philmayfield

Lion faeces? You’ve gone all posh since living in Lewes Barrie.

I used to use a child’s super soaker water gun to discourage a neighbour’s dog that kept coming up the drive.

It’s strange because we’ve got two cats and the people whose gardens that back onto our orchard have six cats amongst them and we never have any cat problems. I have a large ginger cat purring on my knee as I type (with difficulty!)

Very easy to confuse a minor with a miner!

Have you tried the water jet cat scarers Rog? Available from Amazon.

Sorry, I was just copying Notty Ash’s wording.

That brings back memories. Mackesons were used for the school trips at Mellish and Pascoe’s, the electrical people in Bulwell, used to supply the public address system on school sports days.

Nature is cruel.

My grandmother used to sprinkle sugar on a salad. I didn’t get that. Our local strawberry growers, Starkey’s in Southwell, have dug up their strawberry beds as they can no longer get the cheap foreign labour to pick them.

We’re great users and growers of herbs as well. It is the finest sea salt and freshly ground black pepper that we sprinkle.

A tomato salad without the seasoning to enhance the flavour? Well chacun a son gout!

There’s nothing nicer than fresh, home grown tomatoes. Soon I’ll be lunching daily on tomato salads. Sliced tomatoes, olive oil, wine vinegar, pepper and salt, garnished with chopped chives, with wholemeal bread to mop up the ‘gravy’.

Action man of the Lincolnshire fens!

It must be pretty quiet in Asda at 6am. You must have been the only customers in the store! Do they open especially for you?

It’s bitterly cold here with the addition of the wind chill. I’ve got loads of outdoor work to do but can’t fire myself up to face the elements. No doubt Rog is outside, stripped to the waist, braving the Lincolnshire gales and digging his garden! Good on yer Rog!