Activity of Copper

And I've got no-one to blame but myself ? I went to a hen party last night, one of those raucous, tacky sorts which was both hilarious and cringeworthy at the same time. (The sort that the Hitched concensus is normally to avoid like the plague!) but...

I have inherited, in our new garden a few fruit bushes, raspberry, redcurrant and gooseberry. They are all full of fruit but I don't know how to tell if the gooseberries are ripe or not. I'd say they are about the size of thumb knuckle to thumb tip....

I was looking for a new screensaver on the National Geographic website and came across this picture. It looks like a cartoon spider! https://www.nationalgeographic.com/photography/enlarge/spider-guarding-eggs_pod_image.html

Well, with fingers so tightly crossed they are going blue, we might, hopefully be exchanging contracts today or at least some time this week. It's been 21 months so I daren't even think about things going wrong [:'(] If we exchange, we should have a...