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PenguinMum said:
@gennepher thank you for the gold leaf lady which I keep looking at be ause it fascinates me. Your vegetable growing has really inspired me and makes me feel very inadequate lol. I only had lettuce, spring onion seeds that were 3 years out of date because in recent years I have bought seedlings from the garden centre. They are sitting in a shallow layer of seed compost in containers on my sunny south facing window sill for a week now, being sprayed with water when they look dry but mo sign of life yet. I have ordered fresh seeds and tomato plants which will be here by start of May. If I can ensure a supply of fresh lettuce, and orher salad over the summer all I need is mayo, oh and eggs. Thats me fed.
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Thank you for liking the gold leaf lady @PenguinMum . I have no idea why I wanted gold leaf today!

I didn't feel very adequate with my veg stuff so far! So thank you for the compliment!

I did think of getting some female quail (I had them years ago and they laid loads eggs daily), but I left it too late to go and pick them up...the lockdown. They wouldn't deliver.

But the Polish shop at the bottom seems to always have an abundance of eggs!

Sounds good for your salad over the summer!
 
ianpspurs said:
No idea what a bacon rib is but it does sound like a really serious condition requiring urgent medical care. I suggest you seek help urgently.
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Yea I don't think you have pease pudding in your neck of the woods either - its made from split peas and bacon bones or ham shank stock. Oh you are missing so much. Drool, Drool.
 
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Ryhia said:
Yea I don't think you have pease pudding in your neck of the woods either - its made from split peas and bacon bones stock. Oh you are missing so much. Drool, Drool.
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Don't feel guilty about not sharing your delicacies with me. I met folks from The Frozen North at Uni (chips in brown gravy etc:bigtears:) - I survived.:angelic:
 
ianpspurs said:
Don't feel guilty about not sharing your delicacies with me. I met folks from The Frozen North at Uni (chips in brown gravy etc:bigtears:) - I survived.:angelic:
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Surely you mean curry sauce and chips. Only the best for us.
 
ianpspurs said:
Nanny needed the smelling salts when told. I promised her on my honour I would never do such a thing.
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Was thinking of all the lovely local food we eat in the Adventurous North East, for your nanny to disapprove of such as stotty cake, felton spice loaf, singin hinnies, panacalty et al, so I googled Fenland recipes and all I came up with was Fenland Celery!
 
Ryhia said:
Was thinking of all the lovely local food we eat in the Adventurous North East, for your nanny to disapprove of such as stotty cake, felton spice loaf, singin hinnies, panacalty et al, so I googled Fenland recipes and all I came up with was Fenland Celery!
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Apparently a good beef pudding on a stick fire was all the rage amongst the cottagers. Eels, lots of eels. I was born in Cambridge which is geographically The Fens but just a tad different culturally. Nanny is now in the Great Nursery in The Sky. One can only offer thanks such atrocities never gave her the vapours.
 
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14-04-2020
Another day and everything changes. Stress levels are rising again.
We are nearly out of bread for MrSlim and potatoes, he ate the last croissant this morning. I thought cereal for his breakfast, but there isn't even one bowlful left. Porridge. There is a breakfast. Then lunch, rice salad or cheese crackers instead of bread. Dinner we have frozen chips. One more day without shopping.
Have turned out every cupboard in the kitchen looking for bicarb. Am thinking to try making soda bread. It's supposed to be quick and easy. If MrSlim had bread could go until Friday without shopping.
Then again, this is an opportunity to try riding my bike to the nearest town, its a little further than the village. I should do that, as part of the being prepared for the worst campaign, although I much prefer the stay at home and bake bread option.
@gennepher you have inspired me to plant leeks, several of rooty bit cut off before cooking have now got a place in the garden. We shall see if they take advantage of their new situation.
 
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ianpspurs said:
I won't hear a word agin Mr K, sir. Forsooth, even
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Ryhia said:
Hope you find them so, as its all a matter of taste. I just wrap in tin foil with butter, maybe onions and/or a few herbs, season and oven cook.
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That sounds delicious. If course - being wrapped in foil would keep them moist and the onions and herbs would give them a lovely flavour.
 
I am sitting out on the patio after a successful trip to the grocery store. The wonderful manager greeted me and said he was just putting out toilet paper and paper towels and did I want some? I got 8 toilet rolls and 6 paper towel rolls so I am feeling as good as my father did when he had a cupboard full of chicken soup.
I also met almost all of my favorite neighbors whom I have been missing and we stood 6-10 feet apart and shouted at each other while trying not to breathe.
I really must force myself to suit up and brave the elevator every day to get outside.
I just heard one neighbor saying she is 73, and that brought home to me that being 67 doesn't mean I won't survive this.
Now I must go in out of the secondhand smoke. The patio is unfortunately also home to the smokers here.
 
SaskiaKC said:
I am sitting out on the patio after a successful trip to the grocery store. The wonderful manager greeted me and said he was just putting out toilet paper and paper towels and did I want some? I got 8 toilet rolls and 6 paper towel rolls so I am feeling as good as my father did when he had a cupboard full of chicken soup.
I also met almost all of my favorite neighbors whom I have been missing and we stood 6-10 feet apart and shouted at each other while trying not to breathe.
I really must force myself to suit up and brave the elevator every day to get outside.
I just heard one neighbor saying she is 73, and that brought home to me that being 67 doesn't mean I won't survive this.
Now I must go in out of the secondhand smoke. The patio is unfortunately also home to the smokers here.
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Hey Saskia you will get through this but I think we all have to be very patient. I am off to bed now so please dont fret. Hugs and purrs galore.
 
@Krystyna23040 I now know what a brown thrasher sounds like. I was sitting on a bench in front of my building and I heard, very near, and fairly low, someone calling "Chuck! Chuck!" and I looked and the lower branches of the holly bush a few feet away were vibrating madly. And then down hopped a brown thrasher to the ground.
I tried to get a picture of him but what with the glare from the sun I couldn't see him through the lens. And then he flew away across the driveway. And then the branches started vibrating again, and another brown thrasher hopped down to the ground and pecked around, and then flew away.
I think maybe they have a nest in there.
They are one of my favorite birds, ground birds like my other favorite, the rufus-sided towhee.
So now I know what brown thrashers sound like! :)

Brown Thrasher
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Rufous-Sided Towhee
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It is amazing what you find hidden away in cupboards.

We haven't been able to buy hand sanitisers since the start of the pandemic. We used to use a Dettol handwash that was antiviral and antibacterial and we had an automatic dispenser for it.

I stopped using it because I preferred the Ecover handwash which is more gentle. I had completely forgotten that I had stored 3 containers of it at the back of a cupboard. So pleased we found them today - so now can sanitise our hands after shopping.
 
SaskiaKC said:
@Krystyna23040 I now know what a brown thrasher sounds like. I was sitting on a bench in front of my building and I heard, very near, and fairly low, someone calling "Chuck! Chuck!" and I looked and the lower branches of the holly bush a few feet away were vibrating madly. And then down hopped a brown thrasher to the ground.
I tried to get a picture of him but what with the glare from the sun I couldn't see him through the lens. And then he flew away across the driveway. And then the branches started vibrating again, and another brown thrasher hopped down to the ground and pecked around, and then flew away.
I think maybe they have a nest in there.
They are one of my favorite birds, ground birds like my other favorite, the rufus-sided towhee.
So now I know what brown thrashers sound like! :)

Brown Thrasher
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Rufous-Sided Towhee
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male female

Correction, that is not a male female towhee. L is the male, R is the female. :D
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What lovely birds and how nice that they came so close to you and maybe have a nest nearby.
 
SlimLizzy said:
14-04-2020
Another day and everything changes. Stress levels are rising again.
We are nearly out of bread for MrSlim and potatoes, he ate the last croissant this morning. I thought cereal for his breakfast, but there isn't even one bowlful left. Porridge. There is a breakfast. Then lunch, rice salad or cheese crackers instead of bread. Dinner we have frozen chips. One more day without shopping.
Have turned out every cupboard in the kitchen looking for bicarb. Am thinking to try making soda bread. It's supposed to be quick and easy. If MrSlim had bread could go until Friday without shopping.
Then again, this is an opportunity to try riding my bike to the nearest town, its a little further than the village. I should do that, as part of the being prepared for the worst campaign, although I much prefer the stay at home and bake bread option.
@gennepher you have inspired me to plant leeks, several of rooty bit cut off before cooking have now got a place in the garden. We shall see if they take advantage of their new situation.
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Could you perhaps make plain or cheese scones to last you. Hope you find the bicarb though.
 
Today's watercolour in my Woodland Series became a disaster, in trying to save it I ended up with a muddy mess so the paper is now drying and I will try again on the clean side tomorrow. Could not face trying another wood picture so moved on to start my next series Hedgerows...

This is the first in the series, Watercolour A4 size about 2 hours. Inspired from a walk in Shropshire last year, taken from a Sketch I had made whilst we ate lunch.

Back to my old painting stile in this painting.

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I will complete the Woodland Series.
 
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