tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702758.post115907980685448003..comments2024-01-01T06:19:40.893+00:00Comments on Allotment No 21: Sunday 24th September - The GuardianFrankie http://www.blogger.com/profile/17922995992473118940noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702758.post-1160100660927362562006-10-06T03:11:00.000+01:002006-10-06T03:11:00.000+01:00Nice blog....very informative.Nice blog....very informative.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702758.post-1159185506321914642006-09-25T12:58:00.000+01:002006-09-25T12:58:00.000+01:00Hi, well done!Your blog is different to others. It...Hi, well done!<BR/>Your blog is different to others. Its short but punchy, full of interesting bits of info but above all amusing. I like the pictures, the slide show and the way you do your links. (I keep asking hubby to show me how to do it) If I want to be cheered up, I always take a look at your blog, I particularly like the bits about your sister!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20702758.post-1159115726295846422006-09-24T17:35:00.000+01:002006-09-24T17:35:00.000+01:00Congratulations on your well deserved fame. Inter...Congratulations on your well deserved fame. <BR/><BR/>Interested in your comments yesterday, via Culpepper, on 'windy' fennel. David Douglas, botanist & plant collector extraordinaire, commented on aspects of the native American diet on the Pacific Northwest coast as follows, May 1st, 1825:<BR/><BR/>"Phalangium quamash roots [a bulb commonly known as Camass] form a great part of the native's food. When eaten in a large quantity they occasion bowel complaints. .... assuredly they produce flatulence; when in the Indian hut I was almost blown out by strength of wind".<BR/><BR/>I followed Douglas' journeys in the USA a few years ago and, barely 20 miles upstream from Fort Vancouver on the Columbia River, where Douglas was based, remains the town of Camas. I didn't enquire about the state of their bowels.Gordon Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13796375484099193959noreply@blogger.com