Frus - brilliant suggestion (great minds think alike!) I had some fresh pineapple, some grapes and a lovely ripe pear all cut up together and it was
Good luck with your flat hunting - an expensive business nowadays.
Helen - How did your broccoli and quinoa dish go? I can never get on with quinoa - maybe its my taste buds but to me it just takes of absolutely nothing with a really weird texture but I've got a huge box of it which I need to use up so I'm always on the look out for tasty recipes for it.
Michele - have you tried deleting your temporary memory and cookies - it sometimes helps with the kind of problems you're describing. On my browser its at:
Tools -> Internet Options -> Delete -> then choose Delete Files or Delete Cookies and follow the prompts
Oooowwwww OWWWWWW I'm in agony.... all that walking, digging and the squatting to sew seeds and plant seedlings have combined to give me my best ever work out for my lower body.... my thighs feel like Bambi's and I repeatedly got cramp in my feet and buttock muscles during the night. Owwwwwww! Poor DH was woken by me hopping around the bedroom while trying to massage my rear end.
There is some kind of conspiracy going on... last week and the week before my aged admirers were giving me spring greens, cabbage, kale, carrots and eggs - this week its cauliflowers (and eggs). I even got given some by a couple of near neighbours to our allotment. I have now got SEVEN cauliflowers most of which are HUGE - good job the dogs like cooked cauliflower. I'm all egged out - there's a limit to how many we can eat so I'm giving them away to my neighbours now.
I think I've found out why the old boys give me stuff - I met a little old lady who's the wife of one of the older admirers who told me he thinks its great that I come out from round the back of the security screen and give him a bit of love (a thank you kiss on the cheek) when he gives me the eggs.
Blummin heck - for a moment there I had to really think hard about what a 'bit of love' might be... never heard a kiss on the cheek called that before.
One of the old boys has offered to drive me in to Doncaster to go to the place where they sell seed by weight
He's at least 80 - possibly 90 - he brags that he never had to take a driving test because he started driving before they were introduced - and I've seen him driving around... he has a rickety little old car with an even ricketier old trailer on the back which he drives everywhere at about 15 mph, griping the steeling wheel so tightly that his knuckles are white and with his nose nearly touching the windscreen.
I've got a bit of a phobia about cars anyway...... I can't even BEGIN to imagine ever thinking about getting in to a car with him driving....
Poor michelle!
I'm feeling really pooped, but I'm going to get me some Red Bull or something at lunch to perk me up. Then I'm making asparagus bread pudding for tea. It's absolutely fantastic! I'll post it on the recipe thread 
I'd like to look at buying and DH I think just wants to rent. At least it will be an excuse to sort all my junk out again! One of these days I WILL be organised! 
but it's out in the burbs so driving means no drinking so I will not be eating everything in sight tonight.
Just me and the boss 
