tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post8824195473772148491..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: dandelion, slowness, chatAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-23903796563518431862011-04-07T13:41:10.048+01:002011-04-07T13:41:10.048+01:00Dandelion leaves are a diuretic. The leaves of the...Dandelion leaves are a diuretic. The leaves of the plant when it is to be used for salad are blanched by excluding light from them, which makes them less bitter. The conversation took place in the surgeon's waiting room. No other patients were present.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-87220579284337188992011-04-06T17:37:29.911+01:002011-04-06T17:37:29.911+01:00I've never tried to discover the roots of piss...I've never tried to discover the roots of <em>pissenlit</em> feeling they would never live up to the scatological suggestiveness of the word as seen by an Anglo. Nor can I ever imagine a salad based on the flower's leaves however youthful; their bitterness, experienced via the carelessness about where we put our hands as children, seemed intolerable.<br /><br />The conversation sounds fascinating but I'm assuming you were the only two patients waiting. At Belmont Medical Centre the lady would have been entertaining a whole crowd. But then residents of TW are probably better at pretending they aren't overhearing one's conversation.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com