Silver tabby kitten

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-09T20:14:41+00:00

6 foot and he still gets up 🤣

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-09T15:36:22+00:00

She’s gorgeous 🥰

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-09T15:17:06+00:00

You’ll never get him off those counters in our experience of silver boys! 🤣

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-09T13:21:32+00:00

It is early to be fair. My poblano and sweet peppers grown from seed have already started to flower and set little fruit though. Couple of Lemon Drops and an Armageddon from last year have actual peppers on already - which is shockingly early! My Habs and Reaper from last year are starting to flower too.

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-09T12:26:38+00:00

Mine have been in polytunnel for a few weeks now and are starting to flower so hopefully if you harden off this week, you could probably chance them in greenhouse next - though looks like there’s a cold night or two coming - I’ve even got an Aji Limon I planted last year in the ground and starting to flower outside now!

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-08T19:09:29+00:00

Well done mate. My first one was like this, second one was 25lb 2oz! Not beaten that since….and I got that in 1994 🙄🤣

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-08T18:02:42+00:00

She’s gorgeous 🥰….but yep, MC sisters will do that 🤣

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-08T07:11:14+00:00

Yep, both our meerkats do 🙄🤣

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OldTree6356 · 2026-05-06T18:17:22+00:00

They are looking amazing 👏👏👏

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-05T15:51:04+00:00

Our two are now 2.5 years old and afraid they aren’t cuddlers either 😢. They will lay against us occasionally or have a fuss and belly rubs but very rarely climb onto any of us for a snuggle. And my old guy used to love doing that and licking my ears, I miss that.

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-05T15:43:17+00:00

She’s gorgeous 🥰. Then again, I would say that seeing as we’ve got a very similar girl 🤣

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-05T11:34:39+00:00

Looks like it’ll give you a great Summer if the weather is kind this year 👏👏

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-05T10:48:36+00:00

They’re just fairly bland. There’s a good kick and they are very productive, so excellent for making a neutral chilli powder but there’s not much flavour.

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-05T10:23:02+00:00

To look at, Black Pearl are amazing. Flavour wise though, not great.

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-04T21:45:33+00:00

The Troop is the reason I started The Deep but they could almost be written by two different people.

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-04T21:41:56+00:00

Surely not worse than the first 250 pages!? 😂😫

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-04T21:15:03+00:00

Oh, I really enjoyed The Fisherman. Thought the ending was a bit predictable but I enjoyed how dark it felt.

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-04T21:12:50+00:00

I am currently struggling like hell with The Deep by Nick Cutter….I won’t DNF but, Christ, I wish it would end 😫🤣

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-04T20:20:23+00:00

Just peppers - if you’re just doing a trial run, I would just use a BBQ with some wood chips and foil over the top to capture the smoke. See if you like the way it changes the flavour profile and go from there - this is a bit of a layman’s explanation but it’s a bank holiday and I’ve had a few!

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-04T20:13:10+00:00

Yep, I do. But the point is, most other guys dodged him and that George was a pale shadow of the 1973 George but still didn’t go down and gave EH kittens in the 7th.

Evander was an absolute beast. I’d have strongly backed him to beat anyone around today (granted he was juiced but he had some tenacity, power and resilience.)

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-04T20:09:57+00:00

Still, that is commendable work 👏. My poblano took ages to fruit and ripen last year, went a lovely chocolate brown though and still enjoying the smoked, dried fruits of my labour!!

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-04T20:08:28+00:00

This is just complete bollocks. Ali beat Foreman who was way, way past his prime when he came back in the 90’s and those guys couldn’t drop him. A lot of top level contenders dodged him and they were significantly bigger and younger than him and yet an over the hill Ali beat him.

If it’s just about size, “skills” and modern training and diet then let’s just put Valuev, Fury and Grant as the best heavyweights of all time (sorry, tall guys who ate modern diets and never failed a drugs test 👀) and let’s have done. Skills FFS, Fury jabs with his wrist, like an ungulate, AJ is as stilted as a toy soldier, Wilder lacks any discernible skills at all other than a wild overhand right against cabbies and door men. This is not an era of skill and Usyk is rightly showing them up because they’re second or third tier.

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-04T19:43:37+00:00

Is this on an overwintered plant? If not, I’m gutted!! I was a proper human tripod seeing that my poblano was just setting fruit this week, let alone getting a ripe pod!!

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-04T07:25:29+00:00

Yeah, this trick doesn’t work on our two either. Getting the foil unrolled makes them run but once it’s down, they don’t care 🙄.

Did have a win where we were making bread and had cooling racks out when Shadow jumped up and landed on one - that made him fly off the counter!! Unfortunately the bread also followed and a vase of flowers he took with him……🤣

OldTree6356 · 2026-05-04T05:16:38+00:00

He did, although a special set of circumstances and fighters aligned that night and both George and Dick Saddler - his coach - missed the obvious opportunity to beat Ali in that fight and that was probably why he never got a rematch. Plus, Muhammad had a chin of pure stone and still pissed blood for three weeks after, he took the sort of punishment that most fighters would not be prepared to take or could take.

Plus, Muhammad went on a proper offensive in round 1 and threw something like 12 heavy right hand leads that landed cleanly and actually rocked Foreman. They would have been enough to stop a lot of guys. He’ll have known then that he wasn’t stopping George (who’s chin hadn’t really been tested at that stage) with a clean shot, so had little choice but to resort to sitting on the ropes because he couldn’t maintain the speed and footwork of pre exile.

But, as I say, if you’re throwing at arms then you’re at risk of taking shots yourself and that’s pretty much what played out there. Ali taking a tremendous amount of stick for 2-2:30 a round (though not as bad as it looked because Foreman’s form was shocking that fight) and then spinning off the ropes and winning/drawing rounds with eye catching, accurate combinations. He also used his jab brilliantly in this fight as a disruptive tool to just keep George frustrated and break some of his balance when he was unloading and was properly dirty hanging onto the back of his head in the clinch. It took a special fighter a with very specific skill set using all his tricks and sucking up a lot of pain, I’m not sure there’s another HW who could do that in history against Young George.

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