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Is it milder

One day, our local Morrisons had no tomatoes on its shelves, but the market greengrocer did. I asked him why, and he said that the supermarkets weren't prepared to pay the wholesale prices, but he was.
 
That's interesting Malc. Tomatoes are pretty hopeless from supermarkets around us at this time of year. all imported and grown under glass with artificial sunlight I guess. Lots of air miles on them.

There was a period fairly recently when both Aldi and Lidl near us had no eggs for a while. Waitrose was out too in the village. The farm shop at Hadley had plenty and so did M&S in Tonbridge. Same reason I expect. I was shopping for the local cake lady who uses a lot of eggs and had to trek about a bit to get four dozen.

I wonder if stuff at farm shops is significantly fresher.
 
Ian when you say "contaminated with gmo" are they obliged in the US to label food that is GM engineered or GMO modified?

We read stories about US bleached chicken and growth hormones in beef etc, but I'm not sure if it is alarmist media exaggeration.
 
I'd say this is also the wettest spring I can remember in a long time as well, it feels more like winter still, very cold and damp for the time of year, usually much dryer and warmer.
 
I think it’s selective memory.
The cricket season has recently started, that’s usually a cue for some snow.
Certainly it’s been wet but not consistently cold.
I keep a fishing diary and was fishing in my tee shirt one day in January and again last Saturday.
Last frosty weather was in mid December.
 
it's extremely cold here in the northwest, not selective memory, I monitor the weather very closely, in 14 years this is by far the coldest and wettest spring here, more like winter, with the odd hotter day, today it is 9 degrees and feels with 5 degrees with the wind chill, it's set to get warmer but the rainfall is more in the last few days than normally in a month, ridiculous amounts of rain, wind and flooding, that on top of a similar winter with far above average rainfall, I can't wait for summer to arrive.
 
Sorry, can't find how to add text to the above plagiarised photo. It's the Spine Road going north from Newcastle. Yesterday, the height of the tide was very threatening down on the quays. We heard the barriers had gone up.
 
It does seem to be wetter. Last weekend was supposed to be the Spring garden fair at Great Dixter. It was cancelled at two days notice (devastating for exhibitors) because the garden was waterlogged and critically all the surrounding fields where they usually park cars were waterlogged too. And Dixter is on quite high ground in the Weald so this is just rainwater and groundwater. Fergus who runs the place and has been there since Christopher Lloyd was alive, said it has never been this wet there in living memory.

There was an article in one of the mainstream news websites today saying farmers are concerned this will be the first year since WWII with no harvest of some staples due to the waterlogged ground. It's a bit worrying.
 
Not sure if it’s milder, but definitely inconsistent here, four days ago crossing the Northern end of the Appalachian mountains it was snowing like mad with a beautiful accumulation on the hills and trees, yesterday was the Eclipse and today I’ve been in shirt sleeves doing some rough woodwork outside this afternoon.
Ian
 
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