Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

I have loads of tory friends and nearly all are ditching the liars

The married tax break is transferable.

hays yes but if both work and the wife wants it and the husband wants it
what then

Haystack, u do need to explain it toTanker as he obviously only reads/understands what he chooses

Call Harry Hill?

Broadcaster Alan Whicker dies at 87

Journalist and broadcaster Alan Whicker has died at the age of 87 after suffering from bronchial pneumonia, his spokeswoman has said.

With a TV career that stretched nearly six decades, he was best known for his long-running documentary series, Whicker's World.

How many wickets are England going to lose by?

IF they do, and it's all at an interesting stage, then by less than the number of seats UKIP will win the next election - but then that's almost a "no bet"

I see Cameron is cheating again on the health of the nation's youth for political gain.

Promise after promise.

When will he turn his back on the NHS.

What a creep.

Government rejects Labour's cigarette 'U-turn' claim

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-23281804


As many have said you can never trust a con man!

Not sure about that score.

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Manuel,

are the mirabelles plums in fruit at the moment with you.

If so, bring me a tart home. (A plum tart.)

far too early, even over here ...... surely they don't come into season (so to speak) for another 6/8 weeks?

Anytime from now - even this year I would think.

I have never seen as many plums on my 2 plum trees as I have this year, they are like large bunches of grapes - heaven knows what I am going to do with them all apart from putting a stall out the front and selling them, obviously I will use what I can. Another 6/8 weeks and Victoria here we come. I will have to get someone to come with a ladder when they are ripe before the wasps get them.

The prolonged cold winters of the past few years have given the fruit trees a real rest -unlike the milder winters of the previous few years - this results in heavier crops.

Surely you're more likely to see Mirabelles trees in north east France than in Provence.

My summer house is in the next region along from where cyners is, and I can't recall having seen Mirabelles growing. Loadsa vineyards and olives, but no Mirabelles.

wonder if you're right ...... they certainly grown plenty of fruit down here and in the luberon, including plums i'm sure ..... confess i really know mirabelles as an english hedging species

I don't know, but I do remember picking them around the Dordogne, just above Sarlat.

3m,

Jam and Slivovica.

Freeze, or even pickle like Damsons.

Serious high speed train crash south of Paris. Train split into two with one part rolling over platform and left on its side with 350 people aboard. Many deaths expected.

Frenzied speculation about the whereabouts of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been reignited after keen-eyed plane watchers noticed a discrepancy in the route a regular Aeroflot flight from Moscow has taken to Havana.



This is the usual route taken on Tuesday

Season for Mirabelles.

Emblem of Lorraine.

The mirabelle reaches maturity and is harvested from July to mid-September (Northern Hemisphere). The traditional method of shaking the trees is now mechanized, but the principle remains the same: The ripe fruits are shaken loose and collected in a net under the tree.