a weblog with an allotment attached
30 December 2005
Did you all have a good Christmas? Ours was excellent. We had a successful murder, a cosmopolitan Christmas Eve, excellent company and over-indulgence on Christmas Day, and on Boxing Day diarrhoea (for me) and socialising (for the others). All in all, not a bad way to spend our time. (Though if I […]
Filed under: Enthusings — Clare @ 10:01 pm
21 December 2005
(Or, what links Bagpuss, an early English music manuscript, my Christmas celebrations and the allotment life?)
The house is filling up! My mum arrived on Monday, Dad yesterday. And yesterday evening Phil and Viv popped over from Nottingham so we could rehearse (you might remember me prattling on about this kind of thing before). […]
Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 10:38 am
19 December 2005
Is anyone else really looking forward to Christmas? If not, you might want to look away now.
I know that traditionally this is a time of great stress and family conflict, not to mention over-spending, over-feeding and over-drinking as well as watching telly until one’s eyes bleed. It’s enough to make a right old […]
Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 5:41 pm
16 December 2005
In a slightly (OK, hugely) drunken stupor, I have a message for all my friends in my Italian class: I love you guys!
But in Italian.
The Italian for which escapes me momentarily.
And I can’t count how many times I’ve had to type these sentences in order to eradicate the drunken typos.
Can someone remind me never […]
Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 12:25 am
15 December 2005
Where did the time go? I’m a bad, bad pumpkin souper, neglecting my audience so! (Rather like my allotment.)
Owen and I had planned to spend two days down there this week. We took time off and everything. Did it happen? Well, no. I still had work to do from […]
Filed under: Fallow — Clare @ 1:00 pm
5 December 2005
When it was my birthday this year, Owen found me a card with kissing fruit on it (bear with me, this is more interesting and less cutesy than it sounds). An artfully posed strawberry with a black-eyed bean for an eye appeared to be kissing the cheek of a rather gummy looking lime green […]
Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 9:46 pm
3 December 2005
Can anybody out there help me find a purple top hat?
I need one that isn’t expensive, but not cheap and tacky either. (I know you think that the words purple top hat are synonymous with cheap and tacky, but you’re just going to have to trust me when I say that it needn’t be so.) […]
Filed under: Mulch — Clare @ 2:53 pm