My MIL thought a salad meant flabby round lettuce, sliced cuucumber and tomato and salad cream. Not to my taste!We buy little gems every week...
Apparently leccy has gone down 15% in France since February. The most expensive leccy is in Bermuda. Ireland, Italy, Germany, Belgium and...
That does seem bizarre @Penny_Forthem. We now have a deal with a chain - similar to Curry's but efficient and capable - where we pay a small...
That's why I wait and buy several packs at a time @CanadianLori. Little gem lettuces are very versatile in traditional salad mixes but also as...
I don't like heavy metal at all @KT53 and have managed to ignore it for decades. On the rare occasions it pops up on the radio in the car I...
We actually have some sunshine now @Allotment Boy so it's OK for any wood cutting but far too soggy for doing anything in or on the soil.
It has been very dark and wet and windy so far today and, tho the rain has stopped and the wind has calmed, it is still very sombre. I have...
If I have some spare salad leaves I put them in a plastic ziplock bag and breathe into it to puff it up then close it. Keeps salad leaves very...
What I meant @NigelJ was, why do they let them retire rather than charging them with offences that, if proven, would lead to their losing pension...
Rasta doggy needed a haircut every 2 months @Penny_Forthem at 70€ a pop. The first time here in France they put red, glittery varnish on her...
When I get Up From My Chair by Pam AyresQuiet please! Kindly don't impede my concentration, I am sitting in the garden thinking thoughts of...
I know and you know @NigelJ so why don't the powers that be know enough to stop cynical/corrupt/criminal/incompetent coppers bagging a pension...
I have been cooking. A friend at patch has a widowed father who has always grown his own veg and still grows as much as ever and plants it all at...
@Liriodendron agree about aviation fuel being taxed.France is reintroducing sleeper trains to cut the number of short haul flights from Paris...
I reckon that's what Bettison did - got the nod or saw the writing on the wall and retired before he could be punished. I don't think all this...
Have you tried flying from Bristol to Edinburgh @KT53 ? Cheaper and faster than the train if you book ahead with someone like Easyjet plus the...
That's good news for you and him @Victoria.Our visitor is very discreet now. In summer I saw him a few times strolling across our terrace and...
I do think it was right to confront the main villains in public but agree that it was too little, too late and too long-winded and expensive...
Good morning. A very misty start today and I can hear the soil oozing and the trees dripping but sunshine is on its way and we're expecting a...
The Grenfell enquiry and the PO fiasco have indeed been very public failures of common sense as well as visiting consequences on the guilty...
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