BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: GUEST,Jon
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 08:59 AM

I'd say the best sight in the field area at the moment is a bit further up from the patch we rent. This bit once was pigsties (we use another set as sheds) but is all overgrown. There's masses of blackthorn in blossom out there.

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 09:48 AM

Dave the Gnome:

You're a little late. A week, in fact.

Date: 18 Apr 15 - 06:10 PM

"Where have all the dandelions gone?
Long time pi-issing.."

And GUEST,DTM was late before you:

Date: 19 Apr 15 - 06:57 AM

Where have all the dandelions gone?
Long time passing.......

I suggest reading the whole thread before sticking
in an obvious comment.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 11:02 AM

Well, today is St George's Day. Today is the day for gathering dandelions for wine-making, according to tradition. I was driving from Bath to Bristol on the A4 this morning and the dandelions on the verges were putting on a superb show in the sunshine. Scarcely a blade of green was to be seen piercing the golden carpet. Much better than those hosts of non-native cooking daffodils that have, thankfully, gone over for another year. In contrast the Cribbs Causeway car park is a sterile place, but the sun is beaming down, I have my sun hat and folding chair, there's a flask of tea in the boot and Mrs Steve is undergoing retail therapy in M&S and John Lewis. There's no God, obviously, but if there was he'd be in his heaven this afternoon all right.

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: GUEST,Dave the Gnome
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 03:03 PM

Dave Oesterreich - If I read all the threads on Mudcat I may end up as daft as you. So I don't.

Fuck off.

:-D

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 23 Apr 15 - 07:40 PM

Ye gods, Uncle DaveO, you could have been a little gentler. Take a drop of dandelion wine, mebbe...

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Apr 15 - 08:22 AM

My jungle of a garden is full of them. They make a fine show under the white blossom of the cherry tree. Why cut nature's bounty down? It looks beautiful just left to flourish.

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: Don Firth
Date: 24 Apr 15 - 04:05 PM

Nature rarely makes mistakes in the aesthetics department.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 24 Apr 15 - 06:12 PM

Keith, your field of primroses, cow slips, forget-me-nots, bluebells and such sounds absolutely delightful.

Now I think I'll look up what exactly a clow slip is.

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 24 Apr 15 - 11:26 PM

One of the earliest childhood riddles I recall from my older sister was -

Why did the bulrush? Because he saw the cowslip.

≈M≈

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 25 Apr 15 - 01:45 AM

This time of year the dandelions in the yard are tender - and if you've ever eaten them, you know they are delicious. I should pick leaves from the basal rosettes and mix with the romaine lettuce in the fridge for salad this weekend.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 25 Apr 15 - 08:16 AM

Well, I sowed wild rocket two years ago and, to my delight, it now springs up everywhere. I have a supply for twelve months of the year. We had two big handfuls of it last night with our spaghetti with prawns, chilli, garlic and lemon, roughly chopped and thrown in at the last minute. Sublime!

Subject: RE: BS: Where Have All the Dandelions Gone?
From: Keith A of Hertford
Date: 25 Apr 15 - 10:09 AM

Well, its not rocket science.