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A teaspoon of red wine vinegar tossed into a bowl of lentil soup just before serving apparently turns lentil soup into nectar.
Shivasana is THE most important yoga move. Ten minutes is good.
Persimmons for arthritis.
Raccoon poop is best disposed of with a) gloves, b) crumpled newspaper. Forget the trowel or shovel because then how do you clean off the toxic??
Margaret Carney, nature writer and birder extraordinaire, once upon a time worked as an editor at Harlequin.
Lima beans, aka butter beans, will last — tops — three days in the fridge once the tin is opened so after you use half a tin for making a butter bean flan, use the other half — straightaway! — in a butter bean salad (red onion, celery, dressing of choice).
A lavender farm has opened not a million miles away from my front door.
And if that isn’t enough there’s ANOTHER lavender place even closer.
Ways of peeling garlic. (The knife crush is but one.)
Levine Flexhaug. (1918 – 1974) Famous for more or less painting the same cheesy landscape scene over and over in audacious colours and with various ‘differences’. So bad it’s brilliant.
The word minim.
Matilda Magtree 
This is all good to know.
By the way, re: Levine Flexhog from the school of Bob Ross: even more amazing is that all those paintings have been hanging in people’s houses and are now being showcased in a public gallery! So much for taste…
haha! I was trying to remember that guy’s name. Bob Ross. Right. But Flexie’s work has the added element of a tongue in cheek kind of cheekiness, which gives it kitsch value.
I love the word minim. We call it a half note in the US. Imagine welcoming someone to your home: “And this is my little black cat, Minim.”
There are a slew of brilliant (British) words for various notes, apparently. What perfect names! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_value
Now I’ve learned too–and in the most cheery way. (Though I’ll continue to get frozen lima beans.)
Me too. The tin was a gift from the eccentric. (: