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venta ([personal profile] venta) wrote2015-12-31 03:13 pm
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Why they called me that I do not know

Due to a shopping mishap yesterday, this house contains a lot of (what I believe to be) oriental garlic. It tastes a lot like wild garlic. Beyond the sorts of things mentioned in Wikipedia's usage notes, does anyone have any particularly good recommendations for uses thereof?

[identity profile] sammason.livejournal.com 2015-12-31 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Compost bin? (Please forgive my flippancy. I'm procrastinating from my Tax Return.)
Edited 2015-12-31 15:30 (UTC)

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2015-12-31 03:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I think pretty much anything is permitted if the alternative is Tax Return :)

(But no! I quite like garlic. And I don't have a compost bin!)

[identity profile] sammason.livejournal.com 2015-12-31 03:56 pm (UTC)(link)
No compost bin?!

I agree about garlic in fact. Do you have East Asian cookery books? Or there might be something useful on the BBC website.

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2015-12-31 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I shall turn to Google for inspiration - I just thought I'd see if anyone had any personal recommendations.

Compost bins are complicated in a second floor London flat. Nowhere to empty it to :(

[identity profile] sammason.livejournal.com 2015-12-31 04:42 pm (UTC)(link)
No municipal composting scheme to which you could contribute waste? Only if you wanted to, of course.

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2015-12-31 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Sadly, no. Ealing's green box scheme is only open to those who live in houses or blocks of fewer-than-twelve flats. Even if you ring up and ask to be allowed to have a green box, they say no (I've tried).

No explanation for the 12-flat limit is given. My deduction is that the green box scheme goes along with the white bag recycling scheme, and these things are sorted directly into the recycling lorry on the road. Having to sort the recycling for a large block would mean the lorry would be stationary for too long, and block the road. Our recycling goes into different bin bags, which are slung straight into the lorry and (presumably) sorted elsewhere.

This is only a guess though, maybe they just dislike people who live in large blocks of flats!

[identity profile] sammason.livejournal.com 2015-12-31 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
How frustrating! Discriminatory too.

[identity profile] feanelwa.livejournal.com 2015-12-31 04:53 pm (UTC)(link)
For my name was Eliza Day

[identity profile] venta.livejournal.com 2015-12-31 04:54 pm (UTC)(link)
'Twas indeed, one kudo to you.

[identity profile] celestialweasel.livejournal.com 2015-12-31 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)

Or 'the hapless Boy Lard'