Going back a bit - I did our fish with an eggless batter with herbs and spicy so tasty and very light and crispy. OH likes sardines in oil with salad for lunch. Our dogs get a monthly tin of sardines in tomato sauce. I quite like tinned sardines on toast or with pasta but best of all are the fresh ones, grilled lightly and served with salad.
Brilliant that Utah has taken extremism to extremes but I don't suppose it'll make other idiots stop and think.
Schools here - and parents - are supposed to teach civic responsibility but I'm not sure that works very well in areas where families are stressed beyond measure by poor housing, poor nutrition, poor education leading to poor prospects and all the other weights of poverty.
On my trip to London last week I saw signs in shops, and even at Wisley, exhorting customers to be kind to staff and not abuse them. Shocking that that should be necessary.
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)."
Another bird flew into a window this morning, this one didn't survive despite being put in the dark box. It was an adult Nuthatch which was no doubt collecting food for youngsters.
I'm feeling pretty curmudgeonly about the four fledgling magpies who are playing games in my veg garden. I can put up with veg beds being decorated with sticks and stones, and the "round & round the garden" sessions where they chase each other round a raised bed are quite amusing. However, when I got home after a couple of days away, I was less pleased to find that five of our 8 runner bean plants had been pulled up by the roots by the little hooligans. They've also been pulling off green strawberries and strewing them around...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
Oh gosh @Liriodendron, we've got young magpies as well as squirrels - and I've only had four runner bean plants germinate! If they go for those, that'll be it for this year. The squirrels have already pinched my green strawberries - I've only two left!
Our dog has been helping herself to the unripe redcurrants. She closes her mouth on a branch and strips off all the leaves and white sour currents. I had a darn good yell at her when I caught her, but she's now lying on the bed wailing about her upset stomach. Guess who will be clearing up the mess of regurgitated plants in the middle of the night. 😑
A few years ago I watched a blackbird land on the netting 'protecting' my strawberries and peck through the mesh to get at the ripe ones. Clever darn birds!
I remember finding a certain black Labrador called Boss and a small terrier x dachshund called Yo-yo ‘stuck’ under the strawberry netting … not sure which one led the way, but I suspect Yo-yo was the instigator … Boss wasn’t that bright 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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You'll never get elected on that platform @Dovefromabove. I you changed it to social entitlement you'd have a much better chance.
Brilliant that Utah has taken extremism to extremes but I don't suppose it'll make other idiots stop and think.
Schools here - and parents - are supposed to teach civic responsibility but I'm not sure that works very well in areas where families are stressed beyond measure by poor housing, poor nutrition, poor education leading to poor prospects and all the other weights of poverty.
On my trip to London last week I saw signs in shops, and even at Wisley, exhorting customers to be kind to staff and not abuse them. Shocking that that should be necessary.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.