Ooh that's useful to know Dove! I nearly brought a lamb the other day (fear not it had already been despatched) but I decided to be terribly sensible because I wasn't sure my butchery skills would be up to it!
Right so we have :
head chief: Wonky
Tester: Dove (well if shes as good as you say you'll be happy to be first there with your fork)
Camera: KEF
Gritty gardener with torn jeans: Clarington
Assistant gardener / destroyer of seedlings: Reggie
Slug dispatcher: anyone?? You can decide whether to use the beer or to drink the beer and use the chop sticks!
We have Belgian Blanc Bleu cattle in the pasture next door - one bull and about 12 wives which arrive every April/May and go away again at the end of October. They are huge, in every sense. In 2006, the bull was very unfriendly and showed his disapproval every time we went out in the garden. Bit disconcerting being given the evil eye, the snorts, the stomping and more unpleasant behaviours. He only lasted one year so must have been a bovver for the farmers too.
Cool and feeling damp here after a wet night. I am home alone while himself plays golf and Possum does her next to last day at her student job counting money at Walibi theme park. Dishwasher man has been to fix a leak and I have cleaned floors and made my sweet and sour red salad and a frittata for lunches.
Next job is painting kitchen chairs for Possum's student flat whilst working out what furniture will go where when we move and whether or not I can dig up another couple of clems and a rose in September......
First to set off a copy of all the dance club's music to an external disk - 38 days' worth of assorted rhythms according to i-tunes so that'll take a while!
Glad you have your boiler maintenance sorted Dove. Must remember to book ours for a service - local chappy who's been doing it for 20 years and is very reliable if I can pin him down with his appointment diary to hand.......
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)."
one load of washing done and pegged up ( in conservatory: that's what they're for , isn't it? ) one almost finished and another one just put on.
Phone call from garden machinery place. Following a moan on John Deere's FB page, they're going to fit new brackets ( free of charge ) to make grass hopper removal/ replacement easier and will look at chute blocking issues too.
Clari - she also used to cook at a very good pub - she once cooked lunch for Keith Floyd and she's also done location catering for a film cast and crew I'm very happy to act as chief taster (not washing up tho' - we'll have to get someone else for that )
Not a huge Magnum fan Hosta - but if you'd pop down to Chapel Porth and bring me back a hedgehog that'd be much appreciated.
I'm sad to report that my French tarragon has given up the ghost ... I think the wet spring started the rot (see what I did there ) and then what with 'family stuff' I didn't notice that the rampant rhubarb had swamped it ... I just went to cut some for a potato salad this evening and 'il est mort'
I know there's none up at the local GC as they've run everything down because of building work ... there seems to be some for sale at Norfolk Lavender over at Heacham ... I might have to have a trip out ... it's a lovely time of year to visit the lavender fields
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
BL's husband does washing up. She just said so. (Sorry C!)
I'll be in attendance as "picky eater" if that's ok.
My girls can accompany Reggie in crumb hoovering! They've never missed one!
Obelixx I have learned that if it's not here I can't eat it. There is not a crisp or a sweetie in this house. Same reason I have my groceries delivered...no impulse buying! I do bake though
My bull visitor was a beautiful Limousin baby. He was maybe only about two but he was a beaut!
I bake too PP but have had to stop making biscuits and cakes for us. Did them for dance club gatherings instead so we just got a small portion and also for my weekly stint of English conversation with local scientists I used as guinea pigs for new recipes.
Limousins are gorgeous but the Belgian BBs are only pretty about the face. The rest is just too much.
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)."
Who mentioned frost? Wash your mouth out. Someone will come out with the C word next
What on earth do you ask for when you pop into the butchers Clari, Er can I have a pound of bulls bits please? Bet there's a few smirks in the queue.
Love baking, but don't, can't afford the calories and no-one else eats sweet things.
Magnums, yum Hosta you've just reminded me there's one in the freezer.
Spent the morning in the garden, had to come in for a sit down and a drink. It gone a bit dark so I hope it doesn't rain as the tools are all scattered around.
Did a bit of housework as well, put some washing on and found the sheets I washed nearly a week ago still damp in the drier, . Had to wash them again.
Have no outside drying space at the moment as secondborn's partner 'dumped' his motorbike with me under a huge canvas bike barn when the were moving house. If he doesn't fetch it soon, I'm going to sell it. He wont notice as he only rides it once a year to get it MOT'd.
Off to get a Magnum from the freezer. See you later.
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Ooh that's useful to know Dove! I nearly brought a lamb the other day (fear not it had already been despatched) but I decided to be terribly sensible because I wasn't sure my butchery skills would be up to it!
Right so we have :
head chief: Wonky
Tester: Dove (well if shes as good as you say you'll be happy to be first there with your fork)
Camera: KEF
Gritty gardener with torn jeans: Clarington
Assistant gardener / destroyer of seedlings: Reggie
Slug dispatcher: anyone?? You can decide whether to use the beer or to drink the beer and use the chop sticks!
We have Belgian Blanc Bleu cattle in the pasture next door - one bull and about 12 wives which arrive every April/May and go away again at the end of October. They are huge, in every sense. In 2006, the bull was very unfriendly and showed his disapproval every time we went out in the garden. Bit disconcerting being given the evil eye, the snorts, the stomping and more unpleasant behaviours. He only lasted one year so must have been a bovver for the farmers too.
Cool and feeling damp here after a wet night. I am home alone while himself plays golf and Possum does her next to last day at her student job counting money at Walibi theme park. Dishwasher man has been to fix a leak and I have cleaned floors and made my sweet and sour red salad and a frittata for lunches.
Next job is painting kitchen chairs for Possum's student flat whilst working out what furniture will go where when we move and whether or not I can dig up another couple of clems and a rose in September......
First to set off a copy of all the dance club's music to an external disk - 38 days' worth of assorted rhythms according to i-tunes so that'll take a while!
Glad you have your boiler maintenance sorted Dove. Must remember to book ours for a service - local chappy who's been doing it for 20 years and is very reliable if I can pin him down with his appointment diary to hand.......
Yes please to the Magnum Hosta
pp, I treat myself to crisps after my blood tests. . . on 11th August. . . a large bag
Workmen have moved up the road so washing out and some dead heading done.
Nice to see the grouse Fairy.
Could fancy a Magnum too but trying to be good for a while. Never have crisps in the house.
one load of washing done and pegged up ( in conservatory: that's what they're for , isn't it? ) one almost finished and another one just put on.
Phone call from garden machinery place. Following a moan on John Deere's FB page, they're going to fit new brackets ( free of charge ) to make grass hopper removal/ replacement easier and will look at chute blocking issues too.
Clari - she also used to cook at a very good pub - she once cooked lunch for Keith Floyd and she's also done location catering for a film cast and crew
I'm very happy to act as chief taster
(not washing up tho' - we'll have to get someone else for that 
)
Not a huge Magnum fan Hosta - but if you'd pop down to Chapel Porth and bring me back a hedgehog that'd be much appreciated.
I'm sad to report that my French tarragon has given up the ghost ... I think the wet spring started the rot (see what I did there
) and then what with 'family stuff' I didn't notice that the rampant rhubarb had swamped it ... I just went to cut some for a potato salad this evening and 'il est mort' 
I know there's none up at the local GC as they've run everything down because of building work ... there seems to be some for sale at Norfolk Lavender over at Heacham ... I might have to have a trip out ... it's a lovely time of year to visit the lavender fields
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Dove, is that a white chocolate, or dark chocolate hedgehog?
BL's husband does washing up. She just said so.
(Sorry C!)
I'll be in attendance as "picky eater" if that's ok.
My girls can accompany Reggie in crumb hoovering! They've never missed one!
Obelixx I have learned that if it's not here I can't eat it. There is not a crisp or a sweetie in this house. Same reason I have my groceries delivered...no impulse buying! I do bake though
My bull visitor was a beautiful Limousin baby. He was maybe only about two but he was a beaut!
I bake too PP but have had to stop making biscuits and cakes for us. Did them for dance club gatherings instead so we just got a small portion and also for my weekly stint of English conversation with local scientists I used as guinea pigs for new recipes.
Limousins are gorgeous but the Belgian BBs are only pretty about the face. The rest is just too much.
Afternoon all,
Who mentioned frost? Wash your mouth out. Someone will come out with the C word next
What on earth do you ask for when you pop into the butchers Clari, Er can I have a pound of bulls bits please? Bet there's a few smirks in the queue.
Love baking, but don't, can't afford the calories and no-one else eats sweet things.
Magnums, yum Hosta you've just reminded me there's one in the freezer.
Spent the morning in the garden, had to come in for a sit down and a drink. It gone a bit dark so I hope it doesn't rain as the tools are all scattered around.
Did a bit of housework as well, put some washing on and found the sheets I washed nearly a week ago still damp in the drier,
. Had to wash them again.
Have no outside drying space at the moment as secondborn's partner 'dumped' his motorbike with me under a huge canvas bike barn when the were moving house. If he doesn't fetch it soon, I'm going to sell it. He wont notice as he only rides it once a year to get it MOT'd.
Off to get a Magnum from the freezer. See you later.