Humusbeings

05/09/2023

Sowed some seeds into area where I did some weeding.Carrots, while the rain is still around to germinate them.
Spring onions and climbing beans and some random yummy basil varieties. Plenty of basil self seeds anyway, but I want to be able to make Thai salads in summer, so regular bouts of self sown coriander is also the go.

17/08/2023

Cutting up old towels to make dish cloths or face cloths. These will be dish cloths coz they’re dirt colour.
I’ve learned that you really have to do the edges well so you don’t end up with tiny bits of towel every where.
This is one of the things I use the heavy duty machine for. It goes wayyyyy faster than the brother one does.

11/07/2023

Sunny today, planted some spuds that were sprouting.
Great to have shorts on again.

10/07/2023

It’s been ages. Still around. It’s winter. My neck hurts. Wish it didn’t.

21/04/2023

It’s been a month since we were at Manning. See you there ? We have lots of pretty Martingale collars for even the biggest doggoes

28/11/2022

Felted unicorn helper pinning baking paper to screen so I can trace a bucket hat pattern made the right size on screen with help from P in the 3d software lol

28/11/2022

25/11/2022

Our lemon grass kept flowering so I dug it out this morning, thinking we had a different one to replace it. I inspected the very busy pot of grass and realised it has no smell and is covered in fur. LOL someone gave us bloody bannah grass

22/04/2022

Everyone knows some of these vegan recipes, but there's a few others that are very simple and look yummy.
Refika does some tasty foods.

We are talking about vegan recipes today! Meatless recipes are staples of Turkish cuisine just as much as the very well known kebabs and they are the recipes...

21/04/2022

Hello folks. Been a while, huh. Haven't been gardening much but have been doing a lot of sewing, mostly dog collars that we sell.
This week I cut out some more farbric squares and made some patchwork squares and started to sew them for a quilt.
I'm not sure what the backing or inside will be yet. I do have some shiny stuff that would be good for the underneath side, but not sure if it would make the whole thing slippery.
Inside might be a blanket as I don't want to buy or use batting, if I can. It's not cold enough to use a real quilt here.
It doesn't take all that long to bring it all together once the squares are done. It's nice not doing worky stuff for a couple of weeks.
Edit. I did it. Mega. It’s so cute.

31/07/2021

Pox parties.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party
These were still happening 25-30 years ago. I'm dumbfounded. Before that there might not have been a good vaccine, but ooft.

A pox party (also flu party etc.) is a social activity where children are deliberately exposed to an infectious disease. Such parties were done before vaccines were available, to "get it over with," or because it was believed childhood disease would be less severe than disease as an adult.[1][2] For...

29/07/2021

The BS Files 5
Crop circles

A crop circle, crop formation, or corn circle is a pattern created by flattening a crop,[1] usually a cereal. The term was first coined in the early 1980s by Colin Andrews.[2] Crop circles have been described as all falling "within the range of the sort of thing done in hoaxes" by Taner Edis, profes...