Monthly Archives: January 2012

Feeling hot hot hot…

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Kai

http://www.ehow.com/how_7342882_heat-mini-greenhouse.html I thought of using manure but not bottles. Curious! I wonder if it’s better to use small or large bottles? Large would have more latent heat… Can you tell I’m impatient to start some seeds off?! We got above … Continue reading →

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Padding – using them, protecting, and getting rid of some.

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Kai

I was dithering whether to get a bit techy and get a pad. Dithered between iPad2 and Asus Transformer Prime. Still dithering as I don’t need one. However I want one. Such is the everlasting conundrum of being a techy … Continue reading →

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Still too nippy

Posted on January 22, 2012 by Kai

-1.5 to 12.5 C this week.

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I finished something!

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Kai

I finished something! First puzzle I’ve done since probably childhood ones – 1000 pieces too. This was from C&G for Christmas. It has cats on it. Yay!

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One moon, circling.

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Kai

I watched Stargazing Live tonight and their talk of the plaques sent out into space on Voyager’s 1 and 2 reminded me of a Next Generation episode, the one where the crew suffered non-REM sleep and went slowly mad. Deanna … Continue reading →

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Just remember that we’re standing on a planet that’s evolving…

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Kai

…and revolving at 900 miles an hour. It’s orbiting at 19 miles a second, so it’s reckoned, a sun that is the source of all our power. The Sun and you and me and all the stars that we can … Continue reading →

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New things and silly things.

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Kai

Continuing my inability to save money, this is my new mini green house and it’s fleece lining. Max-min thermometer inside there now, waiting for seed sowing temps to rise. Of course, last night (editing this 16th Jan) was the coldest … Continue reading →

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Frost!

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Kai

Finally! My garlic will be pleased. I scurried off to the local Wyevale today to get brussel sprout seeds for mum (wasn’t going to grow them again but she said she only likes our homegrown ones so worth it for … Continue reading →

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The tenacity of life

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Kai

Whoops – uploaded my pictures and then evidently wandered off without adding any words to this. So, Sunday I decided to pop along to the lottie to potter a little, and was getting my tools ready when I found this … Continue reading →

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And so the year turns…

Posted on January 8, 2012 by Kai

So it’s January! The time for me to sit on the floor surrounded by gardening books, magazines, seed packets and scrawls on notepaper in an attempt to understand what I hope we can achieve with the plot this year. A … Continue reading →

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