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HELLO FORKERS 🍦 - June 2020

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  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Obelixx, how did Rasta get his name? Be careful of the, I dont know what you are allowed to call them.  Aparently, actors are now apologising for having cornrows in their hair.  The cream I use for sun spots (refuse to call them age spots, anyway, thats agist) not allowed to be called brightening cream anymore.  Is that because it might make me brainier if I use it!  Have read that tooth whitening is going to change its name already, what to I wonder, anti yellow.
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    My Hubby, oldest daughter, grandson all said they hate gooseberries, I grow the hinomaki red they are really sweet, everyone now eats them, apart from eldest daughter who refused to even try them, they went into a crumble.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Hi all

    Weather still fairly miserable here, but it is slightly warmer.
    Came off my morphine at the weekend and am feeling a bit sore and generally c##p, to be expected though.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,719
    Hello punkdoc, glad to hear from you, at least with the rain, you wont be tempted to over do it.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    We grow Hinnonmaki yellow ... a lovely sweet golden gooseberry. 

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





  • raisingirlraisingirl Posts: 7,093
    It's been cool and grey and damp here all day but at least not as windy as yesterday. Yesterday was like October. Next week's looking a bit better. I'm so far behind with the garden, if it's not too wet to be out it's too hot to plant stuff. I have a lot of bolting brassicas.....
    Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon

    “It's still magic even if you know how it's done.” 
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    It's been cool and grey and damp here all day but at least not as windy as yesterday. Yesterday was like October. Next week's looking a bit better. I'm so far behind with the garden, if it's not too wet to be out it's too hot to plant stuff. I have a lot of bolting brassicas.....
    today is more like September, lol
    Devon.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    edited June 2020
    And we grow Hinnonmaki red, just picked 1 1/2lbs, so gooseberry crumble will be made soon. Tonight we're eating salmon followed by apple & blackberry crumble because I found a bag of last year's blackberries in the freezer yesterday. 

    Heard from my sister last night, her OH is okay, no cancer found thank goodness but has to wait 6-8 weeks for results of tests, which seems quite a long time but I suppose is because of all the Covid testing.  Bet he's a bit sore today, a bit like you Punkdoc. He had gas and air sedation because he's very phobic about injections - took 2 docs and a nurse to hold him down last time!
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Glad the news was positive @Lizzie27 👍 

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Try the purple gooseberries @Liriodendron.  I can eat those but not the green ones.

    Slowly does it @punkdoc.  You'll feel better soon if you're careful.   How's Moira?

    It has stayed cool, grey and slightly damp most of the day but that's OK. Got quite a bit done including planting climbers on 3 sides of the new hen run.  Trachelospermum jasminoides on the west, a yellow and white honeysuckle we inherited on the north and a rosa Ghislaine de Féligonde facing east.  All intended to provide shade and perfume.
    The south side will be erected and planted up once we've finished faffing in the hen house.

    Wound a seep hose round the dahlia bed too and tested it cos, despite being damp the last few days and having loads of horse poo worked in before I planted them the soil there is dry.

    Cleaned, showered and fed now and knackered but still have to wrestle with Rasta to do her ears and swab her wounds clean.    

    @Nanny Beach Rasta's coat is very sheep like.   Very thick, very woolly, inches thick and deeply matted when we rescued her, aged 11 months, and the top layer was curling like a Rastafarian.    We all agreed she is a Rasta.

    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
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