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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Basia's Girls

While I was over at Basia's garden visiting her rhubarb [ooops! Did I say that out loud?]...her hens came over to see what I was doing.

This is where they spend the night.

I think they must love Basia very much because they were not afraid and they hung around me. Not even the dogs bothered them.

This is where we get our eggs for the Lemon Curd and other culinary capers we [well mostly me] test and taste.

Anyway, I'm laying on the ground wondering what they are so busy eating, when I happen to look down at my arm and its crawling with these sort of beetle-ant-spider things.

and then I met Walter...and the penny dropped.

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Herb or Erb?

You say 'Erb and I say Herb...let's call the whole thing off.

I get this question all the time. And people are serious about the whole issue.

It's Erb if you are French. They drop all their hayches. But if you speak English, would you say I'm going Ome? Well you might, if you lived within earshot of the Bow bells but that's beside the point. And what are the bow bells anyway?

I think this whole Erb thing came about with the American fascination with all things French. After all, its Cuisinart food processor in America and in France it's MagiMix. The food terminology is always more interesting on the other side of the pond?

Anyway, I sort of flip back and forth, using Erb after the word 'an'. So I might say,

Plant the Herb Sweet Cicily early because it is an Erb of Spring.

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Basia's Girls

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