very near Valerie, the multi-hudred-kilo housewife heroin importer complete with Margaret Thatcher helmet hairdo)...and LIZZY-D, who is a psychiatric social worker from the wilds of London who has fond memories of Roobarb and Custard and Spiral Tribe...
Rhubarb is a sweet vegetable that looks something like pink celery. It grows at the bottom of English* gardens. To make rhubarb crumble
you boil up the rhubarb until it goes soft and not at all sour or bitter. Then it's perfectly lovely. And Mr Kipling makes pretty wondrous Rhubarb and Custard pies..."ROOBARB" was the name of the original TV series which ran 30 5-minute episodes i 1974. It was never, according to Wikipedia, known as "Roobarb and Custard"
ROOBARB
original opening sequence and theme tune ~ very catchy!
In 1991 the catchy theme tune came back as a source of triphead entertainment for the "Rave Generation". Roobarb and Custard was also the name of a type of pill, reportedly containing MDMA and phenobarbitone....
ROOBARB AND CUSTARD
A mishmash of old tunes remixed with a donk thing. Which I quite like....
ROOBARB & CUSTARD 10 min mix
one of the commenters on Youtube said it sounded like a 3 y/o mixed this...
but still, i like the tunes
URBAN HYPE: TRIP TO TRUMPTON
*Do they have rhubarb in America, or not? I thought it was a very English thing. Now, having clicked my rhubarb link, I'm not so sure....
We sure do have rhubarb in N. Z. One of my favourite fruits? Or is it a veg. Love rhubarb crumble, (with custard and cream). My Dad had the biggest plant in his garden, grew like a weed, but don't eat the leaves, they are poisonous!
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O I don't know why I thought they were British. Even the high court in New York declared them a vegetable not a fruit. Or vice versa. I know they're one not the other.
ReplyDeleteI don't know about the leaves, but the way my Mum used to cook the stalks tasted poisonous!!
defo veg; no seeds.
ReplyDeletewe had loads at bottom of garden (when we were kids) and used to eat it raw dipped in brown paper bag(very relevant) of sugar. O the nostalgia of it.
loved your scab/abcess "story"
I too can get months out of one tiny burn/bite/scratch and have heaps of scars on my forearms that all look like cig burns.
Keep at it though, as it might not have built up enough pressure yet, but could reach its peak in few days! so annoying when they dry ;-)
anyway I only came here to catch up and say Anch & Reg were well chuffed with the mention on your blog, and i loved the vid of your robos . .ahhh <3 I must try do one of my lot.
Anch never had to shoo others away as the only time there were others there was when the 3 pups were 4 wks old and 5 more appeared, She made a new nest for the older 3 and they grew up quickly (no more mummy milk:-() but they instinctively knew to stay away . .they never even tried to go and interfere . . .so sweet & clever.
if you pinch them just lower than the ears at back of neck, making sure you get a good pinch of flesh not fur! then flick them over into palm of hand, they literally "play dead" for as long as ness. Two tiny pin holes, much like tear ducts can be seen, if you cant see them straight away, you soon will, as wee will come out of one and a tiny brown pellet out of the other.
females are generally between 1mm /2mm apart, but males are always so clear. sometimes, yes they are like 3mm/5mm apart which is a "cert" but other times they are close enough to be mistaken as female, little blighters!
now when you say u know nothing about gardening . .this you do know . .you reap what you sow.
you really dont have to know more than that. I am trying not to go on . . .but on the edge of one of our local recs and playing fields, there are loads of trees and neglected areas, where special brew cans, syringes, foil bobbles and foil rolls can be found. One day, one of these den-dwellers, most probably prompted by having mislaid a crumb of "white", totally stripped an area of approx meter sq. some-one took a sachet of meadow flowers 49p along amd scattered them . .guess what grew? ;-) One year (yonks ago) i took a sachet of sunflower seeds for a walk around the town and poked them into some of the most unlikeliest places . . .guess what?
folk were baffled by random huge sunflowers sprouting, cheered me up no end. its so satisfying to watch something grow that you have planted and nurtured (especially from seed) even a window box with ivy, but to find a wild patch outside is better as it gets you out. right i really am going on again now, I did have something else to say but it can wait . . .
its good to read you sounding . . .happier? less depressed?
take good care
with love
x
wow word verify was fighth
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need i say more?
no
well shut it then
x
ps i meant males r NOT always so clear and now i have a tape measure to hand.
ReplyDeleteFemales 3mm/4mm apart
Males up to 6mm/8mm apart
but males can be as close as 4mm
which is how ive ended up with 18 much loved silky soft robos ;-)
night x
o my word !! word verify; reges!!
the cheek of it
byeeee
x
Why is rhubarb always grown down the BOTTOM of the garden??
ReplyDeleteI once scattered some "baby's breath" on the ground under some conifers near where my Dad parked the car and hey presto they bloomed! Seriously I sewed them just on untilled soil, no little eggboxes full of potting compost, no raked ground or anything... and they still grew.
I'm feeling much happier thanks I didn't want to make a headline posting that in case my mood dropped again but yeah I feel way better
thanxxxxxxx
ps do you see how cultured and tame my robos were? what you won't see is Bashful trying to NIBBLE the sides of the camera, the swine! their nests look so scruffy bc every time I tried to clean them out they went mental and jumped on their wheel for hours at a time trying to run away from their nice clean nonhamstersmelling house... even though I never used anything stronger than washing up liquid, so as not to wash away too much scent, they STILL didn't like it, the tubby swines!!!
Thanks for the mention in your blog, really very sweet. I played the theme tune, it has been quite a while. Brought back some memories. I watched some episodes, showed the wife. She now knows banana man and danger mouse and roobarb and custard. Danger Mouse was my absolute favourite growing up. P.S. Loved the roborovsky clip, very cute. I wish I could find somewhere in Melbourne that sells them, I've looked a bit, not much luck. P.P.S. Valerie, near me, I'll keep an eye out. Shouldn't be too hard to spot with that hair do. Keep well Gledwood, safe journey. Paul
ReplyDeleteI heard hamsters are categorized as ILLEGAL VERMINOUS SWINES in Australia.
ReplyDeleteValerie gets her hair done on Mondays, Thai massage on Tuesdays, nails on Wednesdays, Swedish massage Thursdays, etc etc etc. I can't remember what she does Friday, Saturday and Sunday apart from enough heroin to kill a family of four lesser junkies. But she wastes every second of the day somehow... always does!
Yes, we do rhubarb pies over here. They are in the fall.
ReplyDeleteWow, see I knew it!
ReplyDeleteThe New York High Court ruled on rhubarb being a fruit or a vegetable in the 1970s, so I know it's been in America since at least then...