10:30am and the sun is burning the moisture off the front lawn down at the
house, the bricklayers at my work are in semi-nude order and even I am
sporting a pair of lilly white legs.
The forecast in this area, N.Lincs is promising for the next few days at
least.

Hopefuly it's similar in other areas.
Baz

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:36:05 GMT, Baz wrote:

10:30am and the sun is burning the moisture off the front lawn down at the
house, the bricklayers at my work are in semi-nude order and even I am
sporting a pair of lilly white legs.
The forecast in this area, N.Lincs is promising for the next few days at
least.

Hopefuly it's similar in other areas.
Baz

It's been sunny where I live in Cheshire since yesterday and according
to forecasts it won't rain for a few days. No doubt there will be a
hose pipe ban soon.

Steve

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Stephen Wolstenholme wrote in
:

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:36:05 GMT, Baz wrote:

10:30am and the sun is burning the moisture off the front lawn down at
the house, the bricklayers at my work are in semi-nude order and even
I am sporting a pair of lilly white legs.
The forecast in this area, N.Lincs is promising for the next few days
at least.

Hopefuly it's similar in other areas.
Baz

It's been sunny where I live in Cheshire since yesterday and according
to forecasts it won't rain for a few days. No doubt there will be a
hose pipe ban soon.

Steve


Your hosepipe ban has been lifted? Don't assume it just because of the
volume of rain! With all honesty, I have never ever dealt with a firm which
comes even close to the clumsy and tard Anglian WA. I know in Cheshire you
have a different WA, but just be mindful that they might be as bad as ours.
They don't lie or cheat, just uninformative and uneducated with their firms
policies, and one person will contradict another leaving the consumer erm..
confused.

Baz

"Baz" wrote in message
...
10:30am and the sun is burning the moisture off the front lawn down at the
house, the bricklayers at my work are in semi-nude order and even I am
sporting a pair of lilly white legs.
The forecast in this area, N.Lincs is promising for the next few days at
least.

Hopefuly it's similar in other areas.
Baz

Brisk and chilly north wind and only fleeting glimpses of sun here, have
already abandoned the shorts put on in anticipation of the forecast "nice
day" but it least its dry!!


--
Charlie, Gardening in Cornwall
Holders of National Collections of Clematis viticella
and Lapageria rosea cvs
http://www.roselandhouse.co.uk

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:36:05 GMT, Baz wrote:

10:30am and the sun is burning the moisture off the front lawn down at the
house, the bricklayers at my work are in semi-nude order and even I am
sporting a pair of lilly white legs.
The forecast in this area, N.Lincs is promising for the next few days at
least.

Hopefuly it's similar in other areas.
Baz

Well the sun's been out here and I've been able to get out to weed and
chop down all the summer stuff that's gone over whilst I've been
sheltering from the storms!

I now have a dilemma though. Whilst I have not a single pear nor a
single plum (that was expected as it's a new tree), I do have a single
apple. Not bad out of six trees! However my dilemma is that it's a
cooker. What can you do with a single cooking apple? I could mix it
with a few shop bought ones to make a pie but then I'd never know what
my prize apple tasted like. On its own (its not a big one) it wouldn't
even be enough to make an individual mini pie. Eating it uncooked
wouldn't do it justice.

Maybe I'll get some acrylic stuff and turn it into a paperweight. Then
in 2000 years or so the descendants of Lord Attenborough can extract
its DNA and make a dinoapple that will devour the planet.

Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.

In article ,
lid says...


I now have a dilemma though. Whilst I have not a single pear nor a
single plum (that was expected as it's a new tree), I do have a single
apple. Not bad out of six trees! However my dilemma is that it's a
cooker. What can you do with a single cooking apple? I could mix it
with a few shop bought ones to make a pie but then I'd never know what
my prize apple tasted like. On its own (its not a big one) it wouldn't
even be enough to make an individual mini pie. Eating it uncooked
wouldn't do it justice.


Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.

Why not bake it stuffed with mincemeat!

--
Roger T

700 ft up in Mid-Wales

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 09:36:05 GMT, Baz wrote:

10:30am and the sun is burning the moisture off the front lawn down at the
house, the bricklayers at my work are in semi-nude order and even I am
sporting a pair of lilly white legs.
The forecast in this area, N.Lincs is promising for the next few days at
least.

Hopefuly it's similar in other areas.
Baz

No matter how nice it is at Midday we can't get away from the fact
that it is getting dark about 20.30 to 21.00. Long warm evenings are
one of the pleasures of a good summer and they have been few this
year.
A warm Autumn would be nice but it can't substitute for those lost
evenings.

G.Harman

Baz wrote:
Your hosepipe ban has been lifted? Don't assume it just because of the
volume of rain!

All hosepipe bans were lifted a month or more back.
I'm not aware of any having been reinstated.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18765825

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:51:10 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

In article ,
says...


I now have a dilemma though. Whilst I have not a single pear nor a
single plum (that was expected as it's a new tree), I do have a single
apple. Not bad out of six trees! However my dilemma is that it's a
cooker. What can you do with a single cooking apple? I could mix it
with a few shop bought ones to make a pie but then I'd never know what
my prize apple tasted like. On its own (its not a big one) it wouldn't
even be enough to make an individual mini pie. Eating it uncooked
wouldn't do it justice.


Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.

Why not bake it stuffed with mincemeat!

It's only about 2.5 inches in diameter, not a lot of mincemeat

Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.

Jake wrote in
:

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:51:10 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

In article ,
says...


I now have a dilemma though. Whilst I have not a single pear nor a
single plum (that was expected as it's a new tree), I do have a single
apple. Not bad out of six trees! However my dilemma is that it's a
cooker. What can you do with a single cooking apple? I could mix it
with a few shop bought ones to make a pie but then I'd never know what
my prize apple tasted like. On its own (its not a big one) it wouldn't
even be enough to make an individual mini pie. Eating it uncooked
wouldn't do it justice.


Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.

Why not bake it stuffed with mincemeat!

It's only about 2.5 inches in diameter, not a lot of mincemeat

Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.


Jake, how is that VicPlum going on? Mine is now growing some new wood
despite a poor spring and summer. It dropped most of the leaves early on.

Hope yours is fairing better.
Baz

In article ,
Jake wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:51:10 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

I now have a dilemma though. Whilst I have not a single pear nor a
single plum (that was expected as it's a new tree), I do have a single
apple. Not bad out of six trees! However my dilemma is that it's a
cooker. What can you do with a single cooking apple? I could mix it
with a few shop bought ones to make a pie but then I'd never know what
my prize apple tasted like. On its own (its not a big one) it wouldn't
even be enough to make an individual mini pie. Eating it uncooked
wouldn't do it justice.

Why not bake it stuffed with mincemeat!

It's only about 2.5 inches in diameter, not a lot of mincemeat

Core it, and fill it with some sultanas and a teaspoon of brown
sugar (the real stuff, not coffee sugar). Then bake it.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

On 09/01/2012 11:20 AM, wrote:
In article ,
Jake wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:51:10 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

I now have a dilemma though. Whilst I have not a single pear nor a
single plum (that was expected as it's a new tree), I do have a single
apple. Not bad out of six trees! However my dilemma is that it's a
cooker. What can you do with a single cooking apple? I could mix it
with a few shop bought ones to make a pie but then I'd never know what
my prize apple tasted like. On its own (its not a big one) it wouldn't
even be enough to make an individual mini pie. Eating it uncooked
wouldn't do it justice.

Why not bake it stuffed with mincemeat!

It's only about 2.5 inches in diameter, not a lot of mincemeat

Core it, and fill it with some sultanas and a teaspoon of brown
sugar (the real stuff, not coffee sugar). Then bake it.


My suggestion also, but I'd add some butter in bits to the mix. I'd
also add a grind of black pepper, but this won't make everyone happy...

On Sat, 01 Sep 2012 09:19:04 GMT, Baz wrote:


Jake, how is that VicPlum going on? Mine is now growing some new wood
despite a poor spring and summer. It dropped most of the leaves early on.

Hope yours is fairing better.
Baz

It's put on a fair bit of growth and is about a foot higher than when
planted (it's a dwarf that shouldn't grow more than about 8 feet
tall). Still looking leafy and healthy so it's a case of seeing what
next year brings. Despite lack of fruit, the fruit trees are the only
ones still keeping their leaves. Leaf collecting from other trees has
been a daily task since the beginning of August!

What I'm finding interesting is that the trees usually lose leaves
starting from the outside in; this year the leaf loss is starting
closest to the trunk and moving out.

Still picking strawberries, BTW, about a bowl a day, which isn't bad
from 24 plants. Plenty of flowers too so if we get an Indian summer
I'm hoping they'll come to something.

And I dug up my first dandelion of the year yesterday.

Cheers, Jake
=======================================
Urgling from the East End of Swansea Bay where sometimes
it's raining and sometimes it's not.

On 01/09/2012 10:20, wrote:
In article ,
Jake wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 19:51:10 +0100, Roger Tonkin
wrote:

I now have a dilemma though. Whilst I have not a single pear nor a
single plum (that was expected as it's a new tree), I do have a single
apple. Not bad out of six trees! However my dilemma is that it's a
cooker. What can you do with a single cooking apple? I could mix it
with a few shop bought ones to make a pie but then I'd never know what
my prize apple tasted like. On its own (its not a big one) it wouldn't
even be enough to make an individual mini pie. Eating it uncooked
wouldn't do it justice.

Why not bake it stuffed with mincemeat!

It's only about 2.5 inches in diameter, not a lot of mincemeat

Core it, and fill it with some sultanas and a teaspoon of brown
sugar (the real stuff, not coffee sugar). Then bake it.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

The best thing to do with your apple is to make apple sauce out of it
and have it with a nice bit of pork.

wrote
No matter how nice it is at Midday we can't get away from the fact
that it is getting dark about 20.30 to 21.00. Long warm evenings are
one of the pleasures of a good summer and they have been few this
year.
A warm Autumn would be nice but it can't substitute for those lost
evenings.

Every year it feels as though the dark evenings close in all at once.
One day you're out there really late in the evening wandering round with
a glass of wine and the air is still warm as little bats come out to
flitter around - and then it seems like almost the next it's pitch dark
at 8pm and really chilly and autumnal. All the more reason to make the
most of any warm days we get though. Cross fingers for an Indian summer.

Rather chilly here today, I must say, but at least it's dry atm.

--
Sue