In short

Last night Rayne posed me some questions in the comments of the post below. They seem as good a place as any to get back into the swing of things.
Are you back yet?
Yes – *waves* – we got back in the early hours of Sunday. We had a late flight on Saturday, which was then [...]

I forgot to mention

I’m going away again. Just another flying visit to Austria to see the musician. Suzy and I leave horribly early on Thursday morning and will be back horribly late Saturday night. The concert’s in Vienna at the Donauinselfest, but Vienna is stinkingly expensive to fly to (by which I mean, I don’t know, a flight [...]

I hope you’re all looking spiffy …

… because the 7 Days self-portrait project is a-coming back. I thought I might see if I could make a more exciting logo for this run, but soon discovered that my Muse had gone on strike. Something about not having enough handsome men to stare at. So, I just made the old logo green and [...]

Gardening by number

Potato haulms above ground before I earthed them up: 12
Potato haulms above ground after I earthed them up: 11
Tallest potato plant in inches: 27
Daily mentions of my veg patch: 28,000
Daily cursings about the failure of a sixth pumpkin vine to grow: 16,000
Number of seeds planted in an effort to grow a sixth vine: 4
Sprouting garlic [...]

Panda eyes are a sign of happiness

A couple of weeks ago John and Sam came over to see us. They’d been on holiday in San Francisco, so we hadn’t seen them for a while. They spent the afternoon at Sam’s parents and then arrived here to find a house full of people. I’d been out to lunch with Helen, Suzy and [...]