LittleErnie's Blog

Many thanks for your concerns. MIL is now showing signs of dementia and the nasty gene is now operating with wandering at night and hitting people. It may be medication but not too sure. The sea onions are the plant native to the Mediterranean and east African coast. The green one is the source of squills that was used in old fashioned cough remedies and the red one is used as rat poison. I personally do not like whelks(shell fish) and ate a snail once and put them on a par with octopus sucker cups on toast. An eraser tastes better and is easier to chew. Yes the petticoat lane sunday market in London is fine but with modern sunday trading laws it has lost some impact. For those who may visit the UK and like old fashioned markets with covered stalls the one at Doncaster is interesting as it is about one and a half miles long and 20 stalls deep. Things like that are never mentioned in tourist guides.

Bye

E 

Last tuesday was another garden group meeting and we discussed Sea Onions, making strawberry wine and soil nutrition and trace elements amongst other things.We meet in a garden centre and the only stipulation is that we have a tea/coffee break in the cafe. This coming tuesday they want to discuss labour (labor) saving gardens. I am in the process of making my garden safe for our cats so ,they can't escape - it's fun playing beat the cat! To day is windy and wet so it looks as if autumn has set in. The shops are geared up for halloween(borrowed from you) and bonfire night on 5th November that celebrates the stopping of the Gun Powder Plot when Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the Houses of Parliament (the most mis-pronounced word in the UK.) The bonfires get rid of all sorts of rubbish and the ashes are great for the garden. So its clear up time for winter and thehristmas shopping season that actually started in some shops in september - cries of horror.

Carry on weeding

Little Ernie 

Six weeks ago my 92 year old mother in law fell off the toilet and broke her hip. So it has been hospital visits every day coupled with the usual worries so little time for blogging. The weather is superb for October, the grass need regular cutting and my push along lawn mower needed a new wooden front roller. The solution was a wooden rolling pin drilled at both ends to tale the axle pins. Save a great deal of money in this throw away society. The gardening group has restarted and there a many new members. If you remember we meet in a garden center every two weeks. We get the premises free providing we all have a cup of tea/coffee/chocolate/Etc. This tuesday they want me to talk about soil and compost and how to make strawberry wine. I have loaded up the green house with potted plants in anticipation of the cold weather and then it turned hot (for us).

The world has gone crazy  with banks folding, executives being paid for failure and reports of your impending election.

A few years ago in order to avoid conflict in the presidential elections in Brazil  a hippopotamus in Sao Paulo Zoo was elected president. A novel solution!

Well back to the grind

LittleErnie