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jeannie
Da Vinci
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 Posted - 29/06/2010 : 08:26:18
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I love roses - ( well... most plants that are scented i'm just a plant tart!) we some beautiful ones and this year they look fab just now - in a big garden you need so many to make a show and finally i'm getting there. one of my fav is "compassion" lovely deep pink, big heavy scented flowers and strong healthy leaves - and flowers from may to about november! I've also got some of the old fashioned "moss" roses which have loads of tiny prickles down the stem and the most wonderful fragrance. I'm trying to get more of them from cuttings - not worked so far but i live in hope its only this year they've got big enough to actually take some cuttings from - they sulked a bit when first planted but i've nurtured them with loads of manure this year and its paid off.
must go out with camera and take pics - its raining at the moment but maybe later.
hope your eyes improving jules? being so short sighted I value my sight cos i know what its like when my specs break ( have spares now...) and eyes are really precious and need looking after. |
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jules4154
Salvador Dali
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Posted - 29/06/2010 : 08:35:47
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Those flowers are gorgeous Sue, how lovely to get the rose from your customer, she must have been really happy with the portrait you did for her.
Doc said he thinks the infection has gone and asked if I've ever had hayfever before. I haven't but it can affect just your eyes so I've got some drops for that now. Still itchy and achy but I'll give it time to work. |
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jeannie
Da Vinci
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Posted - 29/06/2010 : 08:42:27
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Lorna = we've elderflower bushes and they smell lovely - very fragrant - in fact yesterday my friend linda was here and she was saying they smell sort of soapy and vanillary - but from experience there is a plant flowering now that does smell of cat pee... its Ribes, flowering currant - has strings of pretty pinky flowers and smells vile! i found out when we kept blaming poor Jet our black ( neutered) tom many years ago but it was this plant which had seeded itself in the brickwork by the front door.
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/06/2010 : 13:06:01
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It's definitely the Elderflower Jeannie. We have a whole curtain of it at the back of us which is beautiful most of the time but right now it's hell on earth for the sensitive nose. 
I came across this article :
[brown]Elderflower cordial: the essence of summer
For days now, the distinctive lacy blooms of the elderflower have been festooning roadsides, gardens, country lanes and patches of urban scrubland.
Everyone will have seen them, even if they can't identify this effervescent hedgerow plant with its dinner plate-sized, flat floral heads of miniature white flowers that loll and lop and create a foaming mass among its emerald foliage.
It's said that summer starts when the elder's flowers appear, and ends when its berries are ripe in late August.
Approach the bush and you will be struck by the heady scent - a floral grapey fragrance mixed with a less attractive, musky odour that hints of cat's urine.
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jeannie
Da Vinci
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Posted - 29/06/2010 : 13:35:32
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isn't that strange - to me its a loevly scent... i've just picked some to put in conservatory - wonder if charles thinks they smell of pee.. i'll have to have a whiff again and see if i can get the undertones!! ilove jasmine and lillies too but to him they smell of manure wierd isn't it how its dif to us all. h can'tstand it if i bring jasmine in the house.mind -i'm wth him on those pretty prety pink stargazer lillies -they do reek unpleasantly! |
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all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
4107 Posts |
Posted - 29/06/2010 : 14:37:55
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I think it must be that we all smell scents differently, as you say. Rob and I both thnk the cream coloured blossoms smell awful and so does my youngest daughter and my next door neighbour, however my elder daughter doesn't mind it at all.
I'm told the cream ones smell more cat pee than the white ones, perhaps you have those?
Also, Jasmine is something I cannot have around me, cannot even make jasmine scented soap because I have a reaction to it.
Rob's uncle brought me a jasmine as a present when he came to stay years ago and I was sick with a headache too for two days before we realised it was the plant |
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Aitch
Da Vinci
United Kingdom
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Posted - 29/06/2010 : 16:34:49
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quote:
Originally posted by Lorna S
Approach the bush and you will be struck by the heady scent - a floral grapey fragrance mixed with a less attractive, musky odour that hints of cat's urine.[/brown]
Oh, I'm sooo glad you found that, Lorna - I always forget we still have traces of elderflower bushes in the field behind our garden and whenever I approach that corner of the garden I keep thinking the cat has peed there, which is puzzling to me! Now I know it's not the cats - they tend to do their business elsewhere! |
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sparky
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jeannie
Da Vinci
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Posted - 30/06/2010 : 08:45:21
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charles didn't notice :) i cut a bit and tucked in Muska headcollar the other day - its an old horse remedy supposed to keep flies away - we used to do it when out riding ( as well as the stuff from saddlery and chemist) flies and horses though.. nothing keeps them away long - she looked sweet though
tan has a problem with smells - they make her sneeze and itch - if i've just put on perfume when she gets here she sneezes - its ok if i've had it on an hour or so - and of course i love perfume so always have it on. she sneezes with bleach and similar strong smells too - i have to put fresh flowers ( my lovely sweetpeas last week) out in the conservatory away from her as scented flowers set her off. she's ok with unscented ones and has a few perfumes she likes that she's ok with, same with bath products etc.
finished your soap recently lorna - its been lovely, first time i've used soap since i was about 12. I've alsways had very reactive skin - still have a face like a beetroot but used to it now - thats just sun, wind, heat, cold, food, alchohol .. all triggers so i live with it ordinary soap ( and we used to have the shops cheapest)makes my skin really tight so i've always used cleansers on my face ( even water on its own dries it) and whatever lotions are ok on body - if i do use one that doesn't suit it makes me itch like mad and i have to use loads of moisturiser. Lorna's soap though is so soft - i can feel the oils left on my face, not in a greasy way but a light moisturising way and i have no dry skin, irritation or reaction. I'll be ordering some more later - i've just bought some rose oil to add to my collection of oils, have bought some rice bran oil to use as a base for a sort of perfume. tried vodka but bottle wasn't airtight and it evaporated so i decided thats best with tonic not oils my friend bought me a soap making book for birthday so i'm going to have a go at my own - be useful for birthdays and xmas pres.
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all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Edmund Burke
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
4107 Posts |
Posted - 30/06/2010 : 09:58:25
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I'm glad you liked the soap Jeannie It's quite fun to do if you use the hot process method because you can use the soap within 2 weeks as opposed to 6 weeks with cold process.
The demo's are netting me a neat sum, last one a week ago sold over £80 of soaps as well as my fee for the talk
Incidentally Helen, if you are looking in, next but one is at Patrington, July 8th at 7:15pm. I haven't been given the exact venue yet but a scribbled note in my book says 'church hall'. Let me know if you'd like to come, you may have to be a guest of the WI or a helper of mine LoL |
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
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Aitch
Da Vinci
United Kingdom
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
4107 Posts |
Posted - 30/06/2010 : 17:02:08
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even without the babysitting I think the only soap that should be experienced on a wedding anniversary is in the bath together LoL
We are always at venues around East Yorks, I'll shout next time it's near to you |
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
www.lornastorey.co.uk
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jeannie
Da Vinci
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
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Lorna S
Salvador Dali
United Kingdom
4107 Posts |
Posted - 02/07/2010 : 16:01:34
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We have friends from when I lived and worked in Essex coming up here later today and we're off out for a Chinese meal with them later.
Nice start to the weekend. |
"I make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes."
Sara Teasdale
www.lornastorey.co.uk
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