Minor Pleasures (6 Viewers)

[seanc]

Catering at work.

The newer guys don't expect it, but at least on our crew, they respect it.
There was hasselbad potatoes today and they were great. I get some shit about being a potato muncher over here from time to time, but the two Romanians, the Latvian, the Scottish man, and the other very incongruous Irishman agreed with the wordless appreciation of hungry men, these spuds are good. Everyone likes potatoes.

 

[magicbastarder]

i have a spud for breakfast every morning, can't beat it.

 

[flashback]

I've started eating spuds again, just from being in the country.
I grew up eating them, but never ate them when I was living abroad, I thought I'd gone off them. Now I'm choking them down like I need to make up for lost time.

 

[flashback]

(And, as I'm furiously ramming spuds down my throat, I'm simultaneously doing the "potatoes are very healthy for you... vitamin C... don't need to peel them really either... best part of the potato is the skin"

ALL of which might have been heard from a home economics teacher in 3rd year in the corridor, with possibly exactly no basis at all in fact.)

 

[ann post]

I've started eating spuds again, just from being in the country.
I grew up eating them, but never ate them when I was living abroad, I thought I'd gone off them. Now I'm choking them down like I need to make up for lost time.

I support this motion.
Even without the stupid vitamins, having lumps hot mass inside your body at this time of year* is a good move.

Spoiler: spoiler

*discount the sexual organs of strangers, to pre-empt the fish in a barrel

 

[chris d]

im eating loads of baby spuds for the january/high blood pressure health kick. microwave em. then microwave from frozen veg. then eat em.

 

[magicbastarder]

Our microwave is one of those with a convection oven built in so can do a reasonable cooked spud using heat and microwave; I have it with grated cheese, Sriracha and coleslaw.

 

[pete]

Rooster spuds in the oven for at least an hour. Every Sunday. Winner.

 

[ann post]

im eating loads of baby spuds for the january/high blood pressure health kick. microwave em. then microwave from frozen veg. then eat em.

You like Rhubarb? - I've been supplying it to the oulfella for his blood pressure. Once you plant it it just kinda returns to the garden every year

 

[chris d]

You like Rhubarb? - I've been supplying it to the oulfella for his blood pressure. Once you plant it it just kinda returns to the garden every year

cool, never tried it. i'll try some out, stick it in the 'bullet.

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

It's bad for the gout

 

[therealjohnny]

You like Rhubarb? - I've been supplying it to the oulfella for his blood pressure. Once you plant it it just kinda returns to the garden every year

it's good for the blood pressure then? Interesting

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Rhubarb is the best. I don’t know about its medicinal properties but I’d happily have it every day.

 

[ann post]

it's good for the blood pressure then? Interesting

Yeah, like the oulfella knows A LOT about plants and remedies, but that said i have ZERO science for this. I didn't know about the gout thing till @hiadudiad? said so I'd take that into consideration too.

 

[flashback]

I just got one of those mesh wifi setups for the house, TP Link Deco something, and it's not bad. The set up is a tiny bit annoying, but once you have your nodes booted up the place is AWASH with wifi signals.


Here, @ann post would your old man know about stuff that might survive in a garden that's on the sea? Sheltered enough, but on the sea so it would be getting salty air I suppose. At the moment it's really just space to fill, but there's something especially suitable I'd stick some in and give it a go. I'd be thinking more about birds / spiders / pollinators than crops. Thugs would be welcome, because I'm not going to be looking after it very much for a few years.

 

[ann post]

Here, @ann post would your old man know about stuff that might survive in a garden that's on the sea? Sheltered enough, but on the sea so it would be getting salty air I suppose. At the moment it's really just space to fill, but there's something especially suitable I'd stick some in and give it a go. I'd be thinking more about birds / spiders / pollinators than crops. Thugs would be welcome, because I'm not going to be looking after it very much for a few years.

The short answer is probably to ignore it, or ignore a section of it and see what shows up. The birds and wind will ship things into a lawn over time. Heather is a great tonic to a garden because it gets the bees out to work early and kickstarts the area a bit. Onions kinda like sand or marsh, spuds too i think have a different kinda taste if you grow them in coastal soils. Spud planting is traditionally done on st patricks day, you can just get the ones you like from the shop and bury them, a few maintenances to be done over the months though.

 

[magicbastarder]

what does well around the area?
we have sea holly in our garden; it seeds well, the insects like it and it should be fine in that location.

 

[flashback]

holy shit, sea holly looks amazing. I think I've seen this elsewhere, but I didn't know the name.

Heather is lovely too. I'll give that a test.
Yeah, ok this is great. Thank you @ann post and @magicbastarder

I'm going to try to get a hedge going. There's the usual fuschia running rampant, but I'd like to get a hedge growing in along a path down a hill and see if I can get it to arch over and meet on the top to form a tunnel sort of deal.
So maybe hawthorn and things that will flower early to kick things off like you were saying.

 

[Cormcolash]

Thugs would be welcome, because I'm not going to be looking after it very much for a few years.

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[Lili Marlene]

holy shit, sea holly looks amazing. I think I've seen this elsewhere, but I didn't know the name.

Heather is lovely too. I'll give that a test.
Yeah, ok this is great. Thank you @ann post and @magicbastarder

I'm going to try to get a hedge going. There's the usual fuschia running rampant, but I'd like to get a hedge growing in along a path down a hill and see if I can get it to arch over and meet on the top to form a tunnel sort of deal.
So maybe hawthorn and things that will flower early to kick things off like you were saying.

There's a house around here that has a border hedge made completely with some form of ferns, I assume to protect against the strong winds and sea air. It looks pretty cool and they have a big crop garden going on as well. They're not right by the sea like you are though.

You can kind of see it here although the "hedge" is even bigger right now

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