philmayfield
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You can buy on line from Dickinson and Morris in Melton. Don't know how well pork pies travel though.
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36 minutes ago, Beekay said:
Going back to the theme of Melton, can anyone kindly tell me if you can still buy pork pies with jelly in ? I've bought them in the past but they are so bland without it. I realise that it's not to everybody's taste but a pork pie without jelly, you might as well eat cardboard or Whiskas. B.
All the pork pies round here contain jelly. It's not all grim up north BK!
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Very many years ago there was a story going around that Kit e Kat tins were found in the larder at the Hong Kong restaurant on Arkwright St. by the public health inspectors. Probably an urban myth.
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Someone who went round Petfoods told me the quality of the meat and fish that went into the tins was good enough for human consumption.
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Not even a speeding fine BK!
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All sheep look the same to me Rog! Don’t want to be accused of rustling. I have a clean sheet as far as criminality is concerned.
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Rog’s trip to Melton Market reminds me that we regularly went there on a Tuesday, market day, but haven’t been for a few years. We always used to get a pie from Ye Olde Pie Shoppe. I must revive the tradition. One of my farming mates bought a tup from Melton market to breed with his sheep. When he got back to Gonalston he let down the trailer ramp but no tup was to be seen. He drove all the way back to Melton but he never spotted it. Still out there running wild possibly.
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Just a starter! You know how to live.
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That’s a seafood salad to die for! Can’t see me getting anything like that from the farm shop - ever.
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Flat Japanese garden is good. Raising the height of the Fens would infringe planning regulations.
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Margie’s rock garden could be the highest point in the Fens!
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There comes an age when you say to yourself 'do I really want a rock garden?'
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An old farmer friend, Peter Woodward, was an avid, lifelong County fan. He even once drove his tractor down to Meadow Lane to clear the snow of the pitch for an evening match back in the days of Big Sam. He used to keep the team and staff supplied with pork and beef. Sam probably ate it raw! He didn’t like Brazil though - he lived on a chicken and fish diet! All the team turned up to the village church for his funeral a few years ago.
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You might see some aspiring, young, keen players amongst their opponents next year without the overpaid prima donnas of the higher leagues. Plus you won’t have to queue to get in and it will be easy to find a seat!
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As I drove past this afternoon Alan Hardy has not yet put his house up for sale although, strangely enough, both of his immediate neighbours have!
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Bulwell stone is famous around here. The original sandstone quarries were pretty much in the heart of Bulwell but they are now exhausted. I believe there is a Bulwell sandstone quarry at nearby Linby. Some of the Bulwellians on site will be able to furnish more details. Everywhere you go around Nottingham and district you will see walls and buildings made from the Bulwell sandstone. Googling will bring up more details. I think the quarry I went to was McCarthey’s on Thames St. but that was way back in around 1960.
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Good old Bulwell stone. I once built a rockery out of that during a school summer holiday. My father organised me a Dormobile van and I went back and forth to Mcarthey’s to get a bit at a time. I wonder if that’s still standing at No.3 Park Rd. It was at the rear of the house so ‘Streetview’ won’t show it.
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10 hours ago, MargieH said:
But weren't they ALL private nursing homes in 1943, Phil. There was no NHS when we were born!
I was born at home - Hereford Road, Woodthorpe - but a doctor had to be called out ... I suppose my parents paid for him.
Totally forgot about the NHS not being around in 1943 Margie!
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No, it was a private nursing home on a road just off the top of Sherwood Rise. My uncle probably paid for it as my father was in the RAF and my uncle had a reserved occupation.
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See - she treats everyone the same - even common people!
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Tomorrow is World Naked Gardening Day as advised by Compo. Temperature round here will be around ten C. I’ll be clearing out a greenhouse ready for the tomato plants. Shouldn’t be too bad in there with the door closed.
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I doubt it. I always attempt to maintain a low profile. Being anti-social is one of my more endearing features!
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Yes but I haven’t lived there since 1962 and my place of birth was a nursing home in Carrington.
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14 minutes ago, MargieH said:
BK, are you saying I'm posh? If you come to a meet up, you'll see I'm definitely not!
Born in Woodthorpe and not posh? What caused you to go downhill then Margie?
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'How does your garden grow?'
in Kat's Gardening Forum
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Just settle down in your deckchair BK with your mail order pork pie and a bottle of beer. Don’t let these computer experts blind you with science!