w21: sunday review
eleven successful tomato seedlings
Topic
gardening
A collection of 20 issues
ghost post 1 (prev were originally in wordpress or substack)
Perhaps this time.
I wonder if DNS migration got any easier in the 20 years since I last did one? Well, I've put forwarding on. and nobody is typing in domain names any more anyway. the kids these days are all about the clicking.
The poster’s guide
blackberries, Virginia, & Anne
It's Michaelmas. Today the devil spits on the blackberries, and I could cut the hedge. I'm reading Virginia, I'm reading Anne, I'm listening to Beth, I'm listening to Polly. The bookmark I found for Anne is a postcard printed with
Potatoes now, cape later
Last time I spoke with my aunt (long plaits, vegetable garden, spinning wheel) she asked oh so casually, just checking in, whether I still thought moving out of the city was the right thing for us. Oh my gosh, yes, absolutely, no question, I vagued. I must have sounded like
my indulgences are earth, now
it's spring again and the plum blossom is dropping messy metaphors all over my walk.
I am at least a year older than I was this time last year and possibly more.
my indulgences are earth, now
time spent away from my desk
time spent more answering
time
Ivy
"How right it is to love flowers and the greenery of pines and ivy and hawthorn hedges; they have been with us from the very beginning." ~ Vincent Van Gogh
"The graceful ivy, clasping the oak that supported it, would form a whole in which strength and beauty
w4 review: aaaaatchoo
Tuesday night after realising I had everything figured out, I cleaned the guinea pigs' hutch. Because Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. They seem happy with it, after the usual nose-bomping their toys back into the Correct places.
A few things combined to make Wednesday very
w02: 6th-12th January
Woke too early Monday from a bad dream about shopping crowds. Morning pages and fiction pages went fine, bus and work went well, errands in the city were successful but scattered my brain, and then when I was nearly home and buying milk a woman looked at my boots and
w1: 30 December - 5 January 2020
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee #10) (library)
Monday morning at work it was finally dry and still enough to get some glyphosate on the weeds on the path, and I'm promised that once they've died I shall be allowed to use the
w49: 2-8 December
The Future Homemakers of America (library), Resting Witch Face (Widow's Bay Book 1) (Kindle)
Monday the puppy went with me to work on the bus, because I knew I'd be mostly raking leaves. She had a great time, and I think she stole some of the