@Bimblesalong Look forward to hearing how the rose and banana tastes.
Your potential choir sounds quality and very exiting!
Re macaroni and truffles, if you have a plan to use up your truffles swiftly when you first acquire them, so don't need a long shelf life, if you first hang them in a muslin bag from the neck of an airtight jar filled with macaroni or arborio rice in the fridge, you get magical truffle infused macaroni or rice. (can also do this with cheese and eggs but need to tend the truffle more)
@RainbowZebraWarrior A very nice snaffle there. That's a very handsome murder moggy.
Mr Darcy is possibly in need of reinforcements against all the small creatures slowly taking over his habitats!
You should definitely do the podcast, I think you'd really enjoy it.
@LillianGish I'm seeing similar across creative industries I trade in, and also BSL translation. Clients not minding poor machine generated work, ideas, or lowered communication in exchange for ever cheaper. (also lots not wanting disabled freelancers on their premises as trying to lower insurance costs. The latter's particularly frustrating as I carry my own insurance)
On the one hand Nigel's clearly minimalist especially in his ability to respect space as an 'object' but on the other, this is a man who has a whole room just for plates and bowls. They're not of course any old plates and bowls of course, but still, even with a four storey Georgian house to play with, an actual room...
Though knowing there's another side to him, I feel he might like a share in my dream of one room just for vintage Christmas ornaments, housed in old wooden segmented thread cabinets, wrapped in their appropriate color coded acid free tissue, and my Japanese lacquer cabinet and chest, that houses work boxes of old tools, long ceased materials, and gilding supplies with which I can rescue and restore or (when reduced to small fragments remake) many...
@CrushingOnRubies What a lovely birthday present and photo's. A google shows the sculpture gardens look fabulous too.
@frozendaisy Baking bread under the grill may be a faff, but you're genius for doing it!
@martha79 Nice seed stash. There's been many a misunderstanding with some of my neighbors inability to understand my desire to grow what both we and pollinators can eat and how we do it. There's over 230 different dandelion species just in the Uk, including ones with sweet leaves, so always some in flower, and a lovely Kazach one that produces latex and you can make fuel from. Beautiful view of your cat view.
@ExquisiteDresses I think being forcibly disconnected to nature is half of many people's difficulties tbh. It's not what we're designed for.
@SheherazadesSeasonalNonsense Also loving the goose, and the 'not my cat's.' A little envious of the concept of a 'summerhouse.'
@petitpasta Rum and raisin ice cream has set me off. Orkney sounds fun, our notably memorable one was Cornish. I have rum soaked raisins here...
Good luck with the application.
@piscofrisco I initially thought you had a bunch of spontaneous wild swimmers on your hands there.
Hope those in with a chance of seeing the Aurora get lucky.
Decided to harvest all the last forced 'poly greenhouse' bok choi as the sudden warm weather has been damaging it and it's going over fast.
But it got cold here last night, and people wanted something hearty, so a new thing (for us) got born.
Sticky barbecue bok choi, mushroom, and chestnut pies. Apart from the butter and broccoli, it was a cost free meal and I wasn't sure the contents and pastry would go well together. They do!