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Joining the exodus...
I'm moving my infrequently-used journal over to Dreamwidth due to Livejournal's new Terms and Conditions, which I find uncomfortable for the following reasons ( Read more... ) -
Nothing but Ghosts by kevs
He'd spent more than an hour entering the bunker, climbing down rubble-strewn staircases and corridors to find the control room; it was still partly intact but huge slabs of concrete lay across the desks and consoles. No light, no power, no people... just as he'd expected ( Read more... ) -
Gosh it's still alive... i must be a ghost in the machine... *cue tumbleweed*...
Every so often (about annually, it seems), I pop in here and check to see if LJ is still alive. I'm quite surprised it isn't totally moribund, but considering only one of my friends is still posting (Hi Judith!) I'm kind-of glad it's still here.. for now at least. The new TOS I signed on the way in gave me a fright - I thought for a moment perhaps ( Read more... ) -
Pea progress update: Golden Sweet x Bijou
In 2014, as you'll remember, I cross-pollinated the mangetout pea varieties Golden Sweet and Bijou; the former being yellow-podded and the latter having large, wide, green pods. The aim is to introduce the genes for yellow pods from Golden Sweet into the Bijou line ( Read more... ) -
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Autumn update; spuds, mice and plum nostalgia.
Well well, we haven't been here for a while, have we? Since my last post I've been clearing the garden of summer growth, old plants, leaves and rubbish, and to celebrate I had a big bonfire. It made plenty of ash, so that's been scattered around the fruit trees and bushes, and dug into the soil. Small pleasures please small minds ( Read more... ) -
Mid-autumn update
So here we are in (almost) mid-autumn. I've been quite lazy with the garden this year, after having made all those grand plans back in the spring. But life and laziness got in the way and I basically couldn't be bothered with some things. Leek moth larvae had a field day with my leeks lazy year; the pests hatch as little grubs and munch their way ( Read more... ) -
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My my, how quickly summer has rolled around! This is a brief pea update with no images; I'll have to do a proper update one day ( Read more... ) -
Oh garden, how I've missed you!
It's been a good week for getting out into the garden, not only to watch a solar eclipse (Equinox day; March 20th). The morning started cloudy, with tiny breaks occurring here-and-there, but it looked for all the world as though I'd miss the celestial event. The clouds slowly cleared and by 9:00am, a thin, pale crescent of sun was shining through ( Read more... ) -
Playing Mendel: Bijou x Golden Sweet F1
All six of the hybrid pea seeds from last year's pea cross-breeding experiment, Bijou x Golden Sweet, have germinated; touch wood I'll have my cross. I can't wait to see what they produce! I'm expecting ( Read more... )