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rtandon27

Karmacat wrote: »

RT! The little book arrived, thank you! I had no idea what to expect, and its really beautiful, I might well do some foraging. I'm a wimp about potential danger, so I was really interested in how useful dandelion is - young leaves for salads, buds for pickling and dandelion flower marmalade! I had a fine crop of dandelions just at the end of my garden, so this could be *very* good

Yeah! So glad it arrived and did not go AWOL like the coupons did last year - lol

Sorry to have missed all the dandelion chat yesterday - dandelion fritters sound very interesting, have never eaten the flowers before - can vouch for the young leaves in a mixed baby greens salad & also in a mixed veg stir-fry - the older leaves for tea produce a detoxifying liquid - good with a bit of honey - fabulous for cleaning out the liver and kidneys, the result being skin that glows!

...as for lazy days... go with it!... your body is telling you a rest is in order!!!!!

XO
RT

Karmacat

Hello you! Feeling a bit better - I've decided its not a lurgy thats going to hang around, its one of those that people say "oh yes, but I feel all right with it" ... Anyway, got the insect screening, and I'll write about that on my blog/homepage in a sec .... first of all, tho, I confess that I wanted to be the nemesis of my local Tatco today, and I couldn't be, because their customer service was impeccable!

It started on Thursday morning - local shop was out of milk for the builders' tea, so I raced in to Tatco at the edge of the central area, bought milk for the tea, and a Snickers bar for me. Checking paperwork that evening - hmmm, the bill says two Snickers bars, so they've overcharged me by about 25p ... pretty annoyed, and since I was at my desk and the lappie was on, I shot off a complaint to tatcocomments dot com ... and went in this morning to the store, fully prepared to tell them that, and give them what for when they didn't believe me. The manager was *ever* so young, and *ever* so nice - possibly articulate middle aged women scare him :D:rotfl: he refunded me the price of a Snickers (51p) and *gave* me a Snickers ... I just wanted my 25p! Life is certainly very odd sometimes ...

Anyway, after a little diversion ( = humongous great trek) to a garden centre to buy the insect screening, staggered into Sainsbo, blissfully chilled from all those chill cabinets - methinks they're pricing salad veg *very* low at the moment, to stave off fear about e.coli. Bought quite a bit of this that and the other, staggered home desperate to eat something, very happy now I have. Ooh, and a Pringle's offer, I know its one of many - buy 1, get 2 free. The one is £1.99, but thats still a good offer.

More later

xxx

Pippilongstocking

Hugs hope you feel better soon x

Lula-Hula

Just read about your insect screening - well done. I foudn our local garden centre does loads of different things like that on a roll - screening, netting in various forms, anti-weed membrane & astro turf ?

Glad to hear you've decide to fend off lurgy with positive thinking

Karmacat

Absolutely! I'm surprised that they included the insect screening, I've never seen that before, but I'm *very* happy it was there

Today is a pottery sort of day, tidying up a bit, and also doing the window screening, and some planting too - I need to plant up the bare spaces in the area I've been weeding - cherisong's post on pippi's thread was very familiar to me, of clearing space and then not getting stuff in fast enough before the weeds come back. Plus I'm off for that long weekend next weekend, and if I water it all lots, and then put down that bark mulch, it should help things survive.

Just got Total Wipeout on Children's tv at the mo - how's that for meaningful television

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Just got Total Wipeout on Children's tv at the mo - how's that for meaningful television

It's no less meaningful than the rest of it...

Karmacat

Thanks Z! How are you?

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Thanks Z! How are you?

I'm fine - wondering where the sun has gone...

How are you?

MrsMoo2U

Morning KC, just catching up after a couple of days away. Loving the talk about dandelions and I relaly like the sound of the jam. Must have a look at that. Great news on Tatco's customer service. I know somebody who once bought a bra. Drove home and discovered that the security tag was still on it. So next day she was planning to do a big shop in there after work so took it back. She went to the customer service desk who promptly refunded her the cost of the bra (without taking the bra back) took off the security tag and then offered to pay her petrol costs for returning it. In fact they insisted. She took the money and felt so guilty that she left the store without doing the shop that she had planned. Then went back 20 minutes later and said that she had to sneak round the customer service desk because she felt so guilty
Hope the lurgy passed.

taxi73

that's what sundays are for pottering..am pottering myself ..when I stop diverting myself with this computer..oops