Thursday, May 17, 2007
A Eureka moment
While reading a Goncourt winning novel from a charity shop in Clapham North (what a dump it used to be in the not too distant past), I suddenly decided that Mary Magdalene (maudlin to cognoscenti) is the same person as Marie-Madeleine. Odd how it has taken me so long to work this out. Odd also that Madeleine is a common name in France but Magdalene is a rare name here. In fact, I am not sure that I have ever come across one.
Been an interesting week from a culinery point of view, with the BH summoned for nursing duties. Started off with a luncheon T-bone with white bread. Not sure that I have ever bought such a thing before. Excellent fare - although maybe a pound of steak and a pound of bread is going it a bit for lunchtime. This was followed up with chicken soup yesterday. Take junk from chicken, add onions and carrot and boil for a long time. Strain off the stock; wash the junk while still warm to get a bit more. Add pearl barley and leave for as long as it takes to knock back the odd pint. Bring to boil, add slivvered savoy cabbage and diced cooked chicken. Serve. Also excellent. And this morning it was white pudding sandwiches. The white pudding continues to carry something soapy about it - not sure whether it is the smell or the taste - but good gear all the same. Today is the turn of the kidney. Good looking fresh ones - not that pale brown they go when they have been sitting around for a bit.
Further depredations by slugs. Was out for the evening earlier in the week and forgot to bring in the two trays of incubator pumpkins before I went. Rushed home at midnight to find several slugs had climbed on board and one had eaten half one of the first leaves of one of the bigger plants. Brushed off all I could see and returned the trays to the shed. No further damage in the morning.
Have now planted out one tray of the incubator pumpkins - five plants - on top of the compost reported on previously. A catch with the incubator trays being that the plants have all got a bit mixed up and you can't get the young plants out as cleanly as one can from a pot. Maybe I should have transplanted them to pots as soon as they germinated. Strung a bit of washing line around the planting site to try and keep the deer off - footprints everywhere. Didn't put down slug pellets mainly because the packet was very firm about not putting them down just before it rains. Maybe I will regret this when I inspect later today, rain permitting.
On the other hand the continuing damp weather seems to be good for the raspberry suckers. All nine looking pretty healthy and no further damage by either deer or slugs. Have trimmed the shoots off the willow marker sticks, leaving just a few at the top for now. The sticks had been getting more bushy than the raspberries.
More nonsense from the DT. It seems that some femmy nursing mother who also happens to be a mayor of somewhere up North is noisily asserting her right to breast feed while carrying out her ceremonial duties. Has the woman no respect for her office? How would she feel if she was collecting her corporation medal for services to sardine tin recycling from some fat male slob with a mayoral chain who was walloping back some wallop at the same time? Wouldn't she want a bit of respect? Or how about a lady pope wanting to breast feed while she elevated the host? Ladies who care that much about their kids should be at home minding them not thrusting their cares (or worse) on the rest of the world.
Been an interesting week from a culinery point of view, with the BH summoned for nursing duties. Started off with a luncheon T-bone with white bread. Not sure that I have ever bought such a thing before. Excellent fare - although maybe a pound of steak and a pound of bread is going it a bit for lunchtime. This was followed up with chicken soup yesterday. Take junk from chicken, add onions and carrot and boil for a long time. Strain off the stock; wash the junk while still warm to get a bit more. Add pearl barley and leave for as long as it takes to knock back the odd pint. Bring to boil, add slivvered savoy cabbage and diced cooked chicken. Serve. Also excellent. And this morning it was white pudding sandwiches. The white pudding continues to carry something soapy about it - not sure whether it is the smell or the taste - but good gear all the same. Today is the turn of the kidney. Good looking fresh ones - not that pale brown they go when they have been sitting around for a bit.
Further depredations by slugs. Was out for the evening earlier in the week and forgot to bring in the two trays of incubator pumpkins before I went. Rushed home at midnight to find several slugs had climbed on board and one had eaten half one of the first leaves of one of the bigger plants. Brushed off all I could see and returned the trays to the shed. No further damage in the morning.
Have now planted out one tray of the incubator pumpkins - five plants - on top of the compost reported on previously. A catch with the incubator trays being that the plants have all got a bit mixed up and you can't get the young plants out as cleanly as one can from a pot. Maybe I should have transplanted them to pots as soon as they germinated. Strung a bit of washing line around the planting site to try and keep the deer off - footprints everywhere. Didn't put down slug pellets mainly because the packet was very firm about not putting them down just before it rains. Maybe I will regret this when I inspect later today, rain permitting.
On the other hand the continuing damp weather seems to be good for the raspberry suckers. All nine looking pretty healthy and no further damage by either deer or slugs. Have trimmed the shoots off the willow marker sticks, leaving just a few at the top for now. The sticks had been getting more bushy than the raspberries.
More nonsense from the DT. It seems that some femmy nursing mother who also happens to be a mayor of somewhere up North is noisily asserting her right to breast feed while carrying out her ceremonial duties. Has the woman no respect for her office? How would she feel if she was collecting her corporation medal for services to sardine tin recycling from some fat male slob with a mayoral chain who was walloping back some wallop at the same time? Wouldn't she want a bit of respect? Or how about a lady pope wanting to breast feed while she elevated the host? Ladies who care that much about their kids should be at home minding them not thrusting their cares (or worse) on the rest of the world.
# posted by Jim @ 4:28 AM 
