Chops

Further to the stick beans of reference 1, some arboreal beans. Google Images is keen on the Indian bean tree of the southeastern United States, with its specimen being from the Wrocław University Botanical Garden, Wrocław, Poland. The city formerly known as Breslau. But are we sure it is not some other catalpa? See references 2 and 3.

They are supposed to have showy flowers, but I do not remember that, despite passing this tree quite often, being in Victoria Place, just off East Street.

Not much else to report, other than reporting to the kitchen at 12:45 to attend to the lamb chops, bought on the same occasion as the fake beans. Would sir like his chops with or without goo? Yellow goo, brown goo or red goo? I settled for without goo. There is clearly a strong market for goo, possibly something to do with barbecues.

The chops looked as if they had been frozen at some point, and were possibly cut frozen, although I am pleased to say there were few if any splinters. And they had been trimmed more than I like. But it was what the Manor Green Road butcher had.

Looked a lot better once I started grilling them.

And they looked well enough on the plate. BH's custom of peeling the carrots, rather than just cutting out the dodgy bits, clearly visible. As is the trusty pill pot, upper right. 80mg of furosemide, as used, so Bing tells me, in the treatment and management of heart failure in cats and dogs. The pot being recycled from its childhood function as a table pot for mustard. It once had a special spoon, a small flat affair, but that has vanished from my sight. Maybe BH knows where it is to be found.

Taken with a spot of white from Majestic. When will we next see the inside of one of their sheds?

All in all, given that we do not chop it very often, a pleasant change.

PS 1: it turns out that I have noticed the showy flowers before, but not on this specimen. Rather one on the Jubilee Way run, back in 2021. See reference 4.

PS 2: I also record the astounding price-performance of today's data sticks, today buying one branded Kingston from a store in the Ashley Centre, containing 64Gb for £20. On USB 3, which means that I can shift 5Gb off my laptop in less than 15 minutes. A product made in Taiwan from a company founded in 1987 in California of which I had not heard of before. But I do remember one of the hardware nerds at the Treasury banging on about what a big deal USB was, back in the 1990s when it was first invented. I did not pay much attention at the time, being soft nerd rather than a hard nerd.

PS 3: the Poles seem to be quite into botany. I have come across a number of them in the past few weeks - more or less to the exclusion of other foreigners.

References

Reference 1: https://psmv5.blogspot.com/2024/08/fake-181.html.

Reference 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa_bignonioides.

Reference 3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalpa.

Reference 4: https://psmv4.blogspot.com/2021/07/indian-bean-tree.html.

Reference 5: https://www.kingston.com/.

Reference 6: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0.

Reference 7: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB.