Some may have doubted my ability to grow cucumbers in a small pot, but I have proof it is possible. Granted, they are very small cucumbers, and they show no sign of increasing in size, but they are definitely cucumbers:
Yeah, I’ll never be a gardener, will I?
hile I was in the midst of studying, every time I got invited to do anything my response would be “I’ll be free in November” – with the result that my social calendar is full to overflowing this month. Last weekend was the Auckland Uncon, of course (which I promise to write a proper blog…
here did the time go? Suddenly two weeks have raced past and my holiday is over 🙁 I haven’t achieved half of what I’d intended to (of course), but I have had a lovely break, got a few things done, and spent some pleasant times with friends, and really, what more can you ask from…
t was definitely a weekend for social activism. I spent yesterday afternoon with Harvestbird at a seminar titled “How to be a Feminist”. The first hour of the seminar was live-streamed from Sydney, where a panel of notable feminist figures such as Anita Sarkeesian, Roxane Gay and Germaine Greer were talking about what feminism means…
he thing about 4 September being such a significant date for Christchurch is that these days I forget that only a week later is a significant anniversary for my American friends. It’s the 12th here, which of course makes it the 11th for you, and the anniversary of that horrible horrible day. Remembering 22 February…
Back at work today, and I was expecting a big clean-up operation after the 23 December wobbles. But thankfully, there wasn’t too much of a mess. All my filing cabinet drawers were open, but because of our new policy of all furniture having to be bolted to either a wall or the floor, they didn’t…
ack at work, and it was definitely a struggle to get up and organised this morning. That’s the trouble with holidays, doing nothing becomes way too much of a routine. But I managed to wake up sufficiently to clean the cat fur off my backpack (apparently Parsnips had been using it for a bed while…
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Well done on the growth of your cucumber. Young Cucumber is certainly a fighter, and will be most comfortable in a mini salad,
It’s going to be one of those mini salads that they serve at posh cocktail parties on spoons, isn’t it? So mini that the entire salad is about half a mouthful…