[doganjo]

Well, one thing the supermarkets ARE good for is their plants - I bought fruit trees and shrubs from Morrisons to landscape my garden when I built my house in Aberdeenshire.  I went past the house last weekend and they are flourishing!  Year or two ago, fruit trees were £4.99, climbers £1.99 and various shrubs £1.49.  I bought some more for my garden down here last year (April) so I am looking forward to seeing some strawberries, blackcurrants, gooseberries, apples, pears and plums in the summer. Hopefully rhubarb, too (from Rosemary and Dan).  I've found some left over bits from building my conservatory which I'm going to use for a raised bed for veg.  Just going to browse to see what veg I'd like to grow.  I still have to screw the planks together and dig the top layer of grass off, but then it's planting time - once the snow goes that I believe is heading our way.

The Hugh episode last night was a repeat wasn't it?

[doganjo]

Does anyone know of Farmers markets in Clackmannanshire?

[northfifeduckling]

You reminded me, Annie, Lidl is having fruit trees on the 5th, even a few varieties we don't have yet this year, I must go in for those. Hubby got some St. John's Wort for a quid a plant al Aldi the other day, maybe they still have some left.
Their seeds are 29 p and 49 p (although not organic).

[doganjo]

Ooh, thanks, will go in there on way to Stirling tomorrow - must go into the BIG CITY as I have a voucher from my sister for my birthday and have to get vouchers for our Club Auditor for Tuesday when I pick up the books.

[lordlonk]

Hughs programme was a repeat last night yes . I wondered at the time but it was - recorded just in case .

The people of gerrards cross in buckinghamshire will be a good tester for  the big T when it opens in 2011- theres a website just for the store and its problems and pitfulls.It will be interesting to see if people still boycott the shop and support there local grocers- butchers etc. The peoples arguments were  that there was a superstore close by and not needed in there town. Supporting the local shop is funderment to all of us to have food that we know has not travelled and yes it does definatly taste better - Carrots for me  taste so different than the ones in the  supermarkets .
You have to wonder how fresh they are when they hit the shelf of the supermarket.

The Big T decided they wanted to open in this town  with more millionaires than anywhere else in the uk.

There was nowhere to open- no spare land

The locals ran a huge campaign to stop any plans to devolop anything. They didnt want the  shop

So there was a huge space in the centre of town called the railway london straight to london

So they decided to build a tunnel in the town and build a store over the top of the  new tunnel - amassive amount of enginerring

Planning went through -work began

It had a collapse after somany months of work

A train with minutes or less i cant rememeber  was so close to  the incident at the time it occured.

For months thereafter locals and people on this mainline had to use  a bu service to continue there journey

All of this escaped the national press in any great level due to the time of 2005 as  around the same days there was a major incident in london that took all the news radio and tv  and newspaper space.

There was a 90 minute programme on tv once and one on wal mart - asda -i did record it on to dvd -if i can find it if anyone wants to seeit i willpost it on to you for a viewing -will have a look to see if i can find it