{"id":96,"date":"2012-10-12T21:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T21:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=96"},"modified":"2017-07-11T10:13:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T10:13:48","slug":"ive-been-pickling-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Friday 12th October 2012 – A RIGHT PICKLE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been pickling today, and it looks as if I shall be eating beetroot for the next 100 years, with the amount that Rosemary and I bottled today. <\/p>\n

And that tarragon-flavoured white vinegar didn’t half smell nice. By the time that we had added all of the spices to the vinegar and boiled it up, Rosemary’s kitchen smelt like a Babylonian boozer’s bathroom.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s all done now.<\/p>\n

We also shelled all of the peas and beans and I ended up with two jars of those. A few of them have chitted and so I’m going to try them out as winter plants under one of my patented plastic-bottle cloches. It might be worth a try.<\/p>\n

Another thing that we did was to sort out the garlic and onions. I have enough garlic to last me all my life, I reckon, but not as many onions as I wanted.<\/p>\n

I’ve no idea what happened to the shallots though – I had plenty of those a few weeks ago but I couldn’t find any the other day. <\/p>\n

So first thing in the morning I went off to St Eloy-les-Mines. Firstly, to buy a recharge for the mobile phone, but the Post Office is closed for renovations for a few weeks so that was that. <\/p>\n

Secondly I went to the dechetterie<\/i> to dump all of the rubbish, but they are on winter hours so the blasted place was closed this morning.<\/p>\n

After doing the weekly shopping though (seeing as I’m out, I’ll stay out and it’ll save me a trip tomorrow) I nipped off to Rosemary’s for the pickling session.<\/p>\n

On the way back this evening, I “picked up a hitcher, a prisoner on the white lines of the freeway”<\/a>\"\" to quote Joni Mitchell.<\/p>\n

Only from Menat to St Eloy-les-Mines, but in my youth I spent lots of time hitch-hiking around the UK and France and I was always grateful for the ride, and so it’s nice to repay the debts that I owe.<\/p>\n

I made it to the dechetterie<\/i> and emptied a van-load of rubbish, mostly papers and glass bottles, and enquiries revealed that it is indeed true – if you go to the dechetterie<\/i> during opening hours but during office hours, you can indeed help yourself to compost, which is freely available<\/p>\n

So Saturday I’ll be having a working day – doing the radio programmes. I’m not going out at all, especially as there is not footy anywhere at all around here tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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