Author: basgallop

land of the lotus eaters

far from be it for me to cast aspersions about Nasturtiuns, but they be an edible flower!
If i recall they go rather well perched atop a salad and have a peppery taste
’tis somehow wonderfully macarbe to munch nashers down into the petals of a flower

are there any other edible flowers?

I was explaining to Finn the other day, ‘oh there are many snackable flowers, such as nasturtiuns… and… err…ummm…err (quick change of subject)… nasturtiuns and sea urchins.. those spiny critters live to be at least 200 years old! Which i guess explains why they haven’t evolved much over millenia. Just loafing about on the sea bed’

Nasturtiuns tho’ are great. Scatter a handful of seeds in a sunny spot by the backdoor and… with no watering, nor encouragement away they go, weedy creeper, strangle, straggle and bedraggle. Come the summer, here a blob, there a blob everywhere a daub daub. just gaudy orange colour.
smartie pants. e-additive bright.
The best bit tho’, love a frog, is that they have huge lily pad leaves, these pool water.
of a milk misty dew strewn morn, each leaf adorned with a perfect pearl of moisture.

nacreous man, if not mostly nonsense!
….i have a feeling nacreous was nabokovs favourite word. sm?

doze

aww
tho’ my memories of new borns are of them being in high dudgeon, a caterwaulin’ hullaballoo!asleep they do have the most amazing serene vibe about them
gosh. sarah and si must be really near to having their sproglet!

noahs ark

supersaturated soggyiness. my shorts absorbed so much moisture on the cycle voyage to work that they heffalump weighed me down.
better off in a pedalo.
luckily tho’ i have a dressing up box below my box and have donned my emergency colourful hippy flares
the raindrops were huge globule projectiles ‘honey i shrunk the kids’
drowndead rats,fur plastered to scalp by any estimate two glastonburys worth of rain in half an hour
the water was pummel gushing off the roof of the Concorde, I mused Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller style behind the bead curtain of a waterfall
….aprés moi le deluge as the little fella said

houseboats

houseboats!
Shoreham houseboats to be precise
took the kids to Shoreham beach at the weekend, enticed by the allure of miles of golden sand.
…well when the tide goes out it’s a good flat stretch of ooze squelch mud
good for playing boules, kid safe wading in the ocean …and quite beautiful in a lip gloss sheen kinda way
lug worms!
while we were down there went for a gander at the houseboats
some of them are amazing!