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Monday, April 30th, 2012 09:16 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanHello, everyone. I see it's a nice sunny morning here at the Gin Palace, which makes it all the more ironic that I am hiding inside avoiding the damp air.
I stayed at home on Friday. For the first time I can remember, I was unable to get warm at work on Thursday. I ended up sitting in the office wearing my scarf and spent the lunchtime curled up trying to keep warm. I don't normally get colds like this; it's been very strange but largely gone again now. I was intending to go to work today and got up at the usual time, but the more I moved around the more my chest got bubbly and manky. Normally if it's going to do that it does it while you're lying down at night, but this time it seems to have happened after I got up. Anyway, I reckon for the amount of time I take sick, the office can spare me another day especially as the division is winding down. They don't need me and my asphalt lungs in the office today. Tomorrow will be quite early enough.
Whatever the overall level of drought is still in the south east, I can safely say that the swamp we call our back garden is no longer a desert. Quite the opposite, in fact. A month ago I was worried that the ground was bone dry dust if you dug a few inches below the top surface that had taken the little rain we'd had to that point. Now I am concerned that the roots will rot because the ground is sodden. There seems to be no happy medium at the moment. Furtle's attempt at growing sunflowers seems to have fallen at the first fence with the sheer volume of water that has turned the potting compound into a small Irish bog. We have some more growing in the green house* and hopefully with a bit of support they will take when we transplant them. I may dig a bit of sand into the pots to increase drainage.
Today however, I am going to research chicken casserole for tonight's feast.
*Greenhouse may be overstating it: it's a set of shelves on a metal frame with a zip up clear PVC cover, but it does the job with seedlings etc
I stayed at home on Friday. For the first time I can remember, I was unable to get warm at work on Thursday. I ended up sitting in the office wearing my scarf and spent the lunchtime curled up trying to keep warm. I don't normally get colds like this; it's been very strange but largely gone again now. I was intending to go to work today and got up at the usual time, but the more I moved around the more my chest got bubbly and manky. Normally if it's going to do that it does it while you're lying down at night, but this time it seems to have happened after I got up. Anyway, I reckon for the amount of time I take sick, the office can spare me another day especially as the division is winding down. They don't need me and my asphalt lungs in the office today. Tomorrow will be quite early enough.
Whatever the overall level of drought is still in the south east, I can safely say that the swamp we call our back garden is no longer a desert. Quite the opposite, in fact. A month ago I was worried that the ground was bone dry dust if you dug a few inches below the top surface that had taken the little rain we'd had to that point. Now I am concerned that the roots will rot because the ground is sodden. There seems to be no happy medium at the moment. Furtle's attempt at growing sunflowers seems to have fallen at the first fence with the sheer volume of water that has turned the potting compound into a small Irish bog. We have some more growing in the green house* and hopefully with a bit of support they will take when we transplant them. I may dig a bit of sand into the pots to increase drainage.
Today however, I am going to research chicken casserole for tonight's feast.
*Greenhouse may be overstating it: it's a set of shelves on a metal frame with a zip up clear PVC cover, but it does the job with seedlings etc
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Date: 2012-04-30 08:32 am (UTC)We wouldn't have been able to get half the things we have in our garden started without it.
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