Really enjoyed the Mary Berry programme - some really nice recipes and even better views of Scotland.
Not sure I could have picked what to have from the menu at the Ullapool seafood shack - think it would just have been easier to start at the top and work on down. (Greedy guts )
Have very happy memories of enjoying a huge plate of spinies or squat lobsters at the hotel in Applecross when we rented a cottage there some years ago.
Time for bed now - night all
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Heaven is ... sitting in the garden with a G&T and a cat while watching the sun go down
Have you heard that free range hens are now loosing their status? I do feel for the farmers. The government say some will be able to let the hens outside but would you want to risk it?
Very cold out there today and I'll be at the museum til late with a scout group visiting so it's a definate digging out of the thermals also kind of day. On Saturday my scout group are out on a trip; I think I'll be overdosed on scouts by then!!
Lots of light out there and a pinky blue sky .....feels like spring has sprung All of my first batch if seeds are up, so need to get the second windowsill propagator out tonight ( the one that waters itself ....clever thing) and make room for the second batch.
Meeting up with the group of friends I go garden visiting with tonight to plan our next weekend away .......after pancakes, that is
Thank you Pat - I should have done that - if only dreams were a bit more controllable
Its difficult with the bird flu - I think the reasoning is that there aren't any wildfowl migrating here from infected areas now, and any infected birds that did come and spread the infection have been identified and those areas are still subject to the rules keeping hens indoors.
The farm that supplies the shop where OH works has been inspected and their hens can go outside now. I hope that customers who usually buy their eggs from a free range flick which is still having to be confined indoors will happily continue to pay the free range premium price - after all, the farmer's costs haven't decreased- rather the opposite.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Looks lovely out there, but it's bitterly cold. Lots of left over hail stones just laying around.
Hoping to get a few obelisks into place before coal face duties at 12.
Clari, I don't know how you do those overnight stints. It'd kill me.
I saw an ad for folk to give bees a site. Not look after them, just let someone put some hives on their land. I'd appreciate any thought on the matter. I could squeeze a few in here no trouble.
Morning all/afties Pat - hope you're having a good day
I'll still be buying my eggs as I was before. Apparently they will have a label stating something like - they were free range but because of the bird flu issue, the birds are inside, or similar. Is it too much to hope that people will apply a little common sense and work out the reasons for that. I'm sure Hosta will get some customers who'll be annoyed about it....
Sharp bit of frost today, but only just below zero just now. Everything is crisp and white though. The nuthatches were straight in to the feeder after I topped it up
Strange dream Dove. Have you checked your purse!
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'd happily have hives on my land if I had the space. It depends what the beekeeper is looking for - is he/she wanting the bees to be close to the moorland for heather honey, or orchards for blossom? Or just general flowers for a mixed honey. Farmers sometimes pay beekeepers to place their hives on their farm to ensure that their crops such as oilseed rape are well pollinated. Of course, we then come to the neonic question
I would respond to the ad and see if what you've got is what they want.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Really enjoyed the Mary Berry programme - some really nice recipes and even better views of Scotland.
Not sure I could have picked what to have from the menu at the Ullapool seafood shack - think it would just have been easier to start at the top and work on down. (Greedy guts
)
Have very happy memories of enjoying a huge plate of spinies or squat lobsters at the hotel in Applecross when we rented a cottage there some years ago.
Time for bed now - night all
Last edited: 27 February 2017 23:22:37
Good morning all
G'day Pat 
I dreamt I was in Australia and had lost my bank card
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You'd only need you to send me a post Dove, and I'd see you right
Have you heard that free range hens are now loosing their status? I do feel for the farmers. The government say some will be able to let the hens outside but would you want to risk it?
Very cold out there today and I'll be at the museum til late with a scout group visiting so it's a definate digging out of the thermals also kind of day. On Saturday my scout group are out on a trip; I think I'll be overdosed on scouts by then!!
Lots of light out there and a pinky blue sky .....feels like spring has sprung
All of my first batch if seeds are up, so need to get the second windowsill propagator out tonight ( the one that waters itself ....clever thing
) and make room for the second batch.
Meeting up with the group of friends I go garden visiting with tonight to plan our next weekend away
.......after pancakes, that is
Thank you Pat - I should have done that - if only dreams were a bit more controllable
Its difficult with the bird flu - I think the reasoning is that there aren't any wildfowl migrating here from infected areas now, and any infected birds that did come and spread the infection have been identified and those areas are still subject to the rules keeping hens indoors.
The farm that supplies the shop where OH works has been inspected and their hens can go outside now. I hope that customers who usually buy their eggs from a free range flick which is still having to be confined indoors will happily continue to pay the free range premium price - after all, the farmer's costs haven't decreased- rather the opposite.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Morning all.
Looks lovely out there, but it's bitterly cold. Lots of left over hail stones just laying around.
Hoping to get a few obelisks into place before coal face duties at 12.
Clari, I don't know how you do those overnight stints. It'd kill me.
I saw an ad for folk to give bees a site. Not look after them, just let someone put some hives on their land. I'd appreciate any thought on the matter. I could squeeze a few in here no trouble.
Morning all/afties Pat - hope you're having a good day
I'll still be buying my eggs as I was before. Apparently they will have a label stating something like - they were free range but because of the bird flu issue, the birds are inside, or similar. Is it too much to hope that people will apply a little common sense and work out the reasons for that. I'm sure Hosta will get some customers who'll be annoyed about it....
Sharp bit of frost today, but only just below zero just now. Everything is crisp and white though. The nuthatches were straight in to the feeder after I topped it up
Strange dream Dove. Have you checked your purse!
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I'd happily have hives on my land if I had the space. It depends what the beekeeper is looking for - is he/she wanting the bees to be close to the moorland for heather honey, or orchards for blossom? Or just general flowers for a mixed honey. Farmers sometimes pay beekeepers to place their hives on their farm to ensure that their crops such as oilseed rape are well pollinated. Of course, we then come to the neonic question
I would respond to the ad and see if what you've got is what they want.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.