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Awful weather - typical Brits talk
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Same here re cheese taff. I’m with Nigel Slater - “I can’t imagine a life without cheese”.For 2p. Not gardening (I’m mid Domestic Nonsense) but taken in my garden. His Holeyness keeping a careful eye on my unpruned/please yourself pal forsythia twigRavenous beasties aren’t for stopping!The big one is my one, the diddy ones at the back are morries. Beasties don’t make these distinctions though, evidently.I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.7
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Look what you've done, all this Miss Figgy talk drove me mad, and I have one on the way from Mr F [free P & P today]. Only a titch in tiny pot, but I have a Cunning Plan involving newly moved DD and cuttings.And all this cheese talk, I went to a wedding where the wedding cake was cheese. Actually one of the best wedding I've been to, started out in a real ale pub, then onto an Indian, then church, then bowling club + cheese wedding cake.It was similar to this, and we got to take bits home
Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens8 -
What lovely Spring pics, Farway and Dusty. I can't have hyacinths, daffs or lilies in the house as they give me a splitting headache
Love the pussycat pic, YBE, but shame again about your poor daff.
I've been out in the garden - sorting logs and kindling, trying to rescue some weed suppressant that got caught in the wind and is now a stringy mess (intend getting some slate to go on top) and I finally got around to sawing the branch off the damaged Ceanothus.
It's been a lovely sunny day, but so cold. I'm now sat having a hot chocolate to warm up.'A watched potato will never chit'...7 -
Farway said:Look what you've done, all this Miss Figgy talk drove me mad, and I have one on the way from Mr F [free P & P today]. Only a titch in tiny pot, but I have a Cunning Plan involving newly moved DD and cuttings.
I meant to take a pic of mine this year (some buds) but work got in the way (boo, hiss). I've got a quiet day tomorrow so hoping to take a longer lunch to get some garden sorting done. Hoping if I clear some junk from the shed/garden and leave it in a tidy heap I can ask the builder to take it away...I'm not an early bird or a night owl; I’m some form of permanently exhausted pigeon.6 -
To save all the people drooling over cheese the time it takes to click on a link, this is Farways linkI'm not sure I'd let any wedding guests have any of that you know...maybe i'll just have an early birthday celebration by myself with some cheese...Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi5
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Save the parmesan. In italy it can be used as collateral against your mortgage.
And no Bluey, you don't need to drink water after a cup of tea or coffee or cocoa.
But don't tell your lady that
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-guidelines-and-food-labels/water-drinks-nutrition/
Got some veg growing tips from a couple in Lidl today while gazing at the tomatoes.
Some interesting plants there. Morries wheeling in large new shrubs too so eyes open folks. Get em while they're fresh!
Congrats Farwaydid you find homes for all last years (year befores) fig cuttings?
I can rise and shine - just not at the same time!
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The only normal people you know are the ones you don’t know very well
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Not the best of days here. That vicious north wind persisted, so for starters I stayed in the polytunnel, converted a polystyrene fish box into a planter and sowed a variety of cut & come again leaves in it.So far so good, but then I made the mistake of deciding to fit the second-hand wing mirror I'd carefully sourced to Mrs Dusty's car. It only had 5 connections, not the 7 I was assured it had, so of course it didn't work properly. Cue half an hour wasted trying to get hold of a replacement from an incoherent male in Walsall....“It's a rare type, mate.”“It's a bliddy Ford!”After that, a sad phone call from a friend, which put the dismantler's inability to count up to 7 in perspective. Time then for lunch and a think. (After all the cheese talk, lunch was stone-baked roll, Red Fox and Cambozola.
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In the afternoon, we finally returned to finish the elm hedge, but within 5 minutes smoke came from the chainsaw as the chain derailed. That meant stripping it down to turn the slightly damaged bar over, meaning more time lost.After fixing the saw, it was almost time to visit the garage to collect my car, left there last week, and hand over Mrs Dusty's that has a binding front brake. Seeing how the day had gone, I phoned first:
"Oh, sorry, your car's still not done; in fact, I haven't started it yet. I'm inundated!"Tomorrow?""Wednesday, hopefully."Cue putting the battery charger on the van.We did clear 2 more dumpy bags of twigs and branches, but removing these and the ivy from the end of the hedge freed-up the gatepost, which promptly threatened to fall over; the undergrowth being the only thing holding it up!Ah well, tomorrow's another day."There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity8 -
Dustyevsky said:At least there's sunshine aplenty and a good chance of drying-out, with not much rain until Thursday, when your warm front arrives, Bluey.
-taff said:Cheese? I love cheese, all cheese, especially strong vintage crunchy bits in it cheddar, or a nice blue cheese, or a ricotta in something, or a bel paese, or brie, or goats, or....you get the picture. I once did a pub quiz where one of the rounds was soley about cheese...we smashed it, all questions right...I wouldn't thank you for blue cheese, but I'll eat pretty much anything else.
Farway said:And all this cheese talk, I went to a wedding where the wedding cake was cheese. Actually one of the best wedding I've been to, started out in a real ale pub, then onto an Indian, then church, then bowling club + cheese wedding cake.It was similar to this, and we got to take bits homeI want one of them (minus the blue layer).
twopenny said:And no Bluey, you don't need to drink water after a cup of tea or coffee or cocoa.
But don't tell your lady that
https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-guidelines-and-food-labels/water-drinks-nutrition/pink_poppy said:What lovely Spring pics, Farway and Dusty. I can't have hyacinths, daffs or lilies in the house as they give me a splitting headache
I hope you have better luck today Dusty, yesterday sounds exasperating...
It wasn't too bad when I got up this morning, the birds were singing away and it was cool and lovely. Now there's a fog come down and it's cold and damp and unpleasant. No moon last night or this morning cos the clouds have come over
And I hope you all enjoyed a proper post with proper quotings cos I ain't doing it again, it takes bladdy ages!I removed the shell from my racing snail, but now it's more sluggish than ever.8 -
Heavy rain and a moderate breeze for us today - I'm glad I had a day off yesterday and managed to get some time in the garden. I'm pretty sure my efforts on the weed suppressant will be undone today though as I didn't have enough prong things to hold it all down (I improvised with some heavy pots, but still not enough).
Back to work today... 'nuff said...'A watched potato will never chit'...5 -
YoungBlueEyes said:Dustyevsky said:At least there's sunshine aplenty and a good chance of drying-out, with not much rain until Thursday, when your warm front arrives, Bluey.The drunks agree, but that's OK because I'm doing something indoors tomorrow.Woke to a frost this morning, but not a particularly worrying one. It's turned grey, and the forecast is drizzle at times with light winds and a high of 7c. I might not need my beanie hat then.Yesterday, I spotted more insanity from our neighbours in the collective down the lane. Not only have they erected urban-looking notices telling people of a 10mph speed limit, punctuated by a particularly punishing speed hump, but now a rash of white painted rocks have appeared on the opposite verge of the single track road. I suspect this is because the grass there is very valuable and people have driven on it, maybe when they've been avoiding me with my barrow, dumpy bags and chain saw. These rocks are pretty substantial, and the owner of the verge certainly won't be able to lift most of them. I wonder how this assists her to cut the grass now, which is a weekly chore in summer for those who think a country verge needs to look very tidy, boosting house prices nearby.
It's a mystery.
A quick wander along the stream yesterday revealed that we do have a few snowdrops there, but they're literally in ones and twos, not the clumps I planted. It's odd. Maybe one winter we'll have the hundreds the neighbour has, just downstream of us. I believe they date back to the 1980s."There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country." Dr Chris Martenson. Peak Prosperity5
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