Preparedness for when

bluebag

Bedsit_Bob wrote: »

Don't they have to go in a toaster?

No they are fully cooked, you just put them in the toaster for a few seconds to warm them if you want them hot. Perfectly edible cold and I have warmed them in foil on a fire.. watch 'em they catch fire really easily... all the sugar I would imagine.

Great in sub zero temps when you need something energy dense.

sorryImoved

This was in my backyard a few weeks ago.

cornishchick

sorryImoved wrote: »

This was in my backyard a few weeks ago.

ohh my:eek:
to think i screamed when a big bug landed on my head the other day...

sorryImoved

cornishchick wrote: »

ohh my:eek:
to think i screamed when a big bug landed on my head the other day...

On the good side, bugs don't bother me at all now. Bad side is having eyes in back of your head when walking outside.

GreyQueen

:eek: Blimey! A handbag on the hoof, with too many teeth and probably halitosis. It's just wrong.


Y'know, I think I stay quietly in Englandshire where we have nothing like that at all outside the zoo. I've never even seen an adder (a smallish venemous snake found in UK and other parts of Europe, sorryImoved). They're rare and shy and unlikely to bite unless you stand on them or are handling them. The largest are 75cm for females and 60 cm for males but most are smaller. What's that it inches. hmm? 2-2.5 feet long.

According to the webulator no one's died of an adder bite in the UK for over 20 years. Hospitals have the anti-venom. I've done lots of walking in areas where adders are known, and where my Dad had seen them, and never actually spotted one, which is a minor disappointment.

Been pulling the stores about a bit lately, to bring forward alternative sources of carbohydrates now that the h.g. spuds are used up and the next crop planted. I will expect to see the tips of the tatties emerging throught the baulks in the next couple of weeks then it will be an anxious time until the mid-May late frost risk has passed.

For the past 5 years or so, we can have had no frosts for 8 weeks and then get a whammo of a one or two circa 16th May which causes a lot of damage. And when Mardatha posted once that their last frost was circa 1st June, and she's several hundred miles further north than me, and 1,000 feet up a hill, that unfair.

Ach well, nothing's fair in love, war and gardening.

D&DD

Morning all


I love pop tarts but when did they get sooo expensive! Been buying the breakfast bars at BOGOF instead recently for our BOB's.


Thrifty that's good news about your dear Mum it must be exhausting for her though,one of my dear friends I dogwalk with I knew from the carers centre many moons ago when her hubbie had dementia its a wicked thing XX


Cornish its so lovely to see you posting take care of yourself hun XX


sorryImoved....*screams* ...


I would seriously freak if I saw that coming towards me. Joan (my cuz) lives in your parts now and she said its quite a common occurrence ooer..


GQ I'm earthing up daily ATM but so far so good nothing has been lost to the cold.We rejigged the forest a bit after I finished yesterday so the apricot and nectarines are up the side of the greenhouse so I can tent them easily if needed and the spuds in towers are on the other side so same there.


All is looking set for a bumper crop so far,doing my first haircut on the salad today,just picked some rhubarb life is good...cue hurricane force winds and frost...

elona

DH went out to a market yesterday and when asked what they sold said "Oh , everything really - seeds, plants, equipment ".

He came back with six chickens - Maran and Bluebell which are "point of lay". He has been altering the wooden shed and fussing round with bits of wood and chicken wire for months now but never actually told me as he thought I would object

Quite how he thought he could smuggle in half a dozen chicks without me noticing I can't imagine but the sheepish look on his face and then the relief when I said I was quite happy to have chicks and looking forward to fresh eggs was hilarious!

He is happily mowing the back garden now while the chicks peer out of the shed.

Si_Clist

D&DD wrote: »

All is looking set for a bumper crop so far,doing my first haircut on the salad today,just picked some rhubarb life is good...cue hurricane force winds and frost...

Yep ... never forget that every silver lining has a cloud

VJsmum

I've seen loads of snakes.

Saw an adder in Wales - it was quite big. We told the kids it was unlikely they'd ever see another. Wrong. Walking in the hills and mountains here and abroad means it is not unusual.

My DD damn nearly stood on one in the American Appalachian mountains. :eek: She thought it was a stick - it scooted out of the way just as her foot descended. Unsurprisingly she now has a phobia. We believe it to be a harmless one, but didn't know that at the time.

I quite like them in controlled circumstances - I love the smoothness and warmth of them and all that muscle.

We saw loads of 'gators in Florida - they are quite common are they not SIM? Walked past them in the Everglades - within inches. They were slumbering on the paths.

Bit different having one in the garden I guess.

One of my Facebook "friends" posted a picture of a possum carrying 7 babies, that she had in her yard in Texas! Booger that, carrying 7 babies round on your back.

ginnyknit

OMG must remember not to complain about mice anymore - an alligator(?) in the back garden :eek: Never boring at your house SorryImoved.

Thank you Bob will have a wander round a £ shop when I get out of the house. Am not allowed to strain myself for another 2 hours as I have a blood pressure monitor attached to me - very frustrating as I really want to do stuff. Seeing as its woken me up every hour through the night I am cream crackered but theres things to lift and vaccumming to do.

I have had a redcurrant bush in the back garden for years and it never fruited but last year it was full of berries. This year I pruned it as advised and now it is absolutely groaning with flowers so bumper year I hope. It was an Aldi plant and I have always thought it was a waste of space but shows you sometimes you need patience.