Friday 21 November 2008

Amazing discovery

None of the local dentists recommended by our dental plan seem to work on Fridays!

How bizarre is that - they like having a long weekend? There's training stuff for dentists on Fridays?

Anyway it puts the kybosh on me getting an appointment. I have a very hurties tooth and gosh I could have a good cleaning as well...

Thursday 13 November 2008

Madwoman

with an icecream cone!
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Gluten and dairy free - it has my favourite almond soycream in it. Yum yum yum! I have not had an icecream cone for nearly 10 years. Actually it would be 10 years now - I've been GF since November 1998. eeek! That means I finished my PhD more than 10 years ago. What have I done with it? Ummm...

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Madwoman with an enormous ?sycamore? leaf.
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Adam and Eve eat your hearts out! Much better than scratchy figleaves (anyone felt the back of a figleaf? I reckon A&E must've invented velcro the first time around cos a lot of figs have what feels like sandpaper and/or hooks on the back). Anyway, this leaf is for plus-size models - it would hide a lot!

Did anyone know that sycamores are the same as plane trees? No wonder I thought there were a lot of London Plane Trees here - they are actually native sycamores.

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Fall is here! Hoo-blasted-ray! The birches outside our place are really starting to yellow up and there is a constant pitter pattering of leaves falling. Looks very pretty. Just in time for my cauliflower babies to get some light cos the birches shade them. I bought green (limelight), purple, cheddar (yellow) and romanesco (spiral) broccoli. Here are some in their new homes.
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I recycle the water bottles into plant pots and then at the end I can wash them out and dump them into the recycle bin. I still have about 10 to plant out into pots - gotta clean the pots first.

Soon I can show you the liquidambar's progress through autumn. It is colouring up well. Unlike the one back 'ome, which was a horrid pest and never did anything better that weak yellow. We don't have to worry about the one back 'ome anymore - an accident befell it, well it is befelled :-)