You’ve heard of “Ant music for ant people” but “Horrible music for horrible people”? This great flyer (above) was seen on the main drag of Deptford last week possibly not that far away from where ATV’s “Life after life’s” cover shot was taken (below).
Imagine if you were turned away from that event? “Sorry mate you ain’t coming in, you’re not horrible enough”. We do love the name, we bet they are all nice people and love their mum too.
Cheers To Rich R for the picture (above) from the Lake District one sunny day this week. Looks wonderful up there Rich!
Thanks to Mike & Julia from up near Coventry for an update on how their hydroponic basil is getting on. It looks great to us and possible an alternative way of growing it. Interesting stuff.
We took the plunge yesterday and stuck a couple of tomato plants out after a bit of hardening off over the last couple of weeks. Don’t worry, they will be protected even if the protection is a little on the basic side. This high-tech contraception features a plastic top off a seed tray and a couple of bricks from what was the side of the front wall. If you remember, one job in lockdown was to clear years of ivy off said wall. As soon as the Ivy was taken off, parts of the wall crumbled. Another gardening lesson learnt.
Also, we had a nice surprise this week when we saw some new growth on our Lemon Verbena (above) that we moved the other month, as we thought it was a goner in its former position. The leaves make a lovely refreshing cup of tea and there’s a nice scent when you brush against it. It’s worth getting one. Thanks to Haji MIke a few years ago (here) telling us about Lemon Verbena
Weather looks great this weekend again, so happy gardening whatever you’re doing if it’s tidying out your shed or putting one foot on your garden fork and staring into space (like we did at the council).
Typically we finished a shortwave mix and just after it was sent off, we found another one we could have used while looking for something completely different. This one is from many years ago from
Cheers to Mike and Julia from near Coventry for the picture of some wild garlic growing in their village. “Free stuff from nature!” as they said. That is one brilliant clump of it (above).
We bought some bulbs off ebay a few years ago after we spotted some on a camping trip in Cornwall and didn’t really know that much about it but thought it looked like an interesting plant. It still comes up every year around by the pond.
Anyone got any good recipes for using it? Mike and Julia mentioned they’ve used it in mango chicken and lamb kebabs, sometimes sprinkled on meatballs and have made garlic butter and garlic bread with it. We’ve found a couple on BBC Food here but we’d be interested if anyone out there knows more uses for cooking with it. Sounds great. Ta for the pic Mike and Julia!
Cheers to Karl S for passing on this flyer for a gig in the early 1980’s at Coventry’s premier punk venue The Hand and Heart. We were shocked to learn at the end of the gig a giant fight kicked off. A “ruck” at a gig in Coventry in the early 1980’s? We don’t believe it! Ta for sending us the flyer Karl.
Today we also picked up a repress of the original version of “Jah Heavy Load” by Ijahman Levi. It’s a “must have” reggae tune that a while ago would put you back the cost of a family weekly shop. It was first heard on this show below with John Lydon with Robin Valk on BRMB Radio in Birmingham many many moons ago. The version below is recorded in mono off the medium wave complete with distant stations fading in and out in the background. Radio connects us all.
It’s like this every year, you’re waiting for spring to happen and then next thing you’ve got a load of plants to harden off (above). We’ve got some giant sunflowers that are over a foot high now and tomatoes, sweet peas and some chillies we were given over the weekend alongside the geranium cuttings from Honor Oak Park station. It’s only just turned April too!
Also, in the bed down the bottom we started lots of seeds off. The rocket can be seen taking off underneath small branches used to keep the cats and foxes off. The seeds were only put in the other day, or it seemed like it! Hope all goes well on the sowing front your side and the nice weather keeps on keeping on. Keep checking those last frosts dates and do remember nature plays by its own rules sometimes.
We were listening to The Rhythm Doctor’s Waiting Room yesterday on IDA Radio, Tallinn here and alongside some great music as usual there were a couple of tracks with a connection to the great Junior Vasquez played.
The Rhythm Doc mentioned that he actually visited the Sound Factory and even went into the legendary DJ booth come studio/kitchen/living room/potting shed etc (we tried to replicate said booth at one of our Steroid Abuse nights many moons ago but failed.)
What is brilliant is we have now (thanks to RD’s research) tracked down Junior’s new career and it looks like he’s a tree surgeon. We also saw on the small print (below) that “If it’s not on the list just ask we might do it” whish looks like he may have changed his policy when it came to playing requests. “Can you play one for my Aunty Maureen who’s in hospital with an ingrowing toenail. We hope she gets better soon”.
There’s a good chance it may be a namesake but we hope not! Imagine the stories he could tell you while he’s having a tea break.
Weeds up to me knees 