Saturday, December 09, 2006
Skips
Wandering around Warren Street found a quality skip outside of French's theatre book shop - never previously heard of. Skip was full of scores for elderly musicals - presumably the sort of thing one has to hire if one wants to put a musical on. But by the look of them, skipping was the best thing to do.
This was followed by a trip into the past - in the form of the Isaac Deutscher memorial lecture by Kevin Murphy. Much agonising about writing the history of the Russian revolution. But like other lectures I have been to, the speaker was much more interested in who said what about what to whom than about the subject in hand - about which one learned very little. Various trots appeared to be in attendance.
Soduku performance continues to be wobbly with far to many mistakes and unsolved puzzles. Sometimes with the excuse of having taken on freight before hand. Thought I found a puzzle with more than one solution - it being easy enough to generate one solution (in the sense of a grid of numbers obeying the rules but not the clues) from another - but this also turned out to be a mistake. But I continue to wonder how the puzzle setters avoid multiple solutions.
The willow saga takes a new twist. The council have been along and done something to the neat stumps which I left. I don't think they dug the roots out because there are no digger tracks and I can't see them doing such a job by hand. Perhaps they have just razed the stumps to the ground using one of those chain saw flavoured grinders. In which case it seems quite likely that the thing will sprout up all over the place next year. We shall see.
Excavated about a quarter of the home compost heap which was getting a bit full. Transferred to allotment where it is now covering the number 2 rhubarb bed.
Smashed up the rubbish from drain operations and used it to extend the ground cover around the clematis and hop plants.
Dug out the two failing gooseberry plants. Clearly not a variety which suits my ground. One of the others had layered so broke it off and planted it. All a bit crude but it will probably grow - if you can stick a stick in and it goes, a stick with roots should have no trouble.
PS the lady who has taken over two down has just rescued about a dozen gooseberries and a dozen blackcurrants from brambles. All substantial plants so if they recover she will have an awful lot of jam to make. Lets hope she has plenty of friends and relations to pass it onto.
This was followed by a trip into the past - in the form of the Isaac Deutscher memorial lecture by Kevin Murphy. Much agonising about writing the history of the Russian revolution. But like other lectures I have been to, the speaker was much more interested in who said what about what to whom than about the subject in hand - about which one learned very little. Various trots appeared to be in attendance.
Soduku performance continues to be wobbly with far to many mistakes and unsolved puzzles. Sometimes with the excuse of having taken on freight before hand. Thought I found a puzzle with more than one solution - it being easy enough to generate one solution (in the sense of a grid of numbers obeying the rules but not the clues) from another - but this also turned out to be a mistake. But I continue to wonder how the puzzle setters avoid multiple solutions.
The willow saga takes a new twist. The council have been along and done something to the neat stumps which I left. I don't think they dug the roots out because there are no digger tracks and I can't see them doing such a job by hand. Perhaps they have just razed the stumps to the ground using one of those chain saw flavoured grinders. In which case it seems quite likely that the thing will sprout up all over the place next year. We shall see.
Excavated about a quarter of the home compost heap which was getting a bit full. Transferred to allotment where it is now covering the number 2 rhubarb bed.
Smashed up the rubbish from drain operations and used it to extend the ground cover around the clematis and hop plants.
Dug out the two failing gooseberry plants. Clearly not a variety which suits my ground. One of the others had layered so broke it off and planted it. All a bit crude but it will probably grow - if you can stick a stick in and it goes, a stick with roots should have no trouble.
PS the lady who has taken over two down has just rescued about a dozen gooseberries and a dozen blackcurrants from brambles. All substantial plants so if they recover she will have an awful lot of jam to make. Lets hope she has plenty of friends and relations to pass it onto.
# posted by Jim @ 12:49 PM 
