i wasn't going to do any growing stuff this year, as a) it's a bit late already, and b) we just don't have any space for planting stuff as it's all taken up by the 3 sheds one of which is such a pile of crap - it has a huge puddle in the middle and some impressive fungus ( Read more... )

I have decided to try and get good at pastry - I've never really bothered with it but realised that actually I do quite like a nice tart, how hard can it be ( Read more... )

I guess i'm halfway through. i think when i get back i'll try and write on here properly about the places i've been to and people i've met... but for now just a list...

bangalore
mysore
kanyakumari
varkala
alleppey
kochi
ooty

jaipur
jodhpur
jaisalmer

the bracelet i've been wearing constantly for ~8 years broke yesterday. i am completely naked under my clothes for the first time since... probably pre-puberty. could this be the beginning of a new phase in my life?

carved one small pumpkin in honour of halloween. so far this has provided us with ( Read more... )

Last night was craft club, and I was finishing off making a t-shirt for seb with a dragonfly on it. when i got home seb showed me a big dragonfly that had been flying around the kitchen all evening. it had flown into the light, for a sleep he said.

i've been dissecting buds and putting them in acetic acid:ethanol solution. now my fingers smell like chips.

Last year, Tom and Seb played a lot of 'cricket' on the strange 'playground' attached to the community centre behind our house: a patch of concrete with a slide and the skeleton of what used to be a swing. Tom has a cricket bat, and S stocked up on tennis balls (less dangerous than the real thing), most of which have long since disappeared into ( Read more... )

The swimming pool has been closed due to algae for the last day or 2. So I've been having lie-ins. Last night I went to sleep about 2200 and didn't wake up til 0715. There must be something wrong with me.

Am excited about my garden - ate the first beans with Liz last night (only 4 - made them into a salad with sweetcorn, chickpeas and edamame - but still), and some lamb's lettuce too in another salad. And the courgettes are flowering and i'm hopeful some will set. And the first tomatoes are starting to show hints of orange/red...