My challenge today was to attend a family birthday celebration for an 80th, 46th and 12th without succumbing to drug-enforced sleep (which I managed, just), but before we left home I managed to get a small amount of sowing done. Mostly Winter squashes (Crown Prince, Spaghetti, Butternut and Delicata), and some Romanesco cauliflower.
There were five seeds in the Crown Prince packet. That makes them 40p per seed! Next year I think I’ll be looking for another variety.
From the BBC’s coverage of Trump’s visit to China, the following quote from Trump caught my eye:
I’m going to say I have to speak to the person that right now is, you know, you know who he is, that’s running Taiwan.
So, he went to China. That Taiwan would be a major topic of discussion was beyond doubt. And he didn’t even bother to learn the name of the Taiwanese president?
I managed a bit of planting out today, dodging the rain showers.
My in-laws had a flower bed that they’re no longer using. I’d planned on reorganising it over the Winter, but, well, blood pressure issues. So it didn’t happen. Instead, I cleared a small area and planted out a number of last year’s red onions that were sprouting. I’m hoping these will flower and I can collect seed from them later in the year.
I also planted out lettuces, and my second sowing of peas for podding.
Not a great deal achieved today, but at least the two lower drawers now move easily.
I had to trim about 0.5mm off the runner height using the table saw and the problems were all sorted.
I had no idea these had been dropped off until someone else told me. Otherwise they’d have ended up out in the rain 🙁
Really?! I can imagine quite a number of things that look less appealing, but I’d not want to eat any of them either. The photo is from Gail’s own website by the looks of it, and the sandwich costs £8.90 (at the time of writing)! Personally I’d expect something rather more appealing if someone were asking me to cough up almost £9 of my hard-earned. They could start with meat that looks like it actually came from a chicken rather than reformed mechanically reclaimed meat.
As well as the salt levels that are the focus of the article linked, I notice that the sandwich is 1067 calories. That’s more than half the recommended daily intake for men!
Shame they don’t have a list of ingredients, but perhaps that would be too embarrassing.
I don’t feel the cold much. No sense, no feeling, as they say 😀
But since taking the BP meds I’ve been cold so often and just can’t get warm. My feet especially. I don’t understand why this should be, but I’m not considering anything fixed until it stops.
I’d actually just like to be chucked onto a compost heap and left to break down. None of this poncing about sending me off to have a company do it. Composting happens for free, after all. Just heave me in, wait a few weeks and put me on the veggies next time around. I’m quite into the idea of feeding next year’s tomatoes once I’m done.
There’s a quote in the article that struck me as quite odd though:
“The New York State Bishops oppose this bill because composting is a process typically used for household or agricultural waste, and does not provide the respect due to bodily remains,” the Catholic Conference told the Catholic Courier newspaper at the time.
Firstly, what “respect” is due to “bodily remains” anyhow? Household dust contains a significant proportion of “bodily remains”. What happens to that? What happens to nail clippings, skin cells that are shed in the shower, removed body hair, amputated body parts or removed organs? Why should the vehicle for someone’s consciousness be somehow “special” once that consciousness is no longer present?
And just because composting might typically be used for household or agricultural waste doesn’t make it unsuitable for the disposal of corpses. Have they never heard of a midden? Do they not know what happens to lots of non-compostable waste to generate electricity?
Burying corpses doesn’t scale. Burning them is really environmentally unfriendly. It’s time we did something else. Though perhaps not Soylent Green 😀
Poorly focused, but whilst I was watering today I noticed these on the leaf of a lettuce.
I don’t know what variety they are. I’d normally associate them with Harlequin ladybirds, but I’ve seen so few of them this year (and far more native ladybirds than ever).
To build a high-speed railway that we quite possibly don’t actually need. Any now they’re talking about not having the trains running as fast as planned.
In what world does this make sense, exactly?
