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personally i find science about as daft as religion. both are as dangerous as they are helpful. both lots think they know more than we poor mortals can ever know. both have followers who shout down anyone who dares to raise any objections. i wish they'd put the extremists of both - science and relig...

JulieSherris wrote:

gdb wrote:hello

whats a wwoofer?

A WWOOFer is 'Willing Workers On Organic Farms'....

Have a Google = there's heaps of info out there!

Julie

Aha! I see. Sounds a great idea.

Anyone fancy being a WWOABOSF (willing worker on a bit of swedish forest) - get in touch!

hey you lot!

i'm in sweden and i havent lit my stove yet. and you are all firing up and cooking on yours already.

am i being very hard or are you lot just going very soft?

Now in rural Sweden.

Before that in rural France (the Limousin).

Before that in rural Wales.

Before that in Birmingham!

these are definitely not saffron milk caps.

(the milk has to be saffron-orange coloured).

dunno what they might be otherwise? maybe a false chanterelle.

here's how to eat sardines for those who DONT like them: buy a tin of sardines. preferably in olive oil - (if theyre in anything else drain it off and add olive oil). add some finely chopped garlic. a bit of good quality salt - preferably the stuff with herbs in. bung the lot into a jug (it's better...

hello

whats a wwoofer?

these were quite common in france. great to eat when fresh - as others have said.

but with a new mushroom you should always have just a little bit at first in case they dont agree with you. (i eat shaggy parasol mushrooms - no problems - but they make a friend of mine quite ill).

there is a type of blackcurrant that looks very like a gooseberry (or is it the other way around?)

it is called a 'worcesterberry'

and i think that that is what you have here

they are for jam making apparently

look like false chanterelle to me.

which shows what i know!

thanks for the welcomes! the soil in sweden, well, it's not as bad as it was in parts of france.. but it's not exactly devon or hereford either if you see what i mean.. outdoor crops: you can grow most things. the summer is sunnier and warmer than most of england. (i'm in the central south so it's m...

hello 2 u all! having grown fruit and veg on tiny plots of land in england, wales and france, i am now giving it a bit more of a try in sweden. got myself 3 acres of land and a large house and a fair bit of scrubland too... (bloomin cheap property is over here!) well now its the end of my first summ...