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That's a horrible time Maggie listening to what sort of carnage the weather is doing, then creeping out to see if stuff is ok :? , at the moment we are having snow flurries :roll: we are about 600ft above sea level here looking out to the North Sea at the front and the north York moors at the back t...

Jane and I love red cabbage too one of our favourite dinners is cabbage with mashed swede (loads of butter) salt n pepper and gravy mmmmmmmm

mmmmm love fried seaweed, my sister gave me a great recipe for garlic cabbage/kale i cant stop eating it 1 onion finely chopped 4/5 cloves garlic depending how strong you like it 1/2 cabbage or kale salt and pepper to taste in a large pan sweat the onion and garlic gently in butter then add the cabb...

yes i'm really pleased with it

i got my brussels and broad beans on the go, and my toms will be going in tomorrow, i'm going to give some of my ground a rest this year and grow a multitude of crops in containers as the soil needs to be fed and enriched, its worked so hard over the years it needs a break

This is a table runner I made from Shetland wool, herdwick, teesdale and black face Suffolk wool I cleaned then carded and then spun it's my first finished project

Woo hoo success thanks Digger superstar

Weave runner

Ha ha cheers Ina I think I made a misprint I meant to say i pad hehe !

Same here we have 70mph gust eeek ! My son in law is working in the Shetland isle's at the minute he said they have had gusts of 115mph phew !

Sorry about this I'm having trouble uploading pics from my i pad to the site, I am still a computer fossil so if you can help me please make it stupid simple for me please I just got used to the lap top then it died

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There has been a lull in the weather today so I took the chance to dig over the veg patch sow some Brussels and broad beans in the tunnel and refreshed the containers :shock: the poor old apple trees needed re tying back to their supports, so I thought I deserved a rest this afternoon and started we...

Yes carding the wool takes out all the tats! As I call them so it makes it easy to feed the wool on to the spinning wheel, at the moment I have made a table runner and a scarf it's coming along ok, I will try to post some pics

a wind tunnel at the moment Maggie down hear in Yorkshire, can't get anything done in the garden its far too wet and sodden and if I stand to long in the garden I could get blown into the north sea !!!!!!!