MaC
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Thinking on it, there are two herbs we don't hear much about but I genuinely like. Summer and Winter savory. I think more could be done with both.
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Thinking on it, there are two herbs we don't hear much about but I genuinely like. Summer and Winter savory. I think more could be done with both.
Saint-Just
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Tarragon is lovely with a cucumber salad for example. I’d love to grow some as it’s difficult to find fresh but it likes (and benefits, flavour-wise) from regular dry spells between limited watering.
ElThomsono
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My sister and I both think coriander tastes like soap, yet somehow we both enjoy the odd soapy taste?
MaC
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Grow it indoors on a windowsill. It seems to thrive on our living room one which really gets the Sun in Summer. I have to watch what I grow there because they dry out.
Templogin
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It's like AA for vinegar lovers around here. I used to drink it out of the bottle as a kid. My name is Temp and I have gone 53 years without a drink.
I had another day laying in bed. My chest was burning every time I coughed. Got up at 19:45 and ate a pint of porage, a large banana, drank a large milky coffee and ate half a malt loaf. I am now considering putting the garlic bread in the oven.
Try rubbing Vicks on the underside of your foot, just a bit in the middle. I can't explain how but it really does help me sleep. No, I didn't want to believe it either!
I had another day laying in bed. My chest was burning every time I coughed. Got up at 19:45 and ate a pint of porage, a large banana, drank a large milky coffee and ate half a malt loaf. I am now considering putting the garlic bread in the oven.
Try rubbing Vicks on the underside of your foot, just a bit in the middle. I can't explain how but it really does help me sleep. No, I didn't want to believe it either!
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ElThomsono
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I drank a shot of malt vinegar once, just to see what would happen. What happened is I felt rough as arseholes and spent the next hour trying not to throw up. Kinda surprising really as I could have put it over chips with no ill effect?
MaC
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Interestingly, at least to me, is that if you drink a tablespoon of vinegar before eating, it’ll reduce your sugar spike response to that meal.
MaC
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It curbs the stomach acid too because it kind of tricks it into thinking it's got enough. Good for heartburn sufferers.
Beachlover
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Felt sorry for the dog being indoors this morning, so as the sun came out and it warmed up a bit I thought I know, it's low tide and I'll take her for a quick walk on the beach for half an hour. There's no need to get changed or put the wellies on...
Two hours later.
Two hours later.
Saint-Just
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Garden did well when we were away.
Well, when I say “garden” I am talking about approximately 1 square metre…
But the wild garlic is doing well
Well, when I say “garden” I am talking about approximately 1 square metre…
But the wild garlic is doing well
Jaggededge
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Did you shit yourself?
ElThomsono
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I too have returned from holiday, to discover a squirrel eating the bark off my tree, the git.
Also the washing machine parts arrived while we were away, and DPD just dropped them off at our "local" shop, which is at the opposite end of Winton. I went down there and the guy told me his machine was doing an update and could I come back in three hours? Harrumph.
Beachlover
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In other news, we have a rat mortuary under our front porch or in the cavity wall. The honk is pretty dire and this coming from someone who is usually pretty nonchalant about the whiff of the dead. It began about five days ago and seems now to have peaked. Who on earth decided plastic air bricks should go on anything but Lego houses FFS?
MaC
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It's the liking for bitter apparently.
I quite like bitter too, but the soapy is inclined to swamp the enjoyment.
bushwacker
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Have you got rid? The smell is usually piss from the living.
Beachlover
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The dog seems only to have a passing interest in it now, whereas the bloody thing was obsessed until a week or so ago and she has nailed a couple, but you have me worried now. I might stick the camera trap opposite the hole for a couple of days now. In fairness, it's an ideal place for them as until now it was hidden by the bins even though there's never food waste in them and opposite the so-called community wildlife area which is a rich habitat, but floods.
I suspect I might now be on a mission this weekend......
ElThomsono
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I've just had another Spotify and cooking session, it's a winning combination, sometimes the algorithm gets it right.
On the side I did a fried egg with Tobasco, cracking. I really ought to get back into making morning rolls, I stopped for a while as the only way I could get the dough to mix properly was to make a batch of six, which is too much. I did look into freezing dough etc. but I'm honestly beyond my capabilities making them fresh.
On the side I did a fried egg with Tobasco, cracking. I really ought to get back into making morning rolls, I stopped for a while as the only way I could get the dough to mix properly was to make a batch of six, which is too much. I did look into freezing dough etc. but I'm honestly beyond my capabilities making them fresh.
MaC
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ElThomsono
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MaC
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Ahh....it's always scary, just incase they like it, and want more.....
Just back from an enjoyable great big wedding. It was in Elora, a couple of hours northeast, which is a place I like to visit. An old mill town established in the 1830s. From the architecture and it neatness, you'd swear you were in a Scottish Borders town. Lovely river, not unlike the Tweed. We were treated to the play of some dramatically shifting weather on the route back. Blazing sun and blizzardy, near white-out jostling with each other. In the clear spells, you could see the many, small, individual storm showers arranged across the sky and landscape. Very much worth it.