Suddenly I seem to have a lot of work, enough to do five days a week if I wanted to (or was up to it physically). The second half of this week was spent in the General's house. I had thought that we'd nearly finished there, but instead we seem to have only finished the first part of the survey. When I headed for home yesterday, coated in dust, ( Read more... )

Despite transport being pretty much back to normal yesterday, I still didn't get six-monthly check of my hip yesterday, since the consultant couldn't get in. Maybe he lives in the country. I've another appointment for next week, which is probably a good thing, since walking in with a limp due to a wonky knee would probably just confuse him ( Read more... )

Patric Blanc is a French garden designer who has developed a new method for growing vertical gardens up walls; his book "Vertical Gardens" is on the expensive end of my wishlist. These walls use ordinary garden plants, rather than climbers, planted into a wall covering that includes a thick layer of felt and an integrated irrigation and feeding ( Read more... )