PLUMPUDDING wrote:You take some lovely photos Tiger, what camera do you have?

It's a Canon 1D iv a professional body, this was taken with my wildlife lens which is a 100-400mm lens as I was hoping to see some Salmon jumping the falls.

Had a wander in the sunshine in Aberdeenshire, great autumnal colours

SWMBO bakes a very nice boiled fruit CAKE and have to say it's a favourite in our house.

I planted watermelon seed last year but nothing grew, so not exactly "having a go", I might try again as I did grow one(just the one) in the 1980's when I lived in Leicestershire.

That's a fresh one Goeff, before the mantle splits and shrivels into the familiar white bumps, which then dry and fall off.

Our woods and fields are full of fungi at the moment after the first rains in a long time

Lots of Fly Agaric in the woods.

Rough old night last night, batten down the hatches.

I am scab free this year too(though I did spray before the flowers buds opened).

There's a few birds that do the chicken thing, Swifts being one of them

I'm actually over at my daughters on Boxing Day, so mine might be a day late this year

For someone who declared he didn't really need any more seeds for next year, I've just had some delivered. The back ground is my Dad used to grow something new each year that he'd not grown before, so I follow this tradition. Some Mammoth trench celery, Mammoth red onion, Mammoth pot leeks and some ...

Not aware that I've eaten duck eggs either, not a huge eater of eggs except in the wife's fine baking.

Cheese is nice with a strong peaty single malt whisky of an evening, Black Bomber being a particularly good one with Ardbeg or Laphroaig.

Don't start me on tv chefs, watching it earlier in the week, "what you cooking"...………"Sea trout"...………..and there lies a bright pink ………………….pellet pig of a Rainbow trout. What ever happened to the trade description act? another ones doing "Monkfish" which is actually A...

Report this to the school as well, they might be able to get to the bottom of it.