Mmm, beans

For the last few weeks I have been idly musing about an enclosed area of the garden which I’m certain used to be a vegetable garden. (There’s a rogue pumpkin vine in the near vicinity, as well as some parsley and chives in a raised container - surviving, miraculously, despite my benevolent neglect since [...]

Gardening tangent

Uninspired. Hence, links!
I wanna dress like Annie Butterfly - oh, the colours! The accessories! I tend to wear a lot of black, and I would really like to branch out into wearing more colour. I suddenly feel an urge to race off to St Vinnies and have a browse. [...]

Bow tied barristers

“I have something on at 9 tomorrow morning,” said my barrister, “so hopefully I won’t be late for the application.” I gritted my teeth, and replied, “Yes, hopefully,” thinking that if I ended up standing before a cranky judge at 10am trying to explain why we’re not ready to argue our application, I was [...]

Evenness of mind

I was scanning down the page of a garden blog, when I glanced at a photo and its accompanying caption and gasped. “It’s Eric the Pot Plant!” I exclaimed as I read the text which described the plant as Hoya australis. Mum had been questioning me as to Eric’s identity the previous day, [...]

The dangers of prawns

I seem to have upset the composting system with the addition of some prawn heads and shells two weeks ago. I pulled off the lid last night to put in some vegetable scraps, held my breath and worked fast, shaking the powder over the contents. “It’s not that bad,” said the Prince, standing [...]

Destroying the local wildlife

I was a little lax with sunscreen application on the weekend, and various parts of me, including two big patches of skin on my knees, are now a lovely shade of pink. I have been slathering myself with moisturiser in an attempt to prevent peeling, but I’m not sure how successful that plan is [...]

The glories of compost

Despite work being a bit frantic for the past two days, and starting the day feeling rather tired, it has turned out to be a good Friday. The firm waived the remainder of my probationary period, so I’m an official employee. They like me! Or, at the very least, they don’t want to fire me! [...]

Days in the garden

I heard it begin to rain last night, at about two in the morning, thundering down on the roof. It must have been shortlived - I expected to walk out to a little flood in the backyard this morning, but everything was just damp, and the potted plants looked happy.
Many of my plants have lived [...]

Ghosts from the past

Eric the pot plant has a new leaf, his very first since I bought him about 18 months ago. It seems the sunlight in the new office is doing him good. I am ridiculously fascinated by the leaf’s rate of growth - over the weekend it has almost doubled in size.
My herbs are all going [...]

Watching the plants grow

After having fits over the unresponsive modem over the weekend (”I’m so depressed,” I moaned to Prince Valiant, entirely seriously), I was vastly relieved to get a phone call from our internet provider on Sunday, explaining that it was a problem at their end, and it would be back up on Tuesday. Probably. [...]