Best wellyboot forward. Pips frugal edible garden adventures.

rtandon27

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

...First off though a few things on me list....

Gotta love a good list!:D

Pippilongstocking wrote: »

...A dight round with a cloot won't hurt either...

;)For those of us who are seriously challenged when it comes to Caledonian speech...

dight
verb
make ready for a use or purpose; prepare.
ScottishNorthern English
wipe clean or dry.
"take a cloth and dight it up"

cloot
Noun
A Scottish term for a cloth, rag, piece of clothing, or damp dishcloth.

I'm guessing Pips is going to give the dirt in her house a what for with a duster.:D

Happy Tuesday all!

XO
RT

Pippilongstocking

beanielou wrote: »

Great news on a full days work.

nice to be here and know they'll be some money this month.

rtandon27 wrote: »

Gotta love a good list!:D



;)For those of us who are seriously challenged when it comes to Caledonian speech...

dight
verb
make ready for a use or purpose; prepare.
ScottishNorthern English
wipe clean or dry.
"take a cloth and dight it up"

cloot
Noun
A Scottish term for a cloth, rag, piece of clothing, or damp dishcloth.

I'm guessing Pips is going to give the dirt in her house a what for with a duster.:D

Happy Tuesday all!

XO
RT

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::T:T

I love that you google this stuff.

I am indeed going to wipe down the surfaces with a damp cloth later.

I'd not go as far as dusting though - would need a lie down with a really cold damp cloot if I thought about actually dusting.

beanielou

Thanks rt for the wee explanation,
I had not heard that one!!! (or those ones!!)

Happy Tuesday all

Pippilongstocking

Happy Tuesday to you too Beanie and dearest chums

A bit of work done here and then a quick Skype tour with the DD in NZ

Must get some lunch in a bit - whats everyone having

mfmaybe

Long time stalker, finally subscribing. You've done so well with paying off those cards, and I'm looking forward to reading about the chooks very soon. We aren't far from you either, so you can be my gardening barometer

I am curious about the elderflower, it's always daunted me a little. Do you have a recipe you follow that you can point me to? Ours are just threatening to flower now.

beanielou

I've had ham & a banana.
Now going to have some of last nights left over pasta.
I know how to live!!!

Pippilongstocking

mfmaybe wrote: »

Long time stalker, finally subscribing. You've done so well with paying off those cards, and I'm looking forward to reading about the chooks very soon. We aren't far from you either, so you can be my gardening barometer

I am curious about the elderflower, it's always daunted me a little. Do you have a recipe you follow that you can point me to? Ours are just threatening to flower now.

Thank you for being so kind. A big wave to you. Oh someone near - how fabulous - we can be weather buddies and enjoy the benefits of lots of sunshine (I hope).

Still looking for pesky chooks. I might cave in and buy the 'spensive ones' goes against the grain but I'm missing my lasses.

I use the one that Red Squirrel posted for me. Its on my blog here if you want the haiver version - otherwise without the nonsense -

10-20 elder flowerheads to each lot of syrup (cold syrup or they're rank) - steep for 24-48 hours and then seive, put into a sterilised vessel.

Syrup
2lb sugar
1 pint water
to a handful of lemon (in my case frozen sliced lemons unused at xmas and bagged up for a later use)
Heat up and make a syrup, then cool.
35g of citric acid (add when mix is cold)

Its so easy and we're still using last years up so we must be doing something right.

:rotfl:

PS if you see a pair of red wellies in an elderflower bush locally. That will prob be me.

:rotfl:

Nice to see you and thanks for popping in. Always lovely to talk about making free grub.

Pippilongstocking

beanielou wrote: »

I've had ham & a banana.
Now going to have some of last nights left over pasta.
I know how to live!!!

It may just be toast in these lands (again) and banana.

I do like a bit of nana's on toast and my banana's are looking right manky - so I guess whilst I like them, this is a purely noble act to stop food waste.



Remind me to buy LESS banana's next time, DD doesn't live here anymore.

mooomin

I hadn't heard dight before but do use a cloot for my own cleaning

I had to explain drookit to someone who had lived here for 15 years the other day. No idea how she's missed that one! (For our friends south of the border, if you're caught in a rainstorm with nae brolly, you'll likely be drookit by the end of it!)

starnac

rtandon27 wrote: »

Gotta love a good list!:D



;)For those of us who are seriously challenged when it comes to Caledonian speech...

dight
verb
make ready for a use or purpose; prepare.
ScottishNorthern English
wipe clean or dry.
"take a cloth and dight it up"

cloot
Noun
A Scottish term for a cloth, rag, piece of clothing, or damp dishcloth.

I'm guessing Pips is going to give the dirt in her house a what for with a duster.:D

Happy Tuesday all!

XO
RT

Ooh look at me learning Scottish. :rotfl: I have enough trouble with the two languages I do speak :rotfl:

Pippi think of the chooks as an investment. Keep a tally ( à la cheery) of how much you save on eggs vs cost of buying/keeping them. You'll soon forget how "spensive" they were