In no particular order...

• I'm scheduled to do some work at Holland Park School. However, HR seem to be getting into a flap; now she thinks she doesn't have sufficient references, despite me giving her three. Not to put too fine a point on it, but I'm a translator, not an invigilator. If this gets any more complicated, I'm not really going to bend ( Read more... )

In approximate order of occurrence...

• I have no idea why I'm up this early, but I woke up before 6:00, and I have Things To Do, so...
• We're moving offices again. We've just finished a six-week decant, and will now settle into our final destination on the ground floor. Civvies today then.
• Not sure what's happening tonight, but in any case, it'll ( Read more... )

As per the various posts recently re: plants, I went for an expotition today to see what bits I could source near me. The Blue seemed to be almost entirely shut; no pound shop for me then. About to turn off onto the street towards Old Kent Road for B&Q, I thought I'd stop at Woolworths just to see what they actually sell these days ( Read more... )

Now I know it's hard to kill cacti, but I may just have managed it... if I had three small cacti in plastic pots, and the soil was totally dried out, would there be a way to revive the plants? I realise that if I just drown them in water, they'll be dead for sure, but I was thinking whether it was possible to gradually re-hydrate the soil. Or do I ( Read more... )

Yesterday I found a random link to Guerrilla Gardening, and that made me think of my own garden, especially the front bit. It's got one or two flower beds in it, and is no longer shaded by a massive evergreen tree, so I should do something with it ( Read more... )

I am really getting very, very tired of this router, even the extra cooling from the open window isn't helping anymore. Roll on mid-May, when Virgin will give us a new one! The cust.serv. guy couldn't quite remember which one it was, but current bets are on a Netgear. Also, 20Mb internets, I expect it'll be shithot ( Read more... )

The one I'm watching through the window right now is clearly rust-coloured, if not almost orange ( Read more... )

Saturday came early, I awoke at 7:00 (another exciting day ahead, you see), but decided I definitely couldn't cope with being up yet, and went back to bed for an hour. Then came the Great Gravel Hunt: out in the rain, watching magpies and discovering that gravel isn't as ubiquitous as I imagined. I managed to find enough to cover my galvanised ( Read more... )

Felt a bit rough this morning, so didn't go into work - I hadn't slept much, which aggravated the cough I've had for some weeks, on and off. After sleeping in a bit, and then lounging about till I felt a little more lively, I've just spend the last hour+ in the back garden, trying to impose at least a sense of order on the rampant growth. There's ( Read more... )