Whose standard, Silverback? My sons always rag me about my cooking. Before I married Ted, my youngest son kindly informed him that "she always burns the carrots".

The quiche is now in the freezer waiting for the big day. It took longer than the given time to set in the oven though.

There are a few sites with Coronation Quiche recipes on the internet, and I decided to have a go. I bought the ingredients, apart from fresh Tarragon, this morning when I did my weekly shopping trip. The frozen flaky pastry is de-frosting on the kitchen worktop, after hacking away with a large carvi...

Hope your garden plans take shape for you Manda. Mo, I think it was you who mentioned about slugs. I bought some organic slug pellets this morning. Slugs or snails have chewed up some of the chrysanth leaves in the greenhouse, so the pots have all had a dose of the pellets. They were the cheapest on...

I agree with you, Mo, the forum is livlier, gosh, I remember the old days, Steve the Gas, Mrs Babycakes, P Penn, and more recently Gwenoakes and June, to name a few.

Not really, Trev. I can take my time, and have no livestock to look after, except my little dog. My sons cut the lawns, which are really beyond my strength. I just tick over. This morning I have first coated one half of the framework for the underneath of the coal bunker lid, and made a dreadful mes...

I was totally unaware that goat meat was eaten, so I have learned something new.

Sorry to read about your diagnosis, Manda. I have type two. Hope you manage your levels, but it is sickening when you crave something and shouldn't have it.

I decided not to plant any potatoes, but sowed runner beans a month or so since, which have come to nothing, so I have ordered some dwarf french runners which should arrive this week, plus a packet of lettuce seeds. At long last, my seedling are showing very small signs of life. I have had them unde...

No knowledge of goats, except that I do not like the taste of the milk. Hope you get what you want, Trev. Do the Bulgars eat goat meat, then?

I am better at crosswords than puzzles Mo. Still haven't a clue.

My paint brushes are not in thinners, they have been busy over several weeks, and need a rest.

I thought we had a new blogger when I saw Silky's name, but quickly realised it was a very old post.

When each of my dogs died, I wrote poetry, the grief seemed to open up my creativity.

Ted and I did our family trees after he suddenly realised that he did not know his paternal grandmother's name. She died when his Dad was young. We spent literally hours trawling websites, eventually using Ancestry co.uk. I also used Genes Reunited. Both were incredibly useful. Apart from my birth f...

Are you going to put us out of misery, please, Mo?