The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

Hard_Up_Hester

I bought a load of fruit from my local butcher, weird I know but he doubles as a green grocer, I'm planning on making a huge fruit salad to stop me picking at carp as I'm also supposed to be loosing weight. Anyone know how long fruit salad will keep in the fridge?

GreyQueen

If you're making it in a light syrup, I'd say a couple of days, HH. Not that it'd turn into toxic sludge after that, but fruit and veggies lose vitamins from cut edges, and also they dissolve out into water. One reason why I don't like the idea of pre-prepping veggies the day before cooking them, or the morning to cook them later in the evening.

Floss

HH I would say 2-3 days max...and if you have any cooking booze, a tiny slug in the syrup is scrummy

Right fencers, I'm 5'5" and intend propping up the middle...did we decide on a colour yet? And can we stop this talk of weights and sizes please - I have always insisted I'm the perfect weight for my height, its just that my skin needs tightening up to keep it all in the right place!

Plans today include (not in this order!): posting fleabay sales; flea-dosing the cat; washing; sowing seeds (finally!); generally tidying the house (well, my bits of untidyness anyway, DH can do his own!); watching the rugby; and returning a couple of CS purchases that aren't right & delivering a bag of donations.

Hope the weather is good to everyone, and that the wind blows your laundry dry!

moneyistooshorttomention

I hadn't clicked that perhaps they are making trouser lengths longer than they did. I thought the upsizing was just being done on the sizes iyswim.

It definitely came as a reality check that I was quite right (and maybe even underestimated....) size labels aren't accurate any more when I decided to wear a belt I bought many years ago now and couldn't.

Now I always used to buy size 14 clothes and I can often still buy "size 14" clothes - but it was a shock just how much size labelling has been altered in recent years and I'm definitely not size 14 anymore just because the label says so. That's a leather belt I bought back 40 years or so ago I think and I can see the notches where I usually do it up and they are several inches in from the "worst" hole there. When I tried to put that belt on the other day the ends of the belt just touch each other and I cant do the belt up on even the "worst" hole. I'm now rather thinking that perhaps modern-day clothes with a size 14 label on are actually size 20 or size 22??

I shall keep that belt to "measure progress" by and try it on at intervals to see when I can wear it again and then watch each notch tighter I can do it up on.

......and, on that note, time to get some light lunch and then go for a LONG brisk walk.:cool: Thank goodness the weather is getting better and it should be possible to get some more walking in.

burtha

Silvasava ,I hope it wasent his chat up line ,he is in his mid 70s ,I am only 44(last week) :eek::eek: ..made me giggle anyway

Sneaked off with a coffee to come on here,quick sit down ,seamed to run around like a head less chicken most days , done football this morning ,haven't stopped since getting back ,still need to sort dogs cats and chickens ......in 10 mins ....

Fruit salad is on the menu here this week ,ds has to make it in school tech,in theory it should last a couple of days ,but in this mad house more like 30 seconds

Right must run ......xx

Fence should be multi coloured ,bright and fun just like us lot ,so maybe even with a touch of the dark side about it , and it has to have glitter ...lots of glitter

Nargleblast

Sounds like my kind of garden fence.....And don't forget the shelf to stick our mugs of tea on, the automatic parasols so we don't get rained on, and of course no splinters!

nursemaggie

As long as I can use the shelf for coffee can't stand tea. I hate the smell of it as well as the taste. My brother is exactly the same yet all our kids like tea.

Love the multicoloured fence and glitter.

How long should I keep tea? I only buy it for visitors and we don't get many. DS likes it just rarely drinks it.

Just made some Aran weight cardigans, going to have to pull them out they are enormous could fit two of me in them. Why are American Patterns huge for adults and minute for kids? I need at least two sizes smaller for me and two sizes bigger for DGS.

shanks77

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How long should I keep tea? I only buy it for visitors and we don't get many. DS likes it just rarely drinks it[/QUOTE]

Tea bags should keep for quite a while. I bought some a few months ago and the BB date is June 2016 and I can't see that they would go off. They might lose some strength but that would be all as far as I can see. They would never stand a chance of going off in my house tea Jenny that I am just like my nana lol.
Been productive so far hoovered downstairs though think my vacuum is on its last legs as it's not picking up as well as it used to though with my dog it's done well. Done a load of washing and got it hung up and dishes are up to date. Had the dog out whilst it was fine and had a wander round the International Market just for a nosey and to taste test some of the goodies (quality control you understand :rotfl:).
Time to sit down with another cuppa and catch up on mse
Hope you are all well xx

GreyQueen

Evening, fencers.

Had a busy day out in a frisky easterly wind working on my allotmentino. Have planted the pre-soaked broad beans, did 6 long rows in paired tramlines, and my estimate of how many beans I'd need was out by only 3, so I posted 3 unsoaked ones in the last holes.

Have done some more forking thru, ready for spud planting which is scheduled for Saturday next week, weather permitting, and had a bit of a bonfire, so came home slightly kippered, but all bathed and hairwashed now.

I was having a rip-roaring great day, then had an unwelcome letter, then my mobile gave me a msg when switched on that the SIM couldn't register, then the kitchen lightbulb failed. Call that a low energy longlife bulb, that's only lasted 9.5 years, the slacker. Bunged one of my union freebies in. Tell ya, if all those three had happened yesterday on Fri 13th even a cynic such as myself might have been going ho-hum.

I like the idea of a rainbow fence. I bagsy a green bit of the fence to lean against as it's good colour on me. Plus a nice fencepost with a flat top beside me to support the tea mug. Only tea for me, coffee disgusts me, hate the flavour in anything; cakes, chocolate, the actual drink, all eww.

Am cooking supper and slowly easing the aches out of my muscles. I assume they're muscles, they're well-hidden but they do function.

S_Wales_Saver

Another vote for a rainbow fence. Well apart from watching the rugby I've had a very poor day.
Used my desktop this morning to plan the week's menus on Google drive and decided it was running very slowly. Switched off to give it a rest (surprising how often that works). Now it won't come back and says that unauthorised changes have been made to windows. Can't even get into it! Now to wait until DD1 comes for Mother's Day tomorrow to see if she can fix it.
Just catching up with you all on the iPad. Thank goodness I updated it yesterday so I can actually edit Google drive on that now.