German Efficiency

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Richard.
We have a young pear tree, about five years old, this year for the first time we got pears, seven of them, then the Kurrawongs started to fly around so we put an old net curtain over the tree, that night we a Southerly gale,
all the pears were ripped of, couldn't eat them couldn't even cook them, they were still to hard, never mind their only $4 a kilo in the shop.
Cheers Des

[happy daze john in oz]

[QUOTE=Lewis McColl;297281]McDonalds a place were old cows go to die. I do use them when on the road ,

So just how do you use these old cows and do they die before or after?

[Richard Quartermaine]

Hi Des.
Our pears are nashi (japanese) pears, they give a large crop but don't keep. I've just picked them - about three big green bins full and am giving them away. You should have stayed up here in The Mountains - I'd give you a bucket full. Hanging bags full on the fence for our neighbours. Here's some we picked a few years ago. L to R Meyer lemons, Nashi pears, apples that got saved from the big tree and from a small tree that's due for picking. We've got sme fat Kurrawongs this year.
Cheers, Richard

[robpage]

Sounds like you need a cider press with all those pairs a little bit of Perry on a warm summer's day never goes amiss

[Des Taff Jenkins]

HI Richard.
Showed my wife your pictures, she hates you, ha ha.
Cheers Des

[happy daze john in oz]

My pear tree was Ok I did get most off in time before they were ripe.
Keep them inside in the warm and they ripen up just right.

[Rodney Mills]

Off subject slightly, but Spring is definitely sprung here in South Carolina, we saw the first alligator swim up the canal on the side of which is our home. My wife looked out our dining room window and there it was across the water laying on the bank. Ahh! Spring at last, its been a rough six weeks of winter, but today! 75F=22c, 5mph gentle breeze out of the South (we've had enough of those cold Northern winds out of Canada, we even had snow flurries once) and fluffy white clouds. Nothing could be finer than to be in Carolina.

[Richard Quartermaine]

Not only in the morning and a darn sight warmer than Pennsylvania Station at a quarter to four.
Richard

[happy daze john in oz]

How can KFC run out of chickens I ask??

Only ever eaten it twice so not my fault.
The first time I thought, no it cannot really be this bad, the second time confirmed it.

Only once eaten at the Golden Arches, back in 1986, can still remember the indigestion.

[robpage]

They took the contract off the existing meatpacker logistics supplier and gave it to DHL who seems to have contracted it out and done it at a reduced rate this means that on the last day the original supplier shut down DHL subcontractors were not up to speed . Working in the food processing industry for well over 20 years chilled logistics is an absolute nightmare the problem is you're on time delivery in two places and if you are slow processing and loading the lorries the lorry driver will run out of time he'll either be too late to deliver to the shop or have no driving hours to get back to the depot that night it really is a balance . The margins are also exceptionally tight it worked out that if we delivered a full trailer from Portsmouth to a distribution Hub in Northampton if 1 tyre blew on the lorry or trailer , remembering they were 14 of them any profitability on that load had gone . It looks very much on the surface of it that DHL in an attempt to get the contract of gone in very tight on the price this will cost them millions