St George of the Garden wrote on Feb 1^st, 2014 at 1:31am:



"fall" ?

Are you planting it in California?

St George of the Garden wrote on Feb 1^st, 2014 at 10:20pm:


American English is more old-fashioned than British English, although many people think it's the other way around.

American English is actually more similar to the English that was spoken in Elizabethan England.

It is thought, though not known for certain, that the American and Canadian word "fall", meaning "autumn", come from the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) verb "fiæll" or "feallan", meaning "to fall from a great height".

During the 17th century, British emigration to the British colonies in North America was at its peak (they were originally Britain's penal colonies, until the US rather unfortunately gained her independence from Britain in 1776, leading to Britain turning to Australia instead to send her convicts), and the new settlers took the English language with them. While the term fall gradually became obsolete in Britain, it became the more common term in North America.

The word autumn comes from the Old French word autompne (automne in modern French), and was, of course, brought to England and introduced to the English language by the Normans.

A very erudite post Cofgod.

Many people have told me ‘autumn’ is a latin word. I thought it was french and am right, sort of 

Frances wrote on Feb 11^th, 2014 at 4:48pm:


Mum makes something similar, but she mixes boiled and strained (squeeze any excess water out of it with tea towel)  eggplant flesh with pork mince, seasons and then makes little patties about the same size and shape as the eggplant skin ... fries it gently just to brown the mince a little, then once it cools puts it back into the eggplant skin, puts it into a big deep tray throws a couple of cans of crushed tomatoes over the top, sprinkle olive oil on top, cover with foil then put the whole thing in the oven on a low heat until the tomatoe reduces remove foil for the fianl 10 minutes to get colour

to die for.

Sounds difficult but it's not really ... well worth the effort.

Frances wrote on Feb 11^th, 2014 at 4:48pm:


Frances, get yourself a jar opener. It's one of these essential things to have in the kitchen, along with herb scissors.


Any kitchen shop should have one.

I'm picking these capscicum from my garden daily.

I can’t see the point of rocket but apart from that everything sounds yum!

Lettuce freckles?

Was going to make speculaas biscuits and a seedloaf but when I came home from the shops I had a nap instead