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 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.

Fred Ive got 5 plumb trees at this new house.

They tend to be green then go yellow as the summer moves on.

Last year I had just moved in and left them for the birds and animals as obviously I had to sort internal decorations etc etc out.

What are they likely to be and would they be any good for home brewing wine??.

Cheers.

Well its out in the open Torries will un ringfence NHS Education and Foreign Aid IF they get in at next election ho ho ho ha ha ha he he he .

Osbourne says he wont raise Taxes.

Fishfinger,

A small word of advice. It's very important to ensure your plumb trees remain vertical at all times.

I have doubts that you understand what being on the level means.

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Good to know this con leadership is dependent on taxation from cigarettes and alcohol in order to keep in with an Australian friend.

What a party.

Ha ha ha ha I had to look Fred I just had to look.

Hilary sound advise from somone whose laid on her back most of the day ho ho ho he he he he.

Absolute corker set up.

Hilary back on filter.

Fred always got the impression Hilary was a bit of a muck tub.

Now I know why Hays is always around her.

Don't forget that Blair took £1m donation to Labour from F1 to allow cigarette advertising. As usual Labour corruption trumps everyone's.

sticky - your plums may be oullins gage, though there are quite a few plums that turn golden

Hilary is far too intelligent for you gf, you are obviously more used to trying to chat up the slappers in your local. She won, game set and match with you, long ago.:-)

Three girls named Marie, Alexis and Taylor were driving through the country, when all of a sudden their car stalls. Marie remembers seeing a farm a little ways back, so her and Alexis walk to the farm, leaving Taylor guarding the car.
When Marie and Alexis get to the farm, they tell the farmer what happened. The farmer raises a gun to their head and tells them to get a fruit, vegetable, whatever, just get something from the garden. Marie grabs a plum, and Alexis grabs a single grape. Just as they come back into the farmer's house, Taylor walks in. He tells Taylor to do the same as they just did, and Taylor heads off towards the garden. While she's out in the garden, the farmer tells Marie and Alexis to shove whatever they have up their ass, and who ever laughs, dies. Marie laughs first, so the farmer shoots her. Then Alexis laughs and she gets killed too.
So they are floating out of their bodies, and Alexis asks Marie why she died. Marie said that the thought of sticking a plum up your ass was just too funny. Marie then asked Alexis why she laughed, Alexis said: "I saw Taylor coming around the corner with a watermelon!

d4

Slappers may be above his station. Agree about Hilary wiping the floor with him.

Broad should have walked without awaiting the umpire's decision
in professional golf especially, players regularly penalise themselves even when their infraction would never ever have been spotted by anyone else

there's a couple of old but relevant cricket-related adages
play a straight bat
that's just not cricket

it's very sad that today's cricketers never learnt these, let alone were never taught to abide by them and their inherent spirit, regardless that the letter of the law allows the batsman to await the umpire's decision