At least I have inspired an interesting debate. If you use clotted cream ,,(I do) you have to have a blob on the jam. Funny, I wasn't going to fess that I didn't actually "need" butter as well. Gotta be freshly out of the oven ( they were) I find they freeze really well
Can't get clotted cream here Mascarpone is too rich and gloopy. I quite like crème épaisse which is like Crème fraîche in the UK. I've looked into making my own clotted cream and even cheese such as Caerphilly but lockdowns have meant no access to organic dairy farms to buy fresh cream or unpasteurised whole milk. Maybe in a few months.
I have just been down the garden on a chook wrangling mission. Pretty Polly was fossicking around the barn bed, bold as brass, while Big Bess was just out for a stroll. Both now back in the potager and eating sweetcorn. I suspect they are adventuring in protest. OH has blocked off the raspberry bed and the new bed he is layering up (No Dig) and the path between which will be grassed. He's also netted off my new dahlia bed, the currants bed and the strawberry, asparagus and artichoke bed. Chooks not too impressed. On the other hand, Scruffy let me stroke her the other day. Normally she scarpers if I get too close.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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You ought to write a blog @Obelixx, adventures with chooks! It's been raining heavily with strong gusts since lunchtime here so we haven't ventured outside. Methinks our country lane will be flooded in the dip tomorrow so might need wellies to walk to the dentist. Signed up online for the Diabetes management course but not impressed, I can apparently join a group one hour telephone session (at my expense) or an online video group, also one hour. Due to my poor hearing, I'm not sure either will work for me and not sure I want to spend my time doing idle chat with strangers - not my thing at all. I had thought it was purely an online tutorial kind of course. According to the stats I inputted, I'm only at moderate risk anyway so may not pursue it any further.
What wonderful photos! Is that an acacia tree the koala is in? Beautiful effect with the feathery background. Awake here, listening to the wind howling, and trying not to think of unpleasant stuff, like unfinished chores. I ought to get out in the garden more!
Good morning all 😊 ☕️ love those photos @Pat E Still pretty blustery here and the news say there’ve been gusts up to 90 mph on the south coast! Hope there’s been no damage done and that everyone’s ok.
Looks like @“Nanny Beach" has been blown back into last month again 🤣 hopefully she’ll find her way back here soon.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I have just been down the garden on a chook wrangling mission. Pretty Polly was fossicking around the barn bed, bold as brass, while Big Bess was just out for a stroll. Both now back in the potager and eating sweetcorn. I suspect they are adventuring in protest. OH has blocked off the raspberry bed and the new bed he is layering up (No Dig) and the path between which will be grassed. He's also netted off my new dahlia bed, the currants bed and the strawberry, asparagus and artichoke bed. Chooks not too impressed. On the other hand, Scruffy let me stroke her the other day. Normally she scarpers if I get too close.
It's been raining heavily with strong gusts since lunchtime here so we haven't ventured outside. Methinks our country lane will be flooded in the dip tomorrow so might need wellies to walk to the dentist.
Signed up online for the Diabetes management course but not impressed, I can apparently join a group one hour telephone session (at my expense) or an online video group, also one hour. Due to my poor hearing, I'm not sure either will work for me and not sure I want to spend my time doing idle chat with strangers - not my thing at all.
I had thought it was purely an online tutorial kind of course. According to the stats I inputted, I'm only at moderate risk anyway so may not pursue it any further.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Awake here, listening to the wind howling, and trying not to think of unpleasant stuff, like unfinished chores. I ought to get out in the garden more!
love those photos @Pat E Still pretty blustery here and the news say there’ve been gusts up to 90 mph on the south coast! Hope there’s been no damage done and that everyone’s ok.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.