What eating treats do you or your OH buy only at Christmas?   I buy Cheese Footballs, puff pastry straws, Turkish delight and fudge for P.  It's maltesers, Lindor, cambazola cheese and butter for me.  Mind you, we are eating these things up after Christmas  when in reality we should be cutting back and getting back to our pre-Christmas weight.

I've decided mine is a fried egg between two sliced of buttered toast. Naturally I spread the yolk out so I get a bit of yolk in every bite!

The 2021 Seed and Plant Catalogues have started tumbling through the door. 

Let's review them - their appearance, quality, offers and suitability for recycling.
Anything taken your fancy yet?

I had Chiltern Seeds before Christmas - one of my favourites. Lots of words, few pictures, some humour and you learn Latin. A Keeper.

T&M arrived yesterday - 3 catalogues, probably a lot of duplication. Haven't opened them - not tempted. Probably be in recycling next week.

Marshalls (?and Unwins) came today. Really attractive paper envelope covered with illustrations of flowers and veg. Would make great recycled seed envelopes. Who could resist their "Little Book of Seeds 2021"?
Well illustrated and general advice on where to sow/plant/harvest. Useful.

Anyone have any idea what these horrible looking things are, please? 
Looks like eggs???
Appeared in last couple of days.
Have put a 10p and 5p to give an idea of size.
Thought about throwing them in pond for goldfish??
Whoops having trouble adding a photo!
Keeps saying too big even though I’ve edited it to make it much smaller

When on the computer I have come across a lot of sites which asks that you accept cookies, as I haven't a clue what these are I just leave the site and try somewhere else, but that is getting more and more difficult to do that, so can anyone tell me what cookies are and what they will do to my computer, in simple terms please

Here in the south we don't get much snow, and when we do it is an EVENT.  Let's have some pictures from the rest of you where you get some real weather, not the stuff we wish washy southerers get.

We had a very light dusting yesterday and it's all gone today so no pics from me.

In the past I've set up a signature.  I haven't got one at the moment and want to add one.  I go to 'edit signature', type in my text, tap either 'update signature' or 'preview signature ' and an error message telling me I don't have access to this operation Error 403.  What am I doing wrong?

I am just wondering what folks have been binging on with lock downs and winter and no ladies chocolate is not included, I have just finished watching all 62 episodes of Still Game which gives a lot of Scottish humour if you want to give it a try and working my way through Line of Duty so what have you been watching or reading?

I feel another experiment coming on!

There are a couple of techniques to make the most of a small growing space:-
Intercropping - growing a row of fast growing veg between a row of slower veg - so you can harvest the fast ones whilst the  slow ones are still growing
Interplanting - much the same except the fast veg are planted between the slow ones in the row.

If you're crafty, you can do both and get 3 veg from the same space. Something like a row of parsnips (slow) with radish , marking the row and lettuce between the rows.

I remembered all this when I was sowing some carrots in a planter today - how can I grow more in this pot? Maybe there's more to consider than whether its a fast or a slow grower - its the way that they grow and the space they occupy. What if you grew a root crop, a shoot and a leafy crop. Say carrots, spring onions and lettuce together. The carrots need the root space but have airy leaves, spring onions are just straight up and down and lettuces can be as small or leafy as you choose. 

So that's my plan, 3 veg in one pot - 2 quick ones and one slower one. 

Combination suggestions welcome.

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