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I ate freshly picked blackberries today!  One of the gardens I worked in on leaf duty  :-X has masses of brambles growing wild in the woodland at the back of their garden and there, amongst all the dead wrinkled fruits was a branch laden with fresh plum blackberries.  Needless to say, purely for research, I scoffed the lot!  ;D

And the scientific verdict?

and we've got irises in flower

i'm still picking the odd autumn raspberry yumm ;D

One of my lupins has 2 flowers,   mad......

Still picking raspberries here too, also two lovely strawberries just ripe which I beat the birdies to.  :)

ooohhh!!, envy, green with, fresh english strawberries  :-\

;) Blimey all I've got left to pick is me nose. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D :P

lmao  ;D re- pickin ur nose

tracy

Don't do it after playing with the chillis Cornykev!  ::)

Mmmm yum! I've got brambles around my allotment. I've kept them there as defence against incomers. I didn't get to scoff a single berry EJ. They were all scoffed by the birds.

I've got a sunflower in my back garden. I had to do a double take when I saw it. It's a Moulin Rouge, very dark red and not immediately apparent against some other dark foliage plants.It hasn't grown very tall or big in the flower as it has flopped over and is crooked,but it's definately there, flowering it's little petals off.

Keep on getting a few Alpine strawbs, lavender still going strong and I see a fuchia still doing it's thang out there.Begonias in the front never looked better! Had some raspberries from wild side of allotments last week, too.

Place I work has a flowering cherry, and yup, it has a few blooms on it!
Same place has masses of raspberries still fruiting, weird!

Emaggie, in a 'normal' year I'm harvesting alpine strawberries in Nov, but this year they've just gone crazy...and lots more to come 8)

Hey I didn't realise that Lishka, as they seemed to have stopped a month or more ago. Ooooh but aren't they lovely  :P
Looking at my normal strawb patch, there seem to be one or two flowers there.......surely that's not usual  :o

still dead heading my roses and they are still flowering ;D

:) The seasons are on the change thats for sure, we'll be having BBQs at Christmas before you know it, floods in the summer hols, leaves falling in the winter.Were doomed, doommed I say.  ??? :( :'( ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Bearded Wonder cooks our bird on the BBQ every Christmas.... rain, hail or snow. ;D

How?  Tell us more.  ;D

We have a Weber 'charcol grill 1 touch siver' type.
http://www.weberbbqshop.com/
Usual prep, etc. Use good quality briquettes, make sure it's good and hot (approx 30 mins) and have them handy for topping up. Put foil tray in the middle to collect juices.Put bird in a roasting rack above.Timing is  more or less the same. A meat thermometer is handy.
Before we moved I had a range with 2 ovens, now I only have 1, so to free up space for spuds etc. we use the BBQ for meat joints.