Crabapple and lavender jelly sounds lovely. My partner's grandfather has a smallholding (near Tenbury Wells) which has many old orchard trees. My favourite apple from there is Scotch Bridget, it is a lovely eating apple and it keeps for ages. It also cooks well. We planted the same variety in our ga...

Go girls! I have a tattoo which I love, and it can be a useful talking point during those awkward lulls in conversation...

I will post a photo if I can ever work out how to do it!

Lizzie, pop Tigger in the car, put 'Newtown Road' into the satnav and there's a new tattoo studio on the right shortly after the turn. She could be tattooed and smiling again before James's ink dries. Result!

Yeah, that Jimmy Knepper is a bit of all right though.

We have found that most of our fruit this year has not tasted very good.

It includes plums, tomatoes, raspberries, the earlier greengages.

Some of it has improved as the weeks have gone on.

Hmmm, we get pigeons eating the brassicas and lettuce in the garden, and rabbits eating most other stuff on the allotment.

And we have a terrier whose idea of hunting is Much Enthusiasm and Nil Skill.

My other half was sooooooo delighted that the lovely Nigella has a new show....until he realised it's on his college night! Hahahahahaha.

It is strange' isn't it, how she is curvy, but sooo not fat. Bugger. I'd be happy to put on a bit of weight if I ended up looking like her...

Mmmmm, reminds me of a time when I was working for someone who had a very poorly chicken. She wanted someone to dispatch it but didn't know of anyone (that she would allow on her prmises!). I said my new boyfriend was a country lad and would probably be able to do the job quickly and efficiently. 'W...

I have it on good authority he's 536 this year.

And they WILL breed freely, dammit!

Er, hi everyone, this is my first post on this forum, and I'm not really an up-my-own-exhaustpipe-fascist. I just sound a bit like one sometimes.