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  2. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    Back in their heyday Pork Farms’ pies were as good as Dickinson and Morris’s although the latter claim to be the originator of the Melton pork pie. Nowadays pies bought from the supermarkets have the similar mass produced aura about them and you have to seek out the smaller makers to get a ‘proper’ pie. Jack Bailey at Upper Broughton was my favourite but he closed a few years ago. It’s an interesting  quest to find the perfect pie. Now the pork pie season is upon us I shall pursue my investigations further.

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  7. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    8 hours ago, MRS B said:

    Aha the pork pie debate again, I love the jelly and the pastry. Better than the meat. 

    The original reason for the jelly in a pork pie was to preserve the meat and keep it moist. Eating it is optional. You can, if you desire, eat the paper in which it’s wrapped! :laughing:

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  9. How's your day?

    in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !

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    There’s a market every Monday in Bakewell Rog. It was excellent last time we visited but that would be over 5 years ago. Bakewell’s a nice town to visit in any case but I was talking on Saturday to someone who lives there who said it’s become very ‘touristy’. There used to be ample parking on the water meadows, just a short walk from the town centre.

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  11. How's your day?

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    We used to regularly go to Melton market on a Tuesday but haven’t been for some years. Back then it was thriving and interesting place to walk round. We always came back with a Stilton cheese and a pie from the Olde Pie Shoppe. A farmer friend used to help at the sheep auction on market day.

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  13. Where's everybody gone !!

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    Yes, I’ve just been re-reading that book. It mentions quite a few people I once knew, now no longer with us. With the possible closure of the airfield to build a massive housing estate there’s a Facebook section filled with the opinions of the objectors.’Save Nottingham City (Tollerton) Airfield)’. I think it’s inevitable that the development will go ahead. When I look online at ‘Flight Radar’ the usage of the airfield is very low and my old alma mater, the Sherwood Flying Club, has an outdated website and isn’t the buzzing place it used to be. I suppose the cost of private flying is out of reach for many people. It has been suggested that the airfield users could move to Langar but that has an active parachute club and I don’t think they would welcome an influx of light aircraft. Strangely parachuting is thriving and that’s one of the aviation activities I’ve never attempted. A friend once did and had to be rescued from the roof of an industrial building! I might go down at the weekend and have a nose around, they still have the ‘Chocks Away’ cafe at the control tower.

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    Many years ago the occupants of East Hall in our village had a peacock. It used to trespass into the garden of West Hall (a semi detached hall would you believe!) The peacock, Oscar, used to eat the young vegetables in West Hall’s veg garden. The owner of West Hall consulted his solicitors as to the action he could take but was told, under the Wild Birds’ Act there was nothing he could do about it. He did however manage to secretly capture it and release it some miles away!

  19. Tomato seed planting

    in Kat's Gardening Forum

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    4 hours ago, PeverilPeril said:

    Have you got a picture of the scratter and press Phil? I'm an enthusiast :rolleyes:

     

    They’re deep in the back of the shed somewhere. I’ve got to root them out. I bought them when I stopped working in a factory and became a full time rustic. I also bought six sheep, a Landrover Defender, a heated propagating frame, a pair of green wellies and a flat cap. I sometimes chew on a piece of straw as well. :biggrin:

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  21. How's your day?

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    I’ve used Toro mulching mowers for the past six years, both a ride on and a walk behind. They chop grass and leaves into a fine mulch so I don’t have to collect the cuttings and drive back and forth to the compost heap. The mulch feeds the lawns and I must say they’ve never looked better. I cut about an acre and a half so I have a wealth of grass cutting experience! I’ve cut the grass six times this year already. 

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  22. Tomato seed planting

    in Kat's Gardening Forum

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    We have two 8’x12’ greenhouses. In one we grow 14 tomato plants, usually Shirley. In the other we grow 4 Beefstake tomatoes, 4 cucumbers and a mixture of peppers and aubergines. Both greenhouses are now cleared out, cleaned and ready to go. I lit my three year old bonfire on Saturday which had become massive. About 20’ by 10’. It was a spectacular blaze! My veg garden had grown over since my hip problem and it’s getting a bit too late to rotovate it now. I might hire a deturfer, shift the grass and rotovate it ready for next year. We can buy fresh, locally grown vegetables from the shop in the next village though without the effort of digging. The fruit trees are in full blossom and, after very few apples last year, I think we’re in for a glut. I’m going to make cider for the first time in 25 years. I’ve got a scratter and a press in the shed. Let’s hope I don’t have to pour it all away this time! Will Bramleys make a good cider? One of our trees is a clone from the original Bramley tree in Southwell.

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