Simple living in the country - back to basics

Cheery_Daff

teapot2 said:

Sorry Cheery, I hadn't picked up that you were trying to change the subject when I posted.  Slinks off back to lurking blushing

Please don't slink back to lurking! I love pudding chat! I mean, I'm trying to eat slightly less of it 🙄😂😂 but I do love it when lots of people pile in and chatter away, so please don't stop! 

I just ran out of puddingy things to say myself, but please do continue round the edges and I'll just waffle on about whatever else arises 😂

Done a bit of pottering about upstairs this evening, sorted the bedding from when the guests were here last weekend and put some more coats etc away. I'll move the sewing machines tomorrow, and think about what I can repurpose to hold fabric etc. Not going to buy anything, so might have to be quite creative...

Suffolk_lass

If you insist then... Trifle made with chocolate chip panetone (from the Morries bakery in Nov/Dec - bought in bulk and frozen!) with tinned peaches, juice in the lime jelly, topped with birds custard and whipped cream if there is any room (or sometimes poured over single cream) but no alcohol! (bleurghk).

My benching in the greenhouse is a metal frame (could be old scaffold) with an upper and lower wooden slatted rectangle that is removable, so I germinate on the top shelf and pot on until the big tomato give away. Then I put a big plastic reservoir tray on the bottom shelf, take the top rack off and put my tomatoes in there so the frame for the top shelf supports them, along with corner canes, a cats cradle of twine and some tied to the roof frame.

I also have a pair of draughtsman trestles with a double sized solid pallet box that the greenhouse glass came in, that is the perfect height for working at, standing. I make up beehive frames, plant and pot on using bus trays (restaurant dirty crockery trays) for compost. I love it, with my Duvel (yes, devil) beer crate seat and sounds on my phone. It also faces south and it is a lovely productive, relaxing place to just be 

rtandon27

Happy Easter! 🐣 🐰 

starnac

Happy Easter

I'm loving the greenhouse chat. My greenhouse is still currently in pieces in my brother's shed. DH made me a potting bench in the downstairs conservatory so I've been using that and the windowsills for now but you have definitely given me some ideas for when I finally get the greenhouse up. Thank you. 

KajiKita

I have put my cedar table top on the floor in the greenhouse, supported by the sleepers the greenhouse sits on at the back and three bricks at the front. It lifts the preciousnesses I keep on it (sprouting summer bulbs, dahlias, seedlings etc) up off the floor away from the worst of the cold and the slugs and it means when I water, they are not sitting in damp. Always feels like the season has properly begun when I set that up each year 😊

KK

Cheery_Daff

Ooh, lovely to hear all about your greenhouse set ups! Mine is a tip again now - I realised the weather is set to get grim again tomorrow, and we're out tonight, so I've just slung all the pits and stuff back in in a big pile 🙄 

Not entirely sure when these benches I'm dreaming of are going to get built since it's going to be all rainy tomorrow. Might be next weekend now 🙄 

Which is fine as I'm nowhere near planting anything anyway! But it would be nice to sow a few seeds before my birthday!

Karmacat

Also liking the pudding chat, but also nothing to contribute to it  except a fantastic brownie eaten at my nephew's today, my sister bought a set online from South Wales somewhere, a kitchen enterprise, it was brilliant.

Greenhouses though!  Loving that chat deeply and forever  

Loanranger21

I have now stopped making trifle. I always made a big one at Christmas but there's only the two of us now and it takes days to eat the thing.
My trifle had a sponge flan case base liberally soaked with not sherry but Madeira.  This would be mixed with the juice from a tin of raspberries , layer of raspberries from tin followed by layer of raspberry jelly. Then a layer of tinned custard,  or a pot of Devon custard then banana or two sliced on top . The final layer was a big pot of double cream whisked until stiff peaks smoothed over and into the fridge to set the jelly.  I kept a big cut glass bowl just for this trifle at Christmas. Still have the bowl but haven't made the trifle for about four or five years now.
 The Madeira was very nice as was the glass of it I felt obliged to swig as I made the thing.

Suffolk_lass

I love the idea of a trifle bowl! I mostly use a Dartington crystal ice bucket here. It was a wedding present and I couldn't think how else I might use it

Cheery_Daff

Oooh, you're all very fancy, mine just got bad in the  normal pyrex bowl 😂

Lovely night last night, went to a party,  saw some people we'd not seen for ages,  and Mr Cheery did some musical stuff 😊

I drove home so didn't drink anything,  and also didn't eat that much - we went out for a curry but just shared onion bhaji and a veg biriyani, and then I had a cupcake and a bit of birthday cake,  and 2 pints of soda water 😂 but we didn't get to bed till 1.30 and now the alarm's gone off to let the chickens out and i feel rather rough... going to curl up on the safe for another couple of hours of snoozing I think...