Garden Produce
Posted: Thu 13 May, 2010 Filed under: Domestic, Green Garden Leave a comment »One of the better bits of this gardening thing- spuds growing in their buckets
Potato plants in their buckets on the patio
No idea what the particular types are – I lost the labels, in typical style – but they’re all growing well, and I’m really pleased with how things are progressing.
Last year the buckets weren’t that successful when we bought spuds from Suttons – this year they’re from Homebase, and seem to be doing much better.
Malvern Spring Show
Posted: Thu 13 May, 2010 Filed under: Domestic, Green Garden, People, Travel Leave a comment »One of our main reasons for coming to Malvern this week on our break was to go to the Malvern Spring Show. My mum’s always recommended it as a good plant/flower/garden show, so we thought we’d give it a thrash.
We went to Chelsea show a couple of years back, and hated the number of people crammed in to too small a space, and being unable to see what we wanted without fighting our way through the people first. The show was OK, the size and people were awful.
By contrast, Malvern was a really pleasant experience. There were still lots of people, and plenty of shitheads with sodding tugalong trollies, but it didn’t feel crowded. In the indoor exhibitions there was plenty of space between stands, wider aisles, all told there was just space to spare. There was tons to see, lots of stands, exhibitions, products and the like, and it was a really good day.
We came out of it with plenty of ideas for the garden, shitloads of brochures and information, and sore feet from walking. We’ll be going back next year.
Extreme Skateboarding
Posted: Wed 12 May, 2010 Filed under: 1BEM, People Leave a comment »I have to say, I love this…
Skateboarding down bobsleigh tracks. Insane, but fun.
Revisitation
Posted: Tue 11 May, 2010 Filed under: Domestic, Thoughts, Travel Leave a comment »Yesterday we went back to visit a pub I worked in at the end of ’95, the last pub I actually worked in. I was pretty much burned out by then, and the pub in Worcester was the last straw. It was a deeply negative experience, although it gave me the impetus to change things for the better.
It’s taken a long time to get even close to wanting to go back there. When we decided to come here, I had a look to see if the place even still existed – and it does, although it’s now been renamed “The Barn Owl” instead of The Poachers Pocket, which it was when I was there.
It’s been heavily redone since I last darkened the doors, totally refitted, old rooms closed off, new ones created. The place where I used to live (as a live-in assistant manager) has been sold off and is now a vet’s surgery. I could still all too clearly remember how it was, but it was interesting to see what’d been done to it, too.
All told, it’s really nothing like it was when I worked there – no bad thing. It’s still not a great place, and not one I’d choose to go to regularly, but all the same it’s a ghost that’s been laid to rest.
No bad thing.
Up On The Roof
Posted: Mon 10 May, 2010 Filed under: General Leave a comment »Not a great photo – the iPhone was the only camera I had with me – but I saw this and it amused me.
Duck on the roof of a house in the village
Yep, a duck sat on the roof ridge of one of the houses in the village.
Made me chuckle, anyway.
Flowering Rhubarb
Posted: Sat 8 May, 2010 Filed under: Domestic, Green Garden, Weirdness 1 Comment »One of the stranger sights in our garden this week…
Rhubarb Flower - click to embiggenify
I’ve never seen this before, but our main rhubarb plant has created what appears to be a flower. It’s kind of broccoli-like, but with (as you can see) red bits and pale green bits.
In short, very strange, and very alien-looking.
Taking a break
Posted: Fri 7 May, 2010 Filed under: Domestic, Travel 1 Comment »Today we’re off for a week to Malvern.
The house (along with Psycho Cat and The Girls) are being looked after while we’re away, but Hound’s going with us. Psycho Cat will be extremely pissed off though, because while Hound won’t be around, the house-sitter is bringing her own barmy dog, which should properly nark Psycho Cat.
No idea what we’ll be doing, but it’s going to be a good week off, I’m sure.