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[Jude123]

Can somebody please give me that answer to 11 ac.

In the former USSR etc.....

[LoftyLottie]

Are the tomatoes 1.5 inches or the plants?

Pits or pots? I am confused!!

[netibiza]

they are the pits, but I meant pots and it's the little leaves which are sprouting up, certainly no fruit as yet!!!or vine! just browning leaves.

[Robinia]

Fruit & veg aren't my speciality but I'd say it's the heat...normally plants are started off during the cooler weather and have to be shaded from the sun later in the year when the fruits are on. I think your toms are stuffed neti.

Hi Vin, Kit's computer's gone in for an mot...

What a non day this has been...chilly when the sun went in... and Charlie's not too well & looking as miserable as I am.

[netibiza]

Oh not Charlie too, what with you lot, Charlie and my toms, what's the world coming too!!!!!

[jno]

ah, more garden-healing rain tomorrow (none today). I went out National Trusting, or rather traffic jamming, today. I need a helicopter, that's what.

http://ihasahotdog.fi...es-helicopter-dog.jpg

[netibiza]

Just been out for an unexpected dinner, courtesy of Mr N. We had the tabla de Mar and tierra, which is land and sea: ergo, meat and seafood and veg with pimientos de padron (really hot) and lot of grilled veg all on a big wooden tray. Lovely, have had a swim in the nuddie and am now in the cool bedroom!

[jno]

a swim after a surf and turf, tut, you'll get cramp.

[netibiza]

I've got wind and a terrible craving for some sweets!!!!!

[LoftyLottie]

I agree with Robi about the poorly tomatoes. Mr LL bought loads of tomato plants, half plum and half other, and they have all turned out to be plum tomatoes. Our greenhouse is shaded and the plants went in early June. At the moment we are living on courgettes, spring onions and lettuce and I am eating beetroots galore, as nobody else here likes them! Methinks Mr LL is gradually turning our garden into a veggie patch. He has never grown veg before and I am barely allowed in MY greenhouse that he put up for ME!!

Poor little Charlie, hope he feels better soon.

Funny how 'tabla de Mar and tierra' sounds much more tempting than 'surf and turf'!!

We had fresh Mackerel, new potatoes, lots of veg, including half a ton of courgettes in tarragon for tea. Tomorrow it will be courgette rissotto, courgette curry on Saturday, courgettes on toast for Sunday breakfast and possibly courgette and apple crumble at some stage!!

Have just eaten some lovely 70% dark chocolate Neti. It was scrummy!! (I wonder what chocolate coated courgettes taste like.)

Where did you visit today jno? I have had the laziest day ever and slept this afternoon! Felt slightly under the weather and not in the best of minds - caught it off Robi.

Hope Shaney and Mr S are OK.

[LoftyLottie]

Where is Swedie? Have I missed something?

[swedeheart]

DING DONG, IT'S THE AVON LADY! Laptop back today but may have to turn it back in (long story) so if I disappear again that will be it - again. I can't find my way around this "new" puta, lots of bars and icons gone after the upgrades and re-installations - not to mention thousands of bookmarks/favourites gone... He'll see if it they can be restored, I really really hope so. Only, I just read an online newspaper article the title of which was (in Swedish) "Alone with my vagina" and now there's a whole bloody BUTTON in the tool bar labelled ALONE WITH MY VAGINA and I can't remove it=:0 And I don't want to turn my laptop in again if that button's going to sit there, ha ha ha! (It was an article about Lady Gaga, if anyone's wondering.)

I met a dog named Cedric at the internet cafe, and that about complete's "all my news" Jude... What a grand name for a dog, a name for a lord isn't it. I did some decluttering while the puta was away and I found my old notes from when I first joined the biddies and I was talking to y'all from public computers and always in a hurry; I took notes to try to get to know everybiddy. Under JUDE in my note book I had written "I can't figure out what age Jude is" - well I still can't:)

Oh Shaney, what's up... jno put it so well, you know we're here for screaming et cetera xxxxx
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I don't catch/understand all the references here but I love the part where the music stops and he says "Yes. Spe-ci-fi-cuh-ly." and the Avon...erm... lady turns her head ha ha ha https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlxhD284RKM

[Jude123]

Hi All. Lottie I think Kit has taken her PC to be repaired ot something like that. She did say she may be away for a bit.
I've been to see my neighbour of years ago today and she took me to lunch to a pub in the village where she lives. Goujons with some sort of fish in (haddock I think) lovely chips and salad. Not had chips for ages and we had bowl full each. Then I had to come back and go to the Cryo Clinic and have some thingies zapped on my back and front. They're called Seborasomething warts. I can never say it but I get alot of them and so I go and get them zapped off.
I'm really tired now so I'm going to have me cocoa and go to bed.
Hope you all get your tomatoes sorted out. I have five pots of them once which I grew at the side of my house in that brilliant Summer we had in the 70s, The sun really got to that side until next door had a 6 foot fence put up. So that was the only time I grew them and they were lovely.

Anyway, have a good night everybiddy. Later 'gater(s) x

[Jude123]

Whoops Kit you beat me to it.

[jno]

went to Clandon Park and then (since it was nearby) Hatchlands, Lottie, both somewhere round Guildford - I dont know where, Tomtom sent me there, via a 10-mile traffic jam; honestly, have these satnavs no eyes? Hatchlands is a boring looking place but it's rented by an artist who's doing all sorts of murals, rather in the style of 18th-century Pompeii-style paintings, if you see what I mean, so they fit in rather well. He's also got a huge collection of paintings that have been in his family for generations including one that is allegedly a life portrait of Shakespeare.

http://www.telegraph....rtrait-is-unique.html

mmm-hmmm.

He also has a piano signed by Elgar and a lot of other musical instruments plus Robert Adam interiors.

[LoftyLottie]

jno - Having a fair few relations in that part of the world (I originate from Wimbledon) when I go back and have to drive around I am staggered by the amount of traffic these days. Obviously I am out of touch. I tend to remember Leatherhead as a a quiet little village and Guildford as a nice gentle country town!! I am obviously now a country bumpkin true and proper. I haven't been to either of Hatchlands or Clandon Park. Will look them up on Google Maps.

(My aunt lives in Byfleet and my cousin in Webridge)

[LoftyLottie]

Or even Weybridge.

[Robinia]

good evening...glad to see there's some life out there, this could be a long night, Charlie's got the runs :o(....I don't know how woofy copes with two big dogs with it! Hope he's better tomorrow, not an ideal ailment for taxi journeys is it?

Good to see you're not totally alone Kit, haha...lordy I don't know what Tarquin would have to say about that if it was on my computer.

[LoftyLottie]

Good evening Robi.

Poor little Charlie. Meggie suffers from IBS and does have her off days. Bit like her mum!! A very off day today. I now have a rash up my arm!!!

[Robinia]

Thankfully Lottie it's not something he's had very often, the last time was in the heatwave back in .....erm, 1862 was it? (2006 I think)
Can't blame the heat now, much more rain (lots forecast for tomorrow) and I'll put the way I feel down to swamp fever

[swedeheart]

Was a perfectly respectable daily paper and article Robi, I don't know why they had to go and choose that headline for it ha ha - but I have now managed to remove it, phew... /Kiss on the nose for Charlie from me.