Mundane News

[raleighnut]

I didn't have any this year, but that's because I put my fig tree in a new (bigger) planter.

Have loads of little green 'uns that have come up in the last few weeks. They won't ripen this year, but I will cover them with old socks and wrap the tree in fleece, and they'll ripen in the spring.

Won't that make em taste a bit 'feety'

 

[raleighnut]

I have just found another wee treasure for my archive.

It's got a long way to travel - am repatriating it from Austria.

Have an 'earworm' til it gets to you,


View: https://youtu.be/9kqchq1lNWc

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Morning. It's almost stopped raining. My tea was too weak this morning so I've moved swiftly on to coffee. I'm a bit at a loss for a home coffee right now so I'm just trying different places and blends till one of them sticks. So today it's an ''Indian blend'' coffee that I bumped into in Lidl. It won't stick.

 

[biggs682]

Morning all , we have damp underfoot conditions so watching our 5 yr old granddaughter doing football training should be fun

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Morning all , we have damp underfoot conditions so watching our 5 yr old granddaughter doing football training should be fun

Sounds like there's going to be some midday mud for you.

After shunning me for a couple of months, the premium bond fairy visited me thrice this month.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Soggy and wet outside: I even lit the wood burner this morning to dry the apartment and my clothes a bit. The clothes have been hanging on the terrace for three days and are still slightly damp to the touch...

 

[PeteXXX]

5 - 1 win! Granddaughter in goal, today.. 👍🏼

 

[Gravity Aided]

Morning. It's almost stopped raining. My tea was too weak this morning so I've moved swiftly on to coffee. I'm a bit at a loss for a home coffee right now so I'm just trying different places and blends till one of them sticks. So today it's an ''Indian blend'' coffee that I bumped into in Lidl. It won't stick.

Why don't you try Ethiopian single source,or a Kenyan blend? I think you would be pleasantly surprised.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Bit of a damp ride and a few floods out there. Mudguards rule!

 

[Andy in Germany]

Culinary adventures continue: today we have toasted cheese and tomato sandwich surprise.

You make it, and it tastes like toasted cheese sandwiches; that's as adventurous as I like food.

 

[deptfordmarmoset]

Why don't you try Ethiopian single source,or a Kenyan blend? I think you would be pleasantly surprised.

Actually, I don't think I've tried a single source Ethiopian before. I'll give it a go.

 

[PeteXXX]

Ooooh! £25. Thank you, Ernie

 

[Reynard]

Mild, grey and rather squelchy here chez Casa Reynard. It only stopped raining about an hour ago.

Spent the morning loading the crockpot with the sauce for tonight's enchiladas, have prepped the veggies for the same and did some more work on the freebie FD.

Had a lovely lunch consisting of one slice of wholemeal toast with pate d'ardennes, one slice of toast with jarlsberg cheese and the pan scrapings from yesterday's chutney, half an avocado, a very fine conference pear and two

This afternoon I went to visit a friend who lives at the other end of the village. We had a good socially-distanced chinwag on her drive (umbrellas at the ready!), and we did a swap - a jar of my tangerine marmalade and two packs of wholemeal spaghetti for a dozen fresh free range eggs from her Maran chooks.

Those eggs will go down a treat with the gravlax I've currently got curing in the fridge.

 

[Reynard]

Won't that make em taste a bit 'feety'

The socks have been through the laundry first! What do you take me for?

N.B. They are the fluffy pink ones. I do go through a fair few of those...

 

[Reynard]

I've just made myself a nice

Am having a Tunnock's wafer thingy with it.