I was talking recently about gardening to an English lady visiting Phuket and the subject of bananas came up. “Do you know”, she enthused,” that bananas skins put around the roots of rose bushes, promote better growth?” “No,” I replied in surprise. But then I wouldn’t have known that, since bananas were like gold dust … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Oranges and Lemons/ Say the Bells of St Clement’s
“Oranges and Lemons / Say the bells of Saint Clement’s”. Or so goes the opening couplet of a childrens’ singing and acting game about London’s church bells dating from 1744. But though the nursery rhyme we sang remains unchanged by time, the real oranges and lemons we knew as kids are not the same as … Continue reading