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It just needs to be prepared correctly, bro. Same as the poor misunderstood Brussel sprout.

I've never managed to get to San Francisco, but I hope to one day. If only to celebrate the Summer of Love that happened in the year I turned twenty...

Yup. Similar images are making the news this side of the pond, Albert...

Hey, Gary! Cute hat.

Looks like you'll have a riot of colour in the spring, clo! I actually bought a one stone (14 pound weight or 6.35kg) net of daffodils (narcissi) yesterday from the garden centre. British grown (hence the imperial weight) and of the variety Golden Trumpet (aka: King Alfred). I'm going to plant them in clumps around the garden and let them naturalise. Oddly there are no existing daffodils in the garden

Howdy, Albert!

Hi, dughlas! There's a definite autumnal feel to the weather here these days. The leaves are beginning to turn, the weather certainly feels cooler, especially first thing in the morning, and I can certainly notice the hours of daylight getting shorter as we move towards the equinox. I'd just be happier if we were getting a bit more sunshine. I need to use glasses for reading, and I'm fortunate that my two eyes are both at the same strength (or weakness), which means my optician has told me I can buy the cheap reading glasses available in supermarkets and discount stores. I can pick them up in the UK for £1 a pair, or even in Ireland at around €1.50. I like to get the ones with narrow lenses, so I can look down to read, or look over them to focus on things (or people) further away. Although much of the time they're just perched on my forehead, ready to be pulled down when needed. Happy Thursday, everyone!

Yes. But in this case just by selecting from the available gene pool from within the members of a particular species; not actually adding genetic material from other, and often not even closely related, species. (Although I do, somewhere, have a paper I wrote in the final year of my Botany degree course at university, with a title something along the lines of The Role of Hybridisation in Plant Evolution. It didn't actually involve any new research, being more of a review of the existing literature on the subject.)

Cool! Oddly it made me think of the following:

Ah, to be sure! If it's on wikipedia, it must be true! To be sure, to be sure!

Yep, it can be, and often is, made with kale. But kale is really just a variety of cabbage that doesn't form a head. Another name for it is leaf cabbage. Cabbage, kale, broccoli, Brussels sprout, cauliflower, and kohl rabbi are all basically the same species: Brassica oleracea. The different varieties are the result of artificial selection by humans over millennia (as opposed to Darwinian natural selection).

Huh? That sounds more like barmbrack to me...

I was thinking more along the lines of traditional Irish Colcannon. (Google it )

Whatever I have is going to include half of this homegrown beauty from my garden

Hi, Albert! Happy Wednesday, everyone. Sorry, can't stay. Have a Zoom meeting starting in a couple of minutes.

Hi everyone. Hope you're all having a good day. I've been a bit worried, as I seem to have come down with a head cold, even though I have been as careful as possible with my social distancing. My worry, of course, being that I couldn't be 100% certain that it is merely a head cold, even though the symptoms are exactly the same as every other head cold I've had. However, I've just had my temperature taken, and it is 36.2°C (97.2°F), so it's definitely not covid-19 related. My GP tells me the normal range for human body temperature is from 36 to 36.8°C (96.8 to 98.2°F), and that older people are likely to have readings in the lower range. He thinks I probably got infected either when I picked up or left back the blood pressure monitor last week I expect to be back to normal in a few days (I usually am), but don't worry if this head cold means I don't join in the chat here as much for the next while.

My understanding has always been that kith refers to close friends or acquaintances, whereas kin refers to family and relatives. Otherwise, the term kith and kin would almost be a tautology... Of course, I may be wrong

Not that I'm really complaining, but it's getting difficult to keep up with all the new characters in this story, @Mancunian! So, of course I'm now wondering why Kenny's aunt and uncle threw him out...

Oh dear... poor wee John. ❤️

I would call those chapters...but to each his own, I guess. Me too, Cassie. Me too.

I'm just surprised it took Albert so long to make that comment.

Not sure how you can have more than one epilogue to a single story...

So they'e not sun dried. You wee fibber, you!

Well, I assume when you said you are making sun dried tomatoes, that you are drying them in the sun....