Mr Snail has been writing about the garden again, so once more I can just reblog his post for your entertainment (he was really chuffed with all your visits the other day and even more chuffed that some of you decided to follow his blog too). Enjoy…
Drilling Holes in Palletgate – that’ll teach it!
With still-aching limbs, and an extra hour in bed as we moved to GMT (proper time), I trepidly approached my other task of the weekend – the repair of (cue halloweeny-type scary music) PALLETGATE.
Ex-hurricane Gorblimey didn’t only vent its anger on the willow hedge. It also encouraged certain nails in Palletgate’s construction to make various bids for freedom, leaving the gate looking decidedly weak.
Fortunately, I had already assessed the situation and, realising that I couldn’t simply ignore it and hope it would fix itself*, I had been and purchased roofing bolts and plates (the flat metal kind rather than the good ones you eat yummy stuff off). Although the bolts and plates had come from our nearest town (Lampeter, the first town in the UK with a loyalty card scheme) I actually had to buy more bolts from my local big…
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The Snail of Happiness 
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/ October 30, 2014I find myself strangely disturbed by the photo of Mr SoH, apparently trapped behind a gate with a pleading expression on his face while a shark fin melon approaches menacingly from the left like some sort of Zeppelin or guided missile… Tell me he dodged!
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The Snail of Happiness
/ October 31, 2014I suspect that getting hit by one of those melons would cause severe injury as the skin is so hard… fortunately all was well and both melon and Mr Snail survived the encounter. .. and he was released once he’d finished all his chores!
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