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Points: 1402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2009 at 16:59

You're dead right there. We somehow seem to have lost that anticipation of the seasons. I was in town the other day and you could buy Uruguayan Satsumas. Satsumas (and sixpences) are for Christmas.

Anyway being the impartial type that I am I'd just like to say that there's no better strawb that a British one - that's if the birds leave me some.Clap
 
As well as jams don't forget chutneysWink
 
Anyway rain tomorrow, should be good.
 
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Originally posted by limeyrob limeyrob wrote:

Excellent (apart from the nettle incident of course). Don't you think that wild blackberries taste so much better than the bred thornless varieties. The old adage the thornier the bush (bramble) the sweeter the berry seems to hold true. Being the saddo that I am I run the brambles along a cordon of wires. It sure makes picking them in the autumn easier. They are just coming into flower.
 
I love putting a big handful of them on my cereal in the autumn. The only trouble is that once the blackberries are ready to eat you are well into autumn and that is the end of another summer. Mixed emotions. Ah well, makes you appreciate the seasons more.
Absolutely agree - I love wild blackberries over tame, though I do prefer them from where they don't get covered in exhaust fumes - I shudder when I see people picking them from the roadside. I 'train' mine through the rear hedge - Mrs Darq doesn't care for that approach but it's a fine use for an uninspiring pine hedge as far as I'm concerned - and the resulting apple and blackberry pie is reward enough for the constant ear-bending about "sorting out that bloody hedge".
 
I'm big on seasonal foods - they taste better in season and have less air-miles. Who really needs strawberries at christmas for pete's sake - that's what jam was invented for.
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Points: 1402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 14 2009 at 15:26
Originally posted by Angelo Angelo wrote:

Originally posted by limeyrob limeyrob wrote:

The only prog of this type that I used to watch is Grand Designs. At least the people weren't in it for the [the big] money.


Not bad for a Shed dweller/old geezer. Mentioning two tracks from a mid-80's Rush album as part of a serious statement.
 
Totally coincidental I'm afraid. And it would have to be a Rush album as well!!EmbarrassedOuch
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Excellent (apart from the nettle incident of course). Don't you think that wild blackberries taste so much better than the bred thornless varieties. The old adage the thornier the bush (bramble) the sweeter the berry seems to hold true. Being the saddo that I am I run the brambles along a cordon of wires. It sure makes picking them in the autumn easier. They are just coming into flower.
 
I love putting a big handful of them on my cereal in the autumn. The only trouble is that once the blackberries are ready to eat you are well into autumn and that is the end of another summer. Mixed emotions. Ah well, makes you appreciate the seasons more.
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Isn't that last part also a reference to Zappa?
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Originally posted by limeyrob limeyrob wrote:

The only prog of this type that I used to watch is Grand Designs. At least the people weren't in it for the [the big] money.


Not bad for a Shed dweller/old geezer. Mentioning two tracks from a mid-80's Rush album as part of a serious statement.
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I've been trying to sort out my tiny fruit-patch that due to one thing and another I have let run wild of late - the gooseberries are looking good, the raspberries have gone berserk, black currents looking worse for wear, white currents only planted this year, so nothing to look forward to as yet, the grape vine's doing okay, the wild strabs have gone, erm, wild and the brambles are brambling. I lost an apple tree the other day and the damson's don't look too good - I think I've got an infestation of some kind, hopefully not honey-fungus. I did go hunting through the nettles for my rhubarb and managed to get stung in the mouth (don't ask)Pinch
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Originally posted by limeyrob limeyrob wrote:

What a smashing day it has been. Just finished putting up some bird proofing to the strawberries. It looks like a good year for strawbs. Last two years were a bit of a disaster with all the rain we had. The strawbs then just turned to mush.
 
Oh - the beetroot is coming on nicely.


Mmm....I do love strawberries. My dad used to grow them when I was a kid, along with tomatoes, but it just hasn't happened the last few years. But you must be right, be cause he took it up again this summer and they are growing nicely.
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Sounds excellent,Rob. My Sweet Peas have gone beserk. I had to re-stake them today. They must be about 6ft tall at the moment.

Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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What a smashing day it has been. Just finished putting up some bird proofing to the strawberries. It looks like a good year for strawbs. Last two years were a bit of a disaster with all the rain we had. The strawbs then just turned to mush.
 
Oh - the beetroot is coming on nicely.
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Originally posted by el dingo el dingo wrote:

Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

We exchanged contracts this week, and as of the end of this month I will be stepping belatedly onto the bottom rung of the property ladder. It hasn't been an entirely stress free experience, but from what I've read over the last couple of pages I think we've been pretty lucky so far. Bishops Stortford here we come!
 
Hey - congrats! I used to work there many moons ago and it was a real cool place. Close enough to (yet far enough away from) London. I used to be a sub-ed on the Stortford Gazette and we used to go to the Whore's Bed (sorry, better make that Boar's Head) and the Bakers Dozen or sometimes The Star. All good pubs about 25 yrs ago. Times change of course, but hopefully they still are. I went out with a girl from Takeley for a while - she ended up with the Daily Mail and I... well never mind! Glad it went well for you.
 
I was in Hatfield Broad Oak for a while in the early 90s (house sitting) and came to like the general area a lot.
 
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Hatfield Broad Oak and the East?
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Originally posted by el dingo el dingo wrote:

Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

We exchanged contracts this week, and as of the end of this month I will be stepping belatedly onto the bottom rung of the property ladder. It hasn't been an entirely stress free experience, but from what I've read over the last couple of pages I think we've been pretty lucky so far. Bishops Stortford here we come!
 
Hey - congrats! I used to work there many moons ago and it was a real cool place. Close enough to (yet far enough away from) London. I used to be a sub-ed on the Stortford Gazette and we used to go to the Whore's Bed (sorry, better make that Boar's Head) and the Bakers Dozen or sometimes The Star. All good pubs about 25 yrs ago. Times change of course, but hopefully they still are. I went out with a girl from Takeley for a while - she ended up with the Daily Mail and I... well never mind! Glad it went well for you.
 
I was in Hatfield Broad Oak for a while in the early 90s (house sitting) and came to like the general area a lot.
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Originally posted by Syzygy Syzygy wrote:

We exchanged contracts this week, and as of the end of this month I will be stepping belatedly onto the bottom rung of the property ladder. It hasn't been an entirely stress free experience, but from what I've read over the last couple of pages I think we've been pretty lucky so far. Bishops Stortford here we come!
 
Isn't "we've been pretty lucky so far" and "Bishops Stortford here we come" an oxymoron?
 
LOL I'm a bit ambivalent about moving outside the M25, but I lived in the area (not Stortford itself) for a short while in the early 90s and rather liked it - London is still within easy striking distance and we're very close to the station.
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GD was good years ago when it felt a little more "genuine" - not so sure any more - I get the feeling the drama is for the benefit of the camera "three months into the build and nothing's gone wrong yet, I fear he may be heading for an unforseen disaster" (quick, producer chappie - go and change that order of seasoned oak beams from metres to yards while I distract him with this cup of builder's tea)
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Points: 1402 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 12 2009 at 12:54
They annoy me greatly too. But the question is do you watch them to see if they lose a packet or to get a feeling for just who the morons are who share this planet with us?
 
The only prog of this type that I used to watch is Grand Designs. At least the people weren't in it for the money.


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Those shows annoy me so damned much!

There was a couple on one of them the other day who looked like they should be living in Penhill (a very rough area of Swindon) but were looking for a house for about 950,000.  What the hell?!  Where on earth did they get that kind of money?


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L, L, L  LLB Next you'll be mentioning House Doctor and that property auction show - all after the quick buck - What's wrong with programs called
 
Who's daft enough to buy this house with a fifty grand mark-up?
Who's got more cash than sense?
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I've always liked the idea of painting one door fluorescent green or some other hideous colour before showing prospective buyers around. The theory being that they are so distracted by that they don't see all the other minor faults and leave with the idea that "When we buy this place that door's got to go..." rather than "If we buy...".
 
Or alternatively paint a whole room in broad blue and orange stripes and lock them in until they crack.
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Or a Meshuggah minus 11 situation.
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