Latest Moan From You and Me 2025

I have jars of pickles and chutney and jams and marmalade I brought with me from Belgium and I didn't make any that year, other than dunking blackcurrants and damsons in jars with vodka and gin. They're still good. I did get around to straining the fruit gin and vodka a couple of years ago so it will be maturing nicely now.

No parking problems in our little hamlet - everyone has their own parking spaces and nobody's daft enough to leave a car outside in the narrow lanes as the tractors and harvesters ar much bigger and there are ditches either side....

 

Relatives that ring you up and after the usual politenesses, start talking about friends that you've never met.

 

My mum used to do that @NigelJ, especially her work colleagues who were all underperformers, and she would also go one at length about rellies I'd never met cos she fell out with every one of them.