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Thanks for your kind thoughts everyone. We had a nice 'christmassy' day today. We went to a local small gin distillery so that OH could choose which gin he wanted as part of his Christmas present.In the same small complex of local artisan producers was a cheese stall so we bought some of that as well. We then went to our local farm shop and bought some Christmas meat and trimmings to put in the freezer 'just in case' so I think we are mostly prepared if the worst comes to the worst. We have had an email for our local Museum Society today to say that they are reverting to Zoom for the meeting next Tuesday. We are so glad as we had decided last night that as the meetings are held in a smallish room with not much room for social distancing we would not attend which was disappointing as it is a talk about Oxburgh Hall which we love. So we are now delighted.
Glad to hear that Callum is feeling better KjNnn. I hope he doesn't pass anything on to the rest of you. Our Grand-daughter is still feeling 'ropey' as a result of Covid - extremely tired and a bad headache. Hopefully she will feel better in a day or two.
It was a pleasant morning weather-wise but it is now pouring with rain.
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She was very helpful, although very busy, so I think she just wanted to us to get out of the way. They have moved the shop into the LV showroom, and are no longer carrying the amount of stock that they used to, mores the pity, but I guess it's a sign of the times.
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Re - M&S our neighbour called in a couple of weeks ago and she commented on the empty shelves, especially the ready meals as she likes to have a few in over the Christmas period. Lorry drivers or production issues I wonder?
Heddlo, we were in our local Tesco earlier in the week and they have widen some of the aisles, doing away with quite a lot of products, particularly fresh vegetables and fruit, as well as empty compartments in the freezer area.
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There you go Millie. A photo of the Church at Oxburgh. We enjoyed our visit there a few years ago now
Glad you got through a difficult day. I have been collating some photos for my nephews wedding next year, family photos that are spread far and wide but I managed to hunt down some that one of my cousins has and it includes the only photo that I have ever seen of the child my parents lost just before her 5th.birthday. As mentioned before she had Spina Bifida so it was a rare opportunity to see my never before seen sibling.
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Nellie. In the farming article link that Goldie put on here recently I noted that in the uk we are self sufficient in Swedes...can't remember the rest but I think we need to up our game or expect shopping experiences to change.
Millie. We decided not to go to a recent garden club meeting, small village hall and v chilly at this time of the year with windows open etc. Sad to be missing out but not much we can do. The club tried zoom meetings but it was very expensive and some speakers just couldn't cope with on line sessions.
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I think this has been discussed on here before, brue, but there are an awful lot of fruit and veg that we will struggle ever to grow in these islands in sufficient numbers to satisfy all year round demand however much we "up our game".
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It would be pretty good if we could "up our game" to actually pick the stuff that we do manage to grow though Nellie and then have enough home grown labour to get the stuff to the shelves. We don't seem to be able to give enough incentives to do that at the moment.
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We were in M&S the other day for some "ready meals" as we are really not feeling up to much cooking at present, but are starting to feel a little bit more like eating.
The shelves were well stocked, but it looked like they could do with more customers as there was quite a bit of "reduced" stuff.Aldi today was also well stocked, as was Lidl when I went in to buy blueberry jam. They have the best blueberry jam I have tasted in a very long time.........almost as good as my Mother used to make!
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So what do you suggest? Up the wages then the stuff will cost everyone more including those on very low incomes? or cut benefits for those that are fit to work and then forcing them to take up a job? or release more licences for foreign labour to come and do the work which then results in loud shouts that we are not employing our own citizens?
A rock or a hard place or a cliff to call off! The farmers and the government can't win whichever way they go, the countries finances are stretched to the limit already.
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Thank you so much for the photo of the church at Oxburgh WN. I remember you talking about your sister before. How lovely that you have found a photo of her. It must mean such a lot to you. We have just a few photos of our little Lucy Kate. I have a lovely one of her with our 2 older children in a frame on our dressing table. Our younger son like you with your sister, was born after she passed away.
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I don’t know why-all winter(2020) I was eating pears from Belgium, Apples too on occasion🤷🏻♂️
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I'm not surprised the country's economy is stretched, seeing as large amounts are being wasted on vanity projects like the HS2 which won't now deliver the economic benefits to the north that over £100 billion should reap. HMG seem to have suddenly found a big sofa with a bit of cash in it to fund that project, amongst others.
I was quite happy with the status quo before leaving the EU but rejoining isn't going to happen. It's up to those who took us out to solve the problem of how we replace those workers, either by stick or carrot. One would have thought that having realised their dream of being independent then they would find ways to incentivise people to work. There are plenty of financial experts in the Treasury.
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Well Good Evening Everybody
.Had a 90% great day today. Had to attend a wedding in the family today Out at Mottram Hall Not too far from Wilmslow. 12 O'clock seemed to be an ideal time for all us 'Family, Friends, Witnesses and participants ' to get there from the home village of Crewe.
Got the required clothing sorted, even as posted elsewhere, managed to tie a halfway decent Windsor knot in the tie without strangling myself or ruining a rather nice but elderly tie
.Gave myself two hours to travel the miles and find the rest of the 'audience' but just preparing to turn onto the designated approach road just short of Wilmslow when large signs and numbers of red/white cones appeared !! To by-pass that little lot I had to drive thro' Wilmslow shopping area and midmorning on a very busy pre-Christmas Saturday too !! only lost about ten minutes till I arrived to find myself in a convoy of several vehicles carrying friends and family who , using Sat Nav had been redirected several different ways to the same effect.
Apparently the flooding of the main road is a regular occurrence but no warnings are given on the Hotel Web Site Grrrrr. Still a Very pleasant half hour passed whilst renewing old acquaintances and meeting new ones in the short time whilst the 'Legal Bits' were performed before the Ceremony itself
Nobody Objected, everybody clapped, cheered & posed { for pictures !! } and the whole shebang went off an absolute treat ~~ Brian is now a very Happy Bunny !
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Maybe we are not eating enough swedes? The flavour can be quite strong and a bit of an acquired taste, a bit like sprouts.
Personally, I love all vegetables so will try anything. I thought carrots were one of the top products?
Coming from the cold north of Norway, during the war pretty much the only vegetables we could grow were potatoes and carrots.
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We buy most of our veg from the excellent fruit / veg shop in the village. In recent years we have endeavoured to buy as much UK seasonal as we can. Fortunately we love all types of greens, sprouts and root mash,😀 made with lots of different varieties including swede, which is also very nice on its own.
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I like swede and carrots mashed together as you get the best of both flavours.
David
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Swede & Carrot mash is beaut KJ, then add a sweet potato to it & you have a pukka mash👍🏻
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Whoops just seen this DK-sorry😬
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WN posted :-- Mottram Hall is a lovely place for a photo shoot
Indeed it is , WN !
Most unusually the red coated Gentleman { ? Major Domo ?
} guided us all outside for the finishing photos BUT we were grouped up facing the building with the photographer peering out and down from a third floor window snapping away as we were told ONE, TWO, THREE, CHEER & WAVE !! He got 100% success with that one, I assure you 0 -
On the subject of swede, Margaret and I have often had a friendly disagreement about what is a swede because, apparently, in the North East they often call a turnip a swede? When I speak of swede I mean a Rutabaga just so there is no confusion!!!
David
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Ha! That’s veggie road kill! Endless Summers spent in Cornwall amongst the veg fields have provided us with all sorts of free veg😁 Every morning round Threeways walking the dogs provided a free meal. Potatoes, cabbages, cauli’s, swede. Plus you can buy from roadside as well, as fresh as it gets👍
Edit, found on roadside I hasten to add, not from in fields😁
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Have got a swede veg for tonight's main meal and have looked up turnip which is a white bottom and pale purple/blue top and David you are right Rutabaga here and still the till assistant gets confused also same with Parsnip or Panais as they are here and now very popular as we can get them as most places as the locals seem to like them.
At last some sunshine and looks good for the next two weeks even into double figures as well, there has been a lot of flooding around here in fields and the local rivers Lot and Cele are flowing very fast when we went to check our friends house even had to drive through water across the road no problem for OH's 4x4, only concern yesterday was that the hunt were out everywhere even near our friends house we could hear the dogs and gunshots but thankfully not too close as we sat under our friends terrace in the sunshine to have our picnic lunch so nice to sit out again even for a short period and then came back through their village to drop a present off for friends and came back through Carjac and not so many hunt folk about thankfully.
Stay safe folks.
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I just googled this-I never knew that👍🏻-
Swedes and Turnips do come from the same family. Swede is a Swedish turnip, hence the name “swede”. They are bigger, tougher skinned, yellow fleshed and much hardier than a turnip. Turnips are the smaller ones, with smoother skin and white flesh.0
