Nice people thread 2 - now even nicer

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

:mad: and :eek:

How DARE you!

We dare because its the only thing we can do now...lie exhausted with aching muscles!:D I dare say we'll curse them again on unpacking them. About three days later we'll love 'em all again. Part of he difficulty is they were coming out of the ttic and down the stairs. The atic is long and wide,but not tall enough to stand in, then you have to crawl through a ridiculously tiny door, like Alice in Wonderland, and through another midget room, and only then can you stand up, .....just before the stairs....then through the house, down the path which today feels ridiculously long, and only then ut them in the cars.

We've also relaised we don't own any bookshelves any more.....not sure where mine are (they were those rather boring ikea billy shelves) DH's he gave to a friend who was starting a business because they suited him and it saved us doing anything else with them!

fc123

misskool wrote: »

OMG, I was dribbling at a treadle electric sewing machine at the boot sale too. it was £25.

I'm so tempted to say I want it but I only want it to sew straight lines and to learn how to sew curtains. I'm not going to do anything fancy.

Went elderflower picking round devil's dyke too and have elderflower cordial on the go now. Elderflower fizz to start in a day or two as we ran out of lemons :rotfl:

That's all it does...sew straight lines....but unbelievably quickly....you can slow it down with the pressure you apply to the treadle. Industrials have a strong pressure on the foot too......so much easier to control your work.
Similar to the mark 3 (which I have now)

misskool

fc123 wrote: »

That's all it does...sew straight lines....but unbelievably quickly....you can slow it down with the pressure you apply to the treadle. Industrials have a strong pressure on the foot too......so much easier to control your work.
Similar to the mark 3 (which I have now)

Sadly, there isn't enough space for that beast of a machine in this household OH looked at it and said I'm only allowed a table top sewing one.

He's a spoilsport really. We'll be at the boot sale again next Sunday so wave again

fc123

misskool wrote: »

Sadly, there isn't enough space for that beast of a machine in this household OH looked at it and said I'm only allowed a table top sewing one.

He's a spoilsport really. We'll be at the boot sale again next Sunday so wave again

:rotfl::rotfl:OH is spot on...they are like lions and do roar. When on full throttle, they will make the floor vibrate too.

We move next Sat..so bye bye Brighton from me.:(

Our 'goodbye Brighton' meal is at Due South on the beach with a very good Brighton friend. Figured if it's good enough for G ramsay when he visits we should go......never got around to it plus it's not very MSE Probably a fiver per potato.

fc123

misskool wrote: »

Went elderflower picking round devil's dyke too and have elderflower cordial on the go now. Elderflower fizz to start in a day or two as we ran out of lemons :rotfl:

I am rubbish at the above...we have an Elderberry bush in the garden here....and I just looked and it's all tiny cream flowers...are these what you use?
Each year the berries come out ....but I get mobs of starlings descend on them so the whole bush is like a moving black feathery mass...and the noise is soooo loud.......but I wasn't sure what to do with them.

John_Pierpoint

Have you grown peppers in your greenhouse?

I have, what a success, got a much as half a dozen peppers per plant.

Today I saw plants bedded in bricks of loft insulation that had been planted in February and were already 10 - 12 feet up theirs strings.

Each section of plants were cosseted by a computer; better than a baby in an intensive care ward:

"A little more to drink?"
"You know you like it I've stirred in just another spoon full of calcium, to go with the half a dozen other ingredients - you know you like a Ph of 5.2 in your bore hole water".
"As its getting a bit chilly outside and the sun has gone in, I've shut the windows and given you you final puff of carbon dioxide for the day"
"Later on, when it starts getting dark, I will draw the curtains and turn on the background heating using the heat we have stored during the day in the big silver tanks."
"Tomorrow the nurses, will be back on their little trolleys that run alone the central heating pipes"
"Monday will be a stringing up day and Tuesday will be nipping out the side shoots, so the nurses will be scissoring their trolley platforms to get up amongst your flowers".
"There will also be some picking sessions - We are on BOGOF terms, so do your best to make sure it is all class one fruit with three sections and a standard weight or you fruits will end up in the value range. As for class 2 - you know we cannot make any profit from a fruit with a blemish on it."
Last week Mr supermarket forwarded a letter of complaint from "disgusted of Tunbridge Wells", you know that every time that happens there is an investigation that costs us money.
"The doctor will be along during the week; taking blood samples. he is testing sugar levels this time"
"One or two of you have been dropping leaves - we do hope this is not a sign of some infection - as usually we only have flower petals to sweep up on the white carpet"
"After dark when the bees & parasitic wasps have gone to sleep I will be unrolling some more fly paper and turning on the blue lights".
"Finally, next week we have a party visiting to look at the special new E2D2 plants and their foot long spear head shaped fruits, so we expect everything in apple pie order. with shiny concrete, clean enough to eat you dinner off".

With thanks and congratulation to :
Valley Grown Nurseries


Postcode: EN9 2EX
http://www.v-g-s.co.uk/about/nuseries/


The nursery [was] will be open to view a modern glasshouse with all labour and energy saving equipment installed. A tour of the fertilization units and boiler plant is also included.

John_Pierpoint

fc123 wrote: »

I am rubbish at the above...we have an Elderberry bush in the garden here....and I just looked and it's all tiny cream flowers...are these what you use?
Each year the berries come out ....but I get mobs of starlings descend on them so the whole bush is like a moving black feathery mass...and the noise is soooo loud.......but I wasn't sure what to do with them.

When using the flowers (eg to make "Champagne") try to remove every bit of stalk - some people use a fork - it is a painstaking job but the stalk can make the drink bitter.

http://www.allotment.org.uk/recipe/27/recipe-for-elderflower-champagne/

lostinrates

I didn't know that about elderflower stalk. I make cordial, not champagne, but I guess the theory is the same. TBH I'm not that keen on elderflower, and so itsa labour of love rather than for greed. Other people like it.

misskool

fc123 wrote: »

I am rubbish at the above...we have an Elderberry bush in the garden here....and I just looked and it's all tiny cream flowers...are these what you use?
Each year the berries come out ....but I get mobs of starlings descend on them so the whole bush is like a moving black feathery mass...and the noise is soooo loud.......but I wasn't sure what to do with them.

The flowers are the usual cordial, fizz or wine

The elderberries you can make wine or port and mix into jams. I make a hedgerow jam with either windfall/crab apples and blackberries and elderberries.

lostinrates

Chickwatch.

The chicks growth has definitely slowed down now. They have a long way to growstill though, just not as quickly. The easiest comparison is still ''a little larger than a quail''. They are free ranging daily now, they fly up and out of the broody, no longer waiting for me to lift them out. They mingle well with the big ones. I'm toying with integrating them now to the flock proper...putting the babies in the big house. Its early, but then you wouldn't normally have the day time integrations.

They can wriggle through the wire separating the back of rather beautiful flower border and the chicken paddock, which means a few times a day I'm trying to round them up and put them back: a frustrating exercise.

They don't know about going to bed at night, and putting away is still quite frustrating....one of the reasons i'm thinking of getting them in the big house learning a ''big'' routine.

Tiny wee new chick is quite wild. Its mothers are doing a competent job and where my babies listen to radio four and three, this baby is learning the noise of its flock, not human noise. Unlike my hand reareds it runs from me, not towards me. Its very cute.