for Berberis , well as I have said on here before, spelling is not my best subject. I started to write my post about the hedge and was not sure how to spell Berberis and so I asked my wife , well she got the wrong end of the stick and being a woman, naturally thought I was referring to the west end store of the same name , and as she is normally excellent at spelling I wrote it down without a second thought .