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?
Those of you who know me in real life (TM) will know that for the past year or two I’ve been muttering about how one day I’m going to suddenly cut off all my hair. Well, one day arrived… Yeah, bit of a drastic change 🙂 (Although in photos it doesn’t really look all that…
The spambots have obviously discovered the new DD, posting weird random comments to random entries. Sometimes the total disconnect between entry and comment is amusing, in how blatantly obvious it is that a human reader was not part of the process. A couple of examples from today: “That is a thing I must find more…
You might have noticed that things look a little bit different around here. I’m still not completely happy with it – the background is just a random copyright-free one I downloaded, and the header image could still do with a bit of work, but for something thrown together over a couple of lunch hours, I…
I’ve always suspected being social is a dangerous thing. I proved it on Tuesday night, when, waving to my neighbour as we always do when I happen to arrive home while she’s in her front yard, I thought I’d actually stop and say hello for a change. As I was talking to her, I leant…
There is a type of tiny quilt that is commonly called a “mug rug”. Except, in my house apparently it would be more appropriately called a “cat mat”. “What? It looked comfortable.” I have decided that Parsnips follows a definite set of rules when deciding whether to sit on something: Truth condition Probability of cat…
s most of you know, I really don’t do Facebook. But back during the earthquakes I set up an account in my real name for the sole purpose of communicating with students, because it was more reliable than our usual email channels. Once the crisis was over, I went back to ignoring it – until…
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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…