Sue

And maybe do a spellcheck at the same time? ETA: Before some pedant tells me that should be spell check - I prefer it as one word :))

MissNoodlesHats Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- their are certainly > deep irish roots in Southwark. Deeper say than the > goose green fair, xxxxxx The Irish Festival has always been on Peckham Rye so far as I know, the Goose Green fair is a different event and unconnected to anything Irish I think.

Ah. Ta!

But do you have to count them? :X

Frankito Wrote: > > Also I planted out a fig tree tge year before last > and not a sausage, I mean a fig, yet. Will it ever > bear fruit? There is a great one which hangs over > Scutari Rd (around Mundania) and it drips with > figs. Jell...! xxxxxxx I've got a fig planted in quite a small pot which has a few figs each year, but I hate figs - I just like the leaves! You probably have to give it time and sun, also I have read that they like their roots restricted, hence the pot (although that was taking things to extremes ....)

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > My first ever, and only because it had been > hanging there for 4 hours. xxxxxx Please put me out of my misery and explain this 100 thing :-$

MissNoodlesHats Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- >I'm part Irish but would > agree this is not a particularly 'Irish area' in > terms of immigrant profile. xxxxxx The Irish shop in Lordship Lane has been there for many years, and surely it must be doing OK or it would have closed down? And I'm assuming that probably it's mainly people of Irish origin who shop there?

Plough_Dulwich Wrote: > > Sue - thank you for your lovely comments about our > pub, we really do look forward to seeing you soon. xxxxxx I used to come to the Plough quite a bit, but I stopped going due to less than great experiences there. If you are succeeding in turning it around, then I genuinely wish you very good luck with it and I hope you do very well, but comments made on other threads concerning relatively recent poor service haven't yet inclined me to give the Plough another chance - sorry. Hopefully there will soon be lots of glowing reports as a result of your hard work which will change my mind.

Toddinator Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm glad so many of you like to save snails too. I > collected them all from my garden once in a bucket > and emptied them into the grounds of Brixton > church. > xxxxxxxxx I'm sure the gardeners in the neighbourhood of the church were very grateful for your thoughtfulness :))

Shouldn't this be in the lounge?

m? That's a bit cryptic :))

Monica, do hardy geraniums count as suitable for a physic garden? I have a few spare you can have if so.

Great grapes!!

You are so lucky having the space to grow all that, LadyDeliah! I'm extremely jealous!

Sadly I think it probably was. If you had lost your wallet, would you not phone a friend or relative for help to get home, or maybe ask at the ticket office if they could help? Or the police? I've done the same thing - gave someone money who claimed the same as your guy, then realised too late that it's highly unlikely someone in this position would approach a total stranger in the street. Did he ask for your address so that he could return the loan? Has he contacted you? Sorry. But let's be grateful we're the nice people we are and not the con merchants, eh?

I haven't been able to use the search function at all for some time, regardless of what I put into it - long words included. All I get is "your search is running, please be patient" for hours. Is anybody else having the same problem?

Can anyone reassure me that just because I haven't seen any froglets for a week doesn't mean they may not be hiding in my garden somewhere? Or has Dave the ancient cat who sits in my garden and seems to think I am a great friend of his finally managed to catch something? No froggies either in the tub or in the surrounding plants :-S

Thanks Minkey, I'll go and pick them now!!

I bought a small strawberry pot complete with strawberry plants in flower/starting to fruit in Homebase reduced to about six pounds recently - I assumed they probably wouldn't do anything so late in the year and I've got no idea what variety the strawberries are, but you've given me hope they might actually ripen before the Winter! I tried one of my hanging basket tomatoes (Micro - I thought it was intended for hanging baskets and had very small fruits, but have now discovered I confused it with another variety and it's just a very small plant!) and despite being very red it didn't taste of much, which was rather disappointing - not sure when to pick tomatoes, do you have to wait till they come easily off the stem?

I guess The Plough has got to make some money somehow :))

Mic88 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > my partner has gone into the first stage of > labour, so we were fretting how long this would > last! good job it is hospital birth. God it is > going to be long night. xxxxx Hey, good luck :)

Training film on how not to run a pub?

Loads of helpful stuff online if you google, Marlene, just put in "blossom end rot".

Blossom end rot, sounds like :-S Loads of stuff about it online if you google, eg http://organicgardening.about.com/od/diseases/p/blossomendrot.htm I have tomatoes growing in a hanging basket which are ripening OK, mixture of red, orange and still green at the moment.

Thanks John! DulwichFox, you are correct but that information wasn't much help in understanding its relevance to a thread entitled ED Nature Watch :))