Mike Freck

Biscuits have to be right type though.... see rich tea thats just a lie of a biscuit...its like they give up before the touch the liquid... just one dip they collapse...now hob nobs...thats the boy... you can dip them all day and really get a good soak and they still stay in one piece.... digestives are ok for a quick in and out but there cheeky... they don't fit in the cup....you have to bit the edge of so they fit.

Thats the science of biscuits!

Tea and beer is ok to drink together. The british empire was built on cups of tea!

Hey Paul my Colocasia flowered...its smelt horrible! I kept blaming the wife..lol

Ginger nuts are best - don't go all soggy

It was your plant was it Mike - thought it was the old man!!!!!!!!! ^_^

Ginger creams are fun but leaves an oily scum on the surface of the tea!

Deffinetly the colocasia! The flower now lies wilting on the compost heap...

Dale i like Gravy with my biscuits Paul

Biscuits ... and gravy....
Think your eating pedigree chum dog biscuits!

Paul got 9 little alocasia odora seedlings coming up.

Mike

Well Mike Send Me Half Paul

Send him postage, Dale.

Don't panic i'll send you one once they are big enough..They are really brittle and only have seed leaves but are about 6inches tall allready. Looks like a Ricinus seedling so far but a little bigger.

Guess who has 3 ceibia seedlings Dale? They seem to have come up a couple of days ago. I'm afraid they are not from the seed you sent but some i bought recently. Magic though.... i guess try try and try again is the way to go with some plants.

Just my blue impatien cuttings to arrive and then i think thats everything on my wish list sorted for this year! lol (yeah right)

Mike

Ginger nuts are my favourite dunking biccies too okus - as long as you judge the time right, otherwise it's ginger sludge in the bottom of your cup....... Though that can be delicious...........

The seeds I saved from the lotus flower last year weren't viable, but I managed to acquire 3 elsewhere and they are now germinated and sitting in pots in a bucket on my terrace (south facing). They all have 4 or 5 small leaves and are growing on well.
I agree that you need heat for yours Mike. It seems to make all the difference. I germinated mine using bottom heat, but now the sun is out, so they are OK outside here I think.

I've repotted my adult lotus and put lots of feed in after your suggestion phicks. That is growing a few leaves, but none are standing above the water yet :(
No need for cat litter here (though that sounds an ace idea!) - the soil in parts is such that you can dig a cube, put it on a potters wheel and make a vase!! So I use the clay straight from the garden. Cat litter might be easier on second thoughts - I'll try that for potting up my youngsters perhaps

Mike, just got back from Keys and Everglades! Biscuits here are not as we know them they are a soft roll type, very tasty and they do eat them with gravy - also not quite as we know it! I have actually gone a bit pink!

Mmmmm Biscuits!
Soft biscuits? Thats called Cake!

you should try to find a rich fuit cake here! good thing I brought all my recipes with me, and I am not keen on the bread - no crusty loaves - again I have to make my own.
Cakes are all very creamy and rich and violent colours, no pale pinks etc

They Make good bread up north the bread down here is lousy

Florida is a backwater and so is the food. SanFrancisco, Chicago and Nueva York are the places to find a proper meal.

Dale where are you from?

Paul, When?

Where was you born?

Minneapolis, Minnesota USA for the first 20 years.

Ok Silver Queen Corn

Minnieaplis! Been there...Its the weird place you can go shopping without going outside as all the buildings are linked...
Ended up in an office thinking it was a door to a shop!
Also its the county that has 4 pints of my blood... bloomin mozzies!

Been to New york too... thats was good. Its pretty clean and tidy for a big city.

American bread was like the longlife stuff you can buy here.. never found anything like our stuff...But i guess alot of the food is different.
Whats with the chocolate? Hershey bars? Yuck! Thats not chocolate its soil!

Mike how did you get in the USA ? Did You Sneak in? hey whats with those werid buses in london they have a up stairs and a down every time it makes a turn it tips over LOL Paul

Paul, Are you on a suicide mission, say nasty things about our wonderful double deckers! Where are the buses in Fl. one an hour if you are lucky. UK public transport was fantastic.
Dale, I haven't been to Minneapolis - yet, we did a trip up north and really enjoyed that. But the USA is soooo big there is much to see in every state.
Mike, you can get Cadburys here and Lindt, also Ferero Roche you just have to look. Now about the mossies - you are requested not to feed the native wildlife so why did you??? that was very naughty.

you can get Kippers here to Dont know about the Crumpets LOL

The mozzie is the State Bird, we hold them dear to our hearts.


Actually the state bird is the Loon, a kind of duck.

Here is one of the 10,000 lakes (I built this one)>

Hey Mike heres a Passion Flower Fruit for you paul

A Loon here is someone not quite right in the head!! Ring any bells anyone?

Was kind of funny going to america as all the american passengers where almost strip searched to get home and one wave of my english passport and in i go... Being related to the queen has its advantages...lol

Don't think i've ever been on a double decker bus (aka peasant wagon) i can't think of anything worse than going to London ..been a few too many times but its not really enjoyable.

Dale your state bird has the contents of my heart in its stomach! They drive you looney! lol

I lost all my passion flowers that you sent Paul. The wet get them when the greenhouse roof leaked. Just throw them this week as i clung on to them in the faint hope they might grow through.

Crumpet...now it depends what you call a crumpet...think its a north south thing over here.

think it might be a scone ??

Crumpet or scone... they are very different over here...
Simliar size i guess.

No crumpets are larger and flatter than scones and have holes all over them. Scones are thick and taste good buttered or halved with cream and jam in the middle. Crumpets need to be toasted and then buttered - completely different texture and taste.

Nearest we got to a crumpet in the US was an English Muffin but crumpets are half as thick. Receipe and picture of a crumpet here http://www.deliaonline.com/recipes/home-made-crumpets,1587,RC.html

and for scones here http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/scones_1285.shtml

Enjoy!

Which New York was that?!!! Ours doesn't run to a Post Office, got a school though and a church and a chapel.

This one . .

Ah! Up in Geordie land! I was at school in Whitley Bay, eons ago, but never noticed that one.

Only just west of Whitley Bay!

Resin do take alot of pictures of road signs? ....Its not normal you know! lol

I like Seaton sluice.... and the lighthouse... lovely long sand dunes... bloomin cold though!

I love lookin at crumpet.....ewwww errrr...lol
Delia is a little old for me though. hehe

Those Crumpets look like Cheap english muffins LOL

Phicks, I get English crumpets in Publix - but I don't see them very often.
Mike, No I don't think Resin takes lots of road sign pictures - but he has taken some good bird pics and is very knowledgable from what I have seen.
Resin, just been to the everglades and took my new camera - it was so dry we say only great egrets, blue cranes, killdeer and for me the first time red winged blackbird. It was very dissapointing, but I intend to go to Gatorland because it's nesting time there, and the egrets etc. just nest all over the place an as you walk around the boardwalk they are about 3 ft from you and never move from the nests with eother eggs or fledglings it's a lovely site to see.

Hey Seemama do you know Brandon ? they have a English German store there

phicks - English German?? Isn't that a contradiction in terms?