Something from Feral Techie’s quote file:
In one hundred years from now, the OED will be recording the major
change in the English language that led to shifts in meaning for words
like ‘‘advanced’’, ‘‘innovative’’ and ‘‘open’’.
– Rodger Donaldson
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Gus remember my alcoholic bread?
It happily rose overnight and the yeast bottle behaved impeccably
So I am chuffed with my bread and yeast making sort of abilities
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Something like The Notebooks of Lazarus Long … 
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Have selected frozen summer fruits for this weeks yoghurt.
The bilberries last week were delicious. The mango 2 weeks ago was ok, but I won’t bother buying again.
Tonight may be the last of the shin beef, wot I have defrosted
Carinthia.xx
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Shin-Beef yoghurt ?
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Rhubarb. That’s the best … apart from Shin-Beef, of course.
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Mango. Someone might explain Mango to be one day.
There are whole cultures who rave over it. But it’s about as flavourful as a soggy piece of cardboard.
The only thing with less flavour are Blueberries. The great Emporer’s New Clothes of the food World.
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I was just trying for variety in the frozen fruit stakes.
The blueberries were really good, as are the cherries.
Am also not always fussed about fresh mango. Like many things, I suspect you have to have a perfect example.
I don’t particularly like bananas, but will eat them fresh, as they are good fer me Elf.
I love fruit in general, but don’t really like supposedly fruit flavoured things, as I get a synthetic aftertaste
Carinthia.xx
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Don’t tell him. More mangoes for the rest of us
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Agreed Gus
Nice ripe mangoes are to be eaten while wearing a bib/apron
Delicious picked straight from the tree
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Friend who really loves them eats hers in the bath.
Carinthia.xx
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Is sir perhaps buying mangoes from the supermarket?
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According to JBS Haldane, the best place to eat a mango is in the bath, though Mr Leakey was able to cause the juice to jump into his mouth instead of getting onto his shirt-front.
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Well, of course, but also from markets & straight from trees in Barbados & St. Lucia. Completely pointless.
You’re all heing conned.
… & as for Blueberries. “Phah '!” I say unto them. “Phah, phah and thrice phah !!!”. An American import foisted upon us by a widespread marketing campaign.
In a World where Blackcurrants and Wimberries exist … why do Blueberries ?
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You left out bilberries
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My Late Mother was born in 1939, & everyone said ‘ooh, Jill, wait until you taste bananas’
When she did, she was so disappointed, as she thought that they would be juicy
Carinthia.xx
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Not a great fan of the banana.
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Mashed with brown sugar and cream.
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I’ll have your bananas if you take my cranberries. Still, at least they’re a useful warning sign; if something says “with cranberries”, you know that it was rubbish and they tried to pep it up a bit (and failed).
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I eat a banana a day, just azzit izz. Well, peeled.
Had a very windswept walk in uninspiring local countryside, but we enjoyed a close fly-past of two swans. Back home, cuppa tea and a slice of That Cake.
Soo xx
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