The Retirement Thread

[Paulus]

Morning all, been up since 6.30 but out with the mutt and then out to the local shops before the rain comes.
I've just made it.
The escape committee meeting went well again yesterday evening, we had a good kickabout as we all used to play football.
My knees are objecting badly this morning.

 

[oldwheels]

Brand ?

Off topic but Joe Reade who runs the biscuit side organises {until this year} the Isle of Mull sportif which has two courses of about 40 miles and 60 miles. Attracted entrants into 3 figures.

 

[pawl]

My father was a market gardener and he had large glasshouses with tomatoes as well as a range of other stuff. When he was an apprentice and later a journeyman the toilet arrangements at the "big house" were to run everything into one tank a bit like a cess pit. The contents of this were used to feed the tomatoes in the greenhouses. Worked a treat.

That’s just put me off tomatoes No wonder the supermarket ones taste crap.

 

[Paulus]

That’s just put me off tomatoes No wonder the supermarket ones taste crap.

A lot of the supermarket tomatoes are commercially grown using the hydroponic system. Particularly in the Netherlands. Basically grown in water. The roots never see any soil or the plants sunlight.
All the nutrients are added to the water for the growth.
Home grown are very sweet and juicy. They are like Mediterranean grown varieties.
The science is that because the plants dry out a little in between watering, the sugars in the fruits intensify, then when the plants are watered, more sugars are produced and the cycle continues.

 

[oldwheels]

That’s just put me off tomatoes No wonder the supermarket ones taste crap.

In any case modern high cropping varieties do not taste as good anyway and tend to have hard centres. I was brought up on proper tasting ones tho' not fertilised as in the past.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Photo taken with an old iPhone 6s
A quick " grab shot" and nowhere near Mo's standards.
If you zoom in between the vessels you can just make out the Isle of Wight.
The Isle of Wight is a strange one, sometimes it is visible, other times it seems to vanish Brigadoon like into the sea.

 

[Dave7]

In any case modern high cropping varieties do not taste as good anyway and tend to have hard centres. I was brought up on proper tasting ones tho' not fertilised as in the past.

When I were nowt burra lad.......on our picnics we would always have whole tomatoes. We would just chomp into them. A bit of salt** on.
Can't imagine doing that with 'modern' tomatoes.
** for some strange reason I recall my Dad having a sprinkle of sugar on his tomato.

 

[Drago]

Chunder and blunder forecast for this avo!

 

[Mo1959]

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Photo taken with an old iPhone 6s
A quick " grab shot" and nowhere near Mo's standards.
If you zoom in between the vessels you can just make out the Isle of Wight.
The Isle of Wight is a strange one, sometimes it is visible, other times it seems to vanish Brigadoon like into the sea.

Busy shipping canal obviously! Wonder what made the tracks in the sand?

 

[welsh dragon]

When I were nowt burra lad.......on our picnics we would always have whole tomatoes. We would just chomp into them. A bit of salt** on.
Can't imagine doing that with 'modern' tomatoes.
** for some strange reason I recall my Dad having a sprinkle of sugar on his tomato.

Tom's can be a bit bitter so by putting a tiny Amount of sugar on them it takes away that bitterness.

When doing your own Tom sauce for say pasta, just put a tiny amount in and it will take the bitterness away.

 

[Drago]

KERBLAMMO! The chunder and blunder are here with a vengeance!

 

[numbnuts]

Busy shipping canal obviously! Wonder what made the tracks in the sand?

They are all the cruise ships laid up due to the virus
allure of the sea
aurora
empress of the sea
arcadia

 

[screenman]

Busy shipping canal obviously! Wonder what made the tracks in the sand?

A terratractoryl very old beach living mammal peculiar to those parts, you have you Haggis we have our terratractoryl.

 

[classic33]

Busy shipping canal obviously! Wonder what made the tracks in the sand?

Small bulldozer and tracked trailer? Often used for inshore lifeboats.

 

[Tenkaykev]

Busy shipping canal obviously! Wonder what made the tracks in the sand?

Poole Harbour is extremely shallow. There is a channel dredged out for the ferry but the average depth is less that two feet. It does look strange sometimes to see that great expanse of water with a figure standing in the distance with the water just above their knees.
Very popular with windsurfing / boardsailing schools in the more sheltered areas near Evening Hill.
The tracks in the sand would be from the beach cleaning / raking machines, with about 3 1/2 miles of sand it takes a fair bit of cleaning especially around the areas near the Chines and the Piers where several tonnes of rubbish can be discarded in busier times.