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HELLO FORKERS - April 2020 🐣

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I read online that in New Zealand their MPs have taken a pay cut, yet our lot are being paid an EXTRA £10K a year to work from home. 
    Might be fake news, but given the "pigs at the trough" mentality of our lot, I'd not be surprised. 
    Devon.
  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    Hi not been on for a couple of days, busy on Allotments with the Annual ritual of re-siting the brassica cage ready for this years seedlings.
    Re lily beetle sorry we only have "finger & thumb" control here too, and we only have fritilaria gave up on Lillys years ago!
    AB Still learning

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    @Yviestevie ((hugs)) 🤞 

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Hello everyone.   Been out doing the weekly shop this morning, starting with the PO in Luçon to post some home-made masks to Possum.   Our local POs are closed but this one is bigger and has automatic machines for weighing small packages and pricing them according to destination and a very nice young man controlling the queue and helping people.

    On to SM where I found everything I wanted except yeast - no dry or fresh this time but I still have some fresh left so that's OK.   Decided to treat us to a wholemeal baguette with chia seeds to make a bacon butty for lunch.

    Had some rain overnight but it's sunny now so I shall potter about and plant the strawberry plants and trailing pelargoniums that landed in my trolley along with 3 teeny yellow pepper plants.   I did try the plant shop first but they had too long a queue.

    Hugs to @Yviestevie and anyone else feeling lost or helpless.   Thank goodness for our gardens.   Keep safe everyone.


    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
  • steephillsteephill Posts: 2,841
    Had a bit of a shock this morning - shelves full of plain flour in Waitrose! Bought a bag of course. Now what do you do with flour? ;)

    Cherry and almond muffins will be this weekend's job. Pity there wasn't any yeast or even baking powder.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    See if you can get cream of tartar and bicarbonate of soda from the pharmacy.  They make baking powder.
    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
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Hugs to @Yviestevie.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    My mare in France is dying, was cancer after all. A good friend is dealing with it. I feel helpless too. I know she's only a horse but she's been my friend for 21 years, bought her when she was 4.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    That is so sad @Busy-Lizzie.  Dreadful to feel helpless when those we love are suffering, whether 2 or 4 legged.  
    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2020
    @Busy-Lizzie ((hugs)) 😢. Thank heavens for good friends. 

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





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