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16 July 2019 at 11:09 #67812
@Janette My cleaner would say “nuh DVD?Uh hah embarrassinggg'” The example below confirms my assumption she’s a sociopath .
Certain Melbournians add vowels so that her clients are (including her example) : “mah clahnts have a powah showah hose with a squeegee [what this is I don’t know] & they spray the water all over the glass but othaah people dahn’t look after things.”
In order to pay her (Ah dunht take cheques they are too “blenk” -this word I’ve not yet translated but I’m fairly sure it’s not a reference to @blenkinsopthebrave) she dropped me at the nearest bank & in passing a “boutique” called The Sunday Society (if that’s not exclusive I duhnt know what is!), said:
“fah mah wealthier cluts I buy them gifts from here.”
By this time I realised that she sometimes said “mah clut” at which point I was ready to use a different, more applicable 4 letter designation… 😈
“Here” in the above quotation – if you haven’t passed out from my tedium – is a shop so over-rated with no-one ever browsing that I think their office is seriously shady. In the back they might sell excess stock of uzis & M16s.
After she exposed me as a woman who “doesn’t take care of things” I actually teared up: Gaahd. I don’t think anyone has ever spoken to me like this in my own home. Being real covert I noticed something was up & asked, very politely: “are you OK, you seem on edge?” She said “yes, yezz I am & I don’t want to talk about it, it’s personal!!” I took that as a firm “no.” 🙂
You must all wonder how is it that one house can have all these odd things happening? 12 months ago a group of
nutterscleaning ladies left the house randomly leaving the door wide open (is this some connection to The OA, where The Five left their doors open or is it some devilish pentagrammic? ). They had already insisted there was a “dark foreboding presence & a demon in d’house” but could only clean the houses “of the saved.”There it is people I’m what Doctor 10 has called the BEAST. Now scared by worshippers in the future with churches like New- Judasim, the Pash-pash or The Church of the Tin Vagabond.
Seriously, you can’t make this shit up!
16 July 2019 at 08:02 #67811thank you. That is delightful. How liquid & shimmery the sound.
I’m at a loss for better words. I had a funny situation with a cleaning woman. So funny I had to have a lie down, a red wine (clean skins Mr Blenkinsop: $2 a bottle; worth $18 per 4 or $46 each) so I’m off to the pub to share my story. See if anyone thinks this woman is a shallow, shady, sham of a person.
I Luuurve Bet’s shoes. Always have & her curtain. I think S .the younger would like an escape curtain too.
“yee, hah, dih, hey, hey hey hoh, hoooo.” What a gem!
Whoo and toot-too.
Syzygy the Elder
16 July 2019 at 05:16 #67809Man! I edited my 6 lines (young siggers) here & then it disappeared. I’d suggest no editing of posts, for now. I know others said that was happening.
Basically I was saying 1) mum loves Eno & his Music for Elevators 2) I like Reich & mum did a discography of his work as a uni project & got the 100% mark for this. It had to have every comma, dash, full stop (or period for Americans) & she actually liked the precision of that work. I couldn’t do it myself! 3) Mum would hate me saying all that so ssh. 4) Moon landing at my school, some students think it’s a fake as there’s “no wind on the moon” rather than accepting the more obvious hypothesis which is that Americans want their flag when they’ve conquered something & they predicted no wind & so starched the flag!
Worse is that one those people is a teacher. Not my teacher & not a science teacher but @pedant says my teachers are imbeciles. The English teacher didn’t know Margaret Atwood which mum says “is a tad worrying.”
The young Syzygy.
16 July 2019 at 01:55 #67805I know this is obvious: I love The Duke! (Dr Edward Kennedy Duke Ellington)
To all — when America looked up to the stars & saw its potential.
May it do so again.
The Syzygyzssss’
13 July 2019 at 12:24 #677957 June 2019 at 11:05 #67735@whisht Thank you for that link & the lovely “trust in me; sssleep ssafe & ssound” with its gorgeous sibilants. And unfortunately I don’t know Darrow very well at all. So I’ll try to educate myself.
Also @arbutus where be you?
The Britten choon is quirky, Whisht, but the breathing is quite ‘exact’ & whilst the impression created is they’re all singing at once with no time to pause, they actually do because of the format of the canon. A jolly good one & sung at terrific pace which was Britten’s intent. Sleight of hand & voice, I believe.
Sygers
4 June 2019 at 02:58 #67729Goodness! I apologise, I thought Buffy wasn’t to your liking (clearly I misunderstood & mixed that conversation -in my mind- with someone else. Hopefully not a conversation with myself because then we’re diving into deep waters of confusion and neural problems or merely ‘personal’ schizophrenia).
The back does sound awful and clearly you don’t give up -many people with osteo here, particularly when the humidity is over 80% for several consecutive months, feel like they have no choice. A family member has it and she feels because she’s 6′ 1″ that her height made it worse. Not a clinical opinion, however.
To work with a back brace or harness for 3 hours is frankly commendable. I really ‘got’ into soils since you showed me ‘double digging’ to the extent I used a number of soils, potting mixes included, as well as soil improvers, different fertilisers and labelled these areas with different coloured plastic straws. I kept one area free from change & found it most certainly would’ve benefited from my other efforts.
So the Camellia is looking very good for the first time & the gardenia isn’t dead yet. That’s all one can say! A neighbour had one -paid for and planted by an arborist – but it died. I’m sure the arborist would’ve supplied the neighbour with many instructions for fertilising etc but gardenias here, with possibly clay or muddy soil, are troublesome. What annoys me is that good potting mixes have wetting agents. But I find that this hinders the plants. I had to remove an annual from a small pot only to discover the soil was very muddy, soggy and quite black.
When I replanted I made sure to use more agro grit and plenty of perlite to bring in as much fresh air for circulation. But you’re dead right about something you mentioned earlier this year: rain water in barrels is brilliant and so much better than our tap water which smells a little, like the chlorine, that’s added to all water in the Brisbane City Council.
The verb he chose was ferio which, in the literal English translation conjures the bathetic image of someone knocking their head on a low beam or door lintel
You owe me a keyboard -or, specifically, the QWERT portion from spitting out my coffee! 🙂 Very good indeed. Could he use ‘ferivi’ if going ‘all out’ unsubtle?
I’ve had a look, now, at more than one translation and the most recent ones are rendered poorly, imo. For example, the “glowing” or “bright on” is transl by some as “lightly” which doesn’t work at all.
3 June 2019 at 06:11 #67725@mudlark (also I did not pick up on your “analgesia” statement & I apologise for that: I hope your back isn’t the problem again? I understand you can’t work in the garden for hours on end -at 52 I don’t because a) Crohns and b) it’s waaay too hot as per my anecdote above. But I can imagine, still, how beautiful yours must be by now) @janetteb (cos you be Australian) and @blenkinsopthebrave (cos you be one too)
I get Buffy, for some, aint be your ‘thang’, but the “rank, arrogant, amateur” sums up my feeling, at times, about education…the conservative party’s attitude (singular apostrophe for the recent ‘winners’ -the Liberal and National Party) to low taxes, high toll road costs, health and climate change. Thus, rank, arrogant etc…..
The other day Thane performed at a State Carnival, his team won & he achieved ‘shadow’ position which is nice. But, in order to drive to the school where the ovals were (this is Brisbane Boys College with over 8 perfect fields and where costs are approximately $55K p/a, per child not including uniforms, overseas excursions, music costs & their ……soccer academy. Less said about that the better) & as we hadn’t purchased a toll tag (because we rarely drive that way) it cost a lot to drop him there at 7 am, go thru the toll again to work, then do it ALL again.
The cost you’d think, OK, might be $8 per one way? Maybe even $25 per day. The 4 day carnival, including weekdays, where we didn’t stay, drove to work & then back again, many hours later, cost……
$420. Hahahahaha. Oh…shi*!
So, I want, occasionally, to be like Willow here: but not really because she’s very, very bad. And whilst I knew fellow-watchers said “this is so beautifully foreshadowed even in Season 3 and 4, I didn’t pick that up fully until my 3rd re-watch.”
3 June 2019 at 02:22 #67724Since sublimis also means exalted, I suppose a more accurate rendering would be: the crown of my head, exalted, touches the stars.
Oh yes, that’s the closest -I checked Liddell and Scott -for some Greek while I was at it and didn’t get too far except for yet more variations of “puro” “”incendiary” and “burn” as well as “not dusty thus without effort.”
Dead languages. Hard to carry on in secret than people thought.
Oh you are just showing off now with everything that WAS in bloom and others NOW in bloom – my one camellia was and is in bloom. Other than some pretty annuals and some star …..somethings… 🙂
G & T -sounds good but as it’s actually cold-ish (not to you lot -you’d raise a complete sweat and say “this is Winter?”) I will have tea. I fainted at the docs the other day. How embarrassing. So, honest to god, I thought, I’ll do some gardening, wander down, get a few necessary scripts and hang on it’s cold, so: T- shirt, nice cardigan, scarf and no bra. Why? no-one is going to need to see that, right?
Wrong.
After I flopped to floor, paramedics arrive and drag me into the nurses room where the Doc insists on checking my breathing. FFS I was fine. I hadn’t had breakfast. He said “no, you, you don’t have to apologise about undergarments to me.”
Actually why was I apologetic? Not sure. Maybe because ‘the bag lady look” isn’t elegant.
Also, the principal who discussed the school’s motto was not prepared to say “oh, wow, there were two typos and one is quite funny” instead I got a short disquisition about English being “imperfect.”
But it was never about the perfection of English -it was about a) typos -hilarious and b) is Horace really copying Pindar (I think yes and no) and c) is he really being a bit snarky about how his poetics are adored by his patron Maecenas which then puts into perspective his latter double couplets.
These are Thane’s educators. Actually no, I imagine the teachers would be no-where near this and look either miserable or arrogant in the face of such a small but interesting piece of history -including their ancient history teacher who I met 9 years ago and is a lovely lady but latinising away wouldn’t happen and I suppose that’s fine. They have many other skills.
2 June 2019 at 14:28 #67721Sublimi vertice are in the ablative singular masculine but it’s vertex, as you identified, that points to “the crown or the top of the head”
But allow the larks to call! I can imagine the birds tweeting and the Narcissi blooming (OK, I’m no poet). Here, it’s about 10 overnight now and 22 to 24 during sunny days -so much like your spring and summer. Enjoy the happier parts of gardening. I’m currently talking sternly to my gardenia which without blossom, hasn’t entirely given up the ghost.
Also, I’ve had the same problem with code & edits dropping away -in this one too. Grrgh.
And thank you very much for your extremely helpful clarification.
@pedant I think Yoda would claim it’s Galactic Basic, after all.
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2 June 2019 at 12:03 #67716Thank you, yes: ” “lofty” stars will move my way” is in another translation I read.
I heard some years ago that Horace’s odes could have him transported to high status: “if deeds of gods are being praised, do I absent myself – I, a second Pindar.” —-and he is being modest, deliberately, I believe.
With the lines and the so-called victory odes, there is a sense that Horace is messing with us a bit? And with the emphasis on metre would it be the Alcaic-rhythm or one applied to the Sapphics?
This is probably a slightly nutty deviation from what I asked about before but I had a vague recollection of studying this a long time ago!
2 June 2019 at 01:13 #67712Quite right. Thank you. When I write: “right” I mean I had the same problem. This is son’s school motto and happily explained, a little incorrectly, except for the “dust” implying effort, by the ‘Executive Principal.’
Indeed: the motto has the errors – or the principal/assistant has typed the errors, possibly. I would hope it’s not all over the bags, books, student diaries etc.
But spade and palm could be considered similar? Under Callimachus’ rules spade and palm are ‘open’ and an ‘offering’ -or so I thought…..
Indeed, the last words are sycophantic: I was attempting to come up with a more favourable word. I failed.
@winston Believe me, it’s not easy. But as I am a tad immovable, I gave my mind over to this. It took 5 min and I was stuck!
Syzygy means a pair of similar but sometimes quite different ‘things.’ It’s the son’s urge: not that Thane16 has changed as the actual user name but he wanted something different. Except he stole it from the series The OA (second season). I knew the meaning of it before the series, but he did not. And he liked it.
Sygers 🙂
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1 June 2019 at 02:10 #67708Hellooo @janetteb @mudlark @pedant and other delightful & clever people!
I have a small amount of Horace which I’m certain is Pindaric in origin.
Now, do not be concerned -it’s the Horace I’m after. I have several definitions but I’d like to know yours (if you have any Pindar encomium all the better!)
Sunt quos curriculo pulverum Olympicum
Collegisse iuvat metaque fedrvidus
Evitata rotis palaque nobilis
Terrarum dominos evehit ad deos. » Odes 1.iGenerally with Horace the last word “has it.” I THINK. In other words, when we say, “you always want the last word” the phenomenon stretches back a very long time.
Kindest,
Syzygy and son.
26 May 2019 at 02:32 #67702I know it aint Christmas but I wanted some Benjamin Britten I could actually share with you. ‘This Little Babe’ is considered one of the most challenging for any children’s choir. Our nun, a delightful demon by the name of Sister Alphonsus taught it to us in 4 months. At this tempo. Which is correct. 1 min 3o seconds generally. They came in a little tardy but niiice. Applause deserved. No wonder the conductor looks slim: she burns a thousand calories every time!
Syzygy the elder.
25 May 2019 at 02:32 #67699Yesterday after our QCS test (Qld Core Skills ) test, a man was on the stage in the hall. He spoke about how important it is before these tests (they’re about 9 hours worth in October) to get a good sleep and not worry too much. I knew I’d pretty much failed the practise test because most of it is geography, maths and science. 🙁
He’d said young men had actually killed themselves over this. Another person came up who said they’d been about to and was stopped. My mates were sniggering about this -the idea anyone should “show off about helping someone ‘not’ die.” I was pretty pissed. To me, if you save a life , you SAVE a life. That’s the most important thing anyone can do EVER.
It doesn’t matter if someone thinks “oh you’re patting yourself on the back” by talking about it or doing it -no matter if they, unfortunately, try to do it again -you were there and you try – you never ignore them, you never shrug it off. I haven’t ever known anyone suicidal but I do know a guy who quit soccer and I just listened to him talking about how he pulled himself together and kept saying “anytime you wanna talk more, mate…” and so we do. I think we’d all agree that life comes first.
25 May 2019 at 02:19 #67698that sounds good -I don’t know if we have it on Netflix or the ABCiview -Janette you might know too? Are you streaming it on the “ever so fast NBN?” I mean Davie’s series.
We love Killing Eve -it dipped in the first 2 new episodes but has exploded upward since. Have you see Harrow, Janette? If you haven’t been bothered I really wouldn’t it’s trying to be comedy slapstick with dead serious stuff and not working. Lots of people in Brisbane are talking about it but I’m not sure the actor (Gruffid) is doing as well as they think.
Oh and we saw Dr Foster and Mum was ballistic with excitement. It took about a week then she said “I got it!”
Typically I said “uhm?”
And she started babbling about Euros. Sian (who’s real name IS Sian) is in Dr Foster. A funny and odd character. I never picked it 🙁
@nerys mum said “helloo” and to everyone too.
Thane (break from tests)
23 May 2019 at 01:31 #67696@janetteb that sounds like a good plan. I hope your boys relax a bit and realise they have a life outside of school. I do, and if I didn’t I would be in a position to get better grades but staying up till 1 am is nuts (to me) and I have no real plans to go to university the normal way. So many have different jobs across their life anyway that it’s good to be sure what you really like is what you actually do? It’s not like that for everyone, or even for most people. I hope it works out.
Thane
23 May 2019 at 01:25 #67695Well that’s very difficult, but as your neighbour says, you really can’t save everyone. Nor can you always be in the right place to save them. And sometimes it takes a few gentle words, kind words, particularly if you happen to know the person relatively well. Or a bit.
I remember, nearly two years back at 5 am my mum being told, “Oh, get some help, will you!” -not exactly gentle words, but words anyway.
People often think academics, or doctors and specialists, would simply never do that and yet it seems academics, solicitors, musicians, barristers and GPs also take their lives quite suddenly but there are often clues that people close to them will miss. From what @pedant said people plan this very well with notes, and reminders and bills paid (Or sometimes not which is one reason why they believe everything is hopeless).
Thane16.
21 May 2019 at 01:28 #67683Thank you again for the icons -and yes, the White Australia Policy was “covered in class, Mum, only for 20 minutes, Mum.”
Great 🙁
And now we’ve a monologue by Piggy. The teacher (new & on rotation) is one of those who’s read Thane’s draft and hilariously ticked exactly ONE box which red: “time limit met.” Except she THEN wrote “not when you take out the ridiculous stuff on Neptune, you wrote.”
Ah, so we have work to do. Anyway, this teacher has 22 “don’t do” things which are from 2018. Then, she’s written on this ticked box thingy (“Thane got no ticks” -I think it’s important we all start talking like Piggy, to be immersed in it, you reckon?)
The draft has only negative comments to the point of rage at his evident stupidity. She then has another piece of paper in Size 6 or 8 font telling students exactly how there must be 3 sections called: RECALL, ANALYSE, EVALUATE. But there’s more:
A student must have an introduction, rising action, climax and resolution. My question would be this: how do you tie in the he Recall, Analyse and Evaluate with the rising action and climax etc? Syggers was so tired last night he could barely make sense. Unfortunately he thought Piggy was the product of a private school in 1950s England -all Etonian arrogance and Ancient Greek. So, in doing the monologue, and I’m giggling at this, he wrote:
Oh, grandfather of the sea, great Neptune, let me tell you my secrets. You roll on, saying nothing, but watching always. How many lives have you seen lost? The Wicked Traitor, Jack, has stolen my glasses. I have never seen the sea before, and now all I can see IS the sea, you formidable, domineering being.
There should be some points for getting it completely wrong and for laughs, surely. I’ve no doubt teacher read this aloud to all the English teachers with much mirth. Gawd.
I’ve actually drafted myself in and written down pretty much every phrase sad Piggy ever says and I’m sure he wouldn’t know (or care about) Neptune and mighty Zeus. He’s about order, correct?
Syggers actually wrote that: “we need order, we must impose it” to which she-teacher wrote, “what are you? For order or dictatorship? Piggy aint no totalitarian.” There’s really no wiggle room for this teacher..
🙂
The Wise One.
21 May 2019 at 00:08 #67681I thought it was from (cough wik…edia). Having scoured that & not finding the reference, I have the …other one saying “na na ni nar nar, you should always reference” (in that sing song voice & it’s only 8.30 am!).
Shall I sing “We are one, & we are meeehney, the lah, la, la lah la lah li lah?”
@janetteb me too -on Plibers, she’d be great but she needs more grunt. More personality. They’re all so scared to show personality that no-one votes for those who could do the most good. Somewhat of a 12 year old’s view, but heck we’re writing a monologue for Piggy in Lord of the Flies and a D- was the drafting mark. Piggy’s only 12.
How do people put their kid thru year 12, Janette? How do you DO it? I got a terrified (actually more sleepy) call saying “where’s my money, mum, Where’s the $3?”
I had no idea how to answer that question. He then said “I’m coming home, I’ve missed the [expletive] bus.”
Then 5 mins later, “I couldn’t hear my coins jangling in my pocket. On my way.”
Great. One up for maturity!
syzygy
20 May 2019 at 23:49 #67680Oh now, that is VERY interesting -a double minimalist piece using contrary time sigs!
Exactly like Thane and I !
Naturally, I thought we were no longer @Thane’s but ….the other ….one…which I can’t ever spell. Actually I can’t be in the same room as the ….other one or we go all “kerblooey.”
Sygers.
19 May 2019 at 07:54 #67676@janetteb I like Waleed Aly’s response to compulsory voting, actually:
In a compulsory election, it does not pay to energize your base to the exclusion of all other voters. Since elections cannot be determined by turnout, they are decided by swing voters and won in the center… That is one reason Australia’s version of the far right lacks anything like the power of its European or American counterparts. Australia has had some bad governments, but it hasn’t had any truly extreme ones and it isn’t nearly as vulnerable to demagogues.”[21]
Puro & Thane (we’re thinking of changing our name to Syzerggyzy….well, one of ’em “syz’ers.” )
19 May 2019 at 07:42 #6767519 May 2019 at 02:45 #67673thank you for your responses regarding ‘icons.’
Agreed: depressing to wake up to but entirely predictable. The notion that a LNP would support and invigorate teaching and education is nonsense, isn’t it? LNP politics argue for continued & increased funding for private education and with fringe parties I’m sure they’re all thinking “if we can just remove state schooling from government oversight and corporatize it, think of the surplus, think of what else we can do…..”
I watched Shorten’s concession speech and it was ….odd. Not sure whether it was rambling drunkenness or channelling Whitlam: “my friends, my friends. now, now, my friends.” Maybe he was looking for other phrases but his brain was “ghosting.”
Sad fucking day, that’s for sure.
Puro
18 May 2019 at 11:19 #67670Dear Mr Blenkinsop at the Blenkinsop manor. I love that phrase. Someone else used the phrase and mum really liked it. I haven’t been on the site in all year. ANd I agree with what you’re daying. Mum used to say that if she had the lottery she would move to Canada or the US -but she changed from mentioning the US about 2 decades ago. Or more.
We are also watching the election coverage. Pretty dismal stuff for a Saturday night.
Thane
18 May 2019 at 03:23 #67668Yes, what was meant was: as an exercise, what things “Australian” pop to mind? You know, like vegemite (despite, yes, it aint Australian) but meat pies, pavlova, wattle tree, ANZAC biscuits..
Black Arm band for Bob Hawke or Australia in general?
18 May 2019 at 02:30 #67666@janetteb @blenkinsopthebrave @craig @pedant @missy @winston
Paging anyone anywhere..
mate of mine is taking a last minute contract at university for 1st years where the topic is, basically, modern Australia. She’s wondering if anyone can add ideas as to what concepts or items are icons for Australia (forgive my bad gramma but it’s “Australia Votes” so my focus is as split as the Greens and the ALP on climate change).
Other than vegemite (not Australian anymore but still associated with it.
Thanking you, Puro
18 May 2019 at 01:03 #6766516 May 2019 at 13:48 #67663@pedant indeed yes, this track showed his comedic quality when prior it was all “take me very seriously intensity.”
Whistle Test -know it well. Various faculties had access to whole boxes of recorded cassettes!
Time was a beast, though.
16 May 2019 at 00:15 #67661Well, normally I’d agree but Meatloaf is TGOAT -his inspiration only from Zeus. Karla is Hecate. Or….something.
She’s unbelievably good isn’t she?
And I think, I think, Paradise is the best rock song ever written, actually.
Closely followed, of course, by Wilde’s Kids in America…. (Seen recently in S2 of Killing Eve)
Puro
15 May 2019 at 02:41 #67659I remember many eons ago putting on Calamity Jane – we had a drum-kit & 2 keyboards only & a fantastic young Maori lass as Calamity. “Calamity’s word is sacred!”
15 May 2019 at 01:46 #6765813 May 2019 at 01:40 #67654Absolutely. You did a wonderful thing. A necessary thing. I think @whisht‘s idea of speaking with the Samaritans yourself -if you feel you may need to – is top advice.
Also, what @pedant said -it’s rarely capricious.
It must have been difficult to do & you could’ve looked the other way. You turned towards them, Craig.
Puro and Thane.
28 April 2019 at 11:21 #67610@mudlark yes, weedy, here. In my garden. 🙂 It’s like “muh-fashnik”
I like weeds, actually -grassy weeds, though.
I have a gardenia which, foolishly I added Dynamic Lifter to. The woman at the so-called nursery said “oh, ah” & it explains bright yellow spots a week later. I know it will die. I just know it. An arborist planted one next door assuring my neighbour with snotty-ness “it will LIVE.”
It died.
Muh-fashnick.
25 April 2019 at 22:51 #67601@mudlark looking at what you recommended, and then checking the one local nursery still hanging on by its roots, we don’t appear to have it -or rather, they don’t. I’ll have another look around, though, thank you.
Also, the small ‘violets’ -for want of a better description are easy to grow, even here, strangle everything if not snipped back (I use nail scissors) & flourish in our winters.
I have plenty of that. I’m wondering if the violets are strangling the vincas (a pretty standard annual of a cheap variety & the original name has completely left me -I’ll meditate on that -failing this a link or photo should come your way but now I have clinic which means very bad TV with talking heads about our upcoming election. Blech).
Puro
25 April 2019 at 22:45 #67600That was silly of me wasn’t it! “Oh yeah, terrific photos.” So, Puro LOOK at it before commenting on the vinca!
My response: “euw.”
they look kinda weedy? So, I’ve learned all about botany today & appreciate it mudlark. Thank you. I’m attempting to grow more bougainvillea @janetteb & definitely, rosemary thrives in the dry doesn’t it? But it does need some water.
Our water bill is waaay higher than the local average 🙂
Puro
24 April 2019 at 10:21 #6759524 April 2019 at 10:17 #67594Did someone mention “vinca” ??
Part of my gardening work (motive: helps with pain relief; as the garden sits VERY close to the footpath & we have a large tuckeroo, judiciously taken care of, – but presenting a tendency to naughtiness: it doesn’t like to share the water) was to double dig & work on my soils For those who didn’t know this, Mudlark Manor demonstrated all sorts of gardening tips & horticultural ideas which I’ve implemented. They’ve had a tremendous impact on my little cottage garden. Many drinks from the multiverse of The OA (cue @pedant who administered this fantastic series into our lives) are owed to Mudlark.
One of the plants I purchased in early March were vincas. I hadn’t seen them before but assumed this was all ‘new’ stock at Bunnings. For those who don’t know this gardening/outdoor/hardware store, Bunnings bought up many traditional hardware shops, whilst others continued on, sadly, for many years & eventually had to close as the competition was impossible to beat: “Bunnings has it all. Don’t go anywhere else.”
Even small nurseries, passed down from great-grandads, toppled. So.….at Bunnings you’ve people who know little about horticulture, potting mixes, alkalinity etc. For any decent knowledge I pulled out my late father’s gardening books &, as one often does, consulted Mudlark.
I had several vinca punnets (with 6 inch seedlings) planted under the tree & whilst other perennials flourished & end of stock annuals continued to flower, only 7 of the original 24 seedlings/individual plants survived.
Naturally, my first thought was “the dreaded possums” so I used hefty doses of chilli powder near the sweeter plants these possum devils like to barricade whilst cheering along their buddies in shrill & rousing chorus of revolutionary songs about Jean Valjean. They are to be guillotined if the chilli powder has gotten around their defences (seriously though, I can’t even kill our fat, silver & green caterpillars which turn into lawn grubs & decimate an entire lawn in under eight weeks).
Anywaaaay, none of the sweeter plants have shrivelled or escaped over mountains sound-of-music style. Just vincas. I’m getting obsessed with keeping the remaining ones alive. I just KNOW the happy, dog walkers who chirp: “oh, you have such a beautiful garden” whilst muttering on another day (when they think I can’t hear them) “yez, she has SO much time on her hands, huh, heh, heh heh.” Others have long, fruitful discussions with me, saying “LOVE the lavender….erm, is it?” I say, patiently, “Nope, that would be rosemary” And later, “this, what is this here?”
I sigh, “that would be soil, mate, just regular dirt.” *
More sighing.
So. How do we solve a problem like a vinca?
Puro
26 March 2019 at 00:43 #67477that’s @idiotsavon above.
26 March 2019 at 00:42 #67476@pedant @bluesqueakpip Late to the party of sugar.
Wondering if Diabetes is hereditary? Is remission something that lasts for a few years only anyway? I know with Cancer or Crohns (both with unknown etiology) that a few years only can be widely interpreted. Are sounds being made to indicate that the study mentioned would rid the body of Diabetes completely or, as I interpreted, only for a few years?
idiotsavon @janetteb @mudlark How are things in mudlark manor, Savon Manor etc etc ?
Yes, the PM no-one’s heard of! And I can see a PM May cartoon mudlark, with your speech bubble clinging to a marble or wooden post (from 1500) “I do not, will not, listen. I am right, right, right…”
Puro
17 March 2019 at 02:32 #67449Oh I LOVE drop scones! I’d never even heard of them until a friend of mine showed me almost 10 years ago.
Jolly delicious.
Puro
16 March 2019 at 07:24 #67445that’s great history & I didn’t know an inch of it -or a pinch of it (salt) nor a cup of it (flour & sugar presumably).
Aussies put a pinch of salt in their pancakes, whether savoury or not. The worst crepes I had was in Lausanne. Twice. For some reason between ’93 & 2009 I believed they’d improve. They were SO sweet I wanted to throw myself into “Lac” Geneva. It was also darned hot. After coming down & round the mountain (feel free to sing along: “& she’ll be comin’ round the mountain, comin’ down the mountain….till she comes”) from Zermatt -with the last of the official ski season finishing that week- it was about -2 Celsius. I was faced with 70% humidity and 32 degrees
But of course Lausanne is beautiful particularly when the fog lifts. Puro
PS: a sing out to all our brothers and sisters in NZ. xx
15 March 2019 at 23:04 #67442I should have said the 5-8 thousand models are affixed to the house so they’re used for the entire property. Most people in this suburb have 3 or 4 bathrooms etc -2 kitchens even.
Not us, though. Just two loos and one small kitchen but we do go thru a massive amount of water. I should look at my water bill and list it.
Coffee grounds is brilliant . And last night for the time in 6 months we had heavy rain for most of the night.
Niiice
15 March 2019 at 05:46 #67438@winston (sorry, I had a page of stuff & it vanished : Dr who Forum is not responding. etc etc).
I use water from baths, washing machines, old water bottles -and I shower outside. Discreetly!
Its desperate -north the big rains and south, nothing but dirt. It’s awful.
@mudlark taught me how to treat my gardenia so thank you to her! I did have the foresight to water the terribly root bound pot once it was OUT of the pot. I didn’t pop it in a bucket of water 🙁 and also we DO have hard water. We have so little rain but a rain tank would be helpful. Generally, the smaller ones are still $5000
15 March 2019 at 03:24 #67434They are amazing. Gawd, no wonder pancakes are……intriguing. Oh boy, I’m salivating now! I can imagine thin pancakes with ricotta cheese and brown sugar mixed with berries and vanilla whipped cream….or, during a 6 month period where I stayed with friends on a farm every morning we had lemon and sugar on pancakes. They were hot off the griddle because it snowed every morning on our way to the school bus. Across dales and hills.
2 March 2019 at 00:03 #67412“ooh Maestro Prevvvinnn”. I had a professor during a post-grad course who was all about Previn. For some reason it took a few years for me to fall for him -Vaughn Williams is one of most juicy composers of that century. Watery scenes, evocative & sense-laid.
Puro.
23 February 2019 at 12:58 #6739923 February 2019 at 04:54 #67396Yes, that’s the one, isn’t it? The song people say “hang on, THAT’s Chicago??” Great stories about who wrote it, why they were struggling to complete the album & the name of the song as well.
You can see Cetera still performing today but in a suit & tie 🙂
But Kath was the prima donna guitarist with RSMag commenting that he was criminally underrated compared with anyone putting finger to frets. I was saying before (I accidentally deleted it) that their stuff wasn’t as obscure as, say, Steely Dan’s or even The Byrds. Some of Cream’s output could be ….complicated whereas Chicago’s is still toe-tapping with some awesome solos. Aerosmith and Jon Bon Jovi cite Chicago as heavy influences and if you look deeper into Joy Division’s influences Terry Kath’s mentioned -I think everyone would’ve mentioned Kath! It’s no surprise that Hendrix said “he’s as good as me. OK, seriously? Probably better, in fact, the best.” Hendrix was always full of himself so it was nice to see him knuckle down & listen to others.
Years ago when I was here first I remember asking you @whisht if you could find the clip where Hendrix decides to fire up his guitar at Woodstock? But I remember the urban myth that he did something ….far more shocking (fortunately it remains a myth; not true; not eva, eva real).
Puro x
22 February 2019 at 01:55 #6738718 February 2019 at 23:41 #67382so it’s been awhile and I’ve not seen this popping up in my in-box (my fault obviously). I saw this last many, many moons ago.
Above I read Castellan is very good….& is he played by Milton Johns?
@janetteb I agree -this was my bread & butter Who. The actor playing Rodan tickles me. Do you recall an Aus movie The Getting of Wisdom? I think this actress was in it -not sure exactly how or even why, but it’s a ‘feeling.’
I’ve managed to find Part 2 on Daily Motion. Now, in respect of Andred, @jimthefish I think he’s not really playing a very consistent role here? I was confused the moment he appeared on screen as to what he was expected to communicate -whether serious, comically superior or….just comical 🙂
The Matrix! Great memories.
Puro
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