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A collection of 20 issues

w47: 18-24 November

The Story of a Governess (Gutenberg on Kindle) Monday morning at work was mainly indoors cleaning and mending, but I did stick the last bag of narcissus bulbs in the front garden, and I had a pleasant twenty minutes raking leaves. Borrowed secateurs and three garden gloves from the crate

w46: 11-17 November

Spark (Skin Books, #2) (library ebook) Monday at work I planted out the germinated broad beans in the four-metre trench I dug and filled with compost last week. They're Aquadulce beans, some of the earliest, and it's considered a success if the green shoots are two

Study: soil 1.2

What did I once read about sunflowers pulling poisons out of earth? I know it was on paper and in my school days so I suspect it was in New Scientist or Scientific American, but a search for 'sunflowers toxins earth' gives me the keywords phytoremediation and (specifically

w45: 4-10 November

A Land (charity shop paperback), Laocoon's Children Year One: The Philosopher's Stone (Stealing Harryverse, #2) (ao3, read on Kindle), Mary Barton (Gutenberg, read on Kindle), Mrs. Ames (Gutenberg, read on Kindle) Monday phoned in sick with the intention of spending the day on my sofa with

w43: 21-27 October

Sunday evening I untangled 75g of yarn that I shouldn't have left within reach of the puppy. Oddly, I wasn't in the mood for constructive crochet after that. To the Far Blue Mountains (The Sacketts, #2) (borrowed paperback), The Seven Sisters (The Seven Sisters, #1) (library

w42: 14-20 October

Monday morning's work was cancelled on Saturday so I had a lovely stroll round the charity shops instead. afternoon at the cottage, playing Can Four Dogs Fit On One Person. yes, yes they can. Tuesday I rolled out at 0850 to go get my annual flu jab. The

w40: 30 September to 6 October

Monday afternoon after work I napped so long that the dog walk was both after dark and in the rain. We stuck to the route that's lit but of course that's also the route with all the dropped food, so I wouldn't say it

Study: soil 1.1

1 How do they classify soil types? Chalk, clay, loam, peat, sand, silt sayshttps://www.gardenersworld.com/plants/find-out-your-soil-type/and I know we're sandy and silty here just from watching my footprints on walks, but I was expecting a more quantitative analysis. Something more like this https://en.

w39: 23-29 September

Monday morning a nice brown and amber spider has set up a web across the back door. You could have done that a month ago, I said, when there were more flies. I've just remembered I have two panels of clear hard plastic that used to be the