Lentil Guru - is it stew? - 10 / 10 thread

[FrannyandZooey]

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oh BBeee, I expect everyone who does re-enactment stuff is like that (sigh).

I just thouhgt it'd be a load of fun cooking pike over a campfire etc while the Medieval Babes sang live and loads of mead was passed round.

Probably it'd be a load of accountants called Malcolm and Susan discussing their caravan holiday in Berwick-upon-Tweed

that's what I said Bee
my mum said the water would come flying off your house in great big sheets
so dp and I have had some very jolly guttering jokes about how sheety it all is
also, how gutted we are
it's been marvellous

FMF my friend used to go
it is all shagging while you pretend to be mediaeval and saying 'ooh sir don't rent me with thine pikestaff'
I can't even do it properly

and eeeewwwwwww!

Ok FMF's in there first with a swap! I've just emailed you.

sorry franny I sniggered at you and dp being gutted

We have a tomato plant and a red bell pepper plant and a pumpkin plant on the kitchen windowsill which I will plant out just as soon as it stops pissing down

I also have rocket seeds, happy to swap I will have to keep some though as I haven't yet got round to planting any out. Ditto herbs and cress.

My youngest brother used to do Live ROle Play where they all run round with latex swords and real chain mail pretending to be orks or whatever. I had a boyfriend many years ago that did the same.

hi i am not too old for t rex in fact old enough for knowing that it was origianlly tyrannosaurus rex and ride a white swan was a much better song

but why can't the rain fly off the roof in sheets? That would be fun would it not. I might go and rip our gutters off now.

and thank you to UR again for bneing nice to me yet again

Bee go and do it and tell me what it's like

so do we all have rocket growing? is that because we are big poncers?

Shall we each remove a piece of guttering and post it to Franny?

DD would adore it, she loves rain and puddles

we've still got the bit though
I don't see why it is going to cost a lot to tack it back on again

I do not have rocket. Because they call it arugula here and I object. And I couldn't find any seeds.

Was I nice, zippi? I don't think I did anything. Hope you are ok. I blabbed a bit too much to Man yesterday and am worrying a bit about the consequences. He said it was all fine and was lovely about it all but I am sure he is concerned that he is seeing another psycho. He's probably right too

lol, I refer you to my post on wnakiest thing you've heard:

''oh Oscar lives for my home-grown rocket...''

I've just seen a thread on growing your own mushrooms. Has anyone done it? Is it worth the outlay?

I love rocket best of all the leafy salad vegetables. I really must get round to sowing some

ooh ooh we have sorrel also
well we have sorrel seeds, we haven't got anything yet except a leaky gutter and a hopeful expression

oh well truth is UR my memory is more than slightly hazy as i was in credibly pissed obviously

lol FMF

And everyone thinks I'm a ponce because I say tom-ah-toes and Ba-sil (rather than tomaytoes and baysil) And I call them Herbs not 'erbs. I want to punch people who tell me about their 'erbs.

hah at 'erbs

Surely home-grown veg is cheapskate-y not poncey?!

It is poncy in a cheapy way, Pink, or cheapy in a poncy way. I do it partly so ds1 has that experience of Gardening that we currently Cannot Give Him (as no garden ), but also because I do not want to be paying the sort of money I would have to pay for as much rocket as I would like to eat. Luckily we have rampant rocket.

lol @ rampant rocket

tis me, UR, btw

UR!

ooh hello UR
didn't recognise you there for some reason

It's late
MrsC is coming tomorrow
huzzah!