Monthwipe (Percy Thrower mix)
Feb. 23rd, 2015 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hirez[ Meta-gubbins about having fallen out of the habit of jabbering on LJ oh noes all the cool kids are doing it, etc ]
Thus far this year, there's been enough of the right sort of day and enough of the right sort of brain for me to have steamed into the concrete-thing-we-call-a-garden and attacked the pruning without it turning into a tiresome angst-fest. No, I don't know why, either. It's quite good though. I have also managed to hack back a space in the terrible rock garden and transplant the tub of blackcurrant cuttings that might fruit this year.
I also have a windowsill which is rapidly turning into a chil(l)i-plant forest, more or less by accident. One of the types at work pitched up with some chil(l)ies that he'd grown at the tail end of last year. I was slicing one up to give a pizza a bit of life, and idly wondered what would happen if I planted as many seeds as I could find. What happened was that they all sprouted like weeds only better and now I'll have to hope that the weather warms up before they take over the house.
Not right now, though. It's shite out.
Another thing that I would like to get around to doing is eviscerating the dead washing machine in the garage and using the drum for an outdoor fireplace. Apparently it's a thing. I dunno that it would make the place more inviting, but perhaps some embers will waft away and set fire to one or other of the ugly sheds on the other side of the lane behind the house.
Thus far this year, there's been enough of the right sort of day and enough of the right sort of brain for me to have steamed into the concrete-thing-we-call-a-garden and attacked the pruning without it turning into a tiresome angst-fest. No, I don't know why, either. It's quite good though. I have also managed to hack back a space in the terrible rock garden and transplant the tub of blackcurrant cuttings that might fruit this year.
I also have a windowsill which is rapidly turning into a chil(l)i-plant forest, more or less by accident. One of the types at work pitched up with some chil(l)ies that he'd grown at the tail end of last year. I was slicing one up to give a pizza a bit of life, and idly wondered what would happen if I planted as many seeds as I could find. What happened was that they all sprouted like weeds only better and now I'll have to hope that the weather warms up before they take over the house.
Not right now, though. It's shite out.
Another thing that I would like to get around to doing is eviscerating the dead washing machine in the garage and using the drum for an outdoor fireplace. Apparently it's a thing. I dunno that it would make the place more inviting, but perhaps some embers will waft away and set fire to one or other of the ugly sheds on the other side of the lane behind the house.
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Date: 2015-02-24 08:35 am (UTC)Washing machine dismantling was both easy and entertaining last time I did it. Let me know if you want me to drag over a box of spanners.
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Date: 2015-03-04 04:12 pm (UTC)I also wrote a blog post A Roleplayer's Guide to ISO9001: Quality Assurance in the Laundry (http://aoakley.com/articles/2011-02-09-laundry-rpg-iso9001.php) which is well referenced from the official Laundry website. It includes the rather natty Combined ISO9001 (2008) Non Conformance Report and Expenses Claim Form.
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Date: 2015-03-09 10:32 pm (UTC)It's nearly time to start some toms I think. From proper seed packets, as harvesting is just messy.