It's brightly sunny outside, I slept for
SIX WHOLE HOURS straight, and the computer booted up just fine. What a great start to the day!
Onna -
Queen of the Damned has arrived - thank you!
When we first decided on the 2007 Australia trip, I thought it would be a good idea to get myself a piggy bank to help with saving spending money.
I refused to buy a new one - £10+ for a thing to
save money in? I don't think so! - so hunted my favourite charity shops looking for a second-hand one. But even they were a bit on the pricey side. And then I found Henry, here ->...
Henry's a
puggybank! He's getting quite heavy now, too, just with 10p and 20p coins, with the occasional 50p and £1 thrown in from the change from the shopping (1p, 2p and 5p coins get dropped into a carved wooden bowl to be paid into the bank, and generally speaking 50p and upwards goes back into the housekeeping). And to actually
get at the cash inside, you have to pull off his head, which is quite an offputting thought, so there's less danger of me being tempted.
When we cleared the rockery last year, I had Ken trim the old rosemary bush down to the stump, with the aim of turning it into an orchid branch.
I can't find an illustration online, but this is a way of fixing epiphytic orchids onto a dried branch so they can be displayed somewhat as they would be found in nature. They can look really gorgeous. Anyway, the stump has dried quite well, and I've brought it in and started flaking off the crumbling bark. The wood underneath is pretty - light honey-coloured ranging to a faintly greenish cork colour - and silky. This is how it looks at the moment: later it'll be trimmed to shape and properly cleaned, and a selection of my fake orchids - most notably the lovely
brassavola sprigs I found in Winchester - set in beds of sphagnum moss arranged along its length.
It'll be quite a hefty thing when it's finished, and really too big for the bedroom, so the plan is to sit it on the top of the bookcase outside Kai's room,
up on the landing (sorry about the camera flare, those little mineral display cases have mirrored backs. They'll be moving into Ken's room later.) I need to repaint first though - the hall/stairwell/landing is going to be the same pale blue as the non-feature bedroom walls - and I don't yet have a schedule for that. Hopefully in the summer, but we'll see how we go. The main problem is affording a new carpet!
Kai's fighting off a cold at the moment: he's all snuffly and his voice is croaky. I'm trying to get plenty of C vit into him, in the hope he won't be too bad come Friday. We
can't miss his interview at John Cabot: the only way it can be rescheduled is if we get a doctor's certificate
on the day stating he's too ill to attend. Luckily he responds well to cold relief tablets (mild ones - first time I've tried him on them but in an emergency...)
A few minutes ago on ICQ...
Lutra: Ooh! I can see a possum on next door's electric cable thingy!
Joules: [blink] Is that dangerous?
Only if they slip upside down and thereby make themselves a conduit.
[bemused] ... uhuh....
Sometimes you see fried possums hanging by their tails from the wires. that's a bit sad.
.......
...I'm sorry...
MWAHAHAHAH!!!!
...that image is just so funny. And sick.....
.......
Fried possums...
.....
[snortsplutter]
......
[hangs head in shame, still choking]
[beg giggling] yes, well...
[snerk]
It's the look of surprise on their face as they get umpteen thousand volts up the backside....
[collapses over keyboard in hysterics]
Bwahahahah!
though... ick... please, I'm eating... [snigger]
[pissing self laughing] errrr sorry.....
I worry about me sometimes, I do...
Right! Back to the loom...
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Joules *Dances with Haddock* Taylor
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