Courgettes, mangold, peppers. And as there are still lots of tomatoes, today we produced another ten jars each of spice ketchup and curry ketchup. Yummy. |
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Sunday, October 15, 2023
Yummy
Monday, September 25, 2023
Just a daily phenomenon
... that happened end of August. Ah! And the magic of all those flowers ...
Meanwhile almost four weeks have flown by; since, there has happened quite a lot on this planet quite a few of which you might even have come to "know" as it has been covered in (y)our media.
One daily news you will neither have read in your daily newspaper nor heard elsewhere, though, as being published / told day by day, week by week, month by month, year by year, decade by decade that yesterday approximately 30 / 40,000 children have been dying of starvation would be bloody depressing ... well, at least damn boring, would you agree?
Life is difficult enough to thoroughly enjoy, isn't it? If only I think of that the other day a bit too much sea-salt in the tomato soup spoilt my dinner.
Who in our civilised world would be able to care about how many women have been raped in Congo or elsewhere, while I was kept busy with picking plums, for hours? I mean, it's not my or your business. I can't change anything, can I? And neither can you, hm?
Not that I would not feel pity, whenever I come to think of it for some seconds now and then; but that's life, isn't it?
One is getting raped, a second tortured, a third murdered, while I am busy with watching butterflies and (bumble-)bees enjoying their kind of milk and honey that is flowing in Seanhenge, and while you perhaps are struggling with what outfit to choose for tomorrow's dinner party.
Ah, I should not have started this. Did I write 30,000 children per day?
That means, 750,000 children within 25 days, doesn't it? Phew!
Coming to think of it: Isn't it wonderful, magic well-nigh, that despite of this marginal phenomenon not worth to daily make its way into the news, there are living more than eight billion human beings on this wonderful planet, thus about four times more than when I was born, about 20 years more than half a century ago?
Thinking positive - and aren't we told to always think positive?! - we are blessed that day by day 30- / 40,000 children are dying of starvation, aren't we?
Ah, no! Really! See? Such easily a post's content is being manipulated by thoughts about marginal daily phenomenons that are not worth mentioning.
Let alone, that I can be absolutely sure that those who are reading this are able to distinguish cynism from sarcasm, it's a great relief to know that most of those poor? nameless? anyway: unnamed creatures - and I am not talking about those 40,000 children who day by day are leaving this planet to enjoy life in this or that paradise, depending of the god their still somehow surviving parents are made to believe in - are analphabets.
In this sense.
A most joyous week to those
able to read.
May your god bless you,
and if it (read: your god) were the head of a dead sardine.
Enjoy
the peace of the night ...
in which - provided you are sleeping eight hours - approximately some more than 10,000 children are dying of starvation.
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Satur(day)ation
The last potato cellared for this year, my heart rose up like a falcon to the sky: Two bees and a bumble-bee enjoying a sunflower feast. |
Labels:
bees,
bumble bees,
gardening,
photography,
Seanhenge,
sunflowers
Thursday, September 14, 2023
Laughing Lhursday*
Once again I feel relieved
that Fortune favours fools,
or as a German saying goes,
"Die dümmsten Bauern
ernten die größten Kartoffeln."
/
"The dumbest farmers
harvest the biggest potatoes".Sometimes a saying
can be a great comfort.
* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.
Labels:
gardening,
Laughing Lhursday,
photography,
potatoes,
proverbs,
Seanhenge
Wednesday, September 06, 2023
Brave new peace of mind
Tuesday, September 05, 2023
The invisible beneath the visible
Saturday, September 03, 2022
Monday, August 01, 2022
August beginning
Labels:
gardening,
photography,
potatoes,
proverbs,
Seanhenge
Thursday, September 23, 2021
Laughing Lhursday*
Fortune favours fools, or as a German saying goes, "Die dümmsten Bauern ernten die dicksten Kartoffeln" (The dumbest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes). Once again the old saying offered me great comfort. |
And here to put my genius into the right perspective. |
* [For first time visitors]:
Typo in the title?
Nah.
It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.
Labels:
gardening,
Laughing Lhursday,
photography,
potatoes,
proverbs,
Seanhenge
Thursday, October 15, 2020
Getting autumnal
Thursday, September 03, 2020
Laughing Lhursday*
Fortune favours fools, or as a German saying goes, "The dumbest farmers harvest the biggest potatoes". Sometimes a saying can be a great comfort. |
* [For first time visitors]: Typo in the title? Nah. It's just that
I would not let a tiny T spoil an avantgardistic alliteration.
Labels:
gardening,
Laughing Lhursday,
photography,
potatoes,
proverbs,
Seanhenge
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Monday, July 20, 2020
Quite an idyll
Sunday, August 20, 2017
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
My Walden
Tuesday, August 01, 2017
August beginning
Labels:
beans,
gardening,
haiku,
hollyhocks,
horseradish,
marigold,
peppers,
physalis,
Poetry,
potatoes,
Seanhenge,
tomatoes,
vetch,
wild herbs
Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Saturday, August 15, 2015
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