Cranius wrote:Mose Varty-Seppanen, I used to live in Episkopi, not that far from you. I have very fond memories of living there.

Hello, Cranius,
Uh huh, it's beautiful around Episkopi. The Episkopi Garrison with it's family homes is strange. It's looks like a little chunk of neatly ordered England dropped down from the sky, complete with cricket green. The architecture seems strangely incongruous where it is. The architects seem to have made absolutely no concessions to the fact that those houses are in the eastern meditteranean. Y'know, smallish windows, no shutters, no balconys or verandahs. Funny. Nice to see occasionally though, reminds me of home.

It's a shame "name any decent band" won't be playing anywhere near here anytime soon.

I mean, We just had Sting play here, meh.

I just went out to check the garden and drink coffee. I had a fair amount of work to carry out on this house when we moved in (last October) and so didn't get round to the garden in time to plant anything useful for this summer.

There was an empty red-brick herb bed that I knew I'd find annoying during the summer if I didn't do something with it, so I over-seeded it with some hardy meadow/wild flowers.

Nice! I think if I had a garden I might throw hardy wildflower seeds all over it and see what happened.

Adam, your little garden looks awesome! You should get lots of butterflies visiting. Maybe they'll keep the flying ants away.

night_tools wrote:Adam, your little garden looks awesome! You should get lots of butterflies visiting. Maybe they'll keep the flying ants away.

Thanks!

Bizarrely the butterflies and bumble bees aren't into the miniature meadow, and are instead obsessed with the lavender and sage. The bumble bees will only accept English lavender, whereas the honey bees only do the giant and French lavender. Fussy bastards.

The mini-meadow is ruled-over by those wasp-aping hover-flies who seem to run the little patch like buzzing, stripy Nazis.

I made Indian Butter Chicken last night, with Jeera Pulao..............AND IT RULED!!
First time too.

rachael wrote:I made Indian Butter Chicken last night, with Jeera Pulao..............AND IT RULED!!
First time too.

nice, did you use my mom's recipe I had posted here a while back?

I donated blood today. We've just had a ship arrive with injured foreign nationals evacuated from Lebanon plus a couple of kids with leukaemia here searching for tissue matches

I'm squeamish about needles I can never watch them go in or the blood flowing out of my arm.

Hey, MVS- are most evacuees just making brief stops in Cyprus before heading back to Europe, or is there hope among many that they can stay in Cyprus for a week or two and then return if a cease fire is brokered?

kerble wrote:

rachael wrote:I made Indian Butter Chicken last night, with Jeera Pulao..............AND IT RULED!!
First time too.

nice, did you use my mom's recipe I had posted here a while back?

I couldn't find it - I had intended to use yer mom's "recipie," but instead I had to look it up on indianfoodforever.com. Can you _erble it for me?