I am very pleased to be a member here. In order for me to access the data fully.

I don't think I would be willing to try out medicinal herbs either. They haven't been through the stringent testing medicinal drugs have and sometimes they even have bad side effects.

A spring day here after an early morning fog.

Your strawberries look good, Cookie.  I saw a film clip on the internet yesterday of a strawberry grower dumping lorry loads of strawberries because they were unsaleable.  It just makes me sick and so angry to think that someone would put needles in fruit and all the poor strawberry growers are suffering - as if it's not tough enough being a farmer in Australia with droughts, floods, fires and now needles.  GRRR, so very angry 

Good morning everyone.  Mixed bag here today, rain then sun.  Hopefully my washing will dry.
The screens sound good Chookie, usually the fitted ones are so hard to remove for window washing, I was hopeless at getting them out but as I have had a window cleaner for years I don’t have to worry about it anymore
My plumber is here painting the cornices in my ensuite and bedroom after one of the pipes in the roof which his boys installed a while back came apart. Thank goodness I acted quickly to turn the water off at the meter as only the cornices are water stained.
I agree with you re the herbs Chookie and I don’t think any of the people in the group yesterday were interested in trying them out.  I checked out the prices of different plants & veggies for sale at the Botanical Gardens shop, mostly in tiny pots and way too pricey. Particularly the succulents which are so easy to grow from a cutting.

Cookie, I am going to try and buy some cheap strawberries to make jam.  Not much room in the freezer at the moment.  Why would someone put needles in Strawberries?  Crazy.

The chicken pie mixture made 4 pies so still 2 to go.

Several days ago I roasted a 4/4 of lamb.  We has the first meal as a roast dinner.  The next day I sliced the remaining meat into thin pieces.  These I cooked over a high heat in the frying pan with a little garlic.  This I used as the meat in the Souvlaki.  Was full of flavour and crisp but not dry. Also got rid of a lot of remaining fat.