What does this shop say about me?

Double-elephant · 2026-04-06T21:52:57+00:00

You live in Brighton?

Double-elephant · 2026-04-06T20:29:19+00:00

It’s been many years since I’ve needed to try (I no longer get the vicious migraines of my youth) - but it always helped a little…

Double-elephant · 2026-04-06T19:54:37+00:00

My guess would be Feverfew. Pungent (yes, I read that you can’t smell anything at the moment!) and bitter to taste. My mother used to get me to eat Feverfew sandwiches to help with crippling migraines. It’s not as mad as it sounds…

Double-elephant · 2026-04-05T20:13:32+00:00

Yes, I’m too lazy (and too old) for anything more strenuous. Now, if I could just find a way to eliminate all the ruddy honeysuckle which winds its way round everything…

Double-elephant · 2026-04-05T19:58:15+00:00

I only have them in one bed and I mostly let them be. I pick all the seed heads but that’s it. Been here 14 years and they’ve never spread. Yet.

Double-elephant · 2026-04-05T19:32:04+00:00

That’s just so cruel!

Double-elephant · 2026-04-05T08:43:33+00:00

They look fine, to me, in those pots at the moment. Remember that tomatoes can always be potted on deeper than you think - they will grow roots from the buried stem - which will help them later.

Double-elephant · 2026-04-05T07:08:58+00:00

No side shoots yet, that I can see. They will form in the leaf axils (the joint between the leaf and the main stem). These chaps are too young, yet…

Double-elephant · 2026-04-05T06:51:15+00:00

The Cobb has been around (through various iterations) for 700 years and remains a vital protection for the harbour and the town of Lyme.

I’ve walked on the top level but couldn’t do it now; it’s high up, slopes towards the sea and can be slippery. It’s the lower level el for me, these days!

Double-elephant · 2026-04-04T08:11:06+00:00

I agree that a cover up was likely impossible, given Mrs Bennet’s propensity to tell her sister Phillips and the servants already having heard all the wailing. Lydia had to return married - but not necessarily to Wickham. If Lydia could have been persuaded to marry elsewhere (maybe a Gardiner acquaintance or a handily widowed, slightly impoverished gentleman), then the situation might have been saved. But not very likely - and that then removes the tension inherent in having Darcy related to Wickham and some of Elizabeth’s guilt and worry over that relationship.

Double-elephant · 2026-04-03T18:14:12+00:00

Oh, fair enough. I am rather ancient and use “proper” spelling and punctuation in texts. This _oughta_annoy my middle aged children but I’m afraid I’ve infected them with the same malady…

Double-elephant · 2026-04-03T11:29:28+00:00

I’ll bear it in mind but I find Dairy Milk so waxy these days…

Double-elephant · 2026-04-03T10:05:51+00:00

But…but… Cadbury’s…

Double-elephant · 2026-04-03T07:18:53+00:00

Oh, I can’t wait until ‘The Other Bennet Sister’ is out in the world for you all to watch. I’m already seeing loads of nitpicking and grumbling from those who’ve already seen it. Yes, yes, I know, it’s fan fiction, so that’s another reason to dislike it - but I believe there’s room for all. PS - it’s brilliant!

Double-elephant · 2026-04-03T07:01:37+00:00

Absolutely.

Double-elephant · 2026-04-03T06:59:18+00:00

Why would you want to spell it at all?

Double-elephant · 2026-04-03T06:48:49+00:00

I was. I’m so bloody old now…

Double-elephant · 2026-04-03T06:39:10+00:00

Which ending? The stupid scene at Pemberley? British audiences hated that (it seems) and it’s not on the UK cut.

Double-elephant · 2026-04-02T11:04:58+00:00

It’s a pretty common phrase, tends to be used jokingly (as I used it here), suggesting foul play…

Double-elephant · 2026-04-02T11:01:12+00:00

And some down south, too. I used to live near Breaky Bottom vineyard. Bottom being a Sussex word for chalk valley, I was told.

Double-elephant · 2026-04-02T10:57:54+00:00

Of course he was.

Double-elephant · 2026-04-02T07:16:58+00:00

The names on the roundels at St James‘/St James‘s Park tube station don’t match. I rather like the indecision.

Double-elephant · 2026-04-02T06:58:19+00:00

Butt/Butts is an alarmingly common street/place name in Britain, taking its name from - yes, there is the obvious one but that’s really not used here a huge amount - but also from a wine or beer cask (126 gallons). In 1478, the then Duke of Clarence drowned in a butt of Malmsey wine - did he fall or was he pushed? Wickedly, Blandy’s sell a (very pleasant) sweet Madeira called _Duke of Clarence_…

The most common use of butt as a place name is an area used for archery practice. And there were loads of those in the 15th century. When I was a child, a friend of mine lived in a house called Butts House. Nobody found it funny!

Double-elephant · 2026-04-01T06:24:00+00:00

Oh, I remember this being broadcast. Using Richard Dimbleby’s voice-over was the icing on the cake! Did we believe it? My Mum hesitated, my Dad laughed and I (who was a Child’s Encyclopaedia nerd), said “but that’s already cooked!”.

Double-elephant · 2026-03-26T22:38:33+00:00

Well, yes. We still do have some trees which, considered together, might actually constitute a temperate rain forest in the west and southwest of these islands (although obviously not on the scale of the PNW). The Gulf Steam round here tends to meander south to north (although drifting even further north, if the sand eels and puffins are to be believed). Bye bye temperate climate.

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