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DwellerInDale
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May 11, 1:53pm
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....but of course it's fake, just for show, since fireplaces aren't exactly necessary in a city where 100 F is so common. Oddly enough, room 401 (Frodo) has a poster of Luke Evans as Bard from The Hobbit.
This trip is part family obligation + partly for pleasure. There are lots of places to order naam anchan manao (butterfly pea juice with lemon) and khao niuw mamuang (mango sticky rice) and I aim to try to sample as many as possible....
Don't mess with my favorite female elves.
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dernwyn
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May 12, 1:09am
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I've never known of such things before! 
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Kimi
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May 12, 1:40am
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Utterly glorious weather here.
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Clear, bright days, chilly at night, but warm during the day - I'm in a tee-shirt just now. We're talking of getting the hot water bottles out, but haven't felt the need just yet. Our house is built to catch the sun in the cool months, and it holds the warmth well at night.
I've been looking at lots of stunning aurora pics, chagrined that we're too far north. We even went out for a drive last night to an area where we had a good view to the south (our property is sheltered by forest in that direction), but nothing to see. Whenever we go to the South Island I hope for a sight of them, but it's yet to happen. Some day!
Sunny but not too hot is great for getting things done outdoors. Mr Kimi spread a trailer load of mulch and painted the water tank. I took things a bit quieter, but did some planting (beans and peas) and weeding, and also gathered the last of the aubergines and prepped and froze them. We're currently trying to decide what to do with a semi-shaded bank that my attempt at establishing hostas on failed dismally (too many slugs and snails).
Salads: we generally make a vinaigrette and flavour it with whatever appeals (which is sometimes nothing beyond a little black pepper). I grew up with gooey dressings, but prefer a lighter one these days. I'm liking some of the salad ideas in this thread!
Wishing everyone a pleasant (what's left of the) weekend.
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grammaboodawg
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May 13, 12:28am
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I hope it has lasted for more than just a few days for you. Those days that defy the calendar are very precious :D I hope you've had a great weekend!
We have been there and back again.
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Greenwood Hobbit
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May 13, 10:23am
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are quite different; salad cream is tangier and is what I grew up with. Didn't try mayo until I was an adult. Google says: Salad cream is more liquidy than mayonnaise and has a slightly more astringent flavor. It's less sweet and more vinegar forward.
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Otaku-sempai
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May 13, 1:22pm
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[Salad cream and mayo] are quite different; salad cream is tangier and is what I grew up with. Didn't try mayo until I was an adult. Google says: Salad cream is more liquidy than mayonnaise and has a slightly more astringent flavor. It's less sweet and more vinegar forward.
Your description makes me wonder if salad cream is more like Miracle Whip, but perhaps less thick?
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Annael
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May 13, 2:37pm
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https://kitchencreativity.com/...eam-vs-miracle-whip/
I gross people out by saying I grew up eating peanut butter and Miracle Whip sandwiches. We loved 'em. I think my youngest sibling still eats them. I also ate Miracle Whip on lettuce. Never tried salad cream. Yet.
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dernwyn
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May 13, 4:10pm
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What pleasant days your having!
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Perfect for getting the garden settled for the cooler months.
I looked up about how to repel slugs and snails, and found that the caffeine in coffee grounds is toxic to them, so they should be spread around plants. Do you drink coffee?
I hope the nice days last for a while!
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Kimi
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May 14, 2:04am
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our slugs are made of sterner stuff! We do drink coffee, which we take fairly seriously (beans bought from a roasting house, freshly ground just before use, and our own espresso machine). But whenever we've tried the grounds on the garden the slugs more or less ignore them, crawling right over them to get to juicy vegetables or ornamentals. We do use grounds around strawberries, though, where they successfully repel small burrowing worm-like creatures that otherwise get into the fruit.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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Greenwood Hobbit
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May 14, 8:08am
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That's an excellent explanation!
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Heinz salad cream was the taste of my childhood. They also made a 'sandwich spread' which was salad cream with tiny chopped-up bits of vegetables in it. A great novelty at the time but I think of it now and...yuk.
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dernwyn
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May 14, 9:03pm
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And that's high-quality caffein! Ugh. And you wouldn't want to surround the veggies with a layer of salt. What a quandary. But glad to know it works for the strawberries.
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Kimi
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May 17, 10:58pm
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And they mostly seem to be teetotal :) A few checked out the beer traps, but the vast majority ignored them and went straight on to the seedlings. A pity, as it does seem as if it would give them a pleasant passing.
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Do we find happiness so often that we should turn it off the box when it happens to sit there?
- A Room With a View
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Ethel Duath
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May 18, 5:28pm
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Yes, I have the same subset of slugs, apparently.
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I have had some limited success with those iron-containing slug pellets, although I understand they may not be safe for other creatures, like earthworms. But I've never had any sign of that in my small gardens.
I wonder how many slug varieties there are, and why ours ignore the free refreshments!
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