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HELLO FORKERS 🎄 December 2019

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Just back from Allotment- well that's 2 less mice eating my apples! 
    There are 2 less mice in the cupboard under our kitchen sink
    Devon.
  • Your traps work too then  ;)
    AB Still learning

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    the bait had gone from one of traps, but it might have been the mouse which was in the second trap, or maybe there's a 3rd one around somewhere. I've baited 3 traps now.
    Devon.
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I enjoyed the Christmas Craft Fair this afternoon but no one was buying anything. The stalls were full of beautiful, but mostly fairly useless, things, all hand made. It seemed more of a social occasion. A woman was looking at earrings on the stall next to ours but then she said 'Oh I'm not here to buy anything, I didn't bring my purse"! Our stall had made 30€ when I left. I had to get back to feed the horses.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That's very discouraging @Busy-Lizzie.  Mind you, when I see the hours that go into producing crafts and the cost of materials I'm surprised anyone sells anything for a profit or even to cover costs of materials.

    @AuntyRach Have never met blue top milk!  Here it's hard to find fresh pasteurised but not impossible.   It was impossible in Belgium so we've used semi-skimmed UHT for nearly 30 years and now buy "fairtrade" milk from local producers, organic when possible.

    @Hostafan and @Allotment Boy - OH was woken in the night by a cat playing with a mouse.   Ex mouse now.


    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)."
    Plato
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    @Obelixx Blue top milk in the UK is fresh pasteurised whole milk. Red is semi skimmed.
    Here in France it's the other way round.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited December 2019
    Nearly right @Busy-Lizzie 😊 

    in the UK blue top is pasteurized  whole milk

    Green top is semi skimmed. 

    Red top is totally skimmed 1% fat or below. 

    How’s Hannah today?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • AuntyRachAuntyRach Posts: 5,291
    Oh - only UHT @Obelixx - no thanks! That’s called ‘emergency milk’ in my house! Is green top, semi-skimmed, the same then @Busy-Lizzie??

    Just cleared away a few candles and vases in my lounge to replace with the Winter/Crimbo candles and jars of flowers. 


    My garden and I live in South Wales. 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    What happened to silver top?
    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)."
    Plato
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Silver top went away with gold top, which you needed to make cream.  Don’t see either now.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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