I would just like to say

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Stanleysteamer said:
I just thought I'd say I have just strung our onions. Never had to do that before as we have never had such a good crop! I used the Jack Hargreaves method. Seemed to go OK. We'll see!
But what I would really like to ask is, do you have a favourite way of preserving Haricots Verts? We have a glut and are wondering if it would be simplest to freeze them, presumably after blanching Don't fancy preserving them in jars, I am the only one to eat them so small frozen packets would be simpler.
What do you think?;):)
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The normal way to preserve any type of bean is to dry them ,but with green beans in the pods , we normally blanch and freeze but only pour boiling water over them to keep them crispy if you over Blanche thay go a bit limp and soggy, also we have done them in honey and vinegar loverly with cold meat in the wintertime
 
Stone56 said:
The normal way to preserve any type of bean is to dry them ,but with green beans in the pods , we normally blanch and freeze but only pour boiling water over them to keep them crispy if you over Blanche thay go a bit limp and soggy, also we have done them in honey and vinegar loverly with cold meat in the wintertime
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Thanks mate, the freezing method is what we will use!!
If we tried to dry them they'd prolly just rot! 👍 👍 👍
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I just thought I'd say I have just strung our onions. Never had to do that before as we have never had such a good crop! I used the Jack Hargreaves method. Seemed to go OK. We'll see!
But what I would really like to ask is, do you have a favourite way of preserving Haricots Verts? We have a glut and are wondering if it would be simplest to freeze them, presumably after blanching Don't fancy preserving them in jars, I am the only one to eat them so small frozen packets would be simpler.
What do you think?;):)
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I have the complete set of "Out of town " good watching in winter to keep yourself motivated, did you know he was not a farmer and never had been 😮
 
Wimblowdriver said:
Today I have mostly been pulling yet more weeds out of me grass. Got a triangular strip along the side of the driveway about 8 metres long and 2 metres wide at one end, with soft borders full of shrubs. Three days (well, part days, I ain't that hard a worker) to clear it of bindweed and plantain (not the bananas, lawn weed type). There was that much of it, there is hardly any grass left. So gave it a rake over and chucked some grass seed over it. Leaving it to the weather to water it (had a few showers already), no doubt the spuggies and meeces will have their share.
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Two of the hardest weeds to get rid of good luck 😯 1 year seed 7 years weed
 
Stone56 said:
I have the complete set of "Out of town " good watching in winter to keep yourself motivated, did you know he was not a farmer and never had been 😮
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I had no idea although tbh he never seemed to appear to be a farmer. Just some sort of a bloke who knew about country stuff. I only vaguely know who he is and just recognised him so thought "He might be ok with this!"
I don't tend to watch gardening progs, the other half is the gardener here, I am just the grunt who does the heavy work. But her physical condition is such that I am now having to do stuff she would normally do. When we are in the UK, and even sometimes not, if we have a gardening problem we talk to our middle dottir and her husband who do gardening/horticultural stuff for a living. Not sure if they would string onions though, we'll have to ask them!;)
 
Stone56 said:
Preservation of the crops in full swing View attachment 348571View attachment 348572
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Impressive stuff.

We're getting close to grape harvest time
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Stanleysteamer said:
We too have our entire vinyl colllection and also cassettes.
We can play the vinyls on one of several of our machines, but we don't have a working cassette player, except in a car, which is flipping annoying.
We buy "music centres" or "stereos" at auctions from time to time hoping the cassette will work and they never seem to.
Yet more school days to come I expect.
W keeps saying that her collection of early Beatles albums is worth good money! Well maybe, but I doubt it, as she has actually played them!

I love the idea of a record that can clear a pub! 🤣
A landlord I knew in a Devon valley used to put radio 4 on to encourage latecomers to leave after time was called, then we could have a lock-in!;)
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I should have said 'our' rather than 'my', like you we do both have vinyl from years ago and a few duplicates appear such as two copies of Queen Sheer Heart Attack, David Bowie Ziggy Stardust & Spiders, Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road... Also a big box of cassettes in the loft but haven't looked at those for a while. A few cassette players which work but also have some which don't, the usual fix is new drive belts and you can still find places which can fix them.

I have occasionally thought about getting some second hand hifi gear of reasonable quality, I did have a decent but old deck which broke down years ago and I was persuaded to let go some nice Wharfedale speakers, at the moment relying on a cheapish music centre (W's) which doesn't really do the records justice - oh and the tape decks don't work...
 
Stanleysteamer said:
They, like sadly Opel Manta A series are getting rarer and rarer.
I loved mine, it was the first car I ever did 100 mph in, and the faster it went the better it settled into/onto the road. Sadly a 4 geared one but still, and it was reasonably economical. You do still usually see at least one at car shows.
Got written off just after I got the new MOT on it :rolleyes: . A line of cars got rearended, I was the front one.
All started by a learner driver, with 3 mates in the car, was trying to change a cassette just coming off a roundabout and never noticed a whole line of stationary cars waiting for the woman in front of me to turn right. about 4 or 5 all right offs. everyone got whiplashed too as so many cars then didn't have headrests. We, my ex, and I did too. Must have been in 1983. :(:(:(
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Was that an Open Manta or R17? Either way a sad end.

I saw a Manta near Faro and got a couple of pics, think it was an 'A', it certainly had old plates on it, the ones when Portugal had white on black raised plastic numerals which looked a bit like the old UK ones. I'll have to find the pics, it was nearly 15 years ago thinking about it.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
Well you've done it now!
there'll be a whole pile of links to other car based songs!

How's about "Hello John, gotta new motah?" Alexie Sayle? (CBA to find a link, fings to do!!) Edit when I remembered the propah title!
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By the way I think it was "Ullo John! Gotta new Motor?" Can't put my hand on it at the moment, its in a big box under another big box but I recall he's leaning on the back of a Cortina on the cover looking like you wouldn't want to meet him up a dark alley.
 
Stanleysteamer said:
I had no idea although tbh he never seemed to appear to be a farmer. Just some sort of a bloke who knew about country stuff. I only vaguely know who he is and just recognised him so thought "He might be ok with this!"
I don't tend to watch gardening progs, the other half is the gardener here, I am just the grunt who does the heavy work. But her physical condition is such that I am now having to do stuff she would normally do. When we are in the UK, and even sometimes not, if we have a gardening problem we talk to our middle dottir and her husband who do gardening/horticultural stuff for a living. Not sure if they would string onions though, we'll have to ask them!;)
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Jack did every thing to do with country life ploughing shooting fishing coopering cider making tractors cars not much he didn't make a program about man after my own hart
 
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