Pippi’s pulling up her stripey-socks for the final sprint towards the Good-Life……………

greenval

Morning All
You do sound a bit battered by life at the moment Pippi:(
but I'm sure as always you will overcome it all in the end:j.
I've heard of 'take your child to work days' but not, erm ,'domestic fowl'
Is this a Scottish tradition that I have missed?.
I'm on here when I want to be outside but we had a hard frost and it's too cold just yet.
I wanted to stain the new arch but there's lumps of ice in my stain:eek:
There must be something I can do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cheery_Daff

So what's the other thing then if it's not a turnip?! :rotfl:

Keiss_21

Hya all...((((((hugs)))))) all round this morning methinks.

Intrigued by the take a cockerel to work idea Pips!!

As to what the root vegetable is called...it's a neep!! The small white ones are called turnips, or even purple-tops, at least that's what I learnt as a kid. We grew them both in the garden, so I spent many a time weeding inbetween them, oh joy ..only marginally better than hoeing up tatties mind you!!! I still call the big orange/yellow ones neeps, to this day.

Then there are the ones grown as livestock fodder: Mangelwurzel, I love that name!!It brings up thoughts of combine harvesters and cider...I wonder why! They (The Wurzels) are appearing at a local cider festival in April...should be fun. We won't have to buy tickets...the noise travels well around here!!

Got out in the garden yesterday afternoon...sunny but chilly. Did a bit of trimming and tidying up, but then started work on putting strips of film inside the channels of the conservatory polycarbonate roof. Long and laborious, but should make life indoors more comfortable. More to do today, once it gets warm enough...still only 2 degrees...and that's not counting the wind chill factor! So may have to do some weeding to keep me warm .

Have a lovely day if you can.

NorthernLas

Yup it's a turnip!!! (it's just not a white turnip, its a yellow one )

lotti379

But I can't help feeling the point is... Whether swede or turnip, they'll both have equal effects when thrown at misbehaving parents.

Wish I had a few for that very purpose!

Also - I would call that a swede, unless it's mashed up with a couple of carrots to eat with haggis, and then it is called neeps in our house. Totally wrong, I'm sure! But there we are.

mmmmm haggisy haggisy goodness mmmmmmmmmmm

troglodyte

Morning all (it is still morning isn't it? Time keeps creeping up on me this week).

Just in case anyone doon sooth is thinking of keeping a few chickies of their own, I wondered if you'd seen this

Pippi I hope things are getting better.
Also I need your gardening advice. I thought I was good at growing things from seed, but I seem to be getting worse! I've sown various seeds in trays of general purpose compost, and covered them with those clear plastic lids - and they've grown fluffy grew mould on the surface. Even on the ones I didn't water. And if I take the lids off they get really dry. What am I doing wrong? Or is it just that our house is so cold?

vl2588

Have nothing practical to say so just a hug (((((((((((((((EVERYONE)))))))))))))))))))

ZTD

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

That is SO a swede :rotfl: :rotfl:

Southerner.

starnac wrote: »

cheery i agree it is def a swede

And there's another one!

Karmacat wrote: »

Thats a turnip! We didn't have swedes when I was growing up, so I didn't know about The Debate till years later

Not a southerner.

starnac wrote: »

cheery i agree it is def a swede

Oh my! More southerners! It's a plague!

NorthernLas wrote: »

Yup it's a turnip!!! (it's just not a white turnip, its a yellow one )

Not a southerner!

lotti379 wrote: »

Also - I would call that a swede, unless it's mashed up with a couple of carrots to eat with haggis, and then it is called neeps in our house. Totally wrong, I'm sure! But there we are.

mmmmm haggisy haggisy goodness mmmmmmmmmmm

Southerner living with northerners, but hasn't quite learned the language... :rotfl:

vl2588

It is probably worse to be in my position...I am a Southerner without a clue

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Cheery_Daff

ZTD wrote: »

Southerner.

I am SO not a southerner :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: Unless you count south of Pippi, of course, in which case I am :rotfl: Grew up on merseyside though, don't think that's ever been described as south :rotfl: Now I'm in SOUTH Yorkshire - but I'm not sure that's south either :rotfl: