Daydream thread continues.....

Davesnave

alfie_1 wrote: »

got any animal loving ,good humoured, fit ,land owning, solvent ,minimum baggage fellas going up for grabs in them there hills ???:D

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D BUT I am a bit busy to grab, most days.

How does the line in the song go?
"Can't get away to marry you today,
My wife won't let me!"

(That one's in the next Panto!:))

lostinrates

I cannot imagine Alfie not in the forest! I think you should find someone with commoner rights Alfie....

Sigh, ctc would despair here, fridge is dead, so no more cuppa tea here...the milk was disgusting this morning. Fruit tea instead, but you know when you just want a nice cuppa tea (with or without biscwit)?

choille

Alfie - you only get a good man come into your life when you decide you don't need one. And then you get all annoyed as you got to quite like you're own company - least that's what happened to me.

Pouring here after a quite breathtakenly beautiful day yesterday. I made apple & bramble crumble - which I'm nit supposed to have & it was superbbbbbbbbb. I put in honey & oats.MMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmm & we had makerel that was caught in the Loch...................... & perpetual cabbage - which I'm not supposed to have .Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm & new potatoes & mint all out of my weed infested garden.Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

rhiwfield

We keep a tin of dried milk just in case, but it doesnt begin to compare to real milk

Having a carp day, not helped by yet more wet, gloomy weather. One problem of selling stuff to the public is that there are a small minority of antisocial A/Hs, specifically non-payers, timewasters and con merchants. :mad:

I dont know whether these people do the same on a face to face basis, or whether they think its perfectly fine to be PITAs to a distance seller? Days like this I feel like giving up

Itismehonest

Nobody is going to be getting anything done if they have anything like the weather we've got down here.
I'm watching sycamore leaves sail down the lane like an armada of galleons on a very brown, fast-flowing sea.
Clovelly seems to have the same problem with brown, muddy water careering down the cobbles.
Train line flooded near Crediton so no trains.
Trees down, landslips & roods flooded all over the place.
Not a day to be out & about.

Sounds a wonderful meal you cooked up there, choille. So, you had a few forbidden delights Just very occasionally they are what make life worth living :beer:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

lostinrates wrote: »

I cannot imagine Alfie not in the forest! I think you should find someone with commoner rights Alfie....

Sigh, ctc would despair here, fridge is dead, so no more cuppa tea here...the milk was disgusting this morning. Fruit tea instead, but you know when you just want a nice cuppa tea (with or without biscwit)?

:eek::eek::eek::eek: OMG Get the emrgency services... no milk!!!! NOT TEA!!!!!!!:eek::eek::eek:

Poo day here....weather wise.... not raining at mo, but I am sure it will not be long before its here again looking at the colour of the sky...

Rhiw.... I personally think listening to people, that some buyers are seasoned 'trying it on' buyers...

Its just a pitty ebay stopped sellers leaving negative for buyers....

RAS

Davesnave wrote: »

On the subject of waiting.... RAS, when would be the right time to harvest the sharks? I have one plant on its own here which is still producing new fruit, but I counted 10 football-sized gourds on it today, and it's already yielded 3 others. The other four plants are mixed together behind the scrappy barns, so I don't think they'll be so productive, but we could still be looking at about 40 matrure fruit altogether! :eek:

Sorry Dave

Yesterday everything kept falling over and I had to re-boot repeatedly (and s.l.o.w.l.y).

Dave - you are used to pumpkins squashes and giant corgettes I suspect, so used to spotting whern they go from being soft-skinned to hardening. Anything that looks or sounds like it has a hard skin is ripe enough to pick.

You need to drag in everything if frost threatens as they seem to be very sensitive to minus temperatures. Even sharks with hardening skins get frosted if left outside and then rot.

The first shark I was given was still unripe - I could mark the skin with my fingernail. But frost was due so John cut it and gave it to me. I put it in a south facing window and within 10 days it started to harden. I suspect your polytunnel would work? Anything the size of a football is OK.

It is the little fruits smaller then a glass fishing float that may not harden even then. I would aim to get them curried, made into chutney or other dishes and frozen etc with a month.

You need to ensure that they are dry and sitting on something airy.

They are very good at hiding by the way, I found quite decent-sized sharks hiding under leaves, so it is worth pulling in the stems to locate them before the frost hits rather than waiting for the frost to wilt the leaves. The leaves seem to be less sensitive than the fruits - they will hold on for quite a while but the fruits go quickly if frosted.

RAS

COOLTRIKERCHICK wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek::eek: OMG Get the emrgency services...

Think they are all at Clovelly at the mo???

IMH and Dave - you OK?

Itismehonest

I'm fine, RAS. Thanks for your concern, though.

Here's what's going on at Clovelly

It is the one benefit of living several hundred feet up a steep hill descending to sea level. As long as the water stays outside it all tends to go past us downhill. We've done lots of work to keep the water out on the lane - laid kerbs etc. You won't get your low slung sports car in over them but they save a load of hassle

Dave told me he is on slightly higher ground than the rivers so finger crossed.
However, if his land is flat he may be gaining standing water or there could be problems close by to him. There's been an enormous amount come down & it's not showing any sign of stopping yet. Several of the main roads are now closed in places.
Tiverton. Bickleigh don't look good.

Everyone else further north & west OK?

lostinrates

I'm ok.

It's been autumnal sort of grim wet, but not a disastrous down pour (though they did pour concrete today and the surface has taken a pummelling and it's not gone off yet, hopefully it will be ok).

The horses had free access in and out, they have mainly chosen out. (some one wiser or with a lower stocking density would have certainly kept in, but while we might have to take wet weather action at the weekend, I felt that the ground rather than the weather was the thing worrying me here earlier. I know it like.y to get worse as night draws in, but we have been very, very lucky here I think compared to those further south west!