The Bluestocking Pub - Withered Old Haggis edition.

[Boiledbeetle]

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/5387894-the-bluestocking-does-a-late-night-flit-again

Figured it was my turn for once!

Plus this way I beat the rush to the bar.

Now I must return to the previous thread to relocate my Tunnock's secret stash.

Serve yourselves until the bar gerbils arrive.

I finally went back to aqua aerobics!

Fyi hedgehogs can swim. We just don't like getting up in the morning.

Had to do the walk of shame in my swimsuit though cos I was late 😣

Still looking after DH.

@BeLemonNow Fyi hedgehogs can swim. We just don't like getting up in the morning.

This reminded me irresistibly of one of my favourite Just-So Stories... Stickly Prickly and Slow and Solid running verbal rings round the dim leopard until he couldn't remember what his mother - graciously waving her painted tail - had told him...

It's nice having protective spikes, however I do tend to freak out and curl up in a ball inconveniently!

...finally! <pants> caught up!

❤️ to Marie, glad Myrtle's improving 😊

I think those scones might have been Dubai scones. I'm not sure they would work but I'd really like to try them.

There's a YouTube channel, these two blokes that travel the word trying different fruits. Makes me so envious. I want to try them!!

I've got miscellaneous exotic fruits bookmarked. If there's a chance to get from seed to fruit in one season I'm very tempted to try.

The loofah this year I tried germinated but then has just sat there. Possibly too shady. Possibly upset at being planted in a suitcase.

I'm tempted for honeyberries (weird blueberry a-likes), which are hardy, and tamarillo, if I can get seeds, which might fruit in the first year. I've reluctantly decided against dragon fruit. Although a vining cactus!

@lcakethereforeIam my honeyberry was a bare root shrub and took a few years to fruit I'm afraid.

May be a bit boring but autumn raspberries usually fruit first year, I love my yellow one best,.probably "Allgold".

Im also a fan of autumn raspberries. IMO they are much better than the summer ones. I already have an ice cream tub full in the freezer, plus loads more to come. All from 5 plants of "Autumn Bliss" that I found abandoned when we moved in.

I once made an apple and raspberry crumble - I wanted to make apple and blackberry, but couldn’t get any blackberries, so thought I’d try this instead - and it was delicious!

I'm very patient. I like the process of growing. I don't mind if it takes a while. I think my garden is too small for raspberries. They seem a little exuberant. I also want to grow stuff I can't easily buy.

I have a garden so small it is a "yarden". The raspberries take up a space of about 1m x 15cm against a wall. And get cut right down when they've finished. Much, much easier than strawberries for example.

Is it possible to grow peaches outside in the UK? I've heard there's a variety called Napoleon that might be hardy.

Peach leaf curl.
Nasty.
Comes down in the rain.

Saw some Dubai-style chocolate in the supermarket yesterday. £12 !

I wonder if the loofah might just be a bit dormant. My reasoning is that I planted an amaryllis bulb much too late, and it grew tall leaves but nothing else. I had it indoors in the kitchen window for several months, looking pathetic. Eventually I put it outside and left it to its fate, and the leaves dried up and fell off, but after a couple of weeks with the old ravaged bulb being nibbled by snails, new green shoots began to appear around the top of the gnawed bulb.

I brought it indoors and planted it in a better pot. It started to grow like mad, a very phallic stalk appeared and then a second one. After about a week it was evident that it was going to flower.

Ok, I know a loofah is not an amaryllis, but maybe changing its conditions will prompt it to grow more?

If not, remember to take it out of the suitcase before packing to go away.

Bugger. I was hoping, what with them not being native, there wouldn't be many pathogens around for them.

Presumably it bides in a related species.

Eta Loofah. They need a long growing season if there's to be any chance of fruit. So, even if it decides to buck it's ideas up, it's left it too late.

I will try again next year. But cut the branch so it gets even more light.

I keep my amaryllis inside after the molluscs destroyed a much loved one.

I had some that flowered simultaneously and was able to cross pollinate them. Got hundreds of seeds, grew dozens of them on until my friend, who was watching them while I was on holiday, didn't water them. The sole survivor is hanging on in the kitchen. If I don't kill it, it's still a few years from flowering. I was gutted that they all died but, in hindsight, I don't know where I'd have put them all.

This photo is supposed to represent moose contemplating the meaning of life in the Bluestocking garden. AI thinks Moose needs an ankle bandage as well as Myrtle does. Cake does not look happy. I think we may need the second sequence in this story ....

Ds3 is off to Dubai for his holidays later this year, and has promised faithfully to bring me back some Dubai chocolate. Dh bought some of the very expensive Lindt version, which I loved but he didn’t - so I had to finish it all (ohhh the tragedy).

Dubai chocolate ia $12 here, which by my reckoning makes it about 30% cheaper than the UK. Maybe I'll try some!

Oh my!

I would like some of Boily's. The stuff in the shops CAN'T be 3 times as delicious as the swiss choc with loads of nuts in it SURELY?!

Stood gazing moosefully at the chocolate section yesterday and came away empty-hoofed.

I still have one of Lidl's Dubai chocolate bars in the cupboard, maybe I should sell it on to the highest bidder.

The Oban Chocolate shop makes one with hazelnut, I love pistachio but I love hazelnut just as much and I need to pass by there tomorrow, I might have to dash in.
https://obanchocolate.co.uk/products/dubai-style-chunky-chocolate-bar?_pos=3&_sid=69c5f7d19&_ss=r&variant=56059985232246

Hmm - I wonder if I can talk dh into a road trip to Oban……

What is Dubai chocolate?

Chocolate filled with pistachio and fine shards of thin, crispy pastry, @FourthInstar.

Yeah, do it :)