Start of may on the allotment
Spent the day on the allotment working in between showers with family. Helped clear an area of weeds and showed my little cousin how to do a proper bonfire -probably, next time, a little further away from the shed. The apple trees have blossom now. The pumpkins are starting. The corn is about 12 cm's high and so too are the tomatoes and the weeds.If anyone has an eye for fungi or magic mushrooms, what is the fungi growing in my corn toilet roll pots?
Sirens of Titan
Where has this book been all my life? Satire existentialism in space -where would Douglas Adams be without this book! Can't stress how awesome it is.
Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty-three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules ??? and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress.
A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.??
This seems relevant today:
The state of mind on Earth with regard to space exploration was much like the state of mind in Europe with regard to exploration of the Atlantic before Christopher Columbus set out. There were these important differences, however: the monsters between space explorers and their goals were not imaginary, but numerous, hideous, various, and uniformly cataclysmic; the cost of even a small expedition was enough to ruin most nations; and it was a virtual certainty that no expedition could increase the wealth of its sponsors. In short, on the basis of horse sense and the best scientific information, there was nothing good to be said for the exploration of space.
April reading list
The Road, Cormac McCarthy. Post-apocalyptic father-son journey tale. Brilliant idea not name the event that sparks the end of the world. The plot is set after and so who cares? Reads like a classic 5/5.
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley. Science fiction critique of society with its dehumanizing technologies. Despite being written in 1931 it has relevant topics 4/5. The girl who played with fire, Stieg Larsson. Ridiculous, didn't finish 2/5.Laura Marling
Only 20 and probably the best British female folk singer-songwriter. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZxqBXax6Aw?wmode=transparent]
Allotment update April
Sowed yellow courgettes, gherkins, cucumbers and potted up the tomatoes.??
Put up a mini greenhouse in the week, and it's now full of seeds.
Most of the potatoes are in. Got a large bag and two small bags to fill an unused patch. Pink fir apple and kestrel.
Established hops are going well. They really love the warm weather.
Mark has gone hop mad and has ordered me another batch of rhizomes of different sorts. I need to think of places to plant them. Maybe in large containers against one of the apple trees.
Park
Walked through the park today, got a few snaps.We don't have much of a park, it's not very metropolitan as in people confuse it for a place to dump shopping trolleys, so there is not much to see. The council are wasting money on it right now to show they care, like something straight out of The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, anything they do will go into disrepair and be left till someone complains in the paper.
Rainy week
There's no allotment update this week. It has rained all week and I thought it was too cold to plant potatoes. <rant> The council have gone fence mad. I think they will fence up my plot from my grandparents house which looks out onto the allotments. I may have to jump a fence soon unless I can think of something better (wink wink). I'm really getting fed up of persons-or-authority whether that be the landowner next door smashing my apple tree to bits to put a fence up or the council wasting money on an already secured boundary, just generally walking over me and my plot like shit. </rant>
Instead of going to the plot I spent the day finishing Cormac McCarthy's The Road -amazing post-apocalyptic fable, trying to write, drinking coffee, watching Have I got news for you, and listening to folk on blip.fm. The Tallest Man on Earth - I Want You (bob dylan)[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UolgAA0J8OM?wmode=transparent]
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