Hello Denis, George from Eggleston here. Thank you so much for this info - it’s absolutely fascinating! I had no idea. I did a bit of research after filming and I confess I was beginning to wonder why the same mark was cropping up as far away as St.Andrews. I think you’ve given me my rabbit hole for the week! Thank you

Yeah Dennis is right they are surveyors reference marks they put them on buildings that aren’t going to be destroyed so all churches Protected old buildings ect

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That is my fault Laurel as I edit the content they create……and I am a great believer in slow gardening….however you’re quite right. I could cut out all the asides, smutty bits and waffle and make them shorter and snappier…..or maybe just leave that in and do them more frequently like you suggest. It’s only a series of six so they’d be over a lot quicker if I cut them down, unless people want more……and looking at the legs on display I can’t imagine anyone would!……….anyways….I do agree with your suggestion. Hope your fit and well……very best wishes…Malcolm

Oh goodness Malcolm, don't cut out a single word, I love it all! I just meant that the out long video could be divided up into two shorter half hourly videos so we could enjoy seeing new episodes appearing in our feeds even more often.

Hello! Thanks for the question. All the buildings on site are masonry walls, not drystone. They would have been built using a traditional lime mortar/pointing, probably at about a 1:4 mix with grit sand and silver sand. Off the top of my head the jointing gap is 1/4” but might actually be 3/8” on the church. In person the lime is still clearly visible, albeit in need of a serious repoint. Drystone buildings in the UK are largely confined to bothies, byres and very small farm cottages. For a structure like the church (which would have had a stone roof to support) drystone walls would have to be a colossal thickness and not considered smart. As far as I’m aware drystone churches are largely confined to very remote islands and parts of colonial ‘frontier’ nations, such as Canada and Australia, where building materials were essentially impossible to transport any great distance. Many of these were eventually replaced when the areas in question became more permanently ‘settled’.

A cost free addition to tomatoes compost I use is old muck leaf mould garden compost.

We’ll be sure to cover root cuttings more in depth at the correct time to take them, typically in late winter. I apologise that there wasn’t much info about them this time but separating them felt worthwhile filming even if we didn’t have any footage of them being taken in the first place (as we didn’t anticipate making these videos), though I do concede it feels like skipping to the end of a book! 😁

@@thomaswilson5070 no need to apologise, I was wrily joking. Ps it's mid winter in Australia but my plants think it's spring, can you prune global warming 🤣