Amen Corner, behind St Nick's cathedral. Wasn't there a group in the 60s called Amen Corner, or something?
Leech or flatworm? Ants and Swiss Chard
For the 2nd time in a week or so, (1st time regarding dwarf beans ), I'm following Alys Fowler's advice, this time with regard to Swiss chard . Long story short, after midsummer plants which often bolt if planted in spring will resist the impulse to do so, probably because of shortening days; (I say shortening, but in Glasgow, in July, we're still getting 18 hours of daylight). I got a packet of Bright Lights , at a good price, (another reason to wait until July before sowing, lots of bargains, I've noticed). But where to sow them? Most of the 2nd bed is under a tarpaulin, but it wasn't quite big enough to cover the whole bed, so the last 5ft or so went under a sheet of plastic, (in the background of the photo in this post, here .) Transparent plastic was a foolish idea, weeds were growing underneath it, so I covered most of it with sheets of metal from the old shed. I decided to leave the tarp, but use the area beneath the plastic for the chard. Who-ah there...
Indeed there was.. a big hit with "If Paradise is Half as Nice" and headed by Andy Fairweather Lowe who went on to have at least one hittette in his own right ("Wide Eyed And Legless"). I think he was Scotish but there's also an Amen Corner in Saff London near where I used to live.... probably lots of others too.
ReplyDeleteThanks for that - I got that posting back to front and googled "amen corner" later.
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