Strictly Cheese Sandwiches

My neighbour asked if she could grown an avocado tree from a stone and was told yes, but it wouldn't produce fruit.

I lost a couple of semi-tropical plants (frangipani) last winter, should have brought them indoors but they were quite large.

Is yours in a garden bed or a pot?

Sorry, just read your post!

Callistemon21

Norah

Callistemon21

growstuff

PS. I know what you mean about avocados. I love them, but probably end up throwing half away because they ripen the moment my back is turned and go black.

Don't keep them in the fridge.
You can buy avocado savers, I have a couple

The picture won't post, sorry.

We eat many avocados, never refrigerate.

We speed ripening with other fruit in a bag.

We've 1 tree, yields a few a yr. Compared to Hawaii yields of 100s.

Not Hawaii! They don't produce many avocados, none for export.
Don't they produce pineapples?

I believe Hawaii used to export most of the supply of pineapples. It seems most pineapple now come out of the Philippines?

Brother has a holiday home on HI - has avocado and mango trees.

growstuff

Michael Mosley ripped off Roy Taylor's 800 calorie diet. It was Taylor and the team from Newcastle who did the original research.

I know, and am fully aware of that, but I was trying to help doodledog

Thanks, WWM. I have the MM book now, and am going to find recipes that I can stick with until I lose some weight, (probably for a hundred years or so ). Then I’ll have another think - one step at a time.

Whitewavemark2

growstuff

Michael Mosley ripped off Roy Taylor's 800 calorie diet. It was Taylor and the team from Newcastle who did the original research.

I know, and am fully aware of that, but I was trying to help doodledog

Sorry you seem to have been offended. I was merely pointing out the original research behind Mosley's 800 calorie diet. It's well known that Mosley piggybacks off other people's research and sells books. I find it helpful to dig into the theories, but maybe that's just me.

Doodledog It sounds as though the pre-diabetes is an early symptom, but your main aim should be to lose weight - in which case, calorie rather than carb restriction is the way to go.

For whitewanemark2 Indeed "Poverty isn’t a competition it is a state of affairs that destroys life chances and families". BUT -- 'poverty' NOW is certainly not the post WW2 kind that I met, or Lord forbid was prevalent in earlier times.

I had a little pin money job, delivering takeaways to those 'poor' people, their several kids all seem to have mobile phones and the latest trainers, they can afford takeaways twice or more a week (all junk food), they usually have a couple of dogs and TV the size of Yorkshire.

Those quoting "poverty" should go to assorted bits if Asia, Africa and S America to see what it really means. I've helped raised funds for India (that place that can afford space missions) so country villages can have a toilet so women can use it in the night without risking going into fields and getting raped. Maybe the 'poor' here should go live in a favela (Brazil) for a while to see how they'd get on? Etc etc.

But relative and real poverty are measured within countries, depending on national wealth and status, so you can't compare UK poverty to other countries.

'Absolute poverty compares households based on a set income level. And this level varies from country to country depending on its overall economic conditions. Relative poverty is when households receive 50% less than average."

www.habitatforhumanity.org.uk/blog/2018/09/relative-absolute-poverty/

Relative poverty in the UK is measured where households have less than 60% of contemporary median income, the threshold for a couple with no dependants is £314 per week, single person no dependants £227 .
Humanity .org is a charity working in third world countries, so obviously there poverty will be measured differently.
Poverty is still poverty though, wherever you live, and should be eradicated. How ,well no one has come up with a viable answer.

Do your customers invite you into their homes DrWatson? How do you know how big their TVs are? How do you know these customers are claiming to be poor anyway?

Sounds like a bad case of stereotypitus - I'm not sure there's a cure.