I Skype, you type

Try this. Call someone (preferably someone you know) on your Skype, switch your mic off so that you can hear them but they can't hear you, then when they pick up start typing everything they say. My sister just did to me quite by accident (well she was clearly taking the piss when she was parroting me) but we couldn't stop laughing, well she ha ha ha'd. It was a bit creepy to start with but amazing the way we adapted. It was bizarre talking to someone who then typed back a response like a computer, but we're easily amused where I'm from.

Isn't she lovely?

What more can I say, she's the new arrival. Sleeping on my lap as I type, resting her paws and head on my other hand. It's ridiculously cute, almost painfully cute.

Grow your own

I finally gave up my dream of a micro vineyard growing in the concrete poured yard today as I accepted that my peaceful 'sleeping' plants never were going to wake up. The surly check-out assistant was none too helpful as I raced to my refund at Woolies. Clearly I must be trying to pull a fast one by exercising my consumer rights to a refund. Gah, concentrate on the pensioners nicking the chocolate limes in the pick and mix!

I'm sticking with the easy to grow micro salads, more in my capabilities! I cannot recommend enough!

Well oh well

Blue boxes for Hackney Yay!

Well done to Hackney Council for introducing borough wide Blue box organic matter recycling. Unfortunately they have omitted to deliver mine and I've been in s stream of 5-10 working days madam, for the past 2 months. Maybe one day, dear old Hackney Council.

Improvising aside, I bought (with a good HC discount) a Junior Wormery. back in January. How cool is that I thought. Worms sent in the post eating my tough spinach storks and turning it into plant feed. 10 weeks on I took my first crop, not quite got the hang of it yet, A small infestation of fruit fly and a few dead worms. It's a learning process and the rest are thriving and beavering away. Here's to worms! Nature salutes you.


Check out the wormery