in progress

I made a one of these. I'm trying to resist the temptation to make 457 more and join them together to make a big flowery blanket, at least until I have finished the Endless Granny Square Blanket, which I keep deciding needs 'just another six inches', and is going on forever.


Everything in the garden seems to be quite big. Most exciting plant of the week award goes to the pumpkin which came from a seed from one we bought at Sainsburys. It remains to be seen whether it will produce any pumpkins.

We have produce! This is the first amount of leaves to be enough to make a salad on its own, and there's half a pound of black currants there. Which we later stewed and ate with ice cream. Yum.

woof

Just up to my neck in un-bloggable work stuff, I'm afraid. That and the fact that I now feel the urge to keep my private life actually private, and have not the time or inclination to write about it through the filters I used to use.

In other words, I'm too busy getting on with it to blog about it. Does this mean I'm all growed up? (Of course not.)

I expect I shall be back in a more regular sense at some point. You should still buy an Ukulele. Buy one for yourself and one for your friend. You know it makes sense :)

days when I ain't spotty

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1. The Rite of Spring. Monster guiros, Batman!
2. Leffe. I really like Leffe. Yes I do. Really.
3. Nigel Slater's August 14th. Good grief: unfeasably delicious.
4. Zatoichi.
5. Wellies! A bargain at £9.99. No, they aren't flowery.
6. Blackberry picking (in wellies).
7. Shortbread baking (also in wellies, as it happens).
8. Freecycle. I have freecycled away my old chest of drawers, as well as some curtains and a bird table. Freecycle is marvellous.

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Cheerful One: 2..............Mice: 0

Mobile phone: 0 ............Glass of orange juice: 1

Courgette plants: 3 .......Chilli plants: 0

la maison gaie

I was going to write an entry about mortgages, but it was so dull I lost the will to finish it.

I am waiting for my new camera to arrive. Hurry up. Hurry up!!

i've told him once or twice to stop playing cards and shooting dice

I give up. I shall write a blog post about things what I have done. At least I am reliably inconsistent.

Here are the things:

1. I have begun stage two of 'slay the bushes' in preparation for the moving of the compost bin. There would be photos if my camera was working.
2. I have mown the lawn; something I have been getting around to for about a month now.
3. I have made a new bit of fence out of bamboo and cup hooks (no, really).
4. I have re potted the palm thing.
5. I have put up a new and excitingly wobbly bit of trellis.
6. I have weeded the front garden a bit.
7. I have put up the bird feeder and am anxiously awaiting great flocks of birds. Where are the birds? Send birds now! (I know, I know).


Ukulele update:

I now have the actual callouses at the end of my fingers where they make the chords. I am able to play 'In the Jailhouse Now' slowly and exceptionally badly (including yodelling). I am dealing rather well with the fact that P can pick up the Uke and make it sound like an actual instrument instead of something used for torturing small children and musical types. I think the 'D' chord (or is it D7) is the hardest of the four-and-a-half that I know. Plans for world Ukulele domination seem a way off yet.

In unrelated news I have plans for a Simnel cake, it being Easter and all that.

Oh, and last night I went to see Bryan Talbot talk about his new book (er graphic novel er comic er thing) 'Alice in Sunderland'. It was most enjoyable. So was the second brandy.