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I've just found a bar of dark chocolate in the freezer.

Just come back from the park and it's lethal on any surface other than grass, the ground is still rock solid and the rain last night can't get away, so it's black ice under puddles on the dirt paths and just totally glazed on any tarmac. Even the rough rubble carpark was impossible to stand up...

Plus, I think your taste buds change as you get older, which can make things you loved as a child very disappointing 30+ yrs later.I remember having a strawberry lolly on holiday when I was about 9. My father asked me if it tasted of strawberry. I said it did. He said a strawberry had never...

Much warmer here, up to 6C overnight. It’s dull and grey though, with high winds and rain expected. OH is in regular contact with a relative in Stockholm, where they have plenty of snow every winter, so supposedly laugh when we in the UK get disrupted by unexpected wintry conditions. He tried...

I used the snow to see what had been where in the garden. I could see plenty of cat prints but not much else. I then went down the allotment and saw what I think are rat trails and more importantly I could trace where the muntjac were getting in. We have a completely open allotment site (I'm...

Which I just did for a few hours. 1c forecast over night again. But it’s out of its fleece coat for the first time after 12 days!

If my chillies get a bit leggy I just plant them deeper when they are potted on. They root readily from any buried leaf nodes and I don't remember ever losing one from this method. I don't use grow lights or a heat pad so I won't be starting them till next month.

A Geordie lass went to the hairdresser and asked for a perm......The hairdresser replied..... “I wandered lernly as a clood…..”