Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

vl2588

Great name for a great car

troglodyte

OK, now Pippi I need your advice re the artichokes. If you want to eat them you can just dig them up as required (as long as the ground isn't frozen solid of course). For planting, how should they be stored? The year before last I tried to keep some but they got all dried and shrivelled long before spring and I had to beg some from someone else. Last year I simply neglected to dig them all up and this year I have loads. So if you and LT are wanting them to plant, would it be better if I just left them in the ground for a couple of months more and then dug them up and sent them to you fresh in March or sometime? They are Fuseau variety, by the way.

EssexHebridean

Pippi - I have lurking here somewhere some seeds rescued from a Crown Prince Squash. I have no idea if they are F1 or not, but would you like some sending to try out when you're ready to plant things? Let me know!

Cheri - looks like a Renault Kangoo diesel (1.7 engine) would cost you about £110 a year in tax if that's any help. Having said that, an earlier model may well also net you l-o-n-g service intervals - my last Clio was on 18,000 mile/2 year intervals which was fab - that changed in 2006/7 though I think. (May also be worth searching out and test driving a 1.5 diesel version if looking second hand, as that *might* fall into the £30 a year tax bracket - which is really good for being smug with your mates with their 1.6 / 1.8 petrol engines!) If looking at a smaller diesel engine though make sure when you test drive it you point it up a hill, rev it hard and listen for any suspect rattling! :rotfl:

Pippilongstocking

Cheri great!

Troglodyte - I'll look up and ask the guys at work - never properly grown them before myself - I'll ask

V - you are right - Xaffy is a great name for a car

Back home from fencing - went to co-op before getting dd - few bargains - got bread, tomatoes and cheese for 10p

Got two bags tomatoes and the last of cheery pesto making a big pot of hm pasta sauce

20p all in for a giant pot of hm sauce for dd she's delighted.

Recycled some of Tuesdays bolognese with a tin chickpeas (left by cheery?!) and some fajhita sauce for taco/borritos tomorrow - hoping for a nsd

Pippilongstocking

Eh yes please and good car advice missed you there

Confession - camera in flat - home on Saturday with oh I hope xx

Challenges difficult in-between - sorry

wik

Hi Pips and All xxxxxxx

Been a while since visited... guess who forgot her password again!!!

Ma has just said she has some jerulsalem artichokes... we did have some globe ones growing.. but dad kind of forgot to get them in.. so they may be ex-artichokes...

How has the time since you was here flown by so fast

loads of hugs xxx

makeup

I am sooo jealous of your supermarket bargains, I live near two supermarkets and neither of them reduce stuff much at all.

You can normally get stuff for 1/2 price but never 10p - tastic bargains!!!!

(maybe all these deals offset the high delivery charges???!)

Karmacat

Pippi, I understand there's a lot going on in the thread today, info and advice flying back and forth, but do you still want the sedge as a hedging plant? The box and the clingfilm are still sitting by the back door ready to pack some plants up if you do! I only have the remnants of a lurgy, there's no snow on the ground here, its the ideal time to dig them up - tho I understand it may not be the ideal time for you to plant them. Let me know what you want me to do - tho if you want them, you *have* to pm me your address again, its somewhere in pm space, I never wrote it down

Here's to getting things straight!

Pippilongstocking

Kc yes please whenever suits you xx thank you very much always time for plants anytime perfect for that sedge - very hardy I'll pm you - you're like me, make a very bad stalker - I'm always deleting folks addresses or losing them in cyber space

Makeup it's cos of the charge to ship rotten stuff away I think - better to get something for it. Don't worry you'll get a 10p delight one day xx less people here too - more chance of a bargain

Aunty c feels like forever already - hope granny is mending a wee bit? Xxxxx
Woo hoo aunty c dont dispair the globe artichokes are still alive I saw them on my extensive tour of the greenhouses!

Hope greenval is ok xx not seen her for a blink

Karmacat

A bad stalker :rotfl:thats really funny! Its exactly right too

Do the pm asap, and I've got a free day tomorrow, can do it right away!