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For the DoctorsI use my eyes to see the far horizon I use my eyes to see the beautiful South Downs I use my eyes to see a buzzard climbing a thermal I use my eyes to see a kestrel diving on its prey...

I was appalled when I learned I had Dry AMD, but then at my age I had been using my computer a lot and the screen was bright. So three actions:- reduce brightness of screen, reduce hours of computer usem take 40mg of Luiein a day (2 X 20mg FSC...

2010 A frustrating year in the garden and allotment. 28th December 2010. Whilst still wet and still cold, we are still digging potatoes, picking sprouts, cutting cabbage and lifting swede and beetroot. 3rd October. Cropped raspberries, first pink banana jumbo squash...

2009 on the allotment, Shoreham. 20th November. Greenhouse done and planted with garlics and onions. Also planted Broad beans and almost completed the new double-depth raised bed. 4th November. Courgettes still going, plus...

21st Dcember 2008. Well the sun came out occasionally. We dug up some potatoes; found that the beetroot and some leeks have started germinating (in the cloche in the greenhouse); pruned th...

16Th December. Well today we picked a few lettuce, a celery, a few leeks, some calabrese, spring onions and beetroot. Yesterday it was a few peppers and a good handful of Iranian Red Chilies. Next time there'll be winter cabbage and red sprouts and there are still some potatoes Pink...

The view in December:- we have permission for next greenhouse, but have not yet ordered it. This will be used for raising seedlings and then for some of the tomatoes and groundcherries - moved summer raspberries out of the shade - the over-wintering onions, garlics and shallots all doing well as are...

So looking back over the last nine months, how has my attitude to changed, mellowed, matured, ripened, developed?At first I was appalled at the amount of digging that would be needed to get it under control and then to keep it under control. But as it was early August 2005...