Very nice to eat on our deck on what was a beautiful morning.. for October! Amen to the weather despair but the orange scones (Americans pronounce it like 'moan' which seems appropriate) are superb. Nice one honey.
Really enjoyed this, and look forward to trying out the scones. I try to extend a 'live and let live' attitude to most creatures, but slugs are very difficult to love. They need to go. Mosquitoes, bluebottles, clothes moths, carpet and wood-boring beetles have a death on sight order in the house, but I tend to usher most other things out, even wasps.
Thank you - and yeah, I am coming round to wasps these days - currently fascinated by their fixation with the colonies of willow aphids (huge, black clusters of them) - apparently they secrete some sort of sweet syrup (for which read poo) that the wasps can't get enough of!
Very nice to eat on our deck on what was a beautiful morning.. for October! Amen to the weather despair but the orange scones (Americans pronounce it like 'moan' which seems appropriate) are superb. Nice one honey.
Lovely series of unexpected contrasts in this, Liz, thank you!
Really enjoyed this, and look forward to trying out the scones. I try to extend a 'live and let live' attitude to most creatures, but slugs are very difficult to love. They need to go. Mosquitoes, bluebottles, clothes moths, carpet and wood-boring beetles have a death on sight order in the house, but I tend to usher most other things out, even wasps.
Thank you - and yeah, I am coming round to wasps these days - currently fascinated by their fixation with the colonies of willow aphids (huge, black clusters of them) - apparently they secrete some sort of sweet syrup (for which read poo) that the wasps can't get enough of!
Hmm - have watched patrols of black ants corralling them on a Sambucus before too. Evidently they are insectivorous fast food!