I've done something horrid to three fingertips on my right hand. I was working on rejuvenating the carpet tiles from my old bedroom, a process that goes: shampoo, dry, vacuum, check for stains remaining. Then repeat if necessary. If still stained, I have been using a product called White Wizard, then rinsing in the bath and drying. Today I thought I would vary that with the shampoo product, which I have seen on TV being used neat and worked in by the demonstrator with bare fingers. It lifts stains all right. Also made my fingertips sore, and the carpet fibres drew blood. Not to be repeated, I think.

I've also put plants in the pots I bought them in around the garden to check for appearance, and used fertiliser on the peach to counteract the weakness from the fungus, and on the choysia cutting I was given by the lovely lady who lives in my grandparent's old house, which was looking a little yellow. It has rooted, but was obviously missing something in the compost. It's planted out now, but not perked up much.

Also put slug pellets around the grow house - the horrors have nibbled my bought in celery down to soil level.

I'm just off to search for nematodes.

Penny