A life on thin ice
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purpletigronI am feeling a bit over-tired.
I cycled over to N's, to visit the allotment for the first time in ... argh, two months?! N has worked wonders in the polytunnel - pictures are forthcoming. We have tomatoes, melons, sweet potatoes, ginger, chillis and aubergines as well as French marigolds and borage, mostly growing well. Slug 'hotels' and beer traps are helping N to keep the little b*gg*rs down. I helped with watering, transplanting and weeding in there today, whilst it persisted down with rain outside. (The polytunnel flooded in the last heavy rains).
Then N & I made 'Tequila Sunrise' raspberry jam, with a combination of our red and golden berries. Yumsville! We plotted and schemed at the same time, about the croft on the Isle of Skye that they hope to finally buy next week - resource recovery water treatment systems, wind-powered bore hole water pumping, lodgepole pine shelterbelt planting, full permaculture designs for the site, and so on. I'm invited up to do some mapping and survey work as soon as [FX: Rubs hands together with glee].
So I've navigated the thin ice of stress-related chronic fatigue for another day - when to bore myself by resting and relaxing; when to lift my spirits but physically exert myself ... essentially, what's the difference between spoons spent wastefully, and spoons invested wisely?
Flood warnings are out across the UK from the Met Office again for tomorrow, with a high risk of disruption in many places due to saturated ground.
I cycled over to N's, to visit the allotment for the first time in ... argh, two months?! N has worked wonders in the polytunnel - pictures are forthcoming. We have tomatoes, melons, sweet potatoes, ginger, chillis and aubergines as well as French marigolds and borage, mostly growing well. Slug 'hotels' and beer traps are helping N to keep the little b*gg*rs down. I helped with watering, transplanting and weeding in there today, whilst it persisted down with rain outside. (The polytunnel flooded in the last heavy rains).
Then N & I made 'Tequila Sunrise' raspberry jam, with a combination of our red and golden berries. Yumsville! We plotted and schemed at the same time, about the croft on the Isle of Skye that they hope to finally buy next week - resource recovery water treatment systems, wind-powered bore hole water pumping, lodgepole pine shelterbelt planting, full permaculture designs for the site, and so on. I'm invited up to do some mapping and survey work as soon as [FX: Rubs hands together with glee].
So I've navigated the thin ice of stress-related chronic fatigue for another day - when to bore myself by resting and relaxing; when to lift my spirits but physically exert myself ... essentially, what's the difference between spoons spent wastefully, and spoons invested wisely?
Flood warnings are out across the UK from the Met Office again for tomorrow, with a high risk of disruption in many places due to saturated ground.
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Date: 2007-06-24 07:26 pm (UTC)Buying a croft sounds a fantastic venture. I do hope it works out for them. I hope you'll post about it.
I'm trying nematodes on my slugs. We certainly haven't had many problems with them this year, though the dry weather early on helped a lot.