Homeless But In Work

 There was a guy sleeping in the bus shelter. I gave him a couple of coins and he said that was just what he needed to get to work. I've read about people who hold down jobs in spite of being homeless but this was the first one I'd knowingly met. 

Bulbs

 I'm told that while Europeans eat the whole of a salad onion (or scallion as we call 'em up North) Americans only eat the green stalk and leave the bulb to regrow. That way, I suppose, they get to have an everlasting onion. We like the idea. We're going to try it...

Something we did a month or two back was plant some garlic cloves. They've come on wonderfully. We dug one up the other day and used the bulb in cooking. It was absolutely tasteless. How disappointing. But yesterday I noticed that one of other garlics has produced a very showy orange flower and so isn't garlic at all but a lily or an iris or something along those lines. There is genuinely garlic in the tub but we put it in beside these bulbs that we'd already planted and it was one of the others we'd tried to eat. The leaves are very similar. Anyway we didn't poison ourselves- which is a mercy.