19 November 2010
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This is my latest bit of garden handiwork. It is a series of self watering plant pots made from old milk cartons. I simply cut them round just below the handle and then inserted the inverted top (lid removed) into … Continue reading
18 November 2010
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I am pleased to report that my bout of sciatica seems to have gone. I had a good night’s sleep and can only just feel the hint of a twinge now. Hopefully any recurrence will be a long time coming! … Continue reading
17 November 2010
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One of the things we did this weekend was move our compost bin. It now sits a bit further into the front garden and rotated 90° from the previous position. Since the last picture I took of it, you can … Continue reading
16 November 2010
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Somewhere round about the time I cooked dinner last night I realised that I had sciatica. Or, more precisely, I felt fine before I started but by the time I had finished, I was aware of a pain on the … Continue reading
15 November 2010
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One of the delights of our new garden is that it has attracted much more birdlife than previous places we have lived. We have the same bird feeder we had back in Lewisham but a lot more visitors. Yesterday we … Continue reading
14 November 2010
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I must have spent a couple of hours on dinner today, with early morning preparations and then the cooking and serving. It was all worth it though, a feast with friends and a good set up for relaxing in the … Continue reading
13 November 2010
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Recently, I have been having a push to get my email inboxes under control. After things have sat there for a while they tend to become clutter, reminders of things undone but not urgent enough to get done, so there … Continue reading
12 November 2010
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Hurrah for our polytunnel! Sometime during the gusty winds last night, the bird table — replete with pointy bits including the spiky finial — fell onto the far end of the tunnel. Rather than ripping through, it simply left a … Continue reading
11 November 2010
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Did you remember the silence at 11am? In my office, we each passed it individually; I took a break from coding and read In Flanders Fields. Of course, the “war to end all wars” signally failed and we still haven’t … Continue reading
10 November 2010
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PDF Scissors is a fantastic applet for cutting PDF files into smaller pages. Why would you want to do that? It makes a world of difference to readability on a small screen eReader like the Kindle. It had been a … Continue reading