Notes on Xmas

I’m putting this in the Xmas decorations box for next year to refresh my memory on the Xmas rules I never seem to get the hang of. 1. When you first think ‘I could do my cards early this year, oh, but it looks a bit geeky to be this organised’ DO THEM or you…

Vegetable Matters

This week I hit the law of diminishing returns head on. With a beetroot. This may sound improbable but this tiny beet, no more than an inch across with at least half its girth eaten into by unspecified nibbly grubs represented a watershed in my veg growing career. Let’s go back to late spring when…

Broadband beasties

The first factor that blog-vanished me a few weeks ago was the loss of our home broadband.That’s lost as in flaky rather than cut off because we didn’t pay the bill. Now, our broadband wasn’t like most people’s broadband which I imagine as a kind of big reliable laser piping strong beams of lovely bandwidth…

Don’t Do It!

Lots of people are still taking things up in a ‘January is nearly over’ kind of way. Zumba, Mandarin, complicated new diets. Seems to me though, that there’s something we forget. As we pack our lives with aspirations and obligations shouldn’t we try to find things we can do less of? Or do fewer things? And maybe…

Brain Clippings

Yesterday I was running back home and I saw some cows. Nothing remarkable in that, you might think, and you’d be right. Except it was about 3 pm on one of the most perfect winter days ever. The air was pin-sharp, the sky was a pale icy blue and the low sun had painted golden…