Picture(s) of the day....

[Gibbo2286]

What's a Stovie dad?

[mickthemaverick]

Sliced potatoes mixed with coursely chopped onion and leftover meat or even sausage chunks, season with S&P and then in a saucepan with a little liquid, water or broth or gravy etc. Then lid on and steam for half an hour or so!! At least I think thats what Andy used to do!!

[Gibbo2286]

I'll have to give that a miss then, no spanners involved.

[mickthemaverick]

That's true but you could cook it in a brake drum and then wash it down with a screwdriver!!

[mickthemaverick]

Another posting milestone for me today warranting a celebratory picture. Having managed to keep this run going from post 100 to this 7000th post I have decided to make this the last of my celebratory cars with appropriate sized engines (Cheers from the audience ) So to complete the set here is an obvious choice to me as the first version of a Ford Galaxie long before the MPV we eventually got in the UK. I had a friend in the US airforce stationed in Huntingdon (Alconbury) who owned this exact same model in terms of fit and finish!! We used to go pub crawling around the fens in it to the envy of many passers by!!

Created from the internet

[NewcastleFalcon]

Thread of the day

Energy matters Global and Domestic
https://www.frenchcarforum.co.uk/forum/ ... 47#p697147

Picture of the Day
BP Boss Standing in front of a picture slide indicating BP's Plan for their Oil and Gas Production to get smaller by 40% by 2030.

REgards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

How's your plums?

Finest crop ever from our 15 year old ish £5 lidl or aldi tree, which has been a bit reticent in previous years to produce anything other than a handful. Much of that is propably due to my over vigorous pruning ignorance.

So lets have a few pictures fruit growers. There is an apple tree near us which in 2020 and all previous years was absolutely laden but this year has literally zero apples.

Regards Neil

[myglaren]

The cherry trees outside mine usually are laden by now and drop cherries on the ground that get tramped into the house.
None this year, the birds ate them as they formed. Pigeons mainly.
Can't say that I am displeased.

[Gibbo2286]

Not so many this year but still enough to make some jam I think. Tree's going to need pruning this autumn getting out of hand.

[NewcastleFalcon]

Autumn's "mellow fruitfulness" is also a time of "mellow wastefulness" as the bounty of fruit lies rotting on the ground. Yes all the rotting fruit will keep the odd wasp going maybe even get them a little tipsy, and miraculously nature will clear it up with its collection of fungi bacteria and microscopic life forms, and it will retun to the good earth from whence it came.

Time of year for an annual visit to the New Forest to Jack Hargreaves and his cronies

I reckon you could get a quite a few of trailer loads of excess apples/pears/plums from any community, you certainly could from our little corner of Northumberland. Community juicing or maybe cider making has not yet taken off, although many years ago I rememberJack Hargreaves and his cronies probably down Hampshire/Dorset way doing a bit of communal pressing at harvest time

Of course the chapter and verse of old country communal apple pressing and cider making is told by Jack Hargreaves here from 8 minutes in onwards. No money changes hands of course. The first bit of the programme is about freeze branding of New Forest ponies.

Daily Motion:Out Of Town With Jack Hargreaves - Ep 22

Regards Neil

[NewcastleFalcon]

Autum is a good season for Mushrooms too.

This one I think is a Shaggy Parasol, not a great eating mushroom and can cause gastric "upsets". The Parasol..not much different is a good eating mushroom

https://www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/

Etal Castle Mushroom

REgards Neil

[mickthemaverick]

The arch enemy of my fruit production!!

Own work

[Gibbo2286]

Do you eat him fried or boiled Mick?

[mickthemaverick]

Deep fried in batter as per best Glasgow cuisine!!

[myglaren]

Horrible things.
There is a tree outside my next door neighbours and has has watched a swarm of them come past the houses and up the tree in an evening, then back down in the morning.
He was telling me earlier today that he is finding them in his house now.