Perhaps you remember the abomination of the blue(ish) Poinsettia? Well, here’s another, actually foretold in that post, though it talked of gold rather than red.
Hard to credit, isn’t it? Spotted this last week at the local nursery. Left over from Christmas I expect. Why would anyone buy such...
I have had my very own access to the intertubes for a little over two weeks now. No more the roving bandwidth thief, I surf to my heart’s content, and from anywhere in the house rather than the couple of square metres in the sitting room that gets a stealable signal. And as a result of this experien...
If you’re caught short in rural Finland, you’ll need a mobile phone. According to cellular news, the Road Authority there has installed locks on public toilets. A sign on the door explains that users need to text “open” (in Finnish, obviously; I hope the sign explains that) to a specific number, a...
Went for a walk in the park this morning tooled up with a trowel. I’d seen some likely looking bay laurel seedlings on previous recce trips, and with last night’s rain thought that the ground would be reasonably soft. It was. Snagged five little seedlings then headed down the hill to the nearest nur...
How I wish I’d been among the subs when that story came in.
