The Disaffected I
July 1st, 2015Definition of disaffected in English:adjective
Dissatisfied, especially with people in authority or a system of control:
Ragwort Diary: 2019~24
August 8th, 20202026
- July 31st 1 South of the track across △
- July 12th 1 South of the track across △
2025
- July 22nd 11 By Gavin's potato bed
2024
- May 11th 1 Some metres in the small triangle field entering from the west
2023
- Sept 9th 3 Been very slack on checking this year ! Triangle field: across central area
2022
- August 21st 1 Triangle field: 100m up the path to the north
- July 27th 6 Triangle field: 3 to South of the path | One to the left of the path north and three to the right.
- June 8th 3 Triangle field: I each cut when clearing the paths north and east across the field and one in the ALP
2021
- October 6th 1 Triangle field: Just after the fire pit to the track
- September 20th 6 Up to the middle of the triangle field and across to the laurel patch.
- September 11th 3 One on the path across the triangle field, one to the south of the path and one on the path through the small triangle field
- September 11th 1 To the left of the path to the montbretia patch.
- September 2nd 1 Behind the wagon in the brash pile.
- August 23rd 3 By the storage tent.
- August 16th 15 1 on the north edge of the track east across the triangle field and 14 across the middle of the field west to east, approx along an area traversed probably by deer ~ every year.
- August 10th 2 South of the track east across the triangle field
- July 23rd 2 Along the track east across the triangle field
- June 18th 3 Cut one whilst mowing the track across the triangle field
- June 3rd 3 Cut one whilst brushcutting and saw the/an other.
- June 2nd 3 Cut two whilst brushcutting and saw another.
2020
- 18th October 2 in middle of track across the triangle field.
- 23rd August 1 south of the track across the triangle field.
- 20th August 5 2 south of the track across the triangle field, 1 just north of the track and 2 up and over by the laurel stand.
- 8th August 9 North of the track across the triangle field.
- 5th August 13 South of the track across the triangle field. A few, deeper in, where substantial, one having 10 stems.
2019
- 22nd July 2 South of the track across the triangle field
- 21st July 4 South of the track across the triangle field
- 20th July 5 South of the track across the triangle field
Secateurs
July 14th, 2026July 30th 2026 Finally and thanks to Sarah at Burgon and Ball, who decided to sent by Royal Mail yesterday Wed 29th, the secateurs arrived today. Fedex had been ridiculously inept and had them at their warehouse near Exeter for maybe ten days.
The sad news is that the latch on the bypass secateurs is not fit for purpose and I have emailed 'Sarah about this. See Comment below for detail.
Anyway here they are:
Fruitless search:
Flaffed around all, day Friday 10th trying to find secateurs not made in China and ended up at B&Q. but they didn't have the KentandStowe bypass cutters as advertised on their site.
A few calls to K&S really took me to Marshalls Gardens. They have disinformation on their site about the same product, use a £6.99 Evri fee, K&S was free postage, and ultimately a company called Westland may be the actual manufacturers. But MG are the only contact and they can't say where they are made even though it says Designed and Made in the UK on their questionable site.
Hours yesterday and today; cancelled the order as was stressed trying to communicate with them and their mess
Now found Burgon and Ball secateurs
On their site the top row with orange handles are made in Taiwan. The sales person checked and stated that whereas many of theirs are made in China these are def. Taiwan. whoopee!, ordered them £53.97 inc.
Supplied with replacement blade and spare spring. ✅
