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Vic



Joined: 16 Feb 2005
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Location: Sherborne, Dorset
PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 10:14 am    Post subject: Seville Oranges... Reply with quote
    

... are in the shops already!

Had the slightly bizarre experience of making the first batch of marmalade with the Christmas decorations still up. £1.50 a kilo round here.

Nick



Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford
PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

So are Easter eggs.

cab



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 10:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Excellent news, we're down to our last jar of marmalade

Sarah D



Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 11:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

That's early - which shop, Vic?

Vic



Joined: 16 Feb 2005
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Location: Sherborne, Dorset
PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 12:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Stokes in Sherborne. In good condition too...

Penny Outskirts



Joined: 18 Sep 2005
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 12:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

You can't seem to buy Seville Oranges in Spain - they export them all

Sarah D



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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 12:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Thought it might be Stokes - might be in town on Friday. Thanks.

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 12:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Buy them quickly: they're in short supply and expensive this year.

LynneA



Joined: 25 Oct 2006
Posts: 4893
Location: London N21
PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 1:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I'll be on the lookout round here then.

Howard's a bit down about being back in work and the prospect of marmalade making will cheer him up.

(He saw an article on the marmalade festival in Cumbria, so we might be heading to the Lakes in February rather than the Midlands for Potato Day and Ashwoods' Helebores as I'd had planned)

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 1:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Oh Lynne, don't miss the hellebore day: it's wonderful! If I remember though, it's held over a weekend so you could, perhaps, go on the way to or from the lakes? It's not just hellebores: allsorts of lovely winter flowering stuff.

LynneA



Joined: 25 Oct 2006
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Location: London N21
PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 1:22 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

I know - went there two years ago. I want to get another primrose yellow hellebore, so if the middle class grannies at the London RHS Show (literally)beat me to my plant of choice, I can choose one at the nursery.

Ashwoods have a great cafe as well.

cab



Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 1:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

£1.10 per kilo on Cambridge market.

mochyn



Joined: 21 Dec 2004
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Location: mid-Wales
PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Wow: really cheap, Cab! They were £1:00 per k here 2 years ago. Now £1:50

cab



Joined: 01 Nov 2004
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 1:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

mochyn wrote:
Wow: really cheap, Cab! They were £1:00 per k here 2 years ago. Now £1:50


Usually I'd have thought that was 'cos there are several stalls all selling the same thing on the market, its only one stall has 'em today though, so its an exceptionally good price.

Barefoot Andrew
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 07, 08 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

OK, I confess: I bought some hot cross buns yesterday
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