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Post by graceomalley on Mar 16, 2024 13:14:39 GMT
Today,opening windows,lovely and sunny,warm🌞,cleaning out winter gunge,shopping for beer shortly for 3 rugby games,good luck all,whatever your colours🏈and chicken checking,she was definitely brighter this morning😁
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Post by bernie on Mar 17, 2024 14:14:14 GMT
We have been to Mevagissey today for a walk or at least that was the plan but the wind off the sea was like needles in your face so we ended up in a bar drinking coffee by the fire. Some fishermen were getting their boats ready to go out and I thought they are either to be admired or pitied. It's a hard life but we forget just how harsh the sea can be. Nice post Bernie ... good to be reminded of real homegrown, home sourced food. I remember holidays in Port Gaverne and Port Isaac ... where me dad bought mackerel straight off the boats ... back when food tasted of sommat. I reckon the most appropriate thought might be "RESPECT" ... there are still folk prepared and kitted out to go do the job ... not working on big factory ships emptying the seas of fish and processing and freezing and packing the creatures direct for the big food chains. Your post prompted me to have a look see if Cornish mackerel could be purchased direct, or at least more directly .... more expensive than the 1.05p tins from the Co-op ... but well - maybe would be really savoured and appreciated ..... interesting anyway ... to be reminded about how far from the true cost of things, my buying habits have become ... lazy ... irresponsible ... feckless ... mebbe time to walk the talk Jenn
Appreciate the nudge ... ta
You don't need to buy mackerel in Cornwall you can catch them off the harbour wall in Mevagissey with a light spinning rod and a feather lure. Even a bit of silver paper wrapped around the hook. Many a happy hour spent dangling my tackle over the side of the sea wall....... |
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Post by ma bungo on Mar 17, 2024 19:22:44 GMT
Bernie , you have bought back childhood memories of my 'dangler'.I spent many a happy 5 or 6 minutes hanging it of the end of southend peir hoping for a big catch . The line was orange on a small wooden frame , strong enough to asbseil off ,a hook big enough to catch moby dock , and a lead weigth that could of made my first fortune in scrap .
It was aquirred with bait on a family holiday to Torqhey ? Some Harboury sort of dump . We had a caravan for the week balanced on a cliff edge with suitable weather for a 8 year old I&I to have more to worry about than pissing the already stinky bed. i think I got bought the Dangler with Bait to shut my moaning up . fucking parents then never let me get a go while on holiday , but back fired on pappa as bait got fogot in car boot and left legacy stink .... but revenge came in me insisting (think spoilt bastaed in Viz) we go to end of southend peir on regular basis as we lived in essex and luckily train ride etc mad it popular , but I never got more then 5 minutes before eveyone was moaning , but at least that full scale testicle wart jamie oliver wasnt there then .
today been a wood cutting , tomato pricking out and trying to make our overflowing septic tank less in our face and letting gravity take care in a speeding it off down the hill into infinity . (only joking )
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Post by givingitsomethought on Mar 18, 2024 14:11:46 GMT
I'm just laughing at people dangling their tackle  I know, I ought to grow up Lol. I had the most bizarre experience today, there was a large yellow thing in the sky emitting both heat and light. Was very perplexing, I had to take my cardigan off! Lol |
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Post by VanWoman84 on Mar 18, 2024 16:32:43 GMT
I'm just laughing at people dangling their tackle I know, I ought to grow up Lol. I had the most bizarre experience today, there was a large yellow thing in the sky emitting both heat and light. Was very perplexing, I had to take my cardigan off! Lol One very rainy summer we were caretaking an empty country pub opposite a wood and open countryside. After literally weeks of rain, there was a break in the deluge and we took a walk in the woods. Suddenly through the trees we saw a glow, it had been so long since the rain had stopped, we actually thought of calling the fire brigade before we realised it was the sun!! |
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Post by ma bungo on Mar 18, 2024 16:59:39 GMT
It's nuts !!! We got a blue sky ffs! Has some 'one' paid for their colour licence? Just wish they would default on the water rates.
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Post by givingitsomethought on Mar 19, 2024 8:24:03 GMT
I'm just laughing at people dangling their tackle I know, I ought to grow up Lol. I had the most bizarre experience today, there was a large yellow thing in the sky emitting both heat and light. Was very perplexing, I had to take my cardigan off! Lol One very rainy summer we were caretaking an empty country pub opposite a wood and open countryside. After literally weeks of rain, there was a break in the deluge and we took a walk in the woods. Suddenly through the trees we saw a glow, it had been so long since the rain had stopped, we actually thought of calling the fire brigade before we realised it was the sun!! Lol it's amazing how you get used to not seeing it! Caretaking an empty country pub sounds good Vannie, was there any beer left? |
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Post by givingitsomethought on Mar 19, 2024 8:26:02 GMT
It's nuts !!! We got a blue sky ffs! Has some 'one' paid for their colour licence? Just wish they would default on the water rates. We had half a day of it Bungo and then it decided it had perplexed enough people and left. Maybe it came your way Today we are back to a sky of cloud and that constant drizzle that makes you think you'll be alright without a coat and then you get home and have to wring all your clothes out in the bathtub |
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Post by bernie on Mar 19, 2024 8:28:02 GMT
In the Bible it rained for forty days and forty nights
They called it the great flood
Here in Cornwall we call it summer
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Post by graceomalley on Mar 19, 2024 14:05:45 GMT
Today..took delivery of 10 sacks of dog food.we d not ordered any,turns out it's popcorn!!managed to forage enough soil,compost and wood chip for 3 raised beds,so they 're ready for planting.called in charity shop to donate a teddy fleece duvet cover we were given.tried it last night.too sweaty,like sleeping in a plastic bag!but charity shop had all clothes £1.so topped up my bland wardrobe with some colour.another chicken in the pen has the ENT infection,he's not looking good,but the hen looks brighter.another 🌞 day,so letting the air in.might even wash the car😁
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Post by VanWoman84 on Mar 19, 2024 15:52:39 GMT
One very rainy summer we were caretaking an empty country pub opposite a wood and open countryside. After literally weeks of rain, there was a break in the deluge and we took a walk in the woods. Suddenly through the trees we saw a glow, it had been so long since the rain had stopped, we actually thought of calling the fire brigade before we realised it was the sun!! Lol it's amazing how you get used to not seeing it! Caretaking an empty country pub sounds good Vannie, was there any beer left? There was beer left, but it had been opened too long. There was loads of soft drink drink syrup for the mixing guns, and coffee beans for the expresso machine. Also in the kitchen the freezers had sea bass and Aberdeen Angus burgers, according to the menu we munched through £100s of pounds of food!! The pub had gone bust and the landlord just walked away. |
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Post by graceomalley on Mar 20, 2024 16:04:47 GMT
Today started helping out at a friends kennels..ache like mad tonight..but puppy overload❤it's only 1 day a week
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Post by givingitsomethought on Mar 21, 2024 14:15:34 GMT
Lol it's amazing how you get used to not seeing it! Caretaking an empty country pub sounds good Vannie, was there any beer left? There was beer left, but it had been opened too long. There was loads of soft drink drink syrup for the mixing guns, and coffee beans for the expresso machine. Also in the kitchen the freezers had sea bass and Aberdeen Angus burgers, according to the menu we munched through £100s of pounds of food!! The pub had gone bust and the landlord just walked away. I could very happily eat my way through a pub full of food, Vannie Lol |
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Post by VanWoman84 on Mar 21, 2024 14:48:06 GMT
Trust me we did! 😊
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Post by lika on Mar 22, 2024 23:48:59 GMT
Went to the doctor's.Nightmare to get an appointment. I've got a lump under my left ribs ,was really worried. Doc says it's Lipoma and nothing to worry about . Phew.
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I know, I ought to grow up 
