Baldur

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Baldur

Garden time!

Today the seed order from Pinetree Garden Seeds arrived, included were:
an heirloon purple Italian Pole Bean
Hailstone Radish
Purple Plum Radish
Cocozelle Summer Squash (pale green and dark green striped skin)
Armenian Cucumber
Jenny Lind Melon (a smallish green fleshed variety)
Rocky Ford Green Flesh Melon
Jericho Lettuce
Green Ice Lettuce
Winter Density Lettuce
Dinosaur KaleDwarf Blue Curled Kale
Ching Chang Bok Choy (a dwarf variety)
Clary Sage
Silver Sage
Strawberry Fields Gomphrena
Scarlet O'Hara Morning Glory
King Theodore Nasturtium (mahogany red blooms)

My Rattlesnake Beans are on back order and I'm still awaiting my seed order from Richter's in Canada.
Last week my Jewel of Opar seeds came in, they were purchased on eBay.
I had saved what few seeds that I could from the one plant in my garden but still wanted more.

I saved many other seeds myself this past year, plus had a good amount leftover from last Spring.
For all my talk Boughbreak's garden is not gigantic. We like variety but don't put in an awful lot of any one thing.

Baldur

Baldur has for the time being given up on trying to start his warm weather seedlings indoors. There is just not enough light to produce plants that are anything but spindly and weak.
Any tomato, eggplant and pepper plants are purchased from a nursery.

Baldur

I should have clarified the above comment a bit. My 'vegetable' garden is not all that large. The perennial beds are rather extensive.
Baldur sneaks vegetable plants in among the flowers wherever possible.

Baldur

Now for a musical moment here on Radio Baldur, we present:

Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Songwriters: M Craig, Jon Moss, Roy Hay, George O'Dowd


Give me time
To realise my crime
Let me love and steal
I have danced inside your eyes
How can I be real

Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Precious kisses
Words that burn me
Lovers never ask you why
In my heart the fires burning
Choose my colour
Find a star
Precious people always tell me
That's a step
A step too far

Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry

Words are few
I have spoken
I could waste a thousand years
Wrapped in sorrow
Words are token
Come inside and catch my tears
You've been talking but believe me
If its true
You do not know
This boy loves without a reason
I'm prepared to let you go

If it's love you want from me
Then take it away
Everything is not what you see
It's over today

Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry
Do you really want to hurt me
Do you really want to make me cry

Baldur

Has any of my listening audience had any experience in making glycerin soap?

Baldur generally uses a brand called 'Pears' but is thinking about making his own using a block of glycerin soap base, beeswax and essential oils.
Mainly this is because I'm inordinantly (+4 points) fond of the combination of sandalwood and orange, perhaps with just the barest hint of rose.

Are there any pointers or warnings that any of you can give me?

Baldur

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Sorry I didn't answer your question about the accent in the Hovis voice-over, Q. Yesterday was a day of chaos here … nothing serious, just time consuming. Thanks for helping out in my absence mum23. Of course, your answer is correct … butties = sandwiches, a slang word originating in the north of England (singular 'butty'). It has gained popularity in the south as a result of it's use in regionally based TV soaps and comedies, such as the one Baldur mentioned.

In answer to mum's own questions The Hovis voice-over for that particular advert is a Yorkshire accent ... from 'oop north', as was a much earlier Hovis advert (claimed to be the most watched advert of all time) of the delivery boy, freewheeling down a beautiful, steep cobbled street. That street is here in the south-west and it's called Gold Hill. However, I've recently found a version of that 'Gold Hill advert' with a local Dorset / Somerset voice-over and it's also been shown with Lancashire and Scottish voice-overs.
http://www.thinkdraw.com/picture.php?pictureId=58150 Gold Hill

Hovis have made some excellent adverts over the years, the one in 2010 having been labelled the 'Ad Of The Decade'. A schoolboy fetches a loaf for his mum but his journey back from the baker's shop takes him through snatches of the last 122 years of Britain's history.
http://www.hovisbakery.co.uk/our-ads/

Normal

Normal finds it hilarious that in a relatively small nation , an advertiser finds the need to use three different voice-overs for assorted local audiences.
Reminds me of a frequent response to my generic German in that country: "You're not from here, are you?" Always wondered if they just thought I came from over the next mountain or further up the river.

Dragon

My friends from Australia told me an amusing story of regional dialect not translating well. I don't actually suppose it's "regional" as it has to do with a common phrase in the whole country of Australia. It seems the tourism board wanted to promote visiting Australia to the UK and Canada so they made a wonderful ad filled with sweeping views of many beautiful areas in the country. They finished it by putting in the catch phrase "Where the bloody hell are you?" It was banned in the UK because of the word 'bloody' and banned in Canada because of the word 'hell'. Geuss they should have checked into that a little more studiously.

Dragon

Dragon is very jealous of Baldur's small veg garden. Especially the squash. Whenever I finally get a house with a yard of my own I would love to have a garden and would definitly love to have home grown squash. We only just discovered how much we love squash (any kind, but butternut is our fav) about a year and a half ago when a friend gave us a spaghetti squash she'd grown. It's become one of our favorite veggies and it would be wonderful to be able to have them fresh from the garden.

Baldur

Dragon, try cooking it this way...
Take a butternut squash and cut into into 1" think discs. Peel each disc and remove the seeds and stringy stuff.
Cut the discs into wedges about 1" wide at the base, cut any odd shaped bits to a similar dimension.
Toss them in a bowl with a good drizzling of olive oil, some garlic powder(or fresh minced garlic), a good scattering of rosemary leaves and salt & pepper to taste. (Baldur would also add some hot red pepper flakes, but that's just me)
Roast in a hot (375 degrees F) oven for an hour to 90 minutes until cooked through and browned nicely around the edges.
Serve it as a side dish,
or use it on top of spaghetti dressed with olive oil, garlic and grated Romano cheese,
or use it still slightly warm on top of a tossed salad of mixed greens in viniagrette.

Baldur

Acorn squash doesn't appeal to me, otherwise squash can do no wrong.
My mother always cooked Acorn squash by cutting it in half, cleaning it out and filling the cavity with maple syrup, a bit of butter, salt and pepper.
She then roasted it until tender.
It was so sweet that my teeth still hurt when I think about it.
To this day I cannot see an Acorn Squash without a sense of loathing.

Dragon

Baldur would probably not like how I prepare squash as it's quite similar to his mother. I cut in half, clean out the seeds then spread margarine and brown sugar on the inside and cook until tender. I don't fill the whole cavity with it though, just spread in enough to cover the inside. We quite like it this way but I've been looking for another way to cook them and can't wait to try Baldur's method. Mmmm, fresh rosemary... (drool)

Baldur

lol Don't get Baldur going about margarine....or shortening for that matter.

Dragon

In my defense I only use non-hydrogenated margarine. I don't dislike butter, I just find that if you keep it in the fridge it's too hard to use and if you keep it out it's too soft.

Baldur

Baldur just received the first ultrasound image of little Obediah-Harryhausen at 6 weeks along. He(She) is just 6cm lfrom head to tail, and the face is amazingly clear for so early an image.
The image I was sent was just a 'still' but at the doctor's office my son and daughter-in-law could see the heart beating.

I did actually suggest Harryhausen for a middle name should this be a baby boy. Time will tell what the parents eventually decide upon, but it will definitely be an unusual name.

AuntieB

ahem......
I do suspect the child will be named after me, Beatrix-Arith.
Being the child's favorite great-aunt has it's advantages after all.

clorophilla

well... italian cooking is quite different, so... I prefer Squash to be prepared cutting it in very thin slices, then pan-fried with very few olive oil, a little piece of garlic and rosmarine!

delicious with pasta!

clorophilla

another way is boiled with onions, then whizzed up to make a cream. Eat with croutons, adding raw olive oil, fresh basil leaves and a squirt of lemon