Sorreeeeeeeee Pat ... I'm a bit of an all or nothing girl
Dacha ... you'd be very welcome ........... but you'd have to bring a pot of Plov with you ... I love Plov ... my son's ex wife made it for us several times ... her family were from Bashkortostan.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Interesting , we spend part of our annual New Year holiday with relatives in Tatarstan with lots of Bashkirian friends .....the food wars are amazing ......but very , very tasty
Hi every one just back from house sitting going again in 3wks time for a month,please give wonky my congrats for her job report. Our weather has only got down to 3c but it is cold and windy in the day,no real heat if the sun comes out. We often get to hear about the natives having a rain dance so if they would only hurry up as we have had no rain for ages only 2mm last month and 4mm this month. I hope every one is well
Hate that song by the Move - already not good and then the first one on Radio 1 which i really resented, being a Radio Caroline girl to the end.
What is Plov please? Lovely colours in your garden DL.
We have been out all day - once we got Possum up and dressed. Needs a bomb some days to shift her. No idea of tempus fugit principles. Finally got to les Sables d'Olonne in time for a stroll round the outdoor market before it closed. Bought a salvia Hot Lips and a Russian sage for the wee bed with the wee lilac tree on the grounds that they will cope with the conditions and look quite jolly together. Normal July weather has resumed for now - temps in the mid 20s and 8mm of rain overnight. Very welcome but not enough to counteract 13 months of drought so more please if you want to send me any.
I had yet another variation on moules frites, OH had cuttle fish and pasta with parsley pesto and Possum had fish and chips - the only way she likes white fish. Home via the SM and a fabric shop. OH now glued to golf on TV so Possum and I will walk the dogs.
NB - I think I might b tearing someone else's hair out by now. Clari - I hope you left that note. Love the wellies and agree with PF about where to stick 'em when needed.
Dove - baking sounds good, especially the cake. Care to share the recipe? We have plums.
Hope everyone's had a good day and that Hosta still has his lake.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
It's Dan Lepard's Stone Fruit and Yoghurt Cake, but I arrange the fruit better I also make it with nectarines and raspberries ... I'll find a link to the recipe ...
I haven't read back yet, expect it will take ages!
We are back from West Yorkshire. We enjoyed staying with SIL and BIL and they took us to see their daughter, my niece, who lives 15 mins from them. SIL and BIL have been their a year, moved from the Cotswolds to be near daughter. Gorgeous views from their house, it's in quite a hilly area.
Then we went to see friends from Dordogne who have also moved to be near their daughter, they live about 10 mins from SIL and BIL, coincidence! We took them out to lunch in a lovely local gastro-pub and they took us for a drive in the bit of the Peak district which is nearest them, northwest of Sheffield. Lovely scenery. I've never been there before. They asked us to stay the night, so we did. Got back to the Norfolk cottage this afternoon.
I was going to weed the bank, but it's raining.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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Sorreeeeeeeee Pat ... I'm a bit of an all or nothing girl
Dacha ... you'd be very welcome
........... but you'd have to bring a pot of Plov with you ... I love Plov ... my son's ex wife made it for us several times ... her family were from Bashkortostan.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Flowers in the Rain by the Move ... first record ever played on Radio !
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Didn't know that Dove... you know your stuff
Interesting , we spend part of our annual New Year holiday with relatives in Tatarstan with lots of Bashkirian friends .....the food wars are amazing ......but very , very tasty
Hi every one just back from house sitting going again in 3wks time for a month,please give wonky my congrats for her job report. Our weather has only got down to 3c but it is cold and windy in the day,no real heat if the sun comes out. We often get to hear about the natives having a rain dance so if they would only hurry up as we have had no rain for ages only 2mm last month and 4mm this month. I hope every one is well
I've just watered my plants and now it starts bucketing it down
Hate that song by the Move - already not good and then the first one on Radio 1 which i really resented, being a Radio Caroline girl to the end.
What is Plov please? Lovely colours in your garden DL.
We have been out all day - once we got Possum up and dressed. Needs a bomb some days to shift her. No idea of tempus fugit principles. Finally got to les Sables d'Olonne in time for a stroll round the outdoor market before it closed. Bought a salvia Hot Lips and a Russian sage for the wee bed with the wee lilac tree on the grounds that they will cope with the conditions and look quite jolly together. Normal July weather has resumed for now - temps in the mid 20s and 8mm of rain overnight. Very welcome but not enough to counteract 13 months of drought so more please if you want to send me any.
I had yet another variation on moules frites, OH had cuttle fish and pasta with parsley pesto and Possum had fish and chips - the only way she likes white fish. Home via the SM and a fabric shop. OH now glued to golf on TV so Possum and I will walk the dogs.
NB - I think I might b tearing someone else's hair out by now. Clari - I hope you left that note. Love the wellies and agree with PF about where to stick 'em when needed.
Dove - baking sounds good, especially the cake. Care to share the recipe? We have plums.
Hope everyone's had a good day and that Hosta still has his lake.
It's Dan Lepard's Stone Fruit and Yoghurt Cake, but I arrange the fruit better
I also make it with nectarines and raspberries ... I'll find a link to the recipe ...
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2009/sep/26/how-to-bake-stone-fruit-yogurt-cake
Whoops! there's a chip out of that plate rim .. when did that happen?!
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you.
Sausage and egg pie
Steak and veg pasties
Help yourselves ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hello all.
I haven't read back yet, expect it will take ages!
We are back from West Yorkshire. We enjoyed staying with SIL and BIL and they took us to see their daughter, my niece, who lives 15 mins from them. SIL and BIL have been their a year, moved from the Cotswolds to be near daughter. Gorgeous views from their house, it's in quite a hilly area.
Then we went to see friends from Dordogne who have also moved to be near their daughter, they live about 10 mins from SIL and BIL, coincidence! We took them out to lunch in a lovely local gastro-pub and they took us for a drive in the bit of the Peak district which is nearest them, northwest of Sheffield. Lovely scenery. I've never been there before. They asked us to stay the night, so we did. Got back to the Norfolk cottage this afternoon.
I was going to weed the bank, but it's raining.