Google are bringing out an update this week which should help on the ad swamping. They don't care about the little guys like us, but when some of the big ones (Daily Mail etc) have complained they've actually started to implemented some changes. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll not be playing daily advert whack-a-mole around the site and they will be less intrusive

Dear fellow gardener,

Someone gave me copper to use on my potatoes which I grow in bags. I bought all my varieties from a certified seller and they are doing marvellous, not a mark on them and the first flowers are forming. As they do so well why would I use copper? Is it necessary?

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Last day of the beef stew.

The cheap foil wrapped doors aren't much better than a painted finish, you only have to look at them harshly with the jif and they start to bubble and you can forget using a brillo pad. I watched a few youtube cleaning video yesterday and seeing everyone just spray and wipe to clean their apparently dirty kitchen and bathroom makes me want to shout BS.

I think next time I'm not going to bother with wall cabinets either, just a couple of larder style ones as far away from the hob as possible, the underside of them is rank.