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January is the season for forced rhubarb which is the best kind, pale and pink and delicate. I don't think there is anything morally wrong with forcing rhubarb It is literally forced to grow through straw and gets no light but I don't suppose it minds much, it's not veal, but it is advised to only force a plant every 3 or 4 years so it must stress it a bit.

pink like this

I think I could kill for a slice of that at the moment.

I am sorry you have been ill..or ill in another horrible way..LL

I was asking if you had been in at all

is it ok for you to dump your pills?

The weather is miserable as well and the short days are dispiriting

oh yes, sorry LL, that sounds awful. My mother suffers from pleurisy, not nice.

So, nah TooT.

MrsC is my Great Rhubarb Defender. I heart MrsC.

Actually that was why I bought it, because it was so very pink, outrageously, embarrassingly pink, like a flamingo.

Poor LL. I am sorry. Is it a good idea to bin ALL the meds though? Perhaps you should get on to Rasputin. He's been working wonders with everyone here.

it wasn't really porn you know, there was just a penis and some breasts in it

oh and a minge

I had a scan and it was fine, they are saying July 4th.

Lully what are your pills doing? and what are they meant to be doing? It is very good to see you.

I think I have cut down a bit, haven't I? I mea obviously it was embarrassing when I said I was going and then didn't go, but I feel like I am on here a bit less?

I did that too. Everybody, I Am Going. Cue goodbyes, a bit of lurking to see if anyone misses you then then instead of severance, someone comes and bloody says something incorrect and one simply has to pop back and correct them and then you're back and well, may as well stay.

I like the idea of embarrassingly pink rhubarb. Sounds a bit rude.

If anyone asks, you've not been seen Franny.

Poor rhubarb. Barbaric.

oh i thought i saw franny on another thread

no no no I have DEFINTELY Cut Right Down

Oh, and 100x, please can we not call the homeopath Rasputin anymore. I feel Toot was kind enough to loan me a therapist and I seem to have turned him into a joke. I'm sure she doesn't mind but I feel a bit rude about it, sort of defensive in parenthesis iyswim.

though wtf defensive in parenthesis actually means I don't know but it sounds right.

Lionhart - apparently the rhubarb makes an almost screamy noise but it is just squeaking as it forces through the straw or whatever.

God I want some rhubarb pie. MmMM. I am hungery. Again.

No it wasn't YOU, was me calling him Rasputin. But I wasn't taking the piss, I quite liked the idea of him as a magic man with violet eyes and healing hands.

Okay.

He shall no longer be known as Rasputin.

[respectful emoticon]

But ONLY because you've been so decent about Rhubarb.

Oh no! I was very decent about that. I forgot - I should have had a row with you about what I can and can't say. [sigh]

But, I ask you, how does anyone really know that a squeak is not just a strangled scream?

That was indeed very decent, what a decent sort you are, 100x, Darrell would be proud of such a friend. Even if it was only under the lure of rhubarb reinforcement. Barf. Did you get that, reinFORCE?

aHA you see you CAN do it when you LIKE the person

The mind boggles at the thought of all the squeak/scream analogies.

Imagine Munch painting The Squeak

Rofl.

(And I have honestly never rofled before).

I like you VERY much Fra. I like you even more since we rowed weirdly. This is often the case with me. [immature] I fell in love with dh during a row on Charlotte Street as it happens. So beware Franny you might end up marrying me.

Anyway, I'm grumbling a little, but to myself. I am also wondering whether Boco will let me call her wizard - SHE USES THAT TERM - Rasputin? I shall ask when she comes back from her holiday.

I had a friend her over NY who said the most annoying thing about homeopathy is that it works.

Oh no, I haven't dredged that up again have I?

We were all joking about wizards because that's what Boco's dp called her homeopath. It was funny, I just felt a bit guilty that Toot's friend might became a permanent joke that's all. I am quite sure that Boco will be thrilled to call her wizard Rasputin. Maybe homeopaths in general could be called RasputinS. That would be good.

Don't grumble though. Eat rhubarb pie and give me some.