Jemima helping me make egg pie

It's rainy and grey outside. A Wellington rainy (the rain is drifting along sideways).

I'm inside, warm, listening to music, cuddling a cat and vaguely waiting for Jemima to wake up from her afternoon nap. Winter, I kind of like it.

I'm working as a contractor every Tuesday and Thursday. Jemima gets to spend Tuesday with her Dad and Thursday with ( Read more... )

Christmas = cherries, strawberries, raspberries, chocolate, pohutakawa, friends, family, sunshine, beaches, BBQs, trifle, presents, stockings, holidays, fairy lights...?

I love our living pokutakawa Christmas tree, it is covered in fairy lights - I just need to find a Tui to put on top.

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This weekend I bought an old window and frame at the tip shop for $10. I've seen similar windows for sale at recycled renovation places for $160 - $200. The tip is awesome, thanks for the suggestion Jackie. Thomas and I walked arm and arm between the old rusty baths, broken toilets and pieces of interesting junk. As you can guess it was rather ( Read more... )

 I performed the following test* on about 2 teaspoons of slightly damp soil to find out what sort of soil we have.

1. Begin by forming a ball, if it stays together, then proceed to the next shape. If it does not form a ball, then you have a sandy soil.
2. If you can flatten the ball without it breaking up, then you have a silty sand or a loamy sand.
3. If you ( Read more... )

The weekend was a hard one for clothes. Assorted clothes were rolled around in dirt, smothered in concrete and smeared with chocolate. I did get a veggie garden, a pole for a privacy screen and beautiful filled chocolate out of it.

My garden obsession is growing. I want to grow every single vegetable that I like (as well as peas and beans because ( Read more... )

I used the top box of the worm farm* to create a cat trap, I wanted to see how long it would take to catch some cats.

It took about 24 hours, longer than I thought it would take for the cats to claim it. Harvey went in first but was promptly kicked out by Maude who is currently curled up in it snoring.


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The tiger worms moved in to their new home on Tuesday. I got given worms from a guy at work that has been worm farming for 20 years. He was wonderfully keen to make sure I knew what the worms liked to eat. Apparently they enjoy a line of milk powder about once a month*  and they particularly like egg shells ( Read more... )

My cats are so jealous of my big ball of yarn. SO jealous. I'm currently learning/relearning how to knit. I had to watch a YouTube video about how to cast on (it has been over 20 years since I've knitted and my Mum used to do that bit for me).

I have remembered the basic knit stitch but I'm doing something wrong. At the ends of each row the knitting ( Read more... )