Much warmer where you are, Obelixx, further south here and it certainly wasn't 28° at 8pm! It's cloudy and 22° now.
About to start packing to go back to Norfolk tomorrow. Have packed a box of OH's glass and china to take to the cottage, a new display unit for the dining room and a sideboard will be arriving this week. Lots to do there, more unpacking, painting and cutting down overgrown shrubs in the garden.
Won't have Internet from tomorrow, except when we borrow it from others.
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
BL and Obelixx are like whirlwinds, backwards and forwards between houses, and, in BL's case, between gardens. I hope Possum has now settled in. It takes me all my time to deal with one house and garden.
I had plans for this morning but other things got in the way ... not the least of them the realisation that around 8 fat cobs of corn needed harvesting before they went over ... so that's been done and they've been simmering on the hob to make this https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/creamofsweetcornsoup_81627
I've also prepped the potatoes, onions and parsnips to go in the big enamel lidded roaster with a lovely big FR chicken I bought from a farm shop when I was in Suffolk the other day ... it's been rubbed with rosemary, pepper and salt and it's all ready to go in the oven in a bit. All I have to do now is prep the runners
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Joyce - Possum doesn't have a garden, thank goodness, but she now has a small window box with 2 flat leaved parsley, a basil and a coriander plant growing. It' remains to be seen whether she'll manage to water them and also remember to harvest them.
Busy - it all sounds very organised. Good luck with it all.
Dove - roast FR guinea fowl for us and probably roast tomatoes. Haven't decided what to do with the potatoes yet as I need to dig up either Charlottes or Bintjes and find something green.
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)."
Afternoon. Just baking the first apple cake of the season, with my cooking apples. I have some plum jam from North Wales (present) to put in the middle too. My sister has just called into collect some toys I had when my youngest neice was pre-school. The main one is a Little People set of a farm, house, mechanic garage and train track - we have buyers online who will collect - so we can put the money towards something else.
Hi all, I know this comment is a bit behind the curve but we have been away for a couple of days and I've been catching up. I just wanted to say that the fact that MPs get redundancy when we don't re elect them really winds me up. Who else gets redundancy when their employer gives them the sack?
I too have worked with apples today. Juiced over 60 and have put into little bottles (small tonic) in the freezer. Fab for winter stews and casseroles at we have had masses of rasps and these are golden autumn ones found in a local garden that was being landscaped. I have found the flavour intensifies so much that a sprinkle of about two is enough for meringues! Busy I am getting dizzy! Oblx lovely to see them settling into their own wee nests!
susyn, that will shake everyone up. Personally I have a thing about them having flats in London for when they are in session. Why can’t each party own a couple of flats and you move into that and out again when you lose your seat
lovely evening here. Have a chicken sitting on a bed of apples, onions, garlic cloves and loads of herbs roasting away. Apples apples apples!!
Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.” A A Milne
Thanks Dove. Kind thought but I don't like runner beans and nor, it turns out, does OH. I offered to buy him some organic frozen ones cos I knew his parents had always grown them but he declined. We have cabbage I can pick and that will do nicely.
Been sunning myself all afternoon cos my legs could do with being a bit browner before winter. Forecast is for wall to wall sunshine till next Sunday when we may get a storm. Looks like I'll be on watering pots duty for a while longer then.
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)."
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Much warmer where you are, Obelixx, further south here and it certainly wasn't 28° at 8pm! It's cloudy and 22° now.
About to start packing to go back to Norfolk tomorrow. Have packed a box of OH's glass and china to take to the cottage, a new display unit for the dining room and a sideboard will be arriving this week. Lots to do there, more unpacking, painting and cutting down overgrown shrubs in the garden.
Won't have Internet from tomorrow, except when we borrow it from others.
It takes me all my time to deal with one house and garden.
https://www.bbc.com/food/recipes/creamofsweetcornsoup_81627
I've also prepped the potatoes, onions and parsnips to go in the big enamel lidded roaster with a lovely big FR chicken I bought from a farm shop when I was in Suffolk the other day ... it's been rubbed with rosemary, pepper and salt and it's all ready to go in the oven in a bit. All I have to do now is prep the runners
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Busy - it all sounds very organised. Good luck with it all.
Dove - roast FR guinea fowl for us and probably roast tomatoes. Haven't decided what to do with the potatoes yet as I need to dig up either Charlottes or Bintjes and find something green.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Just baking the first apple cake of the season, with my cooking apples. I have some plum jam from North Wales (present) to put in the middle too.
My sister has just called into collect some toys I had when my youngest neice was pre-school. The main one is a Little People set of a farm, house, mechanic garage and train track - we have buyers online who will collect - so we can put the money towards something else.
Beep beep...cake is done!
I've been catching up. I just wanted to say that the fact that MPs get redundancy when we don't re elect them really winds me up. Who else gets redundancy when their employer gives them the sack?
I too have worked with apples today. Juiced over 60 and have put into little bottles (small tonic) in the freezer. Fab for winter stews and casseroles at we have had masses of rasps and these are golden autumn ones found in a local garden that was being landscaped. I have found the flavour intensifies so much that a sprinkle of about two is enough for meringues!
Busy I am getting dizzy!
Oblx lovely to see them settling into their own wee nests!
susyn, that will shake everyone up. Personally I have a thing about them having flats in London for when they are in session. Why can’t each party own a couple of flats and you move into that and out again when you lose your seat
lovely evening here. Have a chicken sitting on a bed of apples, onions, garlic cloves and loads of herbs roasting away. Apples apples apples!!
A A Milne
Thanks Dove. Kind thought but I don't like runner beans and nor, it turns out, does OH. I offered to buy him some organic frozen ones cos I knew his parents had always grown them but he declined. We have cabbage I can pick and that will do nicely.
Been sunning myself all afternoon cos my legs could do with being a bit browner before winter. Forecast is for wall to wall sunshine till next Sunday when we may get a storm. Looks like I'll be on watering pots duty for a while longer then.
A neighbour put a notice on the online "Neighbourhood" announcements for our area offering free apples.
She brought me plums and apples last week.