The Bells Have Made Me Deaf

The little bit of ginger root I purchased this evening has sprouted buds. That only happens when the temp hits 75-85°F according to an article about How to Grow Ginger on eHow.com. Of course now I am faced with a dilemma. To eat or to plant?

Holland and Barrett had a sale on today. I succumbed to the bargain prices and bought some Ginkgo Biloba and six bags of really cheap aduki beans. I bought some Tahini too so I can use up the chick peas in a pot of humous which I will merrily sup with a spoon and breathe fumes of garlic and lemon.

I have no idea what Ginkgo Biloba does in order to get to the places where no other suppliment will reach but the name is somehow amusing. Among other benefits, the reviews suggest that it helps a fading memory and sharpens the wits. It has it’s work cut out for it.

After last weeks sugar binge it’s back to healthy eating for at least the next month or two. (If the Ginkgo Biloba doesn’t work, somebody remind me I said that…)

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Recommended by Rainbowdemon at Beatking, Stumble Upon is a toolbar extension that lets you chase rabbits without much thought and leads you to a selection of web sites chosen from whatever you tick in your preference list. I was lucky enough to hit some great photos of storms on the first click.

Get it here >> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/138/
Apparently it also works in IE but why use IE at all?

The next thing I stumbled on was Bowman for all you would be archers!

I’m dead good at it…

As is expected in a hovel with gaping apertures around windows and doors, the place fills up with spiders all seeking a place to linger while their eggs hatch into millions of little spiders and while I don’t like to kill anything (I’ll make an exception for earwigs) it would just take far too long to round them all up and find them a new home so I let Mister Dyson see to the nasty business of spider culling while I look the other way. I was kind to them last year to the extent that the place became cobweb paradise soon after. Nothing worse than getting up of a morning and having to battle your way out of a spider cocoon. Sure enough no matter how many spiders went in, the Dyson didn’t lose suction.

Yes I’m bored and there’s nothing left to eat! Where’s the paint brush…

I’m not an early riser and never have been but I do get up earlier in summer than winter. At the weekends I tend to lie on for a bit and contemplate life from a horizontal perspective. This morning I was enjoying a balmy breeze of fresh sea air coming through the fluttering curtains all lit up by sunshine. Birds were singing their hearts out and it was one of those relaxing, glad to be alive moments despite still being hefted from the gluttony of yesterday.

Then along came a tractor and spoiled it all. The calm was totally lost and I felt like shouting a string of expletives out the window at the offender. It was Lurch (so called since he lurched himself at me last year and planted an unwanted slobbery kiss on my face - and he does look just like Lurch) come to fix the mower. Well fine… the mower needs fixed but does it really need fixed first thing on a Sunday morning? The grass could wait until after lunch time. Normally he parks the tractor outside the gate but for some reason this morning he brings it into the yard (stone walled yard=amplification) and leaves the engine running. I lie on in defiance thinking he’s there to pick something up and leave. 30 minutes later the engine is still running and I decide to give up and get up. They’re still banging around out there with the tractor coming and going all morning so it’s time to take off and go sit in a field and gaze longingly at Scotland. With my luck they’ll probably be cutting silage today and my secluded sea of grass will be reduced to jaggy stubble.

What is wrong with me????

With no expectations of visitors, yesterday I made one enormous family sized steak pie, one steak pastie (which I devoured for dinner last night with salad) one very large pot of puy lentil soup, three apple & ginger crumbles and a pavlova. It’s all in the freezer apart from the pavlova which I will be forced to eat single handedly and make myself ill. Thankfully I only had 3 eggs left so it’s a small one. I had to freeze the crumble to stop myself eating too much of that. There is something irresistible about ginger.