Stolen from tarangryph, because books are awesome.

The book I am reading:
How to grow food in your polytunnel by Mark Gatter and Andy McKee ( Read more... )

Happy birthday krfsm and o_we. I hope your birthdays will be wonderful, marvellous and just as you want them. Also, I hope they will include enough cake for everyone. :)

So, we have now been house owners for 10 days me and unixsmurf. It feels somewhat unreal still.
There's boxes everywhere, even though we have been pretty good at unpacking them (all fiction paperbacks are now in bookshelf, sorted by author). Somehow it feels like we need more storage, or less chaos, or both.

We have sorted out the old house,well, unixsmurf has, I ( Read more... )

Today I have packed 25 boxes in 6,5 hours, mostly with books, dvds and clothes. I am very much out of shape.
There's still 25 boxes left to pack in and probably more stuff than what fits in them. We will get the keyes this Thursday, move Saturday... My back hates me already. :)

God jul allihop. :)


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Woho! This is the last day of November and also the last day of NaBloPoMo.
This year I won!

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It was snowing this morning. I never saw it falling since I tried to change sleeping patterns to night shift (and failed somewhat) but it was still there when I woke up ( Read more... )

This is not, the greatest blog in the world, this is just a tribute ( Read more... )

This Saturday night is spent in the sofa. Drinking 16 year old Highland Park, eating chocolate thins with gingerbread spices, varied with drinking water and eating carrots with unixsmurf's tzatziki. Noms.

We have just finished watching Appaloosa, don't watch it unless you only want to drool over Jeremy Irons, Ed Harris, Renée Zellweger, beautiful horses ( Read more... )

Yesterday the only bakery related birthday celebration was whole wheat saffron scones for breakfast. These were baked from a recipe in my old home economics book but instead of using milk (or water) I used Greek yoghurt. This was a very very good addition, neither me nor unixsmurf had ever tasted such moist (but still well baked) scones before, and they did ( Read more... )