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Pot-luck jammy nasturtium office spider walk.
Saturday, 1 October 2011 16:48Here's what my garden looks like at the moment!
As you can see, the nasturtiums that were all but dead after not much rain during the summer have sprung back to life, and are currently desperately trying to take over the rest of my front garden. However, that area is reserved for MOAR BEANS. Some of the ones I planted when I discovered an unharvested pod a few weeks ago have sprouted, which has put me in a dilemma because I wanted to put a lot more soil down where they are. I may have to perform surgery.
I've finished up the last of the two jars of blackberry jam I made with foraged blackberries a month or so ago. That's coincided with the end of the summer (not that you'd know it was the end of the summer by the 28°C sunny weather we're having, but you don't hear me not complaining). I've bought Damson jam to try, which Prince Charles tells me is a sweet jam, so I should like it.
I'm still working from home while the new office is being set up. I don't know what my new title is yet either, but I have a meeting with bossman and Matt (the crime busters of the sea why is that in my head) to discuss it. It seems likely I'll be Lead Search Architect.
A couple of weeks ago my friend Rachel invited me to a pot luck lunch at her new place in London. Mistakenly thinking there were some vegetarians attending, I made Sweet potato and peanut gratin and despite having no meat in it, it seemed to go down a treat. I'd been meaning to try more of the recipes on that page, even though Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has somehow lost all of his hair. I'm ending up eating less meat myself naturally at the moment, and it's nice to know what recipes can be tasty without meat. Emily and I made stir-fry using pak choi and broccoli with black bean sauce last week, and it was so good I'm going to watch it again.
Meanwhile, I am thoroughly enjoying the number of spiders around at the moment. There are two in my garden at the moment and I have named them Bob and Fred. I don't think you can give spiders much more fanciful names than that. I watched another spider near the Enchanted Woodland building his web nearly from scratch, which was rather fascinating. Then the next day he was eating one of his friends. I guess everyone's allowed to treat themselves every now and then.
And finally, about four weeks ago I did a 14km walk from Farningham Road to Dartford, and apparently my knee didn't like it much, because it's been achey since then. I saw the GP about it last week, and they said I have chondromalacia patellae, which seems to translate to "my knee hurts". It should go away fairly quickly as long as I don't overwork it and ideally keep off it as much as possible. When I go out I have to wear a knee support, which is annoying but also makes me guiltily feel like one of the cool kids with SPORTS INJURIES.
That's all!
As you can see, the nasturtiums that were all but dead after not much rain during the summer have sprung back to life, and are currently desperately trying to take over the rest of my front garden. However, that area is reserved for MOAR BEANS. Some of the ones I planted when I discovered an unharvested pod a few weeks ago have sprouted, which has put me in a dilemma because I wanted to put a lot more soil down where they are. I may have to perform surgery.
I've finished up the last of the two jars of blackberry jam I made with foraged blackberries a month or so ago. That's coincided with the end of the summer (not that you'd know it was the end of the summer by the 28°C sunny weather we're having, but you don't hear me not complaining). I've bought Damson jam to try, which Prince Charles tells me is a sweet jam, so I should like it.
I'm still working from home while the new office is being set up. I don't know what my new title is yet either, but I have a meeting with bossman and Matt (the crime busters of the sea why is that in my head) to discuss it. It seems likely I'll be Lead Search Architect.
A couple of weeks ago my friend Rachel invited me to a pot luck lunch at her new place in London. Mistakenly thinking there were some vegetarians attending, I made Sweet potato and peanut gratin and despite having no meat in it, it seemed to go down a treat. I'd been meaning to try more of the recipes on that page, even though Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall has somehow lost all of his hair. I'm ending up eating less meat myself naturally at the moment, and it's nice to know what recipes can be tasty without meat. Emily and I made stir-fry using pak choi and broccoli with black bean sauce last week, and it was so good I'm going to watch it again.
Meanwhile, I am thoroughly enjoying the number of spiders around at the moment. There are two in my garden at the moment and I have named them Bob and Fred. I don't think you can give spiders much more fanciful names than that. I watched another spider near the Enchanted Woodland building his web nearly from scratch, which was rather fascinating. Then the next day he was eating one of his friends. I guess everyone's allowed to treat themselves every now and then.
And finally, about four weeks ago I did a 14km walk from Farningham Road to Dartford, and apparently my knee didn't like it much, because it's been achey since then. I saw the GP about it last week, and they said I have chondromalacia patellae, which seems to translate to "my knee hurts". It should go away fairly quickly as long as I don't overwork it and ideally keep off it as much as possible. When I go out I have to wear a knee support, which is annoying but also makes me guiltily feel like one of the cool kids with SPORTS INJURIES.
That's all!
