Kitchen Garden Forum

Dear Captain Carrot, Lady Lettuce with those steel toe cap wellies, sounds just like the lady i need when i'm preparing my onion beds in the spring.
Wellie you can come and help as well if you want.
You better all mind your toes in the office.

Kind regards Old Herbaceous.

Theres no fool like an old fool.

Chantal wrote:I've just thought of something; we're picking on poor old Captain Carrot for one or two (alleged) errors in the magazine but look at this forum. It's littered with typos, bad grammar, lack of apostrophes etc etc. We're not really in any position to criticise are we.

Yerse, boot, weer; nurt payed to be writers of Englush magurziunes loike wurt he irs, r we?

Like, it ain't like, the like, way we like earn like, yunno, our like living like, innit like?

I'd welcome Lady lettuce with her wussy boots any day, scaffolders of my aquantance wear Kevlar toe-capped boots nowadays, so nurr-nurr.

Captain Carrot I would be more worried about having seen his avatar. Is it a command or a pest?

Carrot Fly.

Love the avatar Captain Carrot.

We must all make a pact to write to the magazine more, either via snail-mail or E's.
It was a 'slow news day' both in October AND November on the Letters and Tips pages....
And Mr. Hayes's letter got featured two months running, albeit with a different title, and got awarded the Star Letter and £20 worth of vouchers second time around. How cool is THAT !?

Are you SURE I don't qualify for a prize Captain ?
No, actually, I don't fancy a Yellow Card now you come to mention it.........

Yes, you're quite right. Only I barely find time to post on here.
Before you write to KG, though, could you let us have that recipe for lemon verbena? And the one for delicious peaches would be very much appreciated too.

Peaches one is done already on the Readers Recipe site, and yes of course I'll add the Lemon Verbena pud recipe to the same site, over the next couple of days.
Can YOU tell me what a 'stand alone' onion bed is ???

Trousers and Me did a lot of work in the garden today, and are opening up more of it to fruit and veg, and I'm getting rather interested in having a permanent onion bed, and I'm not sure if that's what 'stand alone' means, but I'm sure I shall be able to learn about it here.
Dead 'Citing this Vegetable Growing. The more you learn, the more you want to do it. Mad.....

Doh! Always was a bit slow on the uptake. Don't even know what a stand alone onion bed is!

Tune into the Monty Don Double Digging Thread, and we'll BOTH learn something ! (Hopefully)...

PS. Captain, we love your Captain Carrot Avator too.
VERY appropriate !

I think Captain Carrot looks very fierce.

Well done all, next time I want to sneak my uncle some free vouchers I'd better remember to change his name (only joking). Red faces in the KG office all round.
Yes any letters very welcome for the mag and letters with pictures would be even better. Who knows one of you might be chosen as star letter one day - although after the trouble you've all been giving me lately I doubt it!

p.s What's an avator - I thought it was someone who flies planes (carrot fly! Very good Peter)

Phew ! Got away without a Yellow one there for now...!

Sorry Captain, I promise to pay less attention next month...

"And so to bed" said Zebedee...

An Avatar can be defined as;

A graphical image of a user, such as used in graphical real-time Chat applications, or, a graphical personification of a computer or a computer process, intended to make the computing or network environment a more friendly place. .

This term refers to an interactive representation of a human in a virtual reality environment; term was popularized by Neal Stephenson's novel 'Snow Crash'.

An earthly embodiment of a deity.

We'll discount the last definition and paraphrase the rest to "its yer picture like".

Thanks Peter
Glad I asked! Why exactly are we discounting the last definition?
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What's an aviator? This is getting worse. Looking at your avatar, you're one.

That Peter is far too clever for his own good you know...