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3 large jars of strawberry and blueberry jam. Got it all reduced , so nice and cheap. Strawberry were a tad under a kilo, so I popped in the blueberries to bring it up to a kilo of fruit. Tastes lovely.

My usual source ... charity shop.

Tengu..don't hit me!!! 5 meters of 60 cm wide wool fabric. (£10) I'm jumping with glee. I have dreams of a full length, very full skirted medievil style kirtle. Perfick! Now I just need the linnen for the under kirtle. I can now afford to buy some good linnen, as I got the wool fabric so cheaply.

I quite like mah Jong. I found it makes my observation and memory skills better as you have to remember where the tiles are you might need a couple of moves ahead. It's also far too addictive! I like the apps that get progressively harder as you complete each puzzle.

I've just had this made for me by a local stick maker. It came home last week, just in time for this thread. It has exmoor stag horn at the top, and a lovely brass ferrule on the base. I think it's chestnut. Though I forgot to ask which wood was used. The only stipulations I gave were for...

I'd plant a couple of minni tomatoes too. I do them in hanging baskets(which you could hang off the shed on a bracket. Also a few strawberry plants along the front edge would be rather nice.

Broad beans are my favourite bean. I like then fresh from the garden, picked small, young tender and sweet, gently simmered or steamed served with fresh real butter melted over them, with a few twists of black pepper. Delicious. I grow them myself as shop bought are left far too long before...

Spuds in pots, onions red and white, shallots for pickling sweetcorn, parsnips and peas are still to show a nose, but I have 3 varieties of courget growing away nicely, and a small pumpkin. Spinach is in and doing nicely, was going to plant the beets, broad beans, carrots and lettuce this...

Lots of goodies today with my monthly trip into the nearest town. A good rechargeable battery bank, reduced to £15 in morrisons. A new fire blanket, to go with my fite extinguisher, only a metre square, but useful and nessasary in the kitchen. Over £30 worth of plants for my bee garden, and...

Yeah, been to that one in the past, it's a lovely site.

Leeford farm in the village of brendon. Cheap and cheerful. But an absolute wind tunnel!

Glad yours seem ok. Just been into town to try and buy honey and the "imported " honey is £1 more for a half pound jar than I was paying for a 1lb jar. I wish I had room for a hive or two, but the garden is much too small. Such a shame. I'd realy love to keep bees.

How are hives doing in general around the country? Here ,a year ago, I had 3 local producers. One has retired, one is thinking of giving up, another found all his bees dead, all 3 hives. (No he is not a beginner and has produced for many years.) And anther friend who produces for himself only...

I've just picked up some bags of reduced sliced mushrooms, which are in my dehydrator now. They have been in for several hours and still seem bendy, rather than crisp. ie, they don't snap, I want to do some mushroom powder,how snappy do they need to be? Is a bit of bendyness OK.? I don't want...

Thank you so much everyone. Often enter, but never come close. I never even bothered checking to see what was happening, as I'm so used to being at the bottom! so this came as a wonderful surprise. Better than an Easter egg! Cheers.