Daydream fund challenge part 4

Better_Days

Been a lovely day here.

Pottered a bit in the shed and lounged in the greenhouse with my seedlings :D

Just watched GW. Anyone watch it this week? At Malvern - some lovely show gardens and plants. Really liked the bee garden and the biodiversity bench.

Fay

I've been the Malvern show today, my first garden show and I loved it. Very inspirational but within the reach of my abilities and garden size. I got a little addicted to hosta said and heucheras. A lot of the stalls had similar o,ants and some of the things I had gone to get I couldn't find-hydrangea anabelle and tree peony in particular. But I got some nice plants, including s ghost fern and some dog tooth violets. I hope I don't kill them all. Not sure it's money saving but the heucheras were cheaper than on the website and I got a hosta called Captain Kirk which my husband declared we have to have. Got a couple of large hostas reduced to £7 at the end of the show but didn't stick around for the big 4pm sell off. I'll definitely go again though. But sadly not much gardening therefore done. Watered what I've bought and moved some strawberries into a basket from a pot to make room for some white agapanthus I bought. But that's it. Oh and used the new expandable hose, which is really good I have to say.

Fay

I also missed out on Solomon's seal, I wanted a bigger pot which I had seen and by the time we got back round to the stall it had sold out! Doh. Never wait, just get it.

choille

Another male lamb - thought she was having twins as she was huge, but just the one....

It's hissed it down most of the day.

Some who breeds meat chickens approached a local high end restuarant asking if they wished to buy any & all the wanted was breasts, so that was all a bit hopeless. People don't want the whole bird.

Meat used to be a treat. Chicken something you ate on high day & holidays = we do consume an awful lot more meat than we ever did as a country. We did use to eat all of a beast - cheap cuts an all, but people have become less aware on how to cook.....fer instance...tongue, Ox Tail etc. These are delicisious, but less often on the menu, but are starting to become more 'high end' Peasant food =- don't you know. Hare & even goat - I hear are very vogue in certain places. Things go round in Circles.

Better_Days

Sounds like you had a great day Fay.

The show gardens are so pretty, you really don't see anything like them other than at the shows. Is it the Chelsea Flower Show later this month? Would love to go one year but it always looks so busy

Not heard of Hosta Captain Kirk - great name. Here's a link in case anyone is wondering http://www.perennialresource.com/plants/hosta/1026_hosta-captain-kirk.aspx

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Another male lamb - thought she was having twins as she was huge, but just the one....

It's hissed it down most of the day.

Some who breeds meat chickens approached a local high end restuarant asking if they wished to buy any & all the wanted was breasts, so that was all a bit hopeless. People don't want the whole bird.

Meat used to be a treat. Chicken something you ate on high day & holidays = we do consume an awful lot more meat than we ever did as a country. We did use to eat all of a beast - cheap cuts an all, but people have become less aware on how to cook.....fer instance...tongue, Ox Tail etc. These are delicisious, but less often on the menu, but are starting to become more 'high end' Peasant food =- don't you know. Hare & even goat - I hear are very vogue in certain places. Things go round in Circles.

Ox tail is often out of by budget now, cheeks are a fortune. Tongue is still ok, but I dislike it, similarly trotters are still cheap enough.

Mad for restaurants not to want 'brown ' meat of a bird for flavour and succulence, and bones for stocks I would have thought?

choille

Is Ox Tail expensive? Goodness. It went off after the mad cow disease scares.

lostinrates

choille wrote: »

Is Ox Tail expensive? Goodness. It went off after the mad cow disease scares.

Yep. Its because they keep featuring these cuts on tv as 'cheap cuts'. I got chicken livers cheaply the other day. Hadn't bought them in ages, but they were cheap enough, thank goodness. I love liver,:o:D but on my medication I am advised to eat it sparingly. I am slightly anaemic, which I take iron for, but, er, monthly I eat red meat as I feel its best to tackle with diet over pills where possible. I don't feel the need to eat red meat daily or even weekly, but sometimes I crave it, I tend to think when I crave rare red meat I want iron. Particularly at totm. .

choille

Yes, cravings are telling us what our body needs - especially Chokelit, dark chokelit, or even white chokelit, or even a Tunnocks tea cake.

COOLTRIKERCHICK

I am eating chocolate tea cakes now lol... The thing is you just can't eat one.. Or if you do its one packet lol...