Inebriated insect

It was late morning by the time I went to have my first check of my vegetable patch today. It was Sunday after all. God likes me to stay in bed. One of the female flowers on the pumpkin vine that has stretched out onto the lawn was open, so I looked around for a [...]

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But I didn’t see the Queen

Today I went to London with Lauren. This is (some of) what happened: * I eavesdropped on a conversation on the train as a woman educated her visiting American friends on various British topics. I learned a couple of things, but lost all confidence in her when she referred to the Gherkin as the “pineapple”. [...]

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Again with the vegetables

I measured my tallest sweetcorn plant today. It’s 7′ 7″. So it’s really just as well the cobs don’t grow at the top of the plants. Though collecting one’s harvest while wearing a jetpack would certainly have its own appeal. One of the pumpkin vines has also escaped the confines of the patch and is [...]

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Rockin’ all over the world

I’ve been tagged as a “Rockin’ Girl Blogger”. Twice. Because that’s just how hard I rock, people. First of all Kirsty said I’m the closest chick she knows to a groupie. So I guess saying that I’m off to Bratislava in two weeks for the same old reason may only serve to underline her point. [...]

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Dress code: casual

I went to the orthopaedic clinic a couple of days ago for … well, I’m not sure. I’d had crazy pains in the outside of my legs, which didn’t seem linked to any particular exertion, terrain or pair of shoes, so last year I got the ball rolling on getting them looked at, or at [...]

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Such an exhibitionist

Back in May Lauren alerted me to a new group on Flickr: How We Are Now Flickr users from the UK were invited to submit photographs in the categories Documentary, Portrait, Still Life and Landscape. These photos were then displayed in rotation on screens in the Tate Britain as part of the broader “How We [...]

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Blight smite

The two potato haulms over by the fence had gone all deaded and smelled a bit funny a while ago, but I assumed that they were just being cantankerous and left them to it. Until today I realised that their cantankerous nature had suddenly spread to pretty much the rest of the row and all [...]

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Lughnasadh

Bless you. Lughnasadh or the more easily spelled Lammas is today, 1st August, and marks the beginning of the harvest season. I didn’t know this. But Elaine did and she told me and then she was all, “make these biscuits, bitch” and I was all, “ha ha, yours came out all wonky” and she was [...]

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