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Post by Raymond on Sept 29, 2014 17:23:26 GMT
I think it's caterpillar damage Moonlight with some of their poop ! |
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Post by Moonlight on Sept 29, 2014 23:30:07 GMT
Pirate won some lettuce seeds and although they got planted they were too late to do well in the show. She has been growing them and her carrots in a large pot which is currently sitting on our lawn. I've told her that she needs to start eating them before they get eaten. She took the point so she picked some for dinner tonight. Daddy lovingly washed them and put them on the table. About to tuck in. When Pirate shouts out:
"Slug!!!"
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"There is a slug on the lettuce!"
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Yes she was right. So slug identified and duly named (which I've forgotten) so laughing I picked up the bowl + passenger.
"Mummy is going to deal with it..."
Couldn't resist stopping for Mr. Slug to post for the camera before taking him out.
Left Mr. Slug, lettuce and bowl outside and went back inside laughing.
Well I thought it was funny. not a feeling shared by all members of my family.
Night all.
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 1, 2014 22:34:10 GMT
This week I'm working today and tomorrow rather than yesterday and today. Gosh I can't wait till Friday. Not a good day and rubbish end to it. I just hope that tomorrow is a better day and come home smiling rather than needing a big hug and cheer me up cuddles from HH and girls.
Dad said something about a sport? Don't really know but it was a long day, if I see him tomorrow maybe I will understand.
Going to bed.  for tomorrow.
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 1, 2014 22:36:53 GMT
p.s. Sweetpea your Irish Taste Test made me chuckle on the way home today. Thank You. I needed it.
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 2, 2014 15:29:40 GMT
So, so, so glad to be going home.
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 3, 2014 9:25:13 GMT
Felt pretty frotty this morning but about to go out giant petal plucking. 
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 3, 2014 10:13:15 GMT
I think it's caterpillar damage Moonlight with some of their poop ! The word commonly used for that is, 'Frass' |
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 3, 2014 10:16:41 GMT
What a waste Moonlight, the slug had hardly eaten any  plenty left for a BLT sandwich |
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 3, 2014 10:32:55 GMT
Been petal plucking my Sir Alfs. It seems wrong to pluck something so gloreus and big but if the petals at the back are turning brown and it is starting to rain, I'd rather take a few off the back than to risk loosing the whole flower head. I'm really hoping for some seeds. Can't collect seeds if there are not any flower heads.
Something has been eating them and there are some black blobs that look like poo (you will need to excuse the technical terminology there).
I'll take a photo later. I think it's caterpillar damage Moonlight with some of their poop ! The word commonly used for that is, ' Frass'  |
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 3, 2014 10:39:29 GMT
What a waste Moonlight, the slug had hardly eaten any plenty left for a BLT sandwich
Mind you must have a more broad / exotic taste buds up by where you live. |
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Post by sweetpea on Oct 3, 2014 14:41:54 GMT
Not really Moonlight although I have eaten many strange things over the years especially when I was in RM but not knowingly eaten any slugs  Sometimes I wonder who the frenchie was that decided snails were cordon bleu material and frogs legs too. My eating standards are a little higher than that I hope. Tonight it's fish and chips |
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 5, 2014 22:42:41 GMT
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couldn't wait any longer.
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 6, 2014 11:08:05 GMT
Been a tad quiet on the update front but not been feeling fab but it's only a cold (one of those ones that makes my eye socket / cheek bones ache.) HH isn't feeling 100% himself and he keeps referring to the whole 'man flu' = common cold. I think it bugs him and strangely enough it irritates me the way that people go on about it. Both men and women have to right to feel 'delicate' or a tad sorry for themselves when they feel grotty. We both have equal rights to feel grotty and men's perception is not greater / less so than women. Well in this house it is.
I haven't been outside that much and when I have it's not been for very long (yes I've been wussing out blame it on the cold)
I have seen something that I want to photograph and add here but when I spotted it I didn't have the camera and now that I have I don't want to go outside. It's rained this morning so everything is wet and it's cold outside and I'll be getting pretty cold later anyway. I've volunteered to chaperone children to, from the outside pool and it's been forecasted to pour. Photos can wait. I've got work tomorrow and Wednesday so photo will have to wait till Thursday. Unless I do something spontaneous and stupid.
I'll need to clamber through my jungle of slumped dahlias.
I've wittered. Blame my cold induced foggy brain.
I've been convinced for a while that we have visitors in the garden because our fence panels have large smash holes at the bottom on either side of our neighbours but also at the bottom of the garden. I've seen a fox in our back garden but I've been convinced that it is a badger/s and a couple of nights ago HH spotted a badger walking down our neighbours drive... Need I say more.
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 9, 2014 8:44:28 GMT
Dad said that he had noticed that I had been collecting seeds. I asked him if he had and he gave a typical non comittal reply. Mum told me otherwise. He's got lots of newspaper sheets with seeds drying.
Dad said that he had been unlucky* with his Moonlights seed heads passed it. I would have marched straight down the garden to search mine but decided against it, I'll do that Thursday. Instead I've picked another 23 heads off of my Nuland's Josephine and I've started opening them up. Thought that I would go a variety at a time but it's a question of time, with all the rain the seed heads are going to end up rotting.
Couldn't resist and took a Marston George to do as well. 44 seeds off of the single head.
Josephine I got 72 seeds and a lot of seed heads still to do.
 I like this bit even if it hurts my thumbs.
*I originally wrote that Dad had been lucky but it was the opposite his Moonlight seed heads are passed it.
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Post by Moonlight on Oct 9, 2014 21:49:29 GMT
Seed Collection 2014... Update 1
October 5th - couldn't resit any longer picked a seed head off of Nuland's Josephine. 15 seeds.
October 7th - Find out that Dad is picking his seed heads everything is now so wet seed heads are rotting.
Decided to go for 1 varietiy at a time and collected another 23 heads from Nulands Josephine
but couldn't resist and picked a Marston George head on the way up. (So much for my plan) I'm fascinated by the shape of the seed head
it is more pointy coned shaped than the others that I have grown including ball and spiky ones.
I took a plastic box with me and kept the stalks long when I cut them so that when I dropped them I had a chance of finding them again.
Marston George on the left and the Nuland's Josephines are on the right.
Isn't it lovely? Managed to get 44 seeds off of that single seed head.
Finally finished counting the Nuland's Josephine seeds... 395
October 8th - Collected 6 seeds from Eastwood Moonlight - 3 seed heads, 8 seeds from a single head of Peach Delight and I've collected 3 Edwin's Sunset but I haven't done anything with them they feel to wet was hoping that they would dry off a bit more than that overnight.
Well today I ought to crack on and collect more seed heads it's not very nice out there but I really must collect pom seed heads and I really want to collect my Giants seed heads but they just feel too wet.
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plenty left for a BLT sandwich 
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