Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Postscript
Postcript to the M&S post. I was surprised to see that their wire shopping baskets in the ladies' area were very worn and shabby. About on a par with a parcel of them that I picked up outside a convenience store in Garrett Lane a month or so ago - having been put outside by the shopkeeper as rubbish. One would have thought that M&S would be more concerned about image.
Two interesting senior moments. One, I go to put the pestle in the hole in the rotating spice rack where the pepper bottle was supposed to go. Not so bad, given that the pestle and bottle were the same general shape. I stopped before the pestle got stuck in the hole. Second, another virtual senior moment. While waking up, I manged to pour loose tea into a tea cup, rather than a tea bag, in the course of making the BH's morning cuppa. Perhaps just as well it was virtual.
Finished off the weekend loin of pork in yesterday's lunch time sandwiches. Oddly, the pork seemed to have improved, from a sandwich point of view, from a couple of days in the fridge. While I thought that the fridge dried things out, in this case the texture of the meat had got a bit moister.
Planted the first row of onion sets. Which established beyond doubt that the proposed line of runner beans is not parallel with the end of the allotment. Parallel lines of broad beans, leaf beet and now onions now having bumped into it. Must work on surveying arrangements. Broad beans now showing in over half the rows. Mystery how they manage to poke through the crust - but relectant to start serious watering - not least because the water has not yet been turned on and the tanks won't last very long. And anyway it seems a bit silly to water when it is as cold as is it just presently.
All six of the intermediate deer exclosure posts have now sprouts, albeit one a bit reluctantly. But before we get too excited, it is also true that two or three of the posts in the heap are sprouting. It seems to be enough to touch the ground, never mind be planted in it. The willow wand hedge now sprouting at around 60%. They seem to sprout much faster off young wood (I seem to remember something about this when do the same thing with gooseberries) but we will see how things look in a month or so's time.
Two interesting senior moments. One, I go to put the pestle in the hole in the rotating spice rack where the pepper bottle was supposed to go. Not so bad, given that the pestle and bottle were the same general shape. I stopped before the pestle got stuck in the hole. Second, another virtual senior moment. While waking up, I manged to pour loose tea into a tea cup, rather than a tea bag, in the course of making the BH's morning cuppa. Perhaps just as well it was virtual.
Finished off the weekend loin of pork in yesterday's lunch time sandwiches. Oddly, the pork seemed to have improved, from a sandwich point of view, from a couple of days in the fridge. While I thought that the fridge dried things out, in this case the texture of the meat had got a bit moister.
Planted the first row of onion sets. Which established beyond doubt that the proposed line of runner beans is not parallel with the end of the allotment. Parallel lines of broad beans, leaf beet and now onions now having bumped into it. Must work on surveying arrangements. Broad beans now showing in over half the rows. Mystery how they manage to poke through the crust - but relectant to start serious watering - not least because the water has not yet been turned on and the tanks won't last very long. And anyway it seems a bit silly to water when it is as cold as is it just presently.
All six of the intermediate deer exclosure posts have now sprouts, albeit one a bit reluctantly. But before we get too excited, it is also true that two or three of the posts in the heap are sprouting. It seems to be enough to touch the ground, never mind be planted in it. The willow wand hedge now sprouting at around 60%. They seem to sprout much faster off young wood (I seem to remember something about this when do the same thing with gooseberries) but we will see how things look in a month or so's time.
# posted by Jim @ 11:04 PM 
