The peerless taste of vegetables

[ablueclaret]

straight from the garden or in my case the allotment.

New potatoes with butter a delight to the senses, peas you can smell as well as taste , carrots with that zing that disappears with time, courgettes that melt in your mouth,
Broad beans with that full aromatic flavour, and beetroot delightfully sweet.

If you've never grown them you'll never know what veg really taste like. One of the top 10 experience you're ever likely to have.

[ClaretAndJew]

Burnley fan's love a good runner

bean

[DCWat]

Top 10 - that's some claim.

[Rowls]

Technically a courgette is a fruit.

Just sayin'

[Rowls]

Who wants to hear what the other 9 are?

[hampsteadclaret]

- count me in..

[ablueclaret]

Riding a tandem is in the top 5

[ablueclaret]

Playing cricket on a summers day ranks 7

[ClaretAndJew]

9 - Thunder bummed under the culvert

[ablueclaret]

Everyone to their own taste C&J

[Leisure]

. One of the top 10 experience you're ever likely to have.

Reading/listening to you negatively waffle on about the Clarets won't be in the top 10!

[ClaretAndJew]

8 - Crown Point

[DCWat]

1. Intentionally winding up messageboard users
2. Seeing negativity in all things Claret

[ablueclaret]

Fortunately I don't have to leisure, the pleasure is all yours.

[ablueclaret]

That's the mythology, the reality is I believe we can be better than what we are.

[ClaretAndJew]

One thing I have to admit to, and whether or not I'm the only one (which I doubt) is, I don't really mind reading comments from ABC, or anyone, for that matter. It's just a message board. I'm the one in charge of how I react to something.

It's not like anything that we purposefully look at or view etc has any control over our emotions.

7 - Touching cloth as you run to the bus station toilets

[Rowls]

6. Getting change for a £20 when you paid with a £10

[Rowls]

4. Spam fritters on a mild October evening

[Bin Ont Turf]

3. Ablue's thread disappearing.

[Rowls]

2. Brian Easton

[Bin Ont Turf]

1. Supping a Gin and Tonic on a beach in Brazil whilst watching 20 year old Brazilian women frolicking in the surf.

[Damo]

5 sending poison pen letters to neighbours

[Funkydrummer]

I thought this was another thread about Gray.

[ontario claret]

Tomatoes are fruits, too. Good thing they weren't mentioned, or this thread would have to be deleted.

[ontario claret]

Funkydrummer, you're confusing being brain-dead with being a vegetable. Many useful footballers qualify as being brain-dead.

[Steve1956]

Trapping a bag of cement.

[Pieater2]

No pesticides then ablue?

[ablueclaret]

Super soil there, plenty of pests, but you've just got to grow the veg which work.

[starting_11]

Cabbage... I've never eaten cabbage in my life. Now I'm eating it raw.

The balance of the universe has changed...

[Woodleyclaret]

Allotments are awesome give you exercise and fresh fruit and veg.They also provide a much needed escape from the nonsense that is the transfer speculation season.
This is a bumper year for fruit with our pears,blackberries,Apple's,cherries and walnut trees ladened. We have three allotment in sunny Berkshire it's a joy.I had one in Nelson that produced very little.Cold and wet are not good for growing crops

[claretdom]

Are we one successful crop away from Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall in midfield ?

[ablueclaret]

The wonderful thing about allotments is you meet the most amazing moaners in the world.
If only they controlled their weeds.
Call that gardening.
They haven't got a clue.
He uses fertiliser to get them blooms
He thinks courgettes are vegetables.
In the old days we did it all by hand.
This place has gone to the dogs.

I am a little ray of sunshine in the world of allotment Alan's.

[ablueclaret]

Just been shelling some peas and beans, even after all these years there is something immensely satisfying about splitting open those shells and seeing the crop. One of the great sensuously satisfying pleasures of life.

[ontario claret]

Right up there with calling Saxoman names?

[CnBtruntru]

Cabbage Springs to mind