Monday 7th April - getting ready for gardening

Garden

The other day I sorted through my seeds looking for broad beans, peas, French beans and salads to sow. As a  result I've ordered lettuce, carrot, rainbow chard and spinach.

And Tree Spinach!

I'd never heard of such a thing, so I thought that I would add some excitement to the veg patch! Here's the description, from the Sarah Raven website;

It grows 6 feet tall, which sounds very impressive indeed. It will give me an excuse to buy some bigger tubs.

Elizabethd recommended Higgledy Garden for seeds. They don't seem to have vegetable seeds, but do have a wonderful selection of flower seeds, especially sweet peas. I can see I'll be placing an order soon.

I can order bags of peat-free compost from the milkman, so this morning two bags were sitting beside my pint of milk. Very convenient for me, but I hope the milkman wasn't delivering too many on his round.

Panda walks into a bar, eats, shoots, and leaves 

There was a grammar book with that name, I remember reading it. I expect there's a copy on the shelf somewhere. One of the chapters was on punctuation, hence the title.

The book came to mind when I went to open these crisps. 

I suspect these ladies would have had something to say about the apparent inclusion of 25% recycled plastic added along with their prized cheddar cheese! They still taste very good.

Music

I used to use 'Venetian Carnival' by Ronald Binge in music lessons.

First I taught the action song 'my hat, it has three corners'. I learned this from my father sitting on a chair lift on a rare skiing holiday (I went skiing just three times in all). He learned when he was a student in the 1950s when he went on a ski trip with some Austrian students. So he taught me in German!

Skip this next video if you know the song already

I would explain about Venice, and carnival time, and then play the track. After a few minutes I would start signing the song... it's quite hard to keep up!

I do enjoy the scenes so cleverly depicted in the music... listen out for the reveller who is clearly the worse for wear!