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Hope the fish pond turns out nice for the nice little fishys
posted by
Lanetay
on May 28, 2016 at 7:33 AM
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Re: Re: C_C_T
No I didn't think you were into mining, now Femina, I used to write too was always exploring mines in California. She told me once that she kicked some boards and they crumbled. Down in a hollow was an old goldminers kind of makeshift home , I expect there was a ladder but it obviously had not been left for visitors.. 
posted by
C_C_T
on May 28, 2016 at 7:22 AM
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It's nice to be able to try those different foods. T'ain't my experience in the mines, tis only a bit here and there I had gleaned from me mam tellin' of the tales. Perhaps one day...
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on May 27, 2016 at 11:49 AM
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Re: Kabu
Oh' no dearie they would not set me up, it was hard graft in those days. We caught snakes and skinned them alive. While you were drinking cold coke I was shoveling hen manure, I think I shall enhance my garden with a few old dustbins and burnout out copper cauldrons. Been planting Dahlias all day, knackered. I told Archie that we would leave them in the ground next winter and let them chance it.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 27, 2016 at 11:23 AM
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Re: I think anyone in the coal business earns every dime he makes...
It was a filthy job Pat My great Aunt used to hold a towel in front of her son Bill .He always had a bit of a wash in front of the open fire before going home. Not a lover of jam,but I like exotic fruits.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 27, 2016 at 11:13 AM
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I don't think I have either FS. I shall have to buy a couple and try them. Bevin boys as they were called were recruited in the war to man the pits I don't know which was worse in those days.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 27, 2016 at 11:04 AM
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Mairgolds growing on a coal tip Bill.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 27, 2016 at 11:00 AM
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I like it Taps probably but I can never bother to fire up the toaster.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 27, 2016 at 10:59 AM
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Only a few use it now Taps , The price would be enough to put one off, Of course the clean air legislation knocked it on the head.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 27, 2016 at 10:58 AM
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I guess it is a matter of taste exotic fruits would make an expensive jam here. Archie helps a fruit seller at a boot sale most Sundays and brings back loads of the spare fruit afterwards. You must tell some stories of your smoky experience black diamonds perchance.
posted by
C_C_T
on May 27, 2016 at 10:55 AM
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Kiwi is not bad. Wouldn't mind trying it in a jam. Have had in juices that I've made. Coal, yes, I have old stories of coal towns. Not the most pleasant way to earn a living, at least to my way of thinking. 
posted by
Sea_Gypsy
on May 26, 2016 at 10:27 PM
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When I was a child, we had a coal furnace. I loved watching the coalman deliver the coal and shovel it down the chute into the basement area near the "beast" that consumed it.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 26, 2016 at 9:57 PM
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Baltimore Sis is coming first of June. She loves Jam on toast and muffins. I shall have to make her some kiwi jam. I think I will try a combo for me of kiwi and jalapeños.
posted by
TAPS.
on May 26, 2016 at 9:55 PM
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Ah gold and black's a good color clash in the garden bed sir.
posted by
BC-A
on May 26, 2016 at 4:59 PM
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I myself have never had kiwi. I imagine I would either really like it or hate it with no in between...It is interesting to read about anyone in the coal industry. I myself do not know of anyone personally in it.
posted by
FormerStudentIntern
on May 26, 2016 at 4:58 PM
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I think anyone in the coal business earns every dime he makes...
We used to have a coal furnace, which was a pain in the arse to keep burning - makes me appreciate natural gas and thermostats. Don't think I've tried kiwi jam, but I do like fig preserves, spoon a dab of marscapone on a bit of fig jam on a Ritz cracker, and you've got something worth nibbling.
posted by
Pat_B
on May 26, 2016 at 2:27 PM
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Oh and re metal in gardens... My dear DIL and Son have metal birds and stuff in their garden and it is not my taste either. Everything has it's popularity, comes and goes and something else takes over.
posted by
Kabu
on May 26, 2016 at 1:56 PM
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or two or three glasses after that. You sure the two of them hadn't set you the lad up? I like Kiwi frut but can't see myself wanting it in jam.
posted by
Kabu
on May 26, 2016 at 11:40 AM
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