Monday, February 20, 2012. The Year of Living Dormantly. Ha, I thought - what are vomit-bags really there for, anyway? After some tasty victuals and a couple more pints of ambrosia, we returned the the conference centre, where our resident cosmologist, Oystein, gave a fascinating account of the evolution of fourteen billion years o.

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Thoughts on Philosophical Issues and Current Events. Notung is now at the Skeptic Ink Network! October 19, 2012 by Notung. Somewhat belatedly I am making the announcement on here! This blog is now inactive, as I have moved to Skeptic Ink Network. August 20, 2012 by Notung. Ithout harming the cause of social justice.

Petunia is the garter snake that moved into our vegetable garden in its early days. This space shares the ever-evolving garden along with some excursions beyond the fence. Sunday, March 13, 2016. The rhubarb has moved from the garden to the hedgerow. I cannot blame it, considering the state of the garden spot. A little progress was made last weekend, between rains, so there is hope for garden re-invention. Sunday, September 06, 2015.

Final post on this blog. As I have almost given up the allotment entirely I have started a new blog where I will post about my gardening at home. For those who followed me here, and commented, I would like to say thankyou. and hope to see you at my new blog as and when it really gets going. I went briefly to .

An Aussie stranded in France tries her hand at an allotment - can she grow those parsnips, or die trying? Tuesday, November 18, 2014. Sunday, June 29, 2014. Monday, June 09, 2014.

My new years resolution is to keep up to date with this blog - only I dont want to call it a resolution as they dont normally last past the 2nd January do they. I am going to start this new year with something that I should have posted weeks ago and that is a picture of the beautiful homemade decoration I received from my swap partner, Averil, who writes the blog Art and Clasp. The swap was organised through another blog called New Zealand Handmade. Tuesday, 30 November 2010.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008. July has been a busy month at the allotment. Mostly it has been constant weeding and a lot of picking as the vegetables gradually start to become ready. Above is how one of the plots currently looks, at the end of July, with the Runner Beans now producing and the Squash plants well and truly taking over and covering the soil. Plenty of Courgettes are also being picked. The Squash plants are growing rampantly. These are Turks Turban Sq.