Struggling to keep up with the thread!
It's been continuously raining here.
@RainbowZebraWarrior thank you for the courgette idea. Can now say it definitely doesn't thicken pepper hummus (in fact the opposite) but tastes very nice, and I can it would gorgeous cooled in summer. Pepper hummus was still not quite as I'd like but turned out letting it settle overnight helped, and @HannahDefoesSpringFling thank you for that recipe, I can see that coming out for the great pumpkin and squash glut.
@martha79 So impressed that hawthorn comes up and you produce an actual hawthorn tattoo!
We use it traditionally to manage specific heart issues and as an anticoagulant as well as a jelly for cheese and roasts, with star anise and apple for a jam, apple for fruit leather, and brandy for liqueur. (minus seeds, they're poisonous - though a couple's usually fine)
The rest of your tattoo's sound fun too. I also have lots of Crocosmia. I want to get the taller red cultivated version version to plant with the wild orange as think it would be beautiful together.
Sorry for your troubles, and coming to terms with our limitations is a very hard ongoing journey especially when it happens early, and yes dealing with other people's reactions is also part of the process of adapting.
@piscofrisco What a painfully expensive palaver with the poor dogs! Sounds like very trying times especially with husband, but your description of an "incoherent alligator" gecko was deeply appreciated!
@SheherazadesSeasonalNonsense I did indeed see the blood moon and dust filtering misty fog.
I hope it's alright to bring this here, it's bittersweet but as humans we read so much into the moon.
On the 3rd we had a bright rising worm moon. But on the 4th the strangest dystopian but beautiful, blood moon rose, filtered through misty grey mauve tinged fog, appearing above the Westway (elevated motorway through London) as I drove home from someone's Ramadan Iftar, which is what I was also doing the night Grenfell tower and my friends home along with everyone else's, went up, under an also waning gibbous moon, and I suspect both images will stay with me forever.
The remains is finally being taken down layer by layer at the moment, currently with beams of light emitting into the sky in the evenings. * The tower and covering is no longer at its original height - my *friends flat was dismantled and removed last year. Even though it is gone, it's exact position in the skyline is etched in my mind.
A huge orange red blood moon was sitting parallel with the space where my friends flat had been.
You could have drawn a straight line to it. It was diffused with a layer of fog, as where the lights pointing up to the sky from the floors still being removed beneath.
I want to remember and retrieve the awe the panoramic views of moon cycles the home in the skies brought to them, their friends, and neighbors, if I may, and try to share that memory, even though it's now a sad subject. The moon is a strangely uniting thing.
@Bimblesalong as per RZW, the worm moon is named because it's when the worms start to come to the surface because they can feel the transmission of the spring warmth, often carried through the earth by rhizomes, and moisture allows them to travel, but most of all it's when they develop their reproductive band and seek to mate (and fill up my wormery with tiny little hardworking hatchlings.)
Sage, rosemary, lavender and bay bush off cuts, attempts at non chick pea based courgette, and red pepper hummus and chestnut veggie wraps, and salad, the ubiquitous chestnut bread pudding, and last years cabbage cooked up with pomegranate syrup.