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?

sing along in your head 1

the ballad of Lucy Jordan

The morning sun touched lightly on the eyes of lucy jordan
In a white suburban bedroom in a white suburban town
As she lay there neath the covers dreaming of a thousand lovers
Till the world turned to orange and the room went spinning round.

At the age of thirty-seven she realised shed never
Ride through paris in a sports car with the warm wind in her hair.
So she let the phone keep ringing and she sat there softly singing
Little nursery rhymes shed memorised in her daddys easy chair.

babbies

oh my giddy aunt

Jenny had a baby boy on Saturday night
which is brilliant news!

anyone heard from Elly?

I bumped into Sarah down along the sea front at lunch, so far she’s coping well with her 2 nippers

all together now….. aaaah

heres ellys beautiful baby bella

available for photoshoots? … don’t think so!

goth racket

the sisters of mercy as a counterbalance to Eddie VH from the other day

when i was young i went to see the sisters of mercy in concert, they were gawdawful blooming loud
being of sensitive, fey disposition i decided to protect my ears by putting pirces of loo roll in them.
it worked a treat, they sound much better slightly muffled
i could happily get on with pogoing about

next day tho’ i couldn’t hear a thing and had terrible ear ache, lumme must have been louder than i thought!
So off i went to the doctors. ‘i think i have a burst eardrum’
he shone a light in me lug hole, went ‘aha’ and fished out a piece of tissue paper.
embarrased