Moving tea one way and pepper the other, sounds like a fine job forran Expediter.
(“Wot do you expedite?” “Wot have you got?”)
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I have some seriously out of date teabags in the cupboard, & the coffee capsules I am using ATM are almost antique… 
Carinthia.xx
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I had garlic from China (Tesco - I arsk you) and expedited delivery of Spanish garlic from M&S.
Soo xx
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That’s not good, Soo. I avoid garlic from China, as Gawd knows what it has been sprayed with…
Carinthia.xx
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I use garlic from my friends organic garden
It doesn’t even have food mile
There are advantages to being a bit in the barter economy
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That’s great, Twellsy, but an option not available to many, I suspect.
If I can’t get decent fresh garlic, then I use Lazy Garlic, or paste made from Mediterranean garlic kept in oil.
Carinthia.xx
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I know that I am lucky enough to have access to local produce
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I can buy local produce, Twellsy, although not quite as local as yours, but have absolutely no idea about anyone growing garlic.
I will have to investigate…
Carinthia.xx
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Grow garlic round the roots of your rosebushes; greenfly and aphids avoid them if you do, apparently.
https://greyduckgarlic.com/garlic-controls-insects.html
but my mother used to do it and it seemed to work, regardless of the science.
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C has promised enough garlic to make chicken with 40 cloves of garlic on top of what I already have
So long as c and H are invited
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Oooh, poulet aux quarante gousses d’ail. Wot a fine thort.
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Yes, it does work, Fishy. When I sort out a gardener, & Noo rose bushes for the front garden, I will have a go again.
The only easily available garlic when I was a child was the wild stuff . We lived in a terraced house without a garden until I was 10, & the selection of vegetables was determined by the season/weather conditions, & what was grown on local allotments.
Carinthia.xx
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Don’t tell Gus (she hates the name) but I’ll send you a ‘Just Joey’, come the time, if you like.
[Whispers] That Sciatica appears to be receding…
Tuna salad Niçoise for the beely dinner.
Soo xx
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The hovel is having sossiges
Two black pudding with pork and apple and five of pork and apple
I am hoping for leftovers for butties tomorrow
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Bolleaux made of last post
Sigh
Soo, am pleased to hear it, & will light Candles later, in order/hope that That Sciatica Buggas Orff.
Sniggle Giggle about The Name of the Rose… , which is a fabulous flower.
At least it’s not quite like the names of the colours on paint charts…
Carinthia.xx
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‘It were all mammoths here once, far as the eye could see…’
Sorry, Darling. Pitchers?
Gxx
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Snork!
Yes please, Dahlink.
Carinthia.xx
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Oof
Have just come back from me airing
Itizz still 24°outside…
Carinthia.xx
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Don’t tell me: you have an Airing Nat wiv integral thermometer, set at a cunning angle…
Still warm here. Especially in the attic. Half me lights have gorn…o joy.
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Oh Ferk, Dahlink
That’s no fun atall…
Carinthia.xx
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