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Genovese courgette |
Squash onions |
The seeds we requested from the Heritage Seed Library have also arrived and I think we got everything we requested: |
Arany Alma tomato |
Szechuan aubergine |
Devoy beetroot |
King of the Ridge cucumber |
Egmont Gold carrot |
Soror Sarek pepper |
Now all we need to do is find space to put everything. Ideally, we now need another plot as this one is pretty much in order and we will be full to overflowing when everything is planted out. |
I thought I might keep a vague sort of record of how much the plot costs us this year and so far the tally is: |
57.60 for seeds |
10.50 for glass |
It would also be good to value the crops we take off it but I know I won't get aroundtuit. |
15 January 2007 |
5 Things Then |
Ok then....... |
1. My real name (in the old Cornish language) means |
head or top of a valley. (they were tin miners there |
back in the 17th century). |
2. I used to work for Marconi Marine and am a black |
belt in morse code (honestly) dah de dah de dah. |
3. My dad died when I was four as did his brother. I |
have been a complete barmpot ever since. |
4. When I was little, a wild bird 'adopted' me and |
used to sit on my shoulder and follow me everywhere I |
went. You can just see him in the picture sitting on |
my left. I don't really remember it. |
5. Likes: Dogs, Marmalade, Brinjal Pickle, People Who Call A Spade A Spade And Use One, Dr Who, Anything by Joanne Harris, Misfits & Eccentrics, Full Moons, Snow Patrol, The fact that the first word in my dictionary is 'a' and the last word is 'beer' (in a foregn language of course, can't remember which one), Jimi Hend... |
Dislikes: Cats, Celebrities, Horseradish sauce Yechhk, The Tweenies, Passive Agressives, Chavs & Bling, Country Music, TV Soaps, Soap, Religion, Margarine, Horsetail, Anything Made Out Of Plastic, Capitalism, America, Spam....etc etc |
A Question: Does this tagging meme thingy have to go to allotment bloggers or anyone? |
12 January 2007 |
Tag Wrestling |
Now Paula's, (from Petunias Garden), gone and done it. She's tagged me and it hurts. Now I am supposed to reveal 5 things about myself that nobody knows. So why is that hard when there are millions of things about me that nobody knows? Actually, not quite true coz Jane over at Horticultural knows who I really am becaus... |
See how good I am at avoiding the five things.....I can go on for hours like this honestly. |
Well anyway, we've got a bit of a busy weekend ahead as we're playing for a Swedish dance thingy over in Derbyshire and have to leave tonight so I will think about the five things and reveal all when I'm back next week. Now what do you want? Sauce.....Raunch......Cultural Embarrassment (you've never died till you've di... |
What. what, what.....you choose and don't be nosey you Allotment Devils You! |
03 January 2007 |
Happy New Year Everyone. Clodhopper is currently on vacation mostly over at Cultural Snow and The Chasms of the Earth where the weather is fine, the going good to moderate and the language fruity. Anyway, I'm still waiting for my seeds from the seed library and otherwise I'm just spreading muck.....you know me. Tchhh! ... |
DEAR ANNIE: A number of years ago, my parents trusted their money and retirement income to a financial adviser who was also a personal friend. When my father passed away seven years ago, my mother became his beneficiary, with me being second in line. |
My mother had a huge memorial celebration for my father, which cost a few thousand dollars and was attended by 100 people. Some time after that, I moved in with my mother, and we combined our Social Security income to be able to stay in her home. |
My mother recently passed away unexpectedly, and while settling her affairs, I was informed that her investments have been terminated. It seems that the financial adviser set up the original investments to be surrendered back to the entities that were originally set up by my father. So funds I thought would continue do... |
What do I say to the friends and neighbors who are expecting a lavish party to celebrate my mother's life? My mother did not wish for me to duplicate what she did for my father. But these folks keep asking me when the big party is going to be. I don't have funds for that, nor was it something my mother wished. Is there... |
DEAR TOAST: The toast -- a heartfelt speech in memory of your loving mother -- is far more important than any lavish banquet or big party. If you'd like to have some response for when people ask when the "big party" is, you can simply tell them it's not what your mother wanted. |
But you are not obligated to explain yourself to anyone. |
I also would suggest talking to a lawyer or another financial adviser about what happened with your parents' investments. It never hurts to get a second opinion. |
DEAR ANNIE: You printed a letter from "Married to a Louisville Hummer," whose wife won't stop humming and is driving him nuts. Well, I bet I know why she's humming. |
A few years ago, I dated a man who would say to me, "Elizabeth, you are humming." While reading your column, I realized that this person was the only person I ever hummed around. I believe the reason was he made me tense because of his demeanor. |
This uptight man had the need to brush his teeth five times each day, comb his hair each time he got into a car and comb it again as he exited. His perfectionism in all matters must have had an effect on me that caused me to hum quietly rather than hit him over the head with his toothbrush. -- Hmmph |
LIFE AFTER 30 |
By Anna Quindlen |
I remember the first time I smoked marijuana. It was a summer night, and I was |
19 years old. I was a passenger in a Volkswagen (I beleive that most first drug |
experiences during the 1970's took place in a Volkswagen), and we were driving |
down a back road redolent of honeysuckle and manure. The effects of the drug |
were that I lost all feeling in my tounge and developed a craving for French |
I would fail the reefer test. This is not as devastating as it might have |
been: I have given no serious thought to taking on the Supreme Court, and I |
don't plan to run for political office, at least not while I am in full |
possession of my faculties. |
But I suppose, given my age, people suspect that I once used drugs. |
Certainly last month, when smoking marijuana was the topic of the week, I was |
asked my opinion on the matter so often that I began to understand how Henry |
Kissinger must feel when there is trouble in the Persian Gulf. |
Now, however, the dust has settled; Judge Anthony Kennedy has passed the |
reefer test and can be questioned next week about important matters. And it |
occurs to me that I have never heard as much self-serving, silly nonsense in |
my life as I have heard about recreational drug use since Judge Douglas |
Ginsberg was booted out of contention for the Supreme Court and Judge Kennedy |
was booted in. |
I'm not talking about Edwin Meese's turning his ideological pockets inside |
out, complaining, "You tell me that no one appointed to the Supreme Court has |
ever broken a law?" |
I'm not even talking about the investigation of whether thet reefer |
madness that took place while Judge Ginsberg was in his impressionable 20's or |
his should-have-known-better 30's. (Meanwhile, the substative question-whether |
he should have handled a cable-television case for the government while he had |
investment holdings in a cable company-faded into the background. ) |
The sorriest thing was that no one, liberal or conservative, spoke out on |
the reality of this matter. That reality, simply stated, is that there is a |
huge difference between occasional use of soft drugs and drug abuse. |
Since we like to make everyone either a saint or a sinner, we prefer to |
take a monolihtic line: Drug use of any kind is wrong. In the past, this led to |
the well-known parental theory that the joint was the first step to the |
needle, which has proved to be nonsense in most cases, including my own. |
Smoking marijuana tends to make you fuzzy, and I think most adolescents |
are fuzzy enough as it is. But in practice, we have to deal with a generation |
that has already used drugs. |
For people of Judge Ginsburg's generation- and my own - there was a fairly |
common set of circumstances : some parties, perhaps the occasional evening in |
front of the stereo with the Stones or Vivaldi, friends and a joint. Then you |
have children, long working hours, a life that is, sadly, too busy and |
certainly too busy to keep track of where you put the rolling papers. you |
start to work out, watch the cholesterol. At 19, you think you're going to |
live forever. At 35 you know you won't. Maybe it's better if you don't smoke |
anything at all. |
Certain drugs are still part of our lives, but since they are legal, we |
don't have to think of them that way. Beaujolais nouveau, beer, Wild Turkey. |
No one asked Judge Ginsburg if he had ever drunk so much that he could not |
remember what he had done the night before. It would be nice to think that |
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