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  1. Missy Hellfire

    A Matter of Pride

    I agree, there are many fine places to eat here in the UK that are both privately owned and unhomogenised and take pride in what they do. My point was mainly about the level of pride that these little American joints seem to have in what they do; it seems almost palpable (although British...
  2. Missy Hellfire

    A Matter of Pride

    I got home from work today and saw that Man vs Food programme where that chap goes around the US taking on various eating challenges in diners and eateries. Though the amount of food consumed is nothing short of obcene and the food served far from healthy but one thing occurred to me; the...
  3. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    We had a very early spring so some of my garden is doing beautifully now although we're having some strong winds that are threatening my beans and I am having a problem with the blackbirds eating my peas so I am thinking of investing in a net. I put my cucumbers in the greenhouse a couple of...
  4. Missy Hellfire

    What is your favorite aircraft of all time?

    Lancaster bomber... Lots of people love Spitfires as you can't beat the sound of a Merlin engine, but the lanc has four :D This is Just Jane, she lives at East Kirkby airfield in Lincolnshire and I took this shot this afternoon. Just Jane taxis at the moment but has just taken delivery of some...
  5. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    Gosh, I can't imagine a dearth of rhubarb! I've planted my runner beans out today and I am going to pot my cucumbers on and plant out the first wave of peas. I shall post some pictures when there is someting to see! Should I be blessed with beans, does anyone know any good ways of...
  6. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    Colonel, what a wonderful blog! How about that chicken snake? We don't have anything of the sort here in the UK so I don't quite know what I would do if I found a fellow like that in my chicken coop! Canning isn't so big here in the UK I think, we are more likely to preserve our produce by...
  7. Missy Hellfire

    Marlowe nominated for "Chap of the Year"

    My vote has been cast in your favour, sir :)
  8. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    Colonel, your garden is magnificent! Oh for the beautiful Florida weather rather than the capricious beastie which is the British weather. It has been unseasonably warm here at the moment, about 20 or so degrees centigrade but I'm wary to put my cucumbers and courgettes in the greenhouse just...
  9. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    She's half staffordshire bull terrier, quarter whippet and a quarter jack russell, it's combination that makes for an eccentric dog! :p My runner beans are turning into triffids on the dining room windowsill and it's stilll too early to plant them out, eek!
  10. Missy Hellfire

    Are you modest on the beach or will you wear a bikini?

    I am about as modest on the beach as one can get without wearing a burkha! Rue, I am with you on the bathing suits, I have been looking for one for a while now! As it is, I have a bathing suit that covers as much as I can get it to cover and it has a skirt that comes to just above my knee. I...
  11. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    She likes to dig the onions up and hurl them around the garden! then again, I always knew she was a wierdo :P
  12. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    I've put the beefsteak tomatoes into the greenhouse and my cucumbers and runner beans are really sprouting up beautifully. The tomatoes that I have propagating are the Moneymaker variety (not ideal but easily available and a 1950s variety, I believe). My courgettes (zucchini) remain stubborn...
  13. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    Lovely stuff James and 7 plants should give you a beautiful crop, especially with the California sun shining on them! What manner of tomatoes do you have? I've got beefsteak tomatoes and just the regular multipurpose variety. We can't get Superthrive over here but I always do as my...
  14. Missy Hellfire

    Your personality traits~ best and worst

    Ooer... I can't think of any good stuff but a whole assortment of bad! Best trait - I am told that I always put others first. Worst trait - I worry incessantly about anything and everything!
  15. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    Geiamama - Of course! It's a Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall recipe so nothing tip top secret. I have copied it from the River Cottage Cookbook: 6kg/13lb ripe tomatoes, roughly chopped 8 medium onions, peeled, halved and sliced 2 large red peppers, seeds and white filament removed, chopped...
  16. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    Lokar - 7 out of 22 allotments being used? Crikey! I've heard of places here with 20 year waiting lists! I think that mad-keen allotmenteering seems to be a peculiarly British thing, perhaps as you say because of the impact of rationing on the British psyche, even 70 years later. Loungers...
  17. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    James - All that beautiful citrus fruit, what an absolute delight! It is too wild and wooly where I am in the UK to even dream of growing citrus without a glasshouse. Geiamama - I shall have a look at that book, it looks brilliant! I know what you mean about allotments, the only reason that...
  18. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    Ooh an orange tree, bliss! (and the thing of dreams for me!) Where I live most gardens have an apple, a pear, a cherry or a plum tree but sadly the one that was in our garden is long gone although next door's apple tree has the courtesy to overhang into our garden which gave us a beautiful crop...
  19. Missy Hellfire

    Gardens vegetable, flower or other?

    Summer is coming in the Northern Hemisphere and for many of us our thoughts turn towards the garden. I enjoy vegetable gardening and try and give as much of my garden as possible over to it although I am limited by what I am allowed to do as our property is rented. My partner and I used to...
  20. Missy Hellfire

    Time Warp Towns

    Here in the UK there is a bit of a campaign going on because the small individually owned shops in our towns are being either pushed out and replaced by chain stores or being closed down by giant stores like Wal-Mart (called ASDA here) robbing them of business. So many places now have...

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