Apr. 28th, 2007
in the news this morning...
Apr. 28th, 2007 09:54 amearthquake!!!
A 4.7 in Kent. I'm always interested in news about Kent, becasue Bill thought about accepting a lectureship in Canterbury for about 5 minutes a few years ago.
actually i'm just bored and need to drag the boys out to buy a 6 year old girl a birthday present, but they are havng a great time playing together in the playroom, and it would be a shame to break it up.
ok, i'm going to put the sewing machines back up. time to stop being depressed about everything that didn't happen, and get myself back together.
A 4.7 in Kent. I'm always interested in news about Kent, becasue Bill thought about accepting a lectureship in Canterbury for about 5 minutes a few years ago.
actually i'm just bored and need to drag the boys out to buy a 6 year old girl a birthday present, but they are havng a great time playing together in the playroom, and it would be a shame to break it up.
ok, i'm going to put the sewing machines back up. time to stop being depressed about everything that didn't happen, and get myself back together.
oh dear...
Apr. 28th, 2007 08:45 pmmy purple sprouting broccoli is in trouble...

originally we had 6 plants. two of them were pretty much crowded out, so I cut them down to the ground in january. the remaining 4 have produced far more broccoli than we could ever ever eat. fabulous stuff, but far too much. then we went away for two weeks and it just got away from us. we managed to keep it in check a but and ate as much as we could when we got back, but in the last week or so we haven't been able to keep up, and now, well, it's bolted.
I don't know whether to cut most of it back and try to get it to keep cropping, or take it out and plant something else. we've decided to grow sprouting broccoli for the summer crop as well this year as it's so much more conveneient than having huge heads to eat all at once, but I guess we need to plant it somewhere else.
we already have potatoes and carrots planted, i think we basically swapped them round from last year's places. what's left to plant is yellow beans and sugar snap peas. must see which of those will grow where broccoli has been...
originally we had 6 plants. two of them were pretty much crowded out, so I cut them down to the ground in january. the remaining 4 have produced far more broccoli than we could ever ever eat. fabulous stuff, but far too much. then we went away for two weeks and it just got away from us. we managed to keep it in check a but and ate as much as we could when we got back, but in the last week or so we haven't been able to keep up, and now, well, it's bolted.
I don't know whether to cut most of it back and try to get it to keep cropping, or take it out and plant something else. we've decided to grow sprouting broccoli for the summer crop as well this year as it's so much more conveneient than having huge heads to eat all at once, but I guess we need to plant it somewhere else.
we already have potatoes and carrots planted, i think we basically swapped them round from last year's places. what's left to plant is yellow beans and sugar snap peas. must see which of those will grow where broccoli has been...
Lidl's microwave popcorn is too salty. yes, even for me, who normally adds salt to microwave popcorn.
sainsbury's chilean sauvignon blanc however is quite nice. the problem is that i may have drunk rather a lot of it along wiht the very salty popcorn.
i haven't had any wine since monday, so i may have a headache in the morning.
when the boys and i have to go and deliver some leaflets. for Bill. or actually for the lib dems.
the election. i have always voted for a party as opposed to an individual i've never voted "locally" but this time I think I am going to. my local councillor lives around the corner. my constituency MSP is completely approachable at jsut about anytime, not only when there is an election.
of course my view may be skewed becasue my partner is a known supporter and indeed delivers leaflets for them (well, when he's not in hawaii or japan and me and the kids do it instead), but i know that my MSP has respoinded to friends' problems quickly and followed up as well. (have to admit that this was the case when we were in Nigel Griffiths constutiency and that dind't make me vote forhim though)
anyway. because of this familiarity, i am probably voting lib dem. ever since i have had the vote in this country i have voted SNP. in the last scottish parliament elections my list vote went to the greens.
my heart is still with scottish independence in europe. my list vote (and my number 2 in the PR council vote) is still going to be green. the greens support independence. so if we get to the point where there's a vote for a referendum, a green MSP is going to vote in favour. so voting green is the right thing to do. and the thing is, if i wasn't thinking about my own neighbourhood and how i like the fact that i am "alison" to my local councillor and local MSP, i would probably be voting "first vote green" this time. ok, so I feel guilty for voting local.
i have got that off my chest.
sainsbury's chilean sauvignon blanc however is quite nice. the problem is that i may have drunk rather a lot of it along wiht the very salty popcorn.
i haven't had any wine since monday, so i may have a headache in the morning.
when the boys and i have to go and deliver some leaflets. for Bill. or actually for the lib dems.
the election. i have always voted for a party as opposed to an individual i've never voted "locally" but this time I think I am going to. my local councillor lives around the corner. my constituency MSP is completely approachable at jsut about anytime, not only when there is an election.
of course my view may be skewed becasue my partner is a known supporter and indeed delivers leaflets for them (well, when he's not in hawaii or japan and me and the kids do it instead), but i know that my MSP has respoinded to friends' problems quickly and followed up as well. (have to admit that this was the case when we were in Nigel Griffiths constutiency and that dind't make me vote forhim though)
anyway. because of this familiarity, i am probably voting lib dem. ever since i have had the vote in this country i have voted SNP. in the last scottish parliament elections my list vote went to the greens.
my heart is still with scottish independence in europe. my list vote (and my number 2 in the PR council vote) is still going to be green. the greens support independence. so if we get to the point where there's a vote for a referendum, a green MSP is going to vote in favour. so voting green is the right thing to do. and the thing is, if i wasn't thinking about my own neighbourhood and how i like the fact that i am "alison" to my local councillor and local MSP, i would probably be voting "first vote green" this time. ok, so I feel guilty for voting local.
i have got that off my chest.