Karmacat: To Infinity And Beyond!

taxi73

love the poem..what a great sense of humour

Karmacat

Yep, I've always remembered that poem

And I did manage to get some daylight, even some sunshine, though I'd never have bet on it at the beginning of the day felt a lot better outside - strikes me that while Pippi is living the dream, I'm doing the exact opposite, and maybe thats why I never feel that great ..... hmm..... maybe I really had better start being a veggie, 21st century version of Tom and Barbara i.e. having just managed to get the blissful day to day reality of a dishwasher, NO WAY I'm giving it up :rotfl:

Anyway, finished for the day, and very pleased I got out there ... just off to make a decaff coffee now, in celebration, and also start sprucing the place up a bit for tomorrow ....




EDIT - I've been opening up and refolding the tops I got - some aren't right, definitely not, and they've gone in my jumble pile, but the rest will be facebooked shortly for DT and Olive...

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

Yep, I've always remembered that poem

And I did manage to get some daylight, even some sunshine, though I'd never have bet on it at the beginning of the day felt a lot better outside - strikes me that while Pippi is living the dream, I'm doing the exact opposite, and maybe thats why I never feel that great ..... hmm..... maybe I really had better start being a veggie, 21st century version of Tom and Barbara i.e. having just managed to get the blissful day to day reality of a dishwasher, NO WAY I'm giving it up :rotfl:

Anyway, finished for the day, and very pleased I got out there ... just off to make a decaff coffee now, in celebration, and also start sprucing the place up a bit for tomorrow ....




EDIT - I've been opening up and refolding the tops I got - some aren't right, definitely not, and they've gone in my jumble pile, but the rest will be facebooked shortly for DT and Olive...

I'm not quite living the dream at the moment - more like the nightmare - no water and no writing finished this week - Bah - need a plan (my next mission is to write a time line I can stick too!) my goodlife adventure is sneaking forward away from me a day at a time at the moment. One step forward, two back!

I think if tom and barbara had been on the go thesedays they'd be veggie - makes more sense really - but I think in the time it was made, having a go on the self sufficiency route was 'out there' enough for the programme, never mind making them veggie as well - times have changed - I do think if they remade the goodlife they'd probably be veggie - or maybe not?

Hello BTW :j

Karmacat

:hello: Hello! No water :eek: That is seriously bad, I hope you find the reason soon - I've just been on your thread, and I didn't quite take that on board, I was a bit self centred, sorry

Interesting that you think there's a *chance* they'd be veggie now, thats good enough for me homegrown protein .... the hazelnuts, I suppose ... I wonder if soybeans grow in this country? I suspect not, or there's be stuff written about them. I think my decision to make the food crops in my garden the high end ones - fruit and herbs - mostly stands, tho I should add salad crops too.

Pippilongstocking

Karmacat wrote: »

:hello: Hello! No water :eek: That is seriously bad, I hope you find the reason soon - I've just been on your thread, and I didn't quite take that on board, I was a bit self centred, sorry

Interesting that you think there's a *chance* they'd be veggie now, thats good enough for me homegrown protein .... the hazelnuts, I suppose ... I wonder if soybeans grow in this country? I suspect not, or there's be stuff written about them. I think my decision to make the food crops in my garden the high end ones - fruit and herbs - mostly stands, tho I should add salad crops too.

You're not self centred! I think you have a great idea there - ever thought of a hen or two as well - you can just have one - that would be good for the protien intake too (eggs to eat not hens I mean)

Alys (not of the flowers) did something about growing soya in one of her books I'll see what she said - lot of other beans you could grow for protien and peas and other stuff.

I love pig nuts - ever grown them?

Karmacat

Thanks Pippi! That sounds really interesting - do you know, I've never even *eaten* pig nuts, let alone grown them.... as for growing beans and peas and whatnot as protein - I wonder .... space issues, tbh, and finger-arthritis issues. Cheery grew pea shoots, didn't she, like Alys did, eating them at 3 weeks? Not much hoeing and weeding there..... I'm sure doing gardening is part of the life I want, the issue *right* now is getting well enough to start doing it, which is difficult seeing as I'm suffering the after effects of the previously unhealthy lifestyle, grrrrrrrrr. But hopefully I'm finding ways to break in to that circularity

EssexHebridean

I'm really jealous now........I WANT A GARDEN!!! WAHHHHHH!

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Thanks Pippi! That sounds really interesting - do you know, I've never even *eaten* pig nuts, let alone grown them.... as for growing beans and peas and whatnot as protein - I wonder .... space issues, tbh, and finger-arthritis issues.

You could always try sprouting. That's sprouts as in sprouts, not sprouts as in brussels...

se999

Mung beans are really easy to sprout.

Karmacat

Thats true - when the house is set up, thats on the list. Along with home grown basil, yum.