"Your life is an occasion. Rise to it"

Karmacat

Eek! It really is a pesto catastrophe then! I bought the price level up, one jar, but I don't *like* it as much - the only other pesto I like is waitrise, at £1.79 currently, I think ... oh dear. Gill, the only place I've grown basil has been on windowledges too, but Pippi's grown it outside, so I must be able to, unless my soil is too heavy.

Right, the list. A home day, I think, it looks beautiful out there and the sky is criss crossed with con trails ... if I potter about outside, I'll have plenty of time to look up and admire the sky. Plus the black cat that stayed in the garden when I walked outside might come back

So, here it is, this isn't quite a list, actually, its more: this is my selection of things to do, and unless it costs me money (like the library books) I might do it or not, as it takes my fancy :rotfl::

- put together the single bed thats been hanging around my house since I moved in. Even if its not secure enough for someone to sleep on, at least all the bits will be together.
- research memory foam on the web - probably on the John Lewis website :rotfl: am I just in reaction against springs?
- ooh, research - garlic planting! Its now - but must do some research on here, quite a few people had really bad results with one seller.
- take advantage of the freebie weekend on ancestry.com - haven't done anything on it since I tipped the wink to mizmir.
- renew library books, or at least brace myself for a fine.
- contemplate the shed. Abhor the now-leaky shed roof. Get something waterproof on shed roof, even if temporary.
- sweep up the leaves at the front, bag them for next year (I like doing this, even if it does push my arthritic buttons!).
- cut some grass and get it into the bin - its all getting a bit overgrown out there:eek: again :eek:
- ebay? I feel like Prufrock when I approach ebay - do I dare disturb the universe? All that.

You'll notice there are no accounts in there. Thats deliberate




ETA - okay, greenfingered threads say:
- 'music' variety seems to do well on clay soil
- organic bulbs from the supermarket can do well - but any supermarket bulbs might introduce eelworm? And they won't be adapted to this country, of course.
- French 'thermidrome' gets quite a few votes.
- once you've got a variety that does well in your own garden, use your own cloves to plant with (I like that!).
- people seem to hang them up to dry, but if they seem to be getting a bit manky, they blitz them with olive oil and store them in tubs in the freezer - I like that one.
- Really Garlicky company sell 'music'.
- sounds like garlic needs good drainage. I'm beginning to wish I hadn't got rid of all those mossy chalk chips - they'd have been great dug into the ground for drainage.


Really Garlicky are in the Scottish Highlands! Am off to ebay, to see if Pippi sells garlic

gilligansyle

You are allowed to potter and do what you want, especially *not* doing the accounts. Can you send some of your nice weather up here please, its grey and dull and dismal.

Cheery_Daff

morning KC :T

Not awake enough to say anything useful, other than i believe Pippi's basil was most definitely grown indoors on the windowsill - it's Mediterranean and she's practically in the arctic up there! (but it did like the view though :rotfl:)

Karmacat

gilligansyle wrote: »

You are allowed to potter and do what you want, especially *not* doing the accounts. Can you send some of your nice weather up here please, its grey and dull and dismal.

**sending** :kisses3: with some cake :bdaycake:

Cheery_Daff wrote: »

morning KC :T

Not awake enough to say anything useful, other than i believe Pippi's basil was most definitely grown indoors on the windowsill - it's Mediterranean and she's practically in the arctic up there! (but it did like the view though :rotfl:)

Morning :hello: Ah! I must be thinking of her marigolds, thanks Cheery! I've ordered them, from Really Garlicky - we'll see how they turn out next year, I guess. If the basil has to be indoors down here too, it won't have too bad a view, as it'll be on my office windowsill, on the first floor - I can just make out rolling hills of countryside :j

mizmir

Was exhausted just reading your list - so was relieved to see you were going to do whatever of them you felt like - an excellent approach - a "may do" list! I'm still in my jimmies, drinking coffee and being decadent eating pain au chocolat for breakfast (value range but not bad!). My excuse for such decadence at 10 am is that I drove back "down south" last night so am recovering and working up to things easily.

Do have a few things to do today though: web site to finish for a friend who has been waiting way too long and catch up with Welsh before my class tomorrow. Plus there is another work report which I should do something with before a meeting in the morning but we'll see. It is Sunday after all and a glorious one at that!

Good luck with the garlic KC. One of these days I will get in gear and start to grow something...!

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

But Z, you are norty too -

I'm never naughty...

Karmacat wrote: »

I followed your link (as I always do, to see what on earth you've found on the web now ) and that figure is *issued* - the figure for "in circulation" is quite a lot bigger.

The figure for valid in circulation is 102,183,989 (it's further down the page) plus the passport cards.

There is a US population of 307,006,550 (making it almost exactly 33%) - but that includes people who live in the US, who aren't Americans. Illegal immigration is estimated at about 11 million, legal is about 13 million. It gets bit arm-wavy at that point, but 37% is not a bad estimate...

Karmacat wrote: »

But its still less than a third of the US population, and most of those are for travel to Mexico or Canada, I'm sure.

Well you used to be able to get to (and from) Canada with only a driver's licence (or license) until very recently (if you were American/Canadian), so that's where those "passport cards" come in. But you can't fly with a passport card.

Karmacat

Ooh Z, I didn't realise the "circulation" figure included non-Americans, they're being norty themselves Its very interesting stuff :j

Miz, yes, a may-do list, I like the sound of that! I *have* done the getting-the-grass-up and the sweeping leaves - and in cutting the grass under the cobnut tree, I found a *load* of cat poo _pale_ which unfortunately got on my gardening gloves so when I'd filled the bin bag, the gloves went in too - I may be short of money at the moment, but life's too short to deal with that any other way I did go back into the glory hole by the kitchen door and find some "get off", which is now overpowering everything in a couple of square yards. Then I found the roundup, and smacked some resurgent sedge with it and behind *that* I found a jolly nice bottle of red wine :D:D I think my glory hole needs a re-organisation :rotfl:

I've also ordered the garlic that likes clay soil it was fun to order it, anyway! I might need some cat-protection for the bulbs ....

ZTD

Karmacat wrote: »

Ooh Z, I didn't realise the "circulation" figure included non-Americans, they're being norty themselves

It's the other way round, the "population" figures do.

Karmacat wrote: »

in cutting the grass under the cobnut tree, I found a *load* of cat poo _pale_ which unfortunately got on my gardening gloves so when I'd filled the bin bag, the gloves went in too - I may be short of money at the moment, but life's too short to deal with that any other way

Hate to tell you this, but soil has a lot worse things in it than that. Retrieve your gloves, pour the contents of a boiling kettle on them front and back and leave them to dry.

Simples...

Karmacat wrote: »

I did go back into the glory hole by the kitchen door and find some "get off",

So you found your 12-bore then?

Karmacat

A 12 bore! Erm, no, these weird little glow in the dark green "crystals" of that name!

No further work outside being done, not even for the weather proofing of the shed .... have a good rest of the day ...

Ellidee

Coo-ee KC Sorry a bit short notice but just noticed that this is on at 8.00 tonight and thought of you ! http://www.channel4.com/programmes/river-cottage - he's cooking vegetarian food. xx