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Reasons to be cheerful 2023

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I don’t think we even had any daylight yesterday @Uff 😂 

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





  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Eh up @pansyface have you put a hex on it? Bliddy raining here now. Could be @Fairygirl has been in touch with BBC weather and got them to divert it down here mind you. 
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2023
    Shall I make you jealous?
     
    That’s the view from our front doorstep … 😎 

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





  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    Beautiful here too. We do get less winter wet towards the east side of the country, but we pay for it with summer drought. I think maybe I'd rather have the wetter winters.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505

    Not bad here either 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    From my kitchen window


    Rutland, England
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Oh dear😳
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Happy for you @rowlandscastle444.

    My RTBC?  The malus Adirondack has arrived with 3 bare foot roses.  I only ordered 2.

    We have sunshine today too but not for the preceeding wet and windy 10 days and not for the forseeable either.   Just enough sun to go out to play today.
    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
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    We've the stiff breeze (just been down to the Post Office and it nearly blew me over) but no rain today. It would have to be going some to be too much rain on our soil - it drains like a sieve.
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Hi @KT53,

    I can answer the question about honey.

    We keep a few hives of bees, and sell our surplus honey at the end of our drive from an honesty box.
    There are very prescriptive regulations about the wording for the labels on the jars, including a requirement for a best before date.
    We asked our beekeeping association what this should be. They told us that everyone just makes a date up. So that's what we do.

    Honey that is not used soon can crystallise (how quickly depends on the type of honey).
    But is still perfectly edible, and can be made liquid again by putting the jar on top of an Aga, or with a quick wiz in a microwave.

    It is said that honey found in the pyramids was still viable .... I can't vouch for that.

    Probably other foodstuffs have "finger in the air" best before dates.

    Bee x

    I'm a bit out of date with this from 5th Jan. Just a warning note - I put honey in the microwave recently, I'd done it before, successfully. What I hadn't realised was that it was in a plastic container - oh dear! 

    I've just been reading through this thread  :)
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
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