He doesn't read this :lol: Even if he did, it would merely confirm his suspicions that I am trying to poison him. He's caught me scratching sell by dates off stuff before now and claims I fed him baked beans from 1996 in 2014. He was totally wrong, those beans were dated 1998! He's still alive and k...

Floods here in Rugby yesterday evening. Our road was awash, with some people further down the road sweeping water away from their doorsteps. Our sunken garden was a couple of inches deep at one point. I drains quickly, but it couldn't cope. Sunday morning was strange, as I decided that I didn't care...

I still eat bits of cheese with the mould cut off. So does my husband, but he doesn't know it...

Thanks Shallot Man, I shall give that a go. I always struggle to get sweet peas to germinate, I manage about 1 in 10, which is hopeless.

I entirely agree Stephen! I am sick to death of being warned that I shouldn't eat stuff, not by my doctor, but by the nanny state. "Unsuitable for the elderly", how dare they! I am on the long approach to what may be considered eldery (I don't feel it) and I am damned if someone is going t...

I'm slowing coming around to thinking this is something to do with Nigel Slater. I've looked in Kitchen Diaries I and II but they haven't helped, however the Christmas Chronicles do say how wonderful is pickled quince! I was over whelmed with quince last year (none this year), so I guess it's possib...

I don't drink Primrose, I can't even blame that
Still clueless.

I'm still none the wiser. I'm sure all will become clear, eventually, but it's driving me crackers! I can't blame autocorrect, I wrote it in my diary in pencil!

Why would I want to pickle quince, even assuming I had any?

I have opened my diary to find I have written "Pickled Quince" against 6 October.

I have no recollection of writing this.

I have no quince to pickle.

Can you even pickle quince?

Suggestions on a postcard...

Hi Colin, whatever you do, don't put them somewhere cool.

I had a massive harvest some years ago, stored them in a tray in my outhouse and they went black within a week. I

We appear to have badgers in our garden. There's massive hole appeared under our fence with next door and their garden has direct access to the nature reserve behind us. I'm going to set up the wildlife camera to be sure. I love badgers and I understand once they've decided to come into our garden t...

Not so cold in Warwickshire, but a definite chill in the air this morning. I'm scampering up to the allotment straight from work to pick a LOT of tomatoes before they get too cold.

Sorry Peter, I've PMd you. Missed you too OH. I'm sure more disaster will befall before too long to keep you entertained :wink: Malvern was lovely, once we got there. Surprisingly good weather too, most unexpected! Stocked up with the usual sack of planting garlic from The Garlic Farm, bought more g...

We have just one chicken left from our flock of eight. She's almost eight and has been on her own for two years now and we try and spend at least an hour a day sitting in our summerhouse next to her run. She comes out, scratches around the garden, but is often content just to sit at our feet, chatte...

I went apple picking a week ago, I'm cooking apples as fast as I can (I was up at 6am today making apple samosas) but some are rotting almost in front of my eyes. I've always lost some, but in a week out of 3 crates of apples, I would thing half a crate are in the compost bin.