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Much cheered by seeing early Spring flowers starting to show up. It was lovely to see snowdrops actually poking their heads through the snow last week, and now the aconites are going crazy, the crocuses are coming out, and the daffodils are well on the way. And there is noticably more and better daylight around (on average; today is a bit ( Read more... )

I had a couple of days off work this week added on to two bank holidays.

( Which I spent on the baby, car sorting, and gardening... )

Happy New Year! And as ever, I'm obsessing about my baby.
( Random walks in the cot and general baby news )

I've been having trouble with my hearing recently. I'd noticed that I want to turn the volume up higher on various things. And intermittently the hearing in my left ear would cut out entirely - particularly in the shower or in bed. This has the benefit that if I want to be disturbed less by a Certain Little Chap Who Sleeps Lightly I just have to ( Read more... )

Well, it might be my least-favourite-but-one season, but Autumn has its compensations. Notably apples. Mmm ( Read more... )

Been doing a lot of preparation this weekend. We're very nearly ready for **FIXME Daffodil to turn up. In as much as we ever will be ready. Still not due for a week or so, but any time this month will officially be On Time, so you never know ( Read more... )

It really does seem like Spring at last. The weather's warmer, the daffodils and primroses have burst forth all over the place, and it's light enough to go out and pick stuff from the garden for supper. Things are growing and there's the prospect of planting things up for the new season. Hooray ( Read more... )

I'm feeling tired but content at the moment, having spent most of the day making preserves. It's extremely satisfying transforming impractical fruit and veg in to row upon row of jars of tasty stuff for the future. I'm big on deferred gratification, which might be why I find it such a satisfying job ( Read more... )

Have just had a lovely dinner, although it was a bit worryingly worthy and hippyish. It was based on quinoa, which those in the know pronounce keen-wah, to rhyme with an air-kissing "Darling! Mwah-mwah!". I like to irritate pedants and pronounce it kwin-oh-ah anyway, to rhyme with a mock-innocent "Really? Oh ah." Quinoa is an ideal hippy food ( Read more... )