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they are very prolific this year and i have grown only twelve plants from seed sown in the garden on may 10th as usual because may 10th is the date that my granddad said that is the day to sow runner beans i have no explanation just family folk lore my dad always sowed seeds on may 10th as well my granddad my dad in 154 probably wondering just what useful tips that he can pass on to me over the next few years dad was a mine of information and advice for example when turning the car engine on do not set off straight away but give the oil pump chance ro lubricate the engine i suspect he got that piece of advice from his dad as well anyway the beans i have enjoyed watching them germinate and then race each other to the top of the canes like some sort of olympic bean race event and then begin to produce their pods i get a crop like this just about every five days at the the moment far more than we can eat straight away of course so a lot of them go straight to the freezer i doubt that we will be buying beans again this year which is a good thing because they taste a whole lot better than imported green beans from africa diced sliced and blanched another batch bound for freezer storage that s christmas dinner sorted runner beans are believed to have been brought to the british isles by john tradescant who was head gardener to charles i they originated in the tropical uplands of central america and while it is a perennial in its native land it is a half hardy annual in the uk as the plants are usually killed off by the first autumn frosts when they first arrived they were grown mainly as a decorative climber appreciated for their dazzling scarlet flowers i understand that in the usa they are still grown for decoration rather than consumption interestingly it seems that runner beans are very sensitive intelligent even and have an awareness of environment they need to climb and plant them six inches or so from a cane they will crawl across the soil and naturally find their way towards it rather scary don t you think in my garden and all of the northern hemisphere they grow and twine anti clockwise and in the southern hemisphere the opposite direction to make the most of the sunshine available how clever these days john tradescant is remembered most for the trailing houseplant tradescantia this one was grown from a sneaky cutting taken at a local garden centre please don t call the police they are very busy dealing with serious crime 26 comments posted in age of innocence childhood food history literature natural environment postcards travel urban art tagged garden allotment gardening john tradescant runner beans vegetable garden cobh queenstown and the titanic posted on july 19 2026 18 comments i like this new wordpress feature where they drag up posts from the past and there is an opportunity to review sometimes cringe and then repost this one is from a visit to a titanic museum in cobh in ireland in 2016 read the full story here five years later in 2020 someone visited this post with this really dumb google search question what did the captain wear on the titanic my response was around the exhibition there are lots of pictures of captain smith in his white star line uniform so i am forced to conclude that except when he went to bed and most likely put on a pair of pyjamas that this was his favourite form of dress another thing that i can be certain of is that captain smith didn t wear a lifebelt because after the titanic struck the iceberg he went down with his ship and drowned 18 comments posted in arts and crafts beaches cathedrals eire history ireland natural environment travel wordpress world heritage tagged american irish presidents belfast cobh cobh titanic experience harland and wolff titanic queenstown sinking titanic titanic experience belfast lincolnshire market town of brigg posted on july 15 2026 8 comments there is not a lot to say about the quiet little town of brigg in north lincolnshire it is a sort of out of the way type of place no main roads to it or through it there is a railway station but only one train a day in each direction and only on week days there is a twice weekly street market on thursday and saturday but we were there on a wednesday so it was very quiet a river runs though it the river ancholme a nineteen mile waterway from market rasen to the humber estuary we walked a little way from the town to the nearby marina and i slowed progress down by stopping regularly to pick and eat fresh juicy blackberries rather early this year two thousand years ago the romans reached brigg as part of their colonisation of the north when they built the great north road now the aim from london to york when they got to lincoln and built a spur road that went directly north called ermine street and somewhere around brigg they ran into marsh land called a carr and a meandering river draining the land the romans certainly knew how to build a road no potholes this from wiki a carr is a type of waterlogged wooded terrain that typically represents a succession stage between the original reedy marsh and the likely eventual formation of forest now i only mention this here because across almost the whole of north lincolnshire there is a carr lane that runs east to west from cleethorpes to yorkshire and which would have marked this ecological boundary line and in brigg near the marina is carr island which slowed them down rather so they built a fort and a motorway service station as they planned what to do and eventually they made progress across the marsh crossed the humber at what is now south ferriby carried on to york and joined the main great north road on its progress the town has a football club and they play in black and white stripes newcastle united and notts county play in black and white stripes and are called the magpies brigg town are called the zebras i don t want anyone to get too excited here they play in the lower leagues and their record attendance of 2 000 against boston united was set in 1953 a ye ar before i was born juventus in italy play in black and white stripes and they are also called le zebre not a lot of people know that anyway we had a hood day in brigg and i will go back probably on market day 8 comments posted in age of innocence arts and crafts cathedrals europe history natural environment postcards travel world heritage tagged brigg humber estuary lincolnshire lincolnshire wolds river ancholme world heritage national french fries day usa posted on july 10 2026 7 comments today is national french fry day in the usa which like all things they celebrate as though like most things they invented them he which of course they didn t other things they did t invent the world wide web invented in 1989 by british scientist tim berners lee while working at cern in switzerland the telephone credited to scottish born alexander graham bell but the first device capable of transmitting speech was created by italian antonio meucci the lightbulb joseph swan uk demonstrated a working incandescent bulb before edison and canadian henry woodward patented a bulb 5 years before edison s patent the automobile karl benz germany built the first true gasoline powered car in 1886 the television although often credited to american philo farnsworth electronic tv was developed simultaneously by teams in britain russia and japan denim jeans while popularized as a symbol of american culture the durable fabric originated in nîmes france hence de nîmes and the trousers themselves were famously worn by italian sailors from genoa the electric battery alessandro volta italy invented the first chemical battery in 1800 baseball it did not start in america the earliest documentary evidence of the game is from surrey in england in 1755 they did invent the atomic bomb which was a great achievement in the history of human development and then elected this moron to be president twice twice anyway back to french fries read the full story here 7 comments posted in arts and crafts childhood europe food greece history literature natural environment world wide web harvest news cucumbers posted on july 7 2026 12 comments it has been a very good year for cucumbers so far which comes as a bit of a surprise because it is rather early and i haven t got a greenhouse maybe it is global warming or maybe modern varieties are more tolerant of cooler conditions i quite like growing cucumber i check first thing every morning to see how much they have grown overnight they seem to grow overnight i check for all vegetables first thing in the morning with my first cup of tea but the cucumbers are the most prolific how sad is that actually they are not a vegetable but a fruit and this is why taken from a botanical website by the way fruits are defined as the seed bearing structures of a flowering plant vegetables encompass all other plant parts including roots carrots stems celery and leaves spinach because of this strict scientific definition savory foods like tomatoes cucumbers peppers and courgettes are actually fruits so in the words of michael caine not a lot of people know that there is not a lot of point in growing cucumbers i have to say if i have a good year i might get to harvest twenty to thirty and you can buy big long ones in the supermarket for less than an english pound but i like doing it cucumber sandwiches are a part of english tradition i am not sure if anyone else eats cucumber sandwiches they are served at meetings of the wi women s institute and at tea break in village cricket matches cucumber sandwiches are just quintessentially english twenty years or so ago i was lucky enough to get an invite to a buckingham palace garden party i wasn t get a medal or an award or anything so i am unable to explain why but as part of my story of course they served cucumber sandwiches no crusts and that is important propper plates by the way no paper plate rubbish from aldi read that full story here the cucumber originated in northern india about three thousand years ago and spread to europe via greece and eventually found their way to the balkans the greeks like the cucumber and is an essential ingredient of its famous salad gradually they spread to eastern europe in east germany cultivation areas for the green fruit emerged particularly in the east around berlin germany to this day has the highest consumption rate per capita in the world germans love cucumber cucumber is good for vitamin k apparently which is one of the seven essential daily vitamins that h elps body heal wounds and supports healthy bones by aiding calcium absorption we don t need a lot of it not as much as a b c d which is just as well because a cucumber is 95 water kale is a good source of vitamin k and we grew some of that this year a lot more than we really needed as it happened but we have harvested that blanched and frozen it so we have enough vitamin k to last the rest of the year it makes a good alternative to spinach 12 comments posted in arts and crafts food food and drink france germany greek taverna history literature natural environment royal garden party tagged allotment plot english summer garden greek salad vegetable garden an alternative independence day posted on july 4 2026 7 comments in england we have to national day no independence day in fact we tend to celebrate a day when we were invaded and lost our independence the year 1066 is probably the most memorable in english history read the full story here 7 comments posted in age of innocence childhood europe fake news history literature travel world heritage tagged 1066 1966 world cup anglo saxons battle of hastings donald trump independence day king harold king harold s soldiers norman conquest tony robinson time team special william the conquer 1066 the curse of the football world cup posted on july 2 2026 10 comments on 3 rd january 1922 the archaeologist howard carter discovered and entered the tomb of tutankhamun and allegedly released an ancient curse that led to the deaths of many people associated with the discovery but this is not the only story of a sinister curse and i will fast forward now to 1966 the biggest story of this year of course was that the england football team won the world cup when they beat west germany 4 2 and geoff hurst famously scored the only world cup final hat trick ever the whole country went football mad that year and everyone knows all about the brilliant victory sir alf ramsay s england team however were not the only national footballing heroes of 1966 there was also pickles the dog without whom there may not have been a trophy for bobby moore and his teammates to lift on that glorious day in july the solid gold jules rimet trophy was stolen while on public display at an exhibition in london and this led to a nationwide search and the football association chairman joe mears receiving threatening demands for money to ensure its safe return brazil the then holders of the trophy were understandably outraged and accused the english fa of total incompetence this is the point where the story becomes unbelievably weird or perhaps just plain unbelievable one evening a week after the theft a man called david corbett was out walking his mongrel dog pickles in south east london when the dog s attention was caught by a package wrapped in newspaper lying under a bush in somebody s front garden it was the world cup it was the solid gold jules rimet tophy i ll say that again it was the world cup it was the solid gold jules rimet tophy in a bush in someone s front garden no one has ever satisfactorily explained what it was doing there wrapped in a copy of the daily mirror but david corbett received a reward of 5 000 which was a huge sum the equivalent of over 250 000 today and pickles became an overnight national hero i am surprised that he wasn t in the bbc top one hundred greatest britons but some people said that the trophy was cursed and within weeks of the cup s recovery joe mears died of a heart attack having suffered severe angina after the stress of the hunt pickles in a remarkable instance of bad luck choked to death by snagging his choke lead on a fallen tree while chasing a cat and the man accused of the theft david bletchley served two years in prison for his part in the crime and was released only to promptly die of emphysema bobby moore died aged just fifty one from cancer gosh i remember that day as though it was yesterday by a delicious twist of fate the trophy was stolen again in 1983 this time in rio de janeiro italy were the current world champions but the original had been presented to brazil in 1970 as three times champions and this time it was never ever recovered it is believed that it was melted down for the precious metal and it will almost certainly never be seen again that s what i call a curse and the curse continues because this year 2026 we have moronic halfwit sorry quarterwit i must stop exaggerating hosting 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