Yes. 22nd - shortest day for her and other Ozzies. I like rum in desserts. There's a Danish version of a sort of panna cotta flavoured with dark rum and made in one big bowl for sharing and served with hot Morello cherry sauce. Haven't done that one for a long time. Might have to resurrect it.
We have a large fig shrub/tree in the gravelled/stone area behind the house. This year it was covered in hundreds if not thousands of figs and they'd grown big enough to be almost eating size except not ripe yet and very furry inside. Yesterday almost every single one dropped, before even the birds had a go at them.
Today, the under gardener has taken my pruning saw and newly sharpened and cleaned Felcos to it. Talk about raising the canopy! Yikes! Only spotted what he'd done cos I came in needing a loo - grateful for once for design fault for female gardeners. Got there just in time to stop a good cut becoming a total Buzz cut. Now we can get in at the base he's gong to give it several buckets of water.
I shall save 2 of the thicker branches for making swings for chickens.
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Oooh @Obelixx if you could let me have a copy of that recipe sometime ... when you have nothing better to do ... @WonkyWomble ‘s Lovely Hub’s family are from Antigua .., I think a rum panna cotta might fit the bill for a family get together ... at some time in the future 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The third new rat trap (the serious kind) arrived today as Basil Ratty is still with us. I've just got to pluck up the courage to bait the trap without losing my fingers and then even more courage to deal with the end result - not looking forward to it. OH is even more squeamish than me!
The third new rat trap (the serious kind) arrived today as Basil Ratty is still with us. I've just got to pluck up the courage to bait the trap without losing my fingers and then even more courage to deal with the end result - not looking forward to it. OH is even more squeamish than me!
Your comment about "the serious kind" reminded me of the rat traps I found in my grandad's shed back in the early 60's. They were humane in so much as the rat wouldn't have lasted long once it was sprung! Rest in pieces if you get my drift.
I hate rat traps, ok if they get them clean across the middle but sometimes they can just get caught by a leg, you’ll hear the squeals then you’ve got to dispatch it quickly, I hate rats but don’t like that sort of suffering. you also need to wash it very thoroughly or you won’t catch another in it. I’d rather poison down the holes, you don’t see or hear of them again.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Thanks for the tips... unfortunately we don't drink... except elderflower cordial. But empty bottles on line are possible.
I think Lakeland deliver to Eire, or they did pre-Lockdown. They have good swing top bottles 250ml and 500ml. I have a couple of each - still holding the seal after 6 or 7 years now. You can get replacement little rubber doobreys for the tops.
I don't share the general horror of rats. They're about but they aren't in the house. I wouldn't be able to deliberately poison them even if they were. My friend used to have a pet rat. It was a great little character.
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
We have a large fig shrub/tree in the gravelled/stone area behind the house. This year it was covered in hundreds if not thousands of figs and they'd grown big enough to be almost eating size except not ripe yet and very furry inside. Yesterday almost every single one dropped, before even the birds had a go at them.
Today, the under gardener has taken my pruning saw and newly sharpened and cleaned Felcos to it. Talk about raising the canopy! Yikes! Only spotted what he'd done cos I came in needing a loo - grateful for once for design fault for female gardeners. Got there just in time to stop a good cut becoming a total Buzz cut. Now we can get in at the base he's gong to give it several buckets of water.
I shall save 2 of the thicker branches for making swings for chickens.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
time for bed Here. Night All.
Your comment about "the serious kind" reminded me of the rat traps I found in my grandad's shed back in the early 60's. They were humane in so much as the rat wouldn't have lasted long once it was sprung! Rest in pieces if you get my drift.
you also need to wash it very thoroughly or you won’t catch another in it.
I’d rather poison down the holes, you don’t see or hear of them again.
I don't share the general horror of rats. They're about but they aren't in the house. I wouldn't be able to deliberately poison them even if they were. My friend used to have a pet rat. It was a great little character.
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”