Year: 2010

January 19, 2010

Seed Swap?

My poor garden! I let it go somewhat last year, and I haven’t spent much time out there over the winter. Looking at it today, I realised I need to spend a few days out there, raking the dead stuff up, and generally getting it ready for this year’s sowing.

Yes, it’s coming up to that time again, so is there anyone out there who would like to take part in a little postal seed swap? Due to the (small) size of my little plot, I always end up with more seed of any particular type than I actually need, and on top of that, the two magazines that I enjoy – Kitchen Garden and Grow Your Own – invariably come with a packet or two of seed on the front page.

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January 19, 2010

Spam, spam, spam…

Overnight, my Wordpress blog appears to have been hit by comment spam, and lots of it. Fortunately, none of it got through to the publicly viewed part of the website.

I’ve now enabled a couple of features I hadn’t previously bothered with, which should put paid to this little game.

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January 15, 2010

Oooer – where have my fingers gone?

As I have mentioned in earlier posts, I have acquired a nice tenor ukulele, and this month have been pretty much exclusively concentrating on that, music-wise. At first, my playing was a bit halting, but now I am finding I am reaching the chords quite well, and have had good fun working out what popular songs go well with the ukulele.

However, tonight I was trying some Joe Jackson, and one particular song that I thought would work well, just didn’t. However, I was enjoying myself with the song, so I put down the ukulele and picked up my old EKO, to try it on there.

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January 14, 2010

Getting into hot water

So last week the Government announced their Boiler Scrappage Scheme, which offers 400 pounds towards the cost of a new boiler, if your existing boiler is an old (but still functional) “G-rated” unit.

Mine is, and furthermore the scheme starts handing out coupons on January 18th, which happens to be my birthday. Thank you very much.

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January 8, 2010

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

January 8, 2010

Tennis Racquet Guitar

January 1, 2010

Once in a blue moon

So lots of news webpages are talking about us seeing out the year 2009 with a “Blue Moon”, and lots of idiots get the wrong idea, and think it means the moon is actually blue, and even post that they can see it turning blue, when it is doing no such thing.

But, as it happens, it is not just the public who are in error, the news media have got it wrong too. They are using a popular, but totally incorrect definition of Blue Moon; that is “any month where there are two full moons in the same month”. By this reckoning, a blue moon will occur any time the full moon coincides with the beginning/end of a month with 30 or 31 days. This will occur reasonably often, and not as rarely as you would think when considering the phrase “once in a blue moon”.

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