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nursemaggie

Elona I am sure thousands of people in your position would love to do the same. I have backache just thinking of you dragging that mattress.

silvasava Barrows are where stone age people buried their dead. You could get disturbed as archaeologists do dig them now and again. Been some interesting finds in long barrows in the last five years.

ivyleaf

(((HUGS))) elona. I hope DH is okay after his fall (and you too, after hauling him and the mattress topper) and that DD is beginning to feel a bit better. xx

FairyPrincessk

Elona that sounds like a lot to have on anyone's plate.

I always like the idea of pushing up daisies, except I'm not that fond of daisies. Instead I think I'd like to push up a hydrangea or maybe a peony. Not sure what colour the ash would make a hydrangea bloom. Bit disappointed I wouldn't be around to find out.


The lemon curd is all finished and I'm just having a cuppa. It is really delicious although I was disappointed that to bottle it properly I'd need to use bottled lemon juice to ensure it was safe. Oh well, I'll freeze the second jar and it will still be lovely and I'll find SOMETHING to bottle before the summer is out.

Tonight's tea is roasted aubergines, pasta and arrabiata sauce. I'm planning to do a bread and butter pudding while the oven is on, but need to check how much milk we have first. I'm thinking I'll add thinly sliced apples as I've seen in Frugal Food, although I might leave the currants out as I don't think we've got any in. I don't use them much so they aren't a pantry staple.

It is gray and spitting here, but no real rain. Just enough to mean I couldn't put the washing outside. Right, I'm off to read for a bit until it is time to make tea.

nursemaggie

FPK surely my grandmother and greatgrandmother did not used bottled lemon it did not exist and neither did freezers as they had all died by 1966. I am sure these things kept OK before all these things. All of my grandparents were over 70 when I was born.

A little of your lemon curd would be nice on bread and butter pudding.

silvasava

nursemaggie wrote: »

Elona

silvasava Barrows are where stone age people buried their dead. You could get disturbed as archaeologists do dig them now and again. Been some interesting finds in long barrows in the last five years.

Ah well - maybe under the yews then

Second your comment on the keeping properties of hoome made. i made some plum jam some years ago & took some in to work. A few weeks later one of the girls asked me what I'd put in it as it didn't have a 'fur coat' on top. When I said just fruit & sugar she was surprised 'till I told her to look at the ingredients on commercial jams - glucose syrup, fructose etc - all of which have to be kept in the fridge. Our grandmothers didn't have fridges & freezers & they managed to cook and store fruit & veg by other means. Does anyone remember being taught at school how to bottle in kilner jars?? Dying art methinks!

Mrs_Veg_Plot

Sheila I hope that your OH is starting feel the benefits of his meds.

Sorry to hear about Olaf MrsLW.

I grew up in a little village at edge of the Cheshire Plain at the foot of one of the hills that the Sandstone Trail passes over. My family all know that I want throwing off the top of the hill on a sunny but windy day so that I can be blown all over the hillside and the Plain.

mardatha

Knit Witch when I was wee my dad told me that the Rowan was the tree that keeps the witches away lol - maybe you wouldn't RIP under one lol.
I asked him why all the old ruined cottages round here had a Rowan in the garden and that's what he said

nursemaggie

There are three growing in my tiny back yard mar one between the concrete and the house wall and two between the concrete and the wall. I think that says a lot about a rowen it freely seeds itself in the most inhospitable places.

Jazee

Evening fencers. Sorry to hear about departed furries and poorly rellies.

I want to be buried in the lovely village I live in so I can be here forever, or at least a while till they need the land and no one can remember me.

My grandmother ended up all over my cousin when he stood in the wrong direction on a windy day while scattering her ashes. Not nice...

FairyPrincessk

I'm sure you're right Nursemaggie, but as I've never done it before I want to stick to official recipes until I'm a bit more experienced.