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How does one back out of a verbal contract made in jest? It’s not binding, right?

I just harvested my first home-grown courgette :9

After the piss-pouring rain put a damper on my pottering about in the garden, I decided to do a spot of baking. I don’t have much in the way of ingredients so I made scones, which are about the simplest thing you can bake. I found the original recipe in the Vegetarian Student Cookbook —… read full entry »

I have quite a lot to say about my experiments with food and gardening of late but I’m a little concerned about scaring off the majority of you who’re here to read the geeky bits. As I don’t have the time to start and maintain a separate blog it’s a case of “tough titty”: you… read full entry »

You know you’re officially an old lady when you start collecting empty glass jars, because they might come in handy. Worse, when someone questions why you have said empty glass jars, you feel inclined to justify their purpose… because chucking them in the recycling bin would be too painful by far. Just shoot me now.

I’ve not long come out of a meeting with a client. Sat down to make a phone call, crossed my legs.. only to realise that the price sticker is still on the bottom of my new(ish) shoes. Oh dear.

I’m sat here digging through my old folders in a desperate attempt to find a half-finished layout or two that would be decent enough to give my website a fresh look without appearing obviously dated, and what should I happen across but a bunch of old layouts from my various sites. Some of these date… read full entry »

I realised last week that I’d not updated you all since my post from March where I contemplated doing a spot of gardening. Well, t’was not long after that I turned my bathroom into a makeshift greenhouse for a variety of seedlings, etc. I have still got the outside plastic one, but find that if… read full entry »

It’s been somewhat windy the past couple of days, brought to a head this afternoon with a loud crack as our already-damaged apple tree split in half. I’m not surprised, the entire thing was swinging around like crazy! That’ll have to be cut down now, it’s obviously unstable. Still, it was nice while it lasted…. read full entry »

I’ve been waiting in all day for a new chair to arrive. As I’ve now got a desk in the back bedroom to do my studies on, it was only right that I should have a chair to go with it. Anyway, come 4:35 I was getting annoyed and wrote in the q*bee IRC “I… read full entry »