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I recently started learning how to play pedal steel guitar. It’s quite a big instrument and I was having some challenges working with standard music stands so I went looking for something more suitable. Tom Bradshaw in the US makes a very nice clip-on music stand using aluminium which looks great. My problem though isContinue reading “How to Build a DIY Clip-on Music Stand for Your Pedal Steel Guitar”

The Lakes of Pontchartrain is an old American song from the 19th century that tells the tale of a Louisiana man who falls in love with a young Creole girl but she refuses his offer of marriage, being promised to another.

I’ve been to a couple of garden centres now and I’ve selected some initial plants for my bog garden. Finding plants that will tolerate getting their feet wet requires a bit of trial and error but I think it’s safe to mix some ferns with plants that are sold as being suitable for pond plantingContinue reading “Plant layout for my Bog Garden”

Here are some ideas I came up with to give the frogs in my garden somewhere to hibernate. A wooden shipping pallet is a great starting point for making a hibernaculum. If you don’t have one, some offcuts lying around the back yard can be a great source material. Here’s my pallet that I builtContinue reading “Hibernaculum ideas for frogs”

A few years ago I created a wildlife pond after I discovered frogs in various parts of my garden. Sure enough, the frogs soon found the pond and have been spawning there every year since. However, I’ve had on ongoing problem – once the tadpoles develop into tiny frogs, there was never a permanent placeContinue reading “Creating a Bog Garden”