yellow fairy magic
Highlights this weekend: More samples, football, and….
Reclaiming land in Hoengg, right in front of where my basil gets eaten over night by greedy snails, whereby a Big Thicket feeling with all its sentimental memories pops up. A few meter square that’s all we could successfully get back, out of the claws of ivy and other green growth monsters. Other highlights….
Thinking and discussing new envelops for sample shipments with Pascal, shop owner of Medieval art&vie in Zurich, after a fairy tale meeting at the local post office….yep: Regular readers of this blog know what follows next: Comments about the Swiss postal services. The last time I was there, standing in front of the yellow dragon’s wide open mouth, ready to feed it with lots and lots of shiny Swiss Francs, because my envelop was again touching the 2 cm limit in thickness that makes the price triple, there was a postal fairy behind the desk.
And she opened her dark beautiful hair, danced with her little yellow magic wand that she used to measure the thickness of my envelops (yes they do..every envelop!), and whispered in my ear that this time she will make an exception. I dare not think about her motives. Maybe it was because she saw me on TV and I fit the category celebrity….
Anyhow: Although having met my fairy , we get really tired of worrying about this 2 cm limits, especially the poor shop owner of Medieval art&vie in Zurich who has to go there every day. And before we are all ready to move the business to a place with better postal service (ideas anyone?), I started looking for another envelop. And believe it or not, this very day Pascal got a sample of the perfect envelop in his mail. It must be the yellow fairy’s magic.
rose bud in June, uploaded by Andy
June 30th, 2008 at 2:21 pm
I’ve read that setting out little dishes with beer will take care of the snails. Don’t know firsthand if this is true, though, I don’t have any snails to test this with.
Postal service (yellow dragon) issues again, oh no! Hopefully the new envelope Pascal found will help solve this.
Beautiful rosebud, me like.
June 30th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
Dear Sabina
me like too. It grows in my garden and must be open by now (took the picture on Saturday).
The little dishes with beer are ok, but cruel in a sense and I find it a waste to give beer to snails. And: I do not want to feed the hedgehog with drunk snails either ;-)
I moved the basil to a slightly drier place. hoping this helps
June 30th, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Great story - the world is a better place with more fairies and less yellow dragon battles!
Hair can also keep snails away, so if you know any barbers, you can have lots of hairy basil.
Great weekend here, too, though it was a long weekend, so crowds of people and cars everywhere.
July 1st, 2008 at 3:17 am
Andy,
You can surround your plants with a sheet/strip of copper - the chemo-electric reaction is known to deter snails from passing such a barrier. I remember trying to mail a bunch of my clothing back to my country when I was on tour in Luzern - yes quite the expensive experience it was!
July 1st, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Dear Andy,
Postal service - what is this again? hahahaha! bananaz country of Brazil does not recall having that kind of service, is it a new trend????
and 2cm - sometimes it is crucial…. it can prevent you from sending post, it can open a door you never imagined before….2cm it can be a major difference in some areas…hahahaha sorry I could not help it…..I have a twisted mind sometimes….
and snails, they are the cuttest thing ever! and yours have to have a good taste - basil taste good my friend…. and snails with basil taste indeed a gourmandise….:-)
best wishes and a 2 meters hug, simone.
July 1st, 2008 at 7:20 pm
Dear Simone
no worries ! There are a lot of areas it seems where 2 cms can make a difference it seems.
I guess you were talking the size of oranges and diameters of mangos ;-)
Basil…..one day , I have to make an eau de cologne with basil notes. One day…
July 1st, 2008 at 8:44 pm
So I understand you have been visiting the local street market….checking weekly offers…fresh scents…
I was talking about bananas and cucumbers…but mangoes and oranges have also a very nice twist in a fruit salad.
As I mentioned before somewhere: basil, ylang, petit grain, mandarine or grapefruit or sweet orange -Essential oils…it is really nice, try it. You will seek for oranges.
Looking foward to hear about the cologne.
Best fruity wishes,
Simone
i could not help it again….i gues I am in a funny mood…
July 1st, 2008 at 11:33 pm
It’s nice when you can see magic in usual life - something we can do in our childhood and often forget.
You’ve inspired me to write my first perfumer’s fairy tale ;-)
I think that a shop with a name like Medieval needs envelopes with a sealing wax stamp on it. I shall make one for myself one day ;-)