I have a bush which my mother and I have identified as a gooseberry, but I have never eaten gooseberries and know nothing about them. Now, some of the berries are turning red and fall off in my hand to the touch. Does this mean they are ripe? Overripe? Can one eat them straight, or do they have too be prepared in jam or pie filling? Much appreciated

Good morning! I just joined this community because my husband and I just purchased our first house and it has a third of an acre for a yard! At one point, it was clearly loved and manicured, but has since become overgrown. Which leads me to my problem: there are several plants growing that I can't decide if they are huge overgrown weeds or deliberately planted. I would love some help IDing them. ...

It's still cold in my neck of the woods (and poor lacylu42 got half-buried in snow last weekend!) so I'm still all about soups. This is simple, and was my dinner tonight - delicious! ingredients 1 large or two medium sweet potatoes, peeled and chopped into chunks 1 cup dried apricots, chopped 1 apple, cored and chopped 2 tbsp butter 2 tsp curry powder 6 cups broth method 1. Melt...

-" “You call this filing? What is this? This is only a Zygon molecular disperser sitting in a Nestene nursery cot. I thought you were meant to be this superhuman office boy or something.” She picked up a long, cylindrical object that strongly resembled a piece of lead piping and waved it in his face. “Do you even know what this is?” “Er… A lead pipe?” Donna glanced at it. “Well, yes. But that’s...

MICKEY(DW,S2E00): Just you, me, and Christmas Jackie: It sounds like they're having a threesome with Christmas. Kit: *snorts and dies laughing* Jackie: ...I did it again, didn't I? -- -" “You call this filing? What is this? This is only a Zygon molecular disperser sitting in a Nestene nursery cot. I thought you were meant to be this superhuman office boy or something.” She picked up a long, cylindrical...

Dear Creepy Brighton Transit (and Mr. Doctorow): Fixed that for you. (Corrected text by lacylu42 , photoshop by copperbadge .)

I'm still getting teary-eyed just thinking about it.

I was in the car, coming home from a NaNoWriMo write in when NPR called it. And I took a photo of myself at the stoplight. Congratulations, America!

Strange dream last night.  Dreamt that I went to a contraversial protest in Istanbul that had two sides: one side was for the daily culling and non-release of lions into the wild, because the country was getting over-run by lions, and one side was for leaving the poor buggers alone. For some reason, me and  lacylu42  and  sheafrotherdon  were all in the crowd baying for the lions to...

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