Why when you strip out heavily blighted tomatoes are the side shoots lush green and full of flowers?

Well that's my hands wrecked - just picked over 4lbs of sloes.

Proper white over frost here too, down to -1.1°C.

Not quite frosts here.

Now there's a thread that could run and run - nominations!

I used to be given cod liver oil and food office orange juice separately not mixed SM! (early 50's).
At the time my mother was on some weird medicine for a stomach problem that was basically hydrochloric acid, she gave me that by mistake instead of the clo one day, now that was foul.

Must ring our friends in Argyl, on the banks of the Kyles of Bute. Friday was pretty foul here but nothing like Scotland. Saturday was better, moved all my chrysants into the greenhouse. Today has been very pleasant, sorted my leafmould area ready to start collecting and cut the grass. OH - how's co...

I suppose I have got to be consistent and say chips, runny fried egg with bread and butter.

As above, restrain the roots. Mint likes moisture, gravel could be too dry but you are in Scotland!

Birthday fishing trip? Have a good day.

I thought pigeon family by the size but my ancient Observer's Book of Birds' Eggs has them all as white, doesn't include the now common collared dove but I've found a reference that says "white oval eggs are smooth and glossy, and about 31 mm by 23 mm in size". Ducks are also white in the ...

Not sure my employment record affected my tastes. My first love was chemistry winning lots of school prizes before doing two degrees in chemical engineering. Worked at that briefly before moving into production management mainly in what we used to regard as the largest fire hose factory in the world...

Many Yucca are monocarpic, flower and die, but some sort of offset so only the part that flowered dies.

I like liquid eggs; poached, boiled or fried but not raw.

You've got to be insane to cook scrambled eggs - waste of good eggs - nearly as bad as hard boiling them.