You hear that, Mr Andersen?

Housewarming, random garden notes

Running out of toilet paper is a sign of a successful party, or a terrible curry - so on that basis, at least, it was a successful party. :) (I hadn't actually run out of toilet paper - people just didn't know where to look, and didn't ask me where I had put it.)

One of the conversations I remember having was with Blair and mundens, on how I could use up the remaining brie by crumbing it, deep-frying it, wrapping it in bacon (since anything deep-fried can be improved by being wrapped in bacon), and drizzling it with maple syrup... which means that you'd need waffles, with vanilla icecream and chocolate/kaluha sauce, and maybe an orange sorbet. And then you'd move on to the fryup... I remember us feeling our hearts shutting down just contemplating this stodgy stew of goodness.

There was a fairly good turnout, and people hung out outside a lot longer than I thought they would. A bit of fraternisation went on between different groups - I'll be interested to see how one particular bit of light "fraternisation" I saw towards the end of the evening turns out, actually. There were a number of people there that I hadn't seen for too long, and I'm glad I got to chat to them, however briefly. It was really cool that Livia was able to come, for example (though I didn't really get to "chat" with her, per se - but I did get to make her a house out of cushions :).

All in all, I think I can say that the house was successfully "warmed". And I basically had the house tidy one or two hours after the last guest left, at which point I went to bed. :)

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I went to Yum Char the next day, which was nice... but I was called away to work, because of various database problems. I was there for about four hours, when I would much rather have been in my garden.

I'm hoping for a little rain sometime soon, since it makes weeding a whole lot easier. I got two plants in the housewarming, and I planted the outside plant in the garden yesterday - which made me realise how much I need to weed some parts of it. I've been told that the right time of year to plant is really winter, and one thing I could consider is buying plants now (while they're cheap), and just leaving them in their packaging until it's time to plant them. This sounds a bit complicated for me.

I'm slowly learning some stuff about gardening - unlike my parents place, I've got quite a sandy soil. My father has quite rightly pointed out that I should think carefully before bothering with vegetables, since when they'll be ripe will be the time when they're incredibly cheap at the supermarket, so it may make more sense to expend the effort on other plants. There are some things I'll probably plant anyway, like cherry tomatoes, but I'm not sure I'll bother with, say, carrots.

Still have no flatmates, and haven't really done anything about it. I'll be making a proper effort this week.

Posted by svend at March 14, 2005 11:49 AM