tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post4454988816480102231..comments2024-03-27T06:22:50.868+01:00Comments on From My Mental Library: Catching Up: A Birthday PartyLibrarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-60134992391219958742011-09-02T09:06:59.631+02:002011-09-02T09:06:59.631+02:00Hello westwood, thank you for stopping by at my bl...Hello westwood, thank you for stopping by at my blog. I have just checked out yours. What did you have for breakfast then? :-)<br /><br />Jill, I did not actually post this today, but more than a week ago; I only added a "PS" at the end of the post. Work and other things have kept me busy this past week. Hope you're alright!Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-70171161993312743802011-09-01T17:29:23.520+02:002011-09-01T17:29:23.520+02:00Dear Librarian...so glad to see you posting today....Dear Librarian...so glad to see you posting today...wondered where you'd gotten off to.Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791018174075586241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-37578857851503873552011-09-01T13:46:27.744+02:002011-09-01T13:46:27.744+02:00That smorgasbord made me uncontrollably hungry. Ho...That smorgasbord made me uncontrollably hungry. How will ever find something that even slightly compares for breakfast??!!westwoodhttp://gapingwhole.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-14347681707363227322011-09-01T08:16:04.641+02:002011-09-01T08:16:04.641+02:00Jenny, the allotments where my parents have theirs...Jenny, the allotments where my parents have theirs are relatively big, not like the narrow strips of vegetable beds one often sees here between railway tracks and where I would not want to sit down for coffee and cake or sunbathe and read. Everyone there has a tiny cottage, and some people sleep there every weekend during the summer (I wouldn't want to - I want my shower and my comfortable bed).<br />Thank you for saying that about my fruit salad!<br /><br />Perl, I wouldn't last long, either, with all them rules and regulations there. Strangely enough, there seems to be no rule regarding a limit to the amount of "decorative items" to put in the gardens. Some are so cluttered you hardly see the flowers for all the "deco".Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-2322153636147022242011-08-31T16:26:26.297+02:002011-08-31T16:26:26.297+02:00Yeah, the Schrebergartens seem to be quaint little...Yeah, the Schrebergartens seem to be quaint little places - almost sometimes as if a small boy and girl, lost in the woods might havve stumbled upon the "sheds" whilst leaving a trail of (cake) crumbs. Sweet. Twee even. I think I would be chucked off after a month.<br />My own allotment shed is home to many spiders but otherwise rarely has any other occupant. This is typical of allotment sheds here. Though when the kids were little, we used to go down there and cook soup on a primus stove in the dark, because it was an adventure. And they hadnt yet noticed the spiders.<br />I like sheds. But I want to be free to paint them whatever colour is cheapest.Perlnumquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13719930860859412405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-23797369330019235572011-08-31T12:13:11.292+02:002011-08-31T12:13:11.292+02:00Are these the kind of allotments that sometimes ha...Are these the kind of allotments that sometimes have a little house on them? I forget the name in German - "Schrebergarten" springs to mind (??)I would imagine the rules and regulations can be a pain but it would be wonderful to have a little cottage to go and stay during the summer months, and potter around there doing gardening. In England they only have sheds on allotments. <br /><br />What professional looking cakes! and your fruit salad would have been one of my favourites. <br /><br />I'm glad your mum had such a nice birthday.Jenny Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16881781466502273314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-41799472576463120592011-08-30T08:15:44.470+02:002011-08-30T08:15:44.470+02:00Kay, I so agree with you - the camera is my easel ...Kay, I so agree with you - the camera is my easel and paint brush, since I have neither the talent nor the time to actually paint or sketch all the beautiful, curious, interesting and funny things I see every day.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-64287329663881393612011-08-29T23:21:14.633+02:002011-08-29T23:21:14.633+02:00Thank you for letting me share in your Mom's b...Thank you for letting me share in your Mom's birthday party! We really must be sisters under the skin... I thought I was the only one who takes photos of fruit before and after I make fruit salad. You should see me arranging the fruit, you would think I was trying to arrange it for artists to paint or something! (But it IS beautiful, you can see why the old masters wanted to paint it.Kayhttp://www.georgiagirlwithanenglishheart.com.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-9887685812887073792011-08-29T07:34:09.635+02:002011-08-29T07:34:09.635+02:00Mary, it was indeed wonderful. Having the guests b...Mary, it was indeed wonderful. Having the guests bring along food also makes for some nice variety, since they of course have different favourites and recipes than what we usually serve when we prepare it all ourselves.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-81678233088306639472011-08-29T03:32:39.033+02:002011-08-29T03:32:39.033+02:00Looks like a wonderful party! It's so nice wh...Looks like a wonderful party! It's so nice when guests bring food, especially in this economy! Happy Birthday to your mum!Ocean Breezes and Country Sneezeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13553409790617039932noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-3721126564142296012011-08-26T07:20:19.499+02:002011-08-26T07:20:19.499+02:00GB, my parents have such good friends, some of the...GB, my parents have such good friends, some of them go back as long as kindergarden times more than 60 years ago, and the guest list was a mixture of old and new friends as well as some family. Indeed, the people make the party!Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-51785646388429971132011-08-25T21:22:13.536+02:002011-08-25T21:22:13.536+02:00It's the people that make the party isn't ...It's the people that make the party isn't it. Everything else is a bonus. (I wrote that ages ago and have just found it - unsent. So I'm sending it now. Which is a statement of the obvious!).Graham Edwardshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11196744947133121475noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-6242404295473560152011-08-24T22:20:30.555+02:002011-08-24T22:20:30.555+02:00Perl, some of their rules are rather ridiculous, w...Perl, some of their rules are rather ridiculous, while others make sense - and the whole rule-thing is, at least to me, way too restrictive in the first place. But it is not my allotment, and my parents are happy there, which is what counts.<br /><br />Kristi, vielen Dank :-)<br /><br />Jill, thank you!Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-34905129169988269792011-08-24T19:00:48.196+02:002011-08-24T19:00:48.196+02:00Belated birthday wishes to your Mum from the west ...Belated birthday wishes to your Mum from the west coast of the US.<br />Beautiful party in a delightful setting. I wish I could have joined you...my southern accent (I was born in the deep south) mixed with your German would have provided laughs all around.Jillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11791018174075586241noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-4071890056817352992011-08-24T18:17:52.893+02:002011-08-24T18:17:52.893+02:00This looks like the background for a lovely celebr...This looks like the background for a lovely celebration! You mother is obviously a wonderful woman lucky enough to have great daughters and good friends. You brought me some memories of living in Dachswald, a suburb of Vaihingen outside of Stuttgart. Our street looked out over a little valley with lots of allotment gardens all together and we had a friend who had one of the allotments so we spent some time there. In the spring it was so beautiful to look out over the little valley full of blossoming fruit trees. I wish your dear mother "alles gute zum geburtstag" even if a little too late.Thickethouse.wordpresshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17187303460677067276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-41001037665010132152011-08-24T16:19:56.685+02:002011-08-24T16:19:56.685+02:00An allotment with a BAR??? Now that works for me. ...An allotment with a BAR??? Now that works for me. I know a secret bottle of sherry for a quick snifter in the allotment shed is quite common and my old dad had an underfloor space entirely full of beer cans.<br />My allotment doesnt even have water, but then, it doesnt really have rules either. All that malarkey with being told what colour to paint your shed seems a little hysterical to me. You need muddles for ths slow worms and toads to live in. (pictures available on request). <br />Nice cakes, by the way. Perhaps I will have an allotment party and invite all my friends to dig my potatoes. Its worth it for a few cakes, surely!Perlnumquisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13719930860859412405noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-81594682880987990242011-08-24T11:03:12.516+02:002011-08-24T11:03:12.516+02:00Sonia, the cakes were indeed quite divine!
Julie,...Sonia, the cakes were indeed quite divine!<br /><br />Julie, yes, my mother is wonderful and she'd deserve such a party every week :-) The cakes were as good as they looked - although, sadly, I only managed to eat three pieces and could not try all five.<br /><br />The citronella candles do work; nobody (as far as I know) got stung or bitten by anything. We also had a wasp trap, because wasps are not really impressed by citronella.<br /><br />Frances, yes, the party was in Germany. That's where we live, in a middle-sized town near Stuttgart, down South.Librarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05704656564078750607noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-74939129080426879072011-08-24T10:55:57.912+02:002011-08-24T10:55:57.912+02:00It all looks wonderful, and what a great idea to a...It all looks wonderful, and what a great idea to ask for food instead of presents.<br /><br />As for the cake...mo-one makes cakes like the Germans do (I assume the party was in Germany?)!Frances Garroodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10614916006798375706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-88055772143684520882011-08-24T08:30:36.017+02:002011-08-24T08:30:36.017+02:00That sounds super and I'm glad you had a wonde...That sounds super and I'm glad you had a wonderful afternoon. I love the colours of a fruit salad. <br /><br />I wonder if those citronella candles work. I've had some sitting at home for years but never tried using them.Scriptor Senexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17795521284516432520noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-65515296421779490892011-08-24T04:27:15.307+02:002011-08-24T04:27:15.307+02:00So fabulous, all the work you did, you must have a...So fabulous, all the work you did, you must have a wonderful mother. And those pies look very well made. Were they as good as they look?<br />xx<br />julieJulie Whitmore Potteryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12283540996942265818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1949425054295660529.post-63317394923925779152011-08-24T02:04:54.494+02:002011-08-24T02:04:54.494+02:00What a nice party! And the cakes look divine.What a nice party! And the cakes look divine.soniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09699796086402523726noreply@blogger.com