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Same here Eric but still prefer it done in the oven and coming out with a nice skin on it. Also love it with Nutmeg on it but wife doesn't, so guess who wins.

Perhaps a little off track but just thinking of all the work and money that has gone into getting these rockets into space, yet the Osprey chicks I have been watching since they hatched, [on the Loch of the Lowes web site], now just over 4 months old, will soon be taking off for a journey of...

Mine aren't either Stokkie !!!!

Whilst we do have a variety of birds coming into the garden there are certainly not as many as there used to be, much to our disappointment. However, we don't know what takes place early in the morning long before we are up. Saddened last week to find a dead blackbird in the pond. They usually...

My first holiday was in August 1946, an exchange holiday with Dutch children arranged by Handsworth Tech. Dutch Kids came over here and stayed for two weeks with us and we then went over there and stayed for two weeks with Dutch families. There was no cost for accommodation but £25 for travel...

Does anyone know if the chippy at the corner of Abbey Road and Slade Road Erdington still exists? That was our local and I still remember taking the Birmingham Mails to them for wrapping the fish and chips in

That brings back memories !!!

The other question that could be asked, " What is a pantograph?"

As I said before I'm sure it is ants. We had two piles of sand earlier this year and my wife had seen ants there. The one was on the drive which is block paved and I couldn't believe how much sand had been brought up overnight. I used Nippon and since then no signs of it returning

Looks to me as though you have an ants nest there. I always use Nippon on them and it gets rid of them easily

Thanks for those photos Vivienne, they're great. As Andrew implied there is certainly something different about them

Excuse my ignorance but what is challah bread, Can't ever remember hearing the word. My wife always makes two loaves of white bread on a Saturday, and then takes one of them to Church on Sunday, having a list of people who scramble for it. One loves it with cheese another with jam. Can't beat...

All Mod. Con. there !!!

Excuse my ignorance Lynn but what is the Barra site looks interesting

Hope this wont be boring but raise a laugh. In 1956, I had very little money and I bought a 1932 Morris minor or £7.10s. I stripped the engine completely and rebuilt it, adjusted all the brakes etc and painted it black. My cousin taught me to drive and when he and my foreman at work thought i...

Pete, He/she is lovely. Would love another dog but too old to look after one now

We had the same two years ago but it was the squirrels. Last year built a frame work round the tree which saved them. Now this year we have not had one flower on it and the tree has sprouted way out of the netting. Come to the conclusion it's easier to buy them from the shop

Very mixed year for fruit and flowers. Had no cherries and only a few strawberries but lots of Tayberries and Apples. All the hydrangeas flowering well but no poppies.

It saddens me so much to see and hear of the deterioration of the places I knew as a child. Being born in Abbey Road Erdington and living there for 25 years I remember so much of the area including the High Street and also places like the Soho Road when at school at Handsworth Tech. Had reason...

Wonderful garden you have there Martin, thanks for photos