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Kristoff and Elsa are officially boxed in for the winter.

I'm aware of the advice not to do it in your first year, but I know for a fact that:
A. They're in their native environment
B. They've done this before.
C. They've dug in really well, ready for the winter.

In other words, I may not trust myself but I do trust their years of experience. I'm monitoring the temps inside the boxes as well as in Elsa's would-be hibernation site.

I had to dig them out. Question: is it OK that they went in a bit dirty? I wanted to disturb them as little as possible.
Joe never goes away spotless. I soak him during the wind down and some muck comes off, but then he goes straight back outside and gets dirty again. I do make sure he's dry before hibernation. The dirt is dry but still there :)
 
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Tidgy's Dad

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Kristoff and Elsa are officially boxed in for the winter.

I'm aware of the advice not to do it in your first year, but I know for a fact that:
A. They're in their native environment
B. They've done this before.
C. They've dug in really well, ready for the winter.

In other words, I may not trust myself but I do trust their years of experience. I'm monitoring the temps inside the boxes as well as in Elsa's would-be hibernation site.

I had to dig them out. Question: is it OK that they went in a bit dirty? I wanted to disturb them as little as possible.
A bit of mud won't matter.
As long as they were a good weight and healthy it should be fine. :)
 

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Good evening all.

I'm on my way home from Twickenham. It's in West London and I live to the South East of the city. Journey should take around an hour as long as the M25 motorway behaves itself (it's notorious for traffic jams)

Here's the stadium
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I forgot to take any photos of the match, sorry. :(

England v Argentina wasn't a good match. The referee blew his whistle constantly and never let play get going. England won, however.

Afterwards England Women played Canada. It was a much better match. England won 39-6. (We beat Canada in the Womens Rugby World Cup final in 2014 too)
 

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I'm good:)
I'm going tree hunting with some friends today. Yes you read that right. One of my girl friends wants to chop down a perfectly good tree and drag it in her house and decorate it. I'm going along just for sheer entertainment purposes:p
Chopped a tree down on a railway embankment once, five or six of us carried it back to our student house, at least 20 feet if I remember correctly, put it in the stairwell After a week or two we all went home for Christmas
Came back to find the whole lower floor an inch deep in brown pine needles, the cleaner had gone on strike (unsurprisingly) and refused to clean up
So we had to do it:(
 
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