"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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Harold Walker wrote:

I can grow what I like, eat what I like, etc. What did you think I
meant? Not many people grow marigolds as a crop!

One never knows that which lurks in the minds of ladies these days.....as
if
any male did anyway

That's true, but I have grown marigolds as a crop, too. SURELY
you know what to do with them? Eer, ooh and all that.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Nay lad I do not....prithee tell me...but not too plainly

In article ,
Harold Walker wrote:

That's true, but I have grown marigolds as a crop, too. SURELY
you know what to do with them? Eer, ooh and all that.

Nay lad I do not....prithee tell me...but not too plainly

Well, since you have called my bluff :-)

They are a traditional ingredient in hairwash, a flavouring used
in cooking, the source of a tisane, and an ingredient in pot
pourri. There may be other uses, too.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

That's true, but I have grown marigolds as a crop, too. SURELY
you know what to do with them? Eer, ooh and all that.

Nay lad I do not....prithee tell me...but not too plainly

Well, since you have called my bluff :-)

They are a traditional ingredient in hairwash, a flavouring used
in cooking, the source of a tisane, and an ingredient in pot
pourri. There may be other uses, too.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.

Think I will stick to the likes of Rosemary...excuse the common name but I
am in Yankee land

Harold Walker wrote:
[...]
Think I will stick to the likes of Rosemary...excuse the common
name
but I am in Yankee land

You think Rosemary a common name? Hmm...no, I know flower names can
be tricky, but I think it quite refined. Dear Rosemary Woolf, for
example, a fine medievalist, certainly loved her fast cars and her
tipple, but that kind of zing was surely rather dashing than vulgar:
"common" would never have occurred to me in a thousand years.

--
Mike.