h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Fresh raw fish is gorgeous! I didn't realise that until I was out fishing one day and was severely stuck for something to eat. There were so many mackerel in the sea I could nearly have walked over to England on their backs! So I cleaned one and ate it and it was beautiful.

Gaaaah!

I'll stick to rhubarb, too. Haven't seen any around yet, alas.

Have you a wee patch of ground where you live or is it a flat? If you've a bit of soil they are quite undemanding to grow.

No, I only have the dirt I track in I'm up on the 3rd storey, and no window boxes

I'll just have to go visit my mum, she's planted plenty!

My grandfather had old sinks in his garden which he used as containers to grow things in, and they were all devoted to rhubarb and radishes.

I've just realised how much I miss the old bugger, even though I haven't really thought about him for years.

He'd have gotten along well with my uncle, who's built a pond and waterfall out of his old toilet, sink, and bathtub

The funny thing is, sinks like that are all the rage now for the fashionable people. They call them "Belfast Sinks" (we called them 'jaw boxes' ), and sell them for hundreds of pounds. He did it before it was cool or profitable.

He put the glass (not the original glass, the present glass) in this building in Belfast - http://www.fobbg.co.uk/ , which is far better than a headstone!

That's impressive! Must've been quite a bit of work, too.

Rhubarb. My uncle grown rhubarb in his garden and gives me a bunch every year- usually enough for two pies. Can't wait.

It seems like when it comes to feeding Gruesomes, what one likes, the other doesn't. My sister and I were the same way. But our mother wasn't as nice as you, Sho- we had to eat it anyway, or else starve.

I seem to be impressed by everything today I've used the smiley soooo often.


As a picky eater myself, I agree with Sho's approach

There's a lot to be said for psychocandy's ma's approach too!

How cruel it was, being forced to eat stuff we didn't like. I avoided certain foods for a long time afterward as a result.

Same here. And I've never forced my sons to eat anything - they were free to starve, though.

Well, if I know in advance (and rhubarb is one of those Marmite foods, isn't it?) I can usually accommodate both. Usually they're pretty good, but #2 uses food as a control mechanism. If she likes it she'll take 2 hours to eat it, knowing that I enforce the "you don't leave the table until everyone is finished rule"

So, a wee apple-crumble on the side of a rhubarb one is ok.

But otherwise - it's a survival of the fittest here too. The only thing is I don't force people to eat. And I don't force anyone to finish everything on their plate if i have dished up. If they have helped themselves from a serving dish - Bod help them if they don't polish it all off.

Anyway - I'm being The Amazing Mummy today. Much as I hate doing it - I am making a lemon & orange chequer cake with #2.

Eek! don't tell but... I used his Kitchen Aid. Unsupervised.

Sounds interesting, that cake. What's the chequer?

My sister used to drive me *mad* by eating her ice cream as slowly as possible so I'd have to watch her.

hehe, sisters! Glad I don't have one.

The chequer is that you make one orange layer and one lemon layer (we have added garish food colouring to really make it show) then cut each cake into 3 circles. Then you make the layers out of two cakes, one has a lemon centre, then orange, then lemon, the other is orange, lemon, orange. then you ice it. When you cut into it, it has a chequerboard look.

That's the theory anyway...

I am not exactly Mrs. Bun the Baker.

*tries to picture this*



I think I understand. Again:

I'll take photos...

Please do. If you get a chance before it's gone

But I shouldn't be so greedy, I had for breakfast. And now yesterday's leftovers for lunch.

for breakfast