I'm reading you all. I wonder if I can actually post?

Yes I can.

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Don't get me started, I work in IT Security! Before uni I did system admin work. Working in it security you have my deepest sympathy. We used to say 95% of security problems were pink ware issues the human factor General errors even more so. To the point where we used to have the error "proble...

Puts me to shame... no outside lights, no inside lights, no tree, have got some fake fir garlands across the beams and I hung up some Christmas cards this morning! Went to the tip, sorry, Civic Amenity Site, this morning and got rid of some 'bulky household waste' (in the bin with the purple sign p...

I certainly am. And I get confounded by recipes configured in grammes tooo. . This definitely counts as what our market veg stall holder defines as "queer gear" And i am never got to grips with the American weight of "cups" of flour or other ingredients either. They're just ment...

A Christmas ditty I sent in my cards about 30 years ago. There's a Wonderful Old Man who's trick Is climbing down chimneys, stone or brick So damp down your fire Lest he should acquire A nasty burn on his foot. An alternative I just made up. There's a Dodgy Geezer called Nick Who shins down chimneys...

Importing foreign foodstuffs doesn't go down too well with their Border Control bods.
I wonder how ours will react?

My wife (an Educational Psychologist) had dealings with a boy named Robin.
What were his parents (Mr. and Mrs.Hood) thinking ?

Huge smile. I just pulled a mahoosive leek, this year is the first time I grew leeks. A few early ones I pulled were lovely but these mahoosive ones appear to have forgotten they are leeks and-so present Solid mass of leek rather than, erm, like An onion. Why would you want a solid mass of leek, pl...

We ate it today.
No heat whatsoever !

I first bought these about 4 years ago and waited until they were bright yellow, as per the photo on the seed packet. They seemed quite bland, as though they should be an accompianament to a Doner Kebab on a Friday night. This year they have become a lot hotter ( we have moved from Eastbourne to Gra...

Thanks, Geoff.
A load of cobblers then.

The received wisdom appears to be that garlic requires sub-zero temoeratures to split.
The garlic bulbs I've just bought from Tesco come from Spain.
Are these from a very rare area of Spain that actually has sub-zero temperatures or is the received wisdom wrong ?
Your thoughts please.

We cat even buy kale that hasn't been chopped up and put into a plastic bag complete with the woody stalks. Kale, what a fantastic plant. I cut all the big leaves off every stalk mostly leaving bare stalks and a few weeks later those bare stalks produced lovely fresh kale leaves even better than th...

I'm very sorry to hear of your loss Alan but am impressed by your desire to look to the future.