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Friday June 21st

Great idea robinredbreast...yes robins love grated cheese they are addicted to it..... we keep it in a container in the summer and window sill in the winter....it gets very busy then feeing all day....
I put seeds and peanuts out all year round along with brown bread......always have fed the birds it's my hobbie along with charity shop bookshops....love a good read as well have a nice weekend kx
 
hornplayer said:
- can't believe your beans are close! Ours aren't even flowering yet! Although we do have green tomatoes and have been picking cucumbers for a couple of weeks.
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By close I mean actually growing instead of sitting there wondering where the summer was. Things grow quickly here in Cornwall. After losing 20 out of 40 bean plants a stranger we stopped and chatted to about his veg plot gave us a packet of bean seeds! We planted them and they are about 6" tall. Our own beans are about 2'. The onions and shallots are doing well, peas not so well. Spuds, carotts, courgettes, garlic, beetroot, radishes, rhubarb, tomatoes, butternut squash, cucumbers, aubergine and chilli peppers are slowly getting their skates on. I had a few peppers from a plant, and a very neglected strawberry plant has come back to life and has given me half a dozen strawbs. I do love eating what I can grow! I look forward to cooking and eating a meal of garden grown veg, with a few friends round and a nice cold glass of white or rose, can't stand red, and please, please! don't get me started on Tia Maria.
 
It is amazing to have fresh, home grown produce to work with isn't it? We don't have an enormous veg plot, but we do have 2 big green houses. Dad went easy this year and only planted 60 tomato plants (!!!!!). He cultivates the M&S Santini tomatoes from seed, - you wouldn't believe how prolific those plants are!! We keep all the family and the neighbours in fresh tomatoes last year right up to Christmas. He loves to grow mushrooms too. Trouble is they all come at once. - you try finding a home for about 80lbs of mushrooms pretty much every night for a month! luckily, we live in a close, very friendly area. Every body grows different stuff and every body shares. - we keep freezers in the shed. Full of sliced mushrooms, tomatoes and runner beans, all winter. The neighbours go help themselves. They do the same. - we all have fruit trees. They bring me jars and whatever fruit is around, I make jam. - it isn't unusual to find the police land rover parked in the drive when I get home from a gig and find that in the morning we're out of bread and teabags and the jam stocks are down! It's a lovely way to live. - you'll often come home to find that someone's watered the green houses, or cut the lawn.

I really don't miss living in London!


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Your life sounds idylic hornplayer. The only thing I can think of that might make it perfect would be an Austin seven car parked in the garage! Sorry, that's my 'thing', well, one of them. Our veg patch is 35 foot long by 7 wide. Then there is a 6 by 4 foot greenhouse, one of the very small B&Q things. This year I decided to plant the spuds in tubs instead of the ground. We can control the soil and move them around to get more sun. Some potatoes have also appeared where we planted them last year. I also tried carotts in tubs but I am not too sure about them at the moment. Once I had spaced out (crazy man!) the beetroot I planted thirty of what was left over...in a tub! The grape vine is doing very well in a very big tub, and the blueberry is fine, in a tub. There's a theme here. One last thing before I sign off, hornplayer? are you? My friend Lorna whose computer I am using is an oboe player. And piano, clarinet etc. Many instruments. She will be playing with the Cornwall Returners Orchestra Sunday evening at St. Agnes. When I mentioned the name 'hornplayer' Lorna said you might play the sax. Anyway, time for a bit of telly and the Guardian cryptic crossword before heading off for home.
Night, night everyone.
Lee.
 

- sorry, this may or may not show up twice, went a bit wrong the first time.

I'm an actual horn player Lee, French Horn, to be exact. An endangered species, like your friend Lorna. - I do play other brass instruments these days, as I teach, but I studied the horn at music college and played professionally for a long time, so it's my baby. - Hope she has a great concert on tomorrow night.

Steph


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Hi Steph,

The concert was a resounding sucess! The orchestra joined forces with The St. Agnes Silver Band and gave us 'The Last Night of the Proms'! It was in a marquee just overlooking the sea. Lorna has been a pro all her life and has taught oboe in schools. Now, amazingly, an old pupil of hers that she hasn't seen in about 25 years has made contact and they are going to play together at a nursing home in Exmouth (120 miles each way but worth it) where Lorna's cousin lives. Lorna will play oboe and piano, her old pupil will play piano. I will go along as driver and music page turner. I can't read music so I have to time where the turns will be and use the stopwatch feature on my phone! I am not sure what will happen when they play a duet!? :lolno:

Thanks to you RRB for the opportunity to just have a chat about things not diabetes related.
 


Hi the concert sounded wonderful, so pleased for you. I can't read music either, even though I love listening to music and singing along to it. If a song comes on the radio and it's a favourite, up the volume goes and I belt it out, X factor material I'm not ( even though my daughter says I am!!!) I don't have a singing voice.

I put some grated cheese out for the Robin, but I saw my elderly half blind cat eating it lol, so my daughter went out into the back garden to bring him in, he didn't look too pleased about that lol I put a sausage roll out today, plus 2 baps and some fridge chiken bites(from my dad's, sell by date 20th June)

It is lovely to have a pleasant general non diabetic, non hypo, non hyper, non carb counting, no injecting chit chat. I'm so pleased members can just write what they want to, join in with friends they know and make new friends that come along the way :thumbup:

RRB
 
your cat and cheese story reminds me of the day i rescued a tiny field mouse from one of my cats, we put it in a plastic tub and gave it some cheese to eat after its ordeal (it didnt eat any of he cheese of course) before he was released, well jerry liked cheese so i figured..... for a month this particular cat wouldnt even look at me, it literally would sit on the arm of the sofa and look in the opposite direction it was hysterical. i come from london too a nasty tower block so now anything countryfied i just love, i cant bring myself to eat fruit or veg from anyones garden though, i know this is nuts but for some reason all i can think of is foxes weeing on it lol, much better in a nice plastic shrink wrap in the supermarket, someone on a job we was doing even gave me some fresh eggs from there chickens and i threw them away when i got them home, i had a horrible thought that a dead baby chicken might be inside when i cracked them, you can take the boy out of battersea but you cant take battersea out of the boy
i spose :crazy:
 

I live in Hampshire and my family came here from Tottenham, before that, Brixton, South then North London. I have never been to Battersea, but my daughter and I love to visit London and have a wander about, hoping to go to Greenwich in the school hols

I love the countryside too, my wish is to live in one of the villages, when we go on the bus, even some of the bus shelters have thatched roofs, but I don't know if I will ever do it :?:

RRB

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What a lovely page this is .your gardens sound wonderful where I live I'm surrounded by main roads everywhere you sit all you can hear is the traffic .i don't grow veg but I love my garden full of flowers only trouble is as quick as I'm putting them in the snails are chewing them away to nothing so any tips would be appreciated have to be careful what I put down though as I have 2 dogs who are into everything I also have 4 cats


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Hi shzz46 I know of two things that work against those pesky slugs and snails. Broken up egg shells, slugs and snails won't go over them because it's too sharp. The other thing is putting salt down, but I don't like the sound of doing that. You've got your hands full with 6 pets :lol: but I bet you love them to bits, as I love my cats ( well, most of the time :wink: ) hehe

Best wishes RRB
 
I tried the eggshells didn't stop them don't like the salt it's too cruel .yes I love my animals to bits the last cat I rescued as she was doomed for the cat and dog shelter


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I have the same problem! My puppy is now about 9 months and he loves eating the snails which I know is super bad for him. But I don't know what I can do about it as there are SO many!

I have a flower bed which was over grown so I spent ages clearing it and replanting flowers.... Which are now mostly destroyed by a mixture of dogs trampling them and the snails
 

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We had to fence our garden off from the dogs as they chewed everything in sight garden ornaments which my late mother in law bought for us were either minus the heads or the bodies so they only get on the garden when we are there with them


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Loved the photo's of the dog digging Hale and I can just picture headless and torsoless ornaments shzz46 :lol:
my next door neighbour has a Spaniel puppy ( she must be about 7 months old now and its very pretty, like Lady, in Lady and the Tramp) she likes to dig too, bless her. I'm always talking to her and petting her, I miss my dog Holly at times.

I cycled today and I could hear the birds chirping and talking to each other in the trees and bushes, even though the dual carriage below was a bit on the noisy side. Not as warm as I thought it was, a little sunshine, but out on the open pavement, speeding down a hill, it's so exhilarating :thumbup: I'm going to cut the front grass soon. The grass does seem to grow so rapidly.

Hope you all are having a good day.

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Robinredbreast said:
...... I miss my dog Holly at times.

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Tis a small world. We had a Yorkshire Terrier called Holly, not really surprising considering she was a Christmas present to my mother. Holly never weighed more than two pounds in her whole life. Two pounds of fearless fur that would attack my sisters 10 stone Geat Danes when they were bought to the house. Have you ever seen a Yorkie attack a Dane before? The poor Dane didn't know where to put her feet, which were the only bits Holly could reach! She caught a sparrow once and had it held under a paw not knowing what to do! She let the sparrow go, unharmed. Holly loved eating grapes but couldn't bite through the skin, so we had to peel grapes for her to eat. We also had a Maltese Terrier called Sky. I asked a Greek friend for a Greek name for the dog and she said (I think) Skylos, which is Greek for dog. I have never checked the validity of this, so for all I know we had a dog with the rudest name in Hemel! Our cat was called Sunday, because he was found on a Sunday and brought to us by some kids.
When I have learned how to post a decent sized picture on here I will get some of the pets to show you.
Thanks again RRB. You've really started something here.
 
My brother gas a border terrier called Digger........ Funnily enough, he doesn't! He won't even go out the door if he thinks he might get wet or muddy! - unless of course he's following my dad, - the man with pockets full of dog biscuits!


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this is a photo of one of my dogs when I got him he was only 5 weeks old this is him now with my other dog I got three weeks later to keep him company it was really hard looking after two puppies


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