I know. I had an entire nation of them a few years ago but right outside my window so it was okay.
This one seems single. And getting attached to me? I was worried about it’s well being when it started to run along the rim of a rather deep glass of water, so I gave it some water but also no bugs, worms or what ever they normally eat to find in here, so I just gave it a piece of cabbage and it actually shows interest in both.
Still, it’s kind of unusual. Normally you see them once, then they go God knows where in the flat and that’s it. This one is here for two days now and keeps hanging around where I am.
It’s very common for ladybirds to overwinter in cracks, door or window openings, hinges etc. and then reappear once the weather warms up a bit. We get hundreds of them i one window in particular at our Alsace house, which is normally closed and shuttered all winter - and indeed most of the summer unless we have guests,
So any time we’re going to use that room, in addition to normal preparation, there’s always the job of vacuuming up the dead bugs from last year - they don’t all make it, and many that survive then find there way into the room where there is no food source.
Nothing much can be done - they’re masters as getting into the smallest gaps - so I just let nature take its course.
Oh, and their normal foodsource is aphids and other very small soft-bodied creatures, so put them out on a plant in the sun and they may find enough to survive.
Nature is so outrageously lush these days, I can’t get enough staring at it! My heart literally grows doing it, I’m worried it will burst.
Last fall my neighbours cut back their wonderful roses which are climing up the house completely and I thought my heart was gonna break. (that heart of mine seems very much involved in this subject, LOL). Those roses were on that house long before they came along and bought it.
But now they are all back blooming, it’s those kind of roses of a size of about 10cm or even larger.
There is just so much abundance everywhere, yes, I can’t stop smiling about it.
Our front walk is so overgrown with iris, rhododendron, chive blossoms, and the perennials yet to come, we can barely walk down it. I just can’t find it in my heart to cut it back.
edit: Yesterday the gardeners sneaked around the house, I was scared shitless they would cut back my bushes and trees!
They didn’t, they just cleared some weed in the rock garden in front of the house. Yes, we have a rock garden but the plants and bushes they planted into it took over so vividly that one can hardly tell that’s what it is suppoed to be.
Did you know that they were only created in the 1980s, by the way? They were almost immediately marketed as if they were a long-established tradition, I think a lot of people assumed they’d been around for years when they first heard of them
No I didn’t but I only started “invading” England in 1991.
Funny how you insist on the texture of the bisquit as in the German language a bisquit (okay in the French, used by the German-speaking people ) a bisquit has a completely different texture, one I’m not too keen on actually.
Once again I think cooking and baking in those two languages is a pita.
It’s biscuit in French, twice-cooked, possibly borrowed from the Italian, where biscotti are now a completely different thing, but also used in earlier centuries fo refer to the twice-baked ships ‘biscuit’ which bears no relation to anything that uses the name these days.
But anyway, the French term is perhaps slightly wider in definition, so includes some things that might be differently named in English. But still fundamentally a biscuit would break with a snap, a cookie might bend first and pull apart.
Edit: Or were you suggesting that there’s a different definition in German usage of the misspelled French word?
Actually that’s interesting as here it’s exactly the other way around.
But what I am far more interested in is: Does anybody know whether there is a Swiss competition to hobnobs available here? (Never mind the chocolate coating, I can live without that).
Oh dear, the system just told me:
“You’ve replied to @Ace 3 times, did you know you could send them a personal message instead?”
not considering that I replied to different posts.
Next thing the system will tell us will be “get a room”
If you can live without the chocolate then the Manor here sells regular hobnobs, I don’t know if you have a Manor nearby.
If not I could send you some.
Yes there is a Manor in Winterthur, I’ll check it out when I’m there next (or come back to your offer, which caused an other smile today, thank you ).
As I’m the “I want it now” type, I baked some oat cakes tonight using brown sugar and I bet there is not as much butter in the hobnobs as in mine. They didn’t turn out too bad actually. Bit of a hassle so I ended up using the crumpet ring when I got fed up which turned out not to be a bad idea either.
So I had another smile about hobnobs today which started with having found out the name means something. Now I wonder if the word hobnob triggered the system to send Ace and me off to private messaging, yeah these algorithms …
but the plants and bushes they planted into it took over so vividly that one can hardly tell that’s what it is suppoed to be.
) a bisquit has a completely different texture, one I’m not too keen on actually.
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