The OS Doorstep - a helpful and supportive thread in these tough times

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I am so excited, sad I know it doesn't take a lot!!! I have just picked the first ever perfectly ripe figs from my Fig tree. He's a Brown Turkey and I got him three years ago from DD1 for christmas. He didn't do very well the first year as he was in an exposed position so last summer we moved him into the back garden and sank his big flowerpot into the soil and now, he's had Figs!!!!! I'm going to make fresh Muesli with chopped figs in for breakfast tomorrow, wow, I love it!!!!! Cheers Lyn xxx.

shegar

Cor fig rolls , yea , love em to bits , best biscuits ever ....:D:D, I definetely cant eat just the one ..........Oh please dont mention figs if you arnt gonna make me some biccies and send them to me, Lyn address to follow very very shortly .:D

Lovely and hot again today , be nice if we do get a bit of overnight rain , actually that would be a blessing......:)
.........Sheila...

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Me too SHEILA, my favourite biscuits in the whole world. Picking raspberries in the garden now, new canes in this spring so not many berries this first year but nice flavour so next year should be quantities. The polytunnel continues to amaze me, we are still picking french beans in fair quantities from the original planting that started cropping in June, we've just started harvesting the sweet peppers, have a succession of lettuces, some really good sized beetroot, a basil forest, more cucumbers than I can cope with, hispi cabbage nearly ready to go and some carrots we've only just sown the seed for but lst year they stood over the winter and we used them in early spring, lovely!

We've been overcast most of the day but 23ish outside so not cold and that's given a hatch of something that the seagulls were going frantic for a little earlier on, I think it might be a second lot of flying ants, I've seen lots of ant activity on the ground over the last day or so. Think we might just catch the wet weather and the edge of the storms tomorrow, the garden could certainly do with a wetting.

Have a good evening all, Cheers Lyn xxx.

mardatha

My friend in Jersey is plagued by flying ants. I've never seen one.

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They're bigger than ordinary ants, they're the queen ants flying off to mate and set up new nests, eugh horrible things, so many of them at once all flying about low enough to be at head level!!!!

elona

MrsL

The mention of fig rolls reminded me of the series "Open all hours" when Arkwright had a surplus of them to shift and was heard declaiming to the actress who later played Norah Batty that the sure way to determine the moral rectitude and fibre of his customers was whether they bought fig biscuits!

Had a nice evening with nearly all dds watching tv and chatting and managed to dissuade DH from making an unwise decision re health, fingers crossed.

Everyone enjoyed the home made rolls, burgers and salad and had strawberries and yoghurt for dessert,

EstherH

Having seen the Paupers Cookbook mentioned a number of times on different threads I have just had a look on
Amazon thinking I may get it. Cheapest one fifty odd pounds!!! What's that all about? Surely, any one who is looking for a paupers cookbook won't have that sort of money to buy it. Don't they want to sell them?

Esther x

Baby_boo

Hi just popping in to say I'm still around, I've had one of those weeks
I would rather forget, so I've not even been able to read let alone post.
I hope you are all well and have a lovely weekend be it with friends
or family whatever you are doing. Well I'm about to pop myself into
a lovely bubbly radox bath then I will try to catch up on all your news
yikes I know I'm pages behind, all is peaceful here now so I can concentrate and enjoy
Boo x

monnagran

Fresh figs....Yum! My Dad used to grow them and they were delicious. Not a bit like the dried ones. You're quite right to be excited Lyn, they're not that easy to grow but once established they last for years.

Never seen flying ants Mar? What a sheltered life you've led. They are ghastly things that can deliver quite a bite and they come as a swarm. Ugh!!!!!

Had a day of meetings here. Everyone up for protests and motions of no confidence. I have been delegated to meetings while the Rev keeps her head below the parapet and works on her profile. Very sensibly she is not getting involved in the nasty business, she has had too much of that already.

Such a lovely day, I should have spent it lounging in the garden with a cool drink not drafting resolutions and grievances.

Perhaps tomorrow if it doesn't rain....oh no, there is a ton of runner beans to string, slice and freeze.

x

notjustlaura

EstherH wrote: »

Having seen the Paupers Cookbook mentioned a number of times on different threads I have just had a look on
Amazon thinking I may get it. Cheapest one fifty odd pounds!!! What's that all about? Surely, any one who is looking for a paupers cookbook won't have that sort of money to buy it. Don't they want to sell them?

Esther x

I can see them for about £20 on the window shop app ...?