Princess Kasren

PINK bloody bluebells have started to appear in our bluebell bed...I cannot kill them though or cut them as I do NOT like cut flowers. Flowers belong in the garden, in the soil....growing. So...live and let live.

Pink strangers

Taking over

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What is your deepest, darkest fear?
Submitted by [Susan].

G. Fälschung and A. P. Gracejo from Conte Grand Hospital (Switzerland) reported in the April issue of the Swiss Journal of Emergency Medicine that several children in southern Europe needed medical assistance for - get this - aural earwig infestations. Not only were earwigs living in their ear canals, but they were apparently imbibing hemolymph in well established "nests" sealed off with wax. (shudder) Several ears even showed evidence of burrowing by the wayward dermapterans, with at least one early instar earwig extracted from deep within the cochlea of one patient and eggs reportedly clustered on the temporal lobe of another. (yikes) Symptoms were described as "general irritation, scratching and 'popping' sounds, bloody discharge, dizziness, hearing loss, insomnia, depression, and, in one case, mild cognitive decline"

The x-ray below shows earwigs consuming aural hemolymph.

*SHUDDER*

I have to go poke my mind's eye out now.

Earwig

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The Babylon 5 mantra:
"Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again, Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out. Babylon Control out. [Sigh] Civilians. [Looking up] Just kidding about the God part -- no offense."

Lt. Commander Susan Ivanova, Voice in the Wilderness Part I

I do not normally take photos of food. Our kitchen is in the back of the house and is quite dark so I would most of the time have to use a flash...yuk...this girl hates flashy flashiness. When you use it on food it always looks vaguely Frankenstein like and frankly renders it unpleasing to the human not to mention monster eye. Anyhoo....here is my pasta bake which I made and which I love. I do like the way the little penne are sticking up through the cheesy savoury goodness as if trying to escape their fiery death....good times.
Also...here are my hands after working in the garden this afternoon planting all and sundry and quite a few plants as well...hmmm...my hands are quite smallish. I am not sure I like that. Well obviously I do not want giant man hands...that would be weird but I always wanted piano fingers ummm pianist fingers. Oh and aren't hands quite odd really?

gardening

Pasta bake

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I went down to the sea this afternoon. It sounds like an epic journey but it's actually just at the end of the street. I did take the long way around(4 miles). I sat on the dunes and read for a while. It was 18 degrees this afternoon(about 65ish maybe)...hot enough to burn my fair skin even with sunscreen on....ouch.

Destination

Shelter

I am taking photos of all the flowers that come up in the garden this year as it is immensely helpful to have dated material available with a visual record...some years things don't show up at all and other years they give a poor show. the bluebells were here when we moved in. we have tried to plant more but they have never flowered. I loce the parrot tulip...it reminds me of candy.

Bluebells

Parrot tulip...took ages to open up.

I love the little soil hat my lavender is wearing as it pushes its way into our world. No-one said life would be easy but I will take care of him now until we send him out into the big scary wilderness of the garden.
Also....look who visited our back garden this morning. I do not see them very often during the day. I do consider them to be extremely good luck as the only other time I have seen a hedgehog during the day was when dave and i came to view this house when we were house hunting.

Horace the hedgehog

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Lavender seedlings

Listen to the wind in this clip...plus my maniacal giggle at the end..what is up with that? I am mad. 6 miles in the wind and the rain...felt like 6 trillion and one.

Home at the doorstep at last

One day...you and I will be together.

One Camera to rule them all, One Camera to find them,

One Camera to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them,

I forgot to tell everyone that it's Neighbours only nowadays around here for the most part. If you happen to stumble across me and feel you just have to be a neighbour then let me know.