Red: Car park

not sure what that rectangle at the car  car is for. By coincidence, 3 cars parked there were red.


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cilvia

Clivia /ˈklaɪviə/ is a genus of monocot flowering plants native to southern Africa. They are from the family Amaryllidaceae, subfamily Amaryllidoideae

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.Dimorphotheca...

.Dimorphotheca...

is a genus of plants in the sunflower family, native to Africa and Australia. is one of eight genera of the Calenduleae, with a centre of diversity in ...

Dimorphotheca - Osteos

red: condensed milk

We didn't open the can this way, Mum made two holes at opposite sides of the round surface. Without Mum's knowledge, some times, we sucked the milk out straight from the holes. Mum would wonder why the milk went so fast. We didn't have much lollies then.

I was a Nestle's Condensed milk child known in Sarawak as an Ang Gee Gu Nee Child. Mum said no wonder I was a fat baby with the sugar in my milk.

This company marketed their product so aggressively to the third world that many mothers stopped breast feeding. Babies were fed with powder mixed with contaminated water. I boycotted this and am glad I am in New Zealand where there is a choice.

In the mid 1965s, there were on the reverse side of the tin paper, there were fish pictures. The salesman gave the wrong impression that the completed album can be exchanged for something. All the kids were pestering their mothers to buy the milk and swapping the paper. There was always a couple of fish that was not available. So the mothers had to buy more.

Then the salesman said, the final thing was the complete album. The kids enjoyed collecting the pictures.

You can imagine how angry the mothers were.

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Ginseng Jawa (Talinum paniculatum gaertn.) 土人参

Ginseng Jawa (Talinum paniculatum gaertn.)  土人参surprised to see this in my friends garden in Auckland. Growing wild. They grew wild in my Singapore garden. I picked the flowers as cut flowers, but they drop off in a day. My aunty told me that it can be used as ginseng and the leaves are edible.


AT LYNDIA'S GARDEN in Sandringham.

Talinum fruticosum is an herbaceous perennial plant that is native to Mexico, the Caribbean, Central America, and much of South America


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Peanut allergy

Photos: Martin Lo

Children at high risk of developing a peanut allergy should be given food with traces of nuts to prevent an allergy developing, experts suggest.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has issued interim guidance endorsing the results of a study published earlier this year.

The findings revealed that children who eat food containing peanuts three or more times a week from under the age of one rarely have reactions in later life.

Less than 1 per cent developed an allergy, compared with more than 17 per cent of youngsters whose diet was peanut-free.

It marked the first major study to show that eating the nuts could reverse the huge rise in peanut allergy – the number of cases in children has doubled in 20 years.

I am appalled by this reporting., Peanut allergic is very real.  I am allergic to peanuts, fortunately, mildly. Still I feel uncomfortable the whole day when I have eaten peanuts. I get reflux,

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My wheat grass experiment

 best quality wheat kernel

 soaked overnight, put in layers of handitowel, and kept in the hot water cupboard.

 rinse every day, wisps of shoots germinate

 a few more after a few days.

 some grow longer but pale in colour. Those that did not germinate, begin to smell. I threw them out. My few days of fun. May be I really should have used potting mix as a medium.