A grand notion

I had a thought. Just you wait, I think you’ll agree it’s AMAZING. It’s a Known Fact that potatoes help break up the ground. I can’t be certain, but I’m pretty sure it’s down to the tubers beneath the ground releasing little rake-wielding pixies, who march around in the soil, breaking it up into a [...]

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Packing tips

After laying awake about 3 hours last night, when I finally nodded off my brain decided that the best thing to do was have a detailed dream. I was on my Saarbrücken trip, meeting people and so on, but the most important issue was my rucksack. It was jammed full of things and I was [...]

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A useful fairy to have, I’m sure you’ll agree

My vegetable patch now looks a little less neglected and a little more like someone went down there yesterday and dug it all over a few times, leaving the turnips in peace to look stupid, tipped a load of damp autumnal leaves out across the soil, dug them in a bit, then collapsed indoors, leaving [...]

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And now the vegetable patch smells less oniony

While the cornflowers are now showing signs of growing their first real leaves in their can indoors, the vegetable patch at the end of the garden outside is looking, well, pretty much like a wintry, abandoned piece of ground. When I braved the cold and went down there this afternoon, I found that the onions [...]

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Considering myself tagged

Three TV shows/movies I watch regularly: * Damages is coming back on Sunday, so I’ve programmed the PVR to record it – in case I either forget, or get lost and need to rewind and see just how many times someone has been betrayed and/or lied to. * The West Wing is usually on an [...]

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Answer me this

When your bra is undone and hanging off your arms and you’ve got your pants in your hand, is there a better response to the question, “Are you still wearing your underwear?”, than “erm … sort of”.

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Not dead yet

The cornflowers continue to grow well, apparently unaware that I may have lost my touch a little plant-wise (see: crappy sweetcorn; stupid onions; blind pot of tête à têtes; unspectacular turnips). The growing matter in the can evidently wasn’t the problem with the failed pansies, it must have been the seed. Thus making the Pansy [...]

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Advantage of self-employment #594

The ability to go outside and make a life-sized snow model of yourself whenever you please: It was all over the media yesterday that the snowfall we’d had was the greatest the region had seen for 18 years. Wow, I thought to myself, I was just three years old back then … But hang on, [...]

7 Comments Posted in: being me, weather