It doesn't compensate nearly as much as you'd hope. When I was studying Auslan (Australian Sign Language) back in the day, they had us reading papers on how the Swedes actually bothered to educate their Deaf kids properly, which had them graduate fluent in written Swedish and English, and Swedish Sign Language. I don't know what methods they used, but it must be possible if they could do it.

I am mending the quilt the boardies made me 10 years ago. ❤️

Well, it's something for the vegan zombies. How 21st century.

Sorry, can't. I'm too busy thinking about the consequences of "de-mutant" being a word. 😳

Okay. I deleted the bot and I would normally lock the thread too, but maybe someone wants to point out to @Lori D. that she's got some mutant celery there?

Potatoes are optimistic that way.

Does it give her independent communication with grandchildren? I more or less stopped communicating with my grandmother when dementia set in because she lived interstate with an unpleasant aunt and I couldn't know what would or wouldn't trigger either of them, but I could still send photos occasionally and the aunt didn't complain about them. I don't know if that's a common dynamic with dementia.

Since 2006, I think.

The finger lime is like caviar that punches you in the face with citrus flavour. It's not native to this part of the country so I don't know how it'll go over the winter. I haven't had it a full year yet. But yeah, they are natives. Bush tucker, as we call them. I know people grow them in the suburbs of the state capital, which is further south, but they have more concrete about and are probably plant magicians or something. I'm a bit far south for growing citrus commercially, but there must have been a sale on oranges and lemon trees at the local shop about 50 years ago because everyone has an orange, lemon or both. I do have an ordinary lime tree that has survived a few winters so far, so hopefully it'll survive some more. The variety of murnong (yam daisy) I'm trying to grow is supposed to be the tasty one and taste a bit coconutty. Is it true? Will I get to find out?

Posting photos is a pain, so I'll link to the Wikipedia, @Faith-manor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus_australasica https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microseris_walteri

I've planted brassicas and have some popping up. I have the cutest ever little baby finger lime fruit! My one single pumpkin didn't have any flavour 😞 Some of the weirdo broad beans that grew over the summer have actually survived and are looking more cheerful now the temperature has dropped. Thus far the flowers have refused, quite rightly of course, to develop into beans, but now there's another flush of flowers, perhaps they will? What shall I do? Try and breed heat resistant broad beans? My actual broad beans that I was actually going to plant for the winter don't have a home yet because the sun chokes are taking longer to die back than expected. My curry leaf tree is a total, big, fat sook. One overcast day and it'll take the rest of the week off growing. Delightfully, I saw our local shop selling them, looking oh so big and oh so glossy. Ha. How long will that last? I am trying to grow yam daisies, but I don't seem to be having any luck. I've never tried to grow from seed before though and what other people can achieve on the internet is not necessarily what I can achieve here in the rubbish soil and probably not enough light. Still waiting for the weather to get cold enough to deter wasps before I get into any more serious pruning. I have a cotoneaster or two to destroy.

I think you should give her the option of ignoring you.

Aw Hon, that is too much. ((hugs))

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I didn't think anyone ate raw sweet potatoes. They don't open packets of these and bake them with sugar and marshmallow like, I don't know, diabolical nachos, do they?