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A shitty pop-punk band, most noted for their loser drumer who broke his arm and made some ads, before everyone just lost interest in him.
greenday, good charlotte, offspring,blink 182
dodane przez theoneandonlygriff sierpień 14, 2008
a poser "punk" band from SoCal that thinks that saying "fuck" 300 times in a song really makes them "grown up" and "tough". They are neither, and they ain't punk in the least. They started hitting the big time in the late 90s. Many of their songs are full of toilet humor. Their music is totally derivative and chumpy. Blink 182 sucks.
1. Blink 182 has songs with disgusting topics. "Fuck a Dog", and other tunes (like "Carousel - almost nothing but a string of profanities) should indicate to you a total lack of brains and maturity.
2. Carol sang out the lyrics to Blink 182's song "Carousel" in front of her parents. Ooooh, she thinks she's so rebellious! She's only looking like a fool.
2. Carol sang out the lyrics to Blink 182's song "Carousel" in front of her parents. Ooooh, she thinks she's so rebellious! She's only looking like a fool.
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Blink182 is a rock/pop band.. used to be a bit more hardcore and relatively punkish, but never really punk. For one thing, you can understand the lyrics. Still pretty good band, just not punk. Sold out? Maybe. Who cares?
"Blink182 isn't punk. Neither are you. Shut up."
dodane przez Davey sierpień 15, 2004
Fucking awful music, rubbish lyrics, whiney vocals. And for everyone who is just gonna think "OMG HES ONLY LISTENED TO THE NEW BLINK", you're wrong. Old Blink sucks too.
Good drummer though
Good drummer though
Blink 182 are total arse
dodane przez +44 and AVA are shit too sierpień 23, 2007
To not be punk at all.
"This band sucks, they're so blink 182!"
dodane przez Boozy400 sierpień 28, 2006
A very weak band. They have/had a large fan base mainly because no one these days knows what good music is. There is almost no skill involved(except for the drumming which is great). Almost anyone could pick up a guitar or bass and play half their songs. Not punk, just bad.
person 1: hey look at me im so cool because i listen to crappy music like blink-182.
person 2: shutup and listen to some music that takes a bit of skill and concentration to create.
person 2: shutup and listen to some music that takes a bit of skill and concentration to create.
dodane przez punk_is_dead1111 czerwiec 09, 2006
A band with a lead singer that has a squeaky annoying voice. The music itself is okay, but the singer....sucks.
hm...this is some good music...until the guy starts singing....
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Presenteeism: On the job while sick. Think of it as the opposite of absenteeism. It's a hot topic right now; the best way to contain the spread of the flu is to keep sick people out of circulation. They should be in a warm bed with a bowl of hot soup on the bedside table and a stack of DVDs ready when some entertainment is needed.
They should not be at work.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics tells us that 39 percent of people employed in private industry do not have paid sick leave as a benefit.
And 81 percent of service workers earning $10.50 or less have no paid sick leave. These are the people behind the cash register, serving you food in a restaurant, cleaning offices and hotel rooms and handing you your ticket when you go out to see a movie.
The people with the most contact with the public have the least ability to take a few days off to stay home with the flu. And right about now the small business owner who might be reading this is muttering that she can't afford to pay people who aren't working.
Let's take a look at that and a few other accepted truths about paid sick days. The information comes from studies conducted by the Centers for Disease Control, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the Women's Institute of Policy Research study of San Francisco's paid sick leave ordinance.
Myth: Paid sick days are too expensive for small service businesses to provide.
Reality: It's affordable and it decreases turnover.
Before San Francisco enacted its ordinance in 2007, the restaurants and mom-and-pop businesses fought hard to prevent it. They predicted the cost of paid sick days would put them out of business. In 2011 a detailed study was done and employers are happy their fears were not realized. There was no discernible increase in payroll costs.
Presenteeism, people showing up at work while sick, was way down. Employers saw that it was better for an employee to call in sick, take care of their illness and not contaminate the other staff. The number of employees struggling to work while sick was drastically reduced. The H1N1 virus in 2009 demonstrated the value of keeping sick employees out of the workplace.
Turnover decreased because employees didn't need to change jobs to get paid sick leave. The city ordinance requiring paid sick leave leveled the field for all employers, and good employees stayed in place longer.
And best of all, according to the Centers for Disease Control, workers with paid sick leave are 28 percent less likely to suffer work-related injuries. People in construction, restaurants or hospitals who do physically demanding jobs are more likely to injure themselves (or someone else) if they are working while sick, weak and fatigued.
Desk workers may not injure themselves, but their productivity and work quality will suffer if they are working while sick.
Myth: Employees will take advantage of paid time off and abuse the benefit.
Reality: The San Francisco ordinance makes six to nine paid sick days available each year. In the four years that have been studied since the ordinance went into effect only half of the covered employees used any sick days. Those who used sick days used less than the number available to them; they want to keep sick days banked.
There will always be some employees ready and willing to abuse any situation. But most employees — and especially employees with small children — value the opportunity to take care of their health without cutting into an already small paycheck.
Myth: Food service workers don't work when they are sick.
Reality: The most disturbing thing I read as I did the research for this column was a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control along with researchers from Duke University. The study is titled "Factors Associated with Food Workers Working while Experiencing Vomiting or Diarrhea."
The researchers surveyed 486 restaurant workers and 12 percent admitted they had worked two or more shifts serving food while experiencing vomiting or diarrhea.
If the hostess in your favorite restaurant greeted you and asked if you would like to be served by Adam who is feeling fine and healthy or Steve who is working while suffering from vomiting or diarrhea, what would you say? That puts it all in perspective, doesn't it?
Paying a dollar more for a meal to ensure it isn't prepared or served by a sick employee looks like a pretty good deal to me.
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Woman finds comfort after son's death
Losing a child may be the worst thing that can happen to a parent, but Debby Nash found the strength to go on with life and to celebrate her son, Andrew.
You can spend the rest of your life mourning or do your best to move on and make a positive contribution to society, she said.
<IF YOU GO>Anyone having difficulty dealing with grief is encouraged to attend GriefShare, part of Refuge, an evening of events on Mondays at Crossroads Christian Church, 10800 Lincoln Ave. in Newburgh.
- The Refuge schedule is 5:30 p.m. meal ($5), 6:20 p.m. worship, 6:45 p.m. child care and 7 p.m. life groups (book fee).
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She chose to make a contribution.
Andrew was born on Sept. 8, 1987, with spina bifida, a birth defect in which the spine does not close completely during early pregnancy.
"Even though we were devastated that our baby boy had been born with a disability, his older brother, Kerry, who was just starting his first day of eighth grade, was excited," Nash said. "He ran to the phone to call all his friends and tell them he had a new baby brother."
Andrew had surgery soon after he was born to close the opening in his back.
"That was the start of our life, we thought, dealing with surgeries and therapies," Nash said.
That also led to her running a support group.
"Wheelchairs, walkers, splints, you name it ... we learned how to operate it and how to improve our little ones' lives as much as we could," Nash said.
She did her best to help other mothers with special-needs children maintain a positive attitude, she said.
Andrew was a rambunctious little boy, doing wheelies in his wheelchair. He also had a healthy appetite.
Life change
But everything changed on Aug. 1, 1991, when Andrew was to undergo a tonsillectomy.
"We said bye to him thinking we would see him shortly in recovery," Nash said.
When a pair of doctors came into the waiting room, she could tell by their faces that something was wrong.
There were complications, leaving Andrew in a vegetative state. He was hospitalized for 21/2 months. He never recovered and died at home on Nash's birthday, March 25, 1994.
"Losing a child, it rips your heart — I mean a big hole in it," Nash said. "I just kept telling myself that we were going to get through this. I didn't have a choice.
"I knew what was best for all of us, and I knew I had to be the one to put forth the effort and make it work."
A few years after his death, Debby and her husband, Brad Nash, designed a display for the Fantasy of Lights at Garvin Park in memory of Andrew.
'Thinking of him'
"I knew what I wanted, something that showed a boy sitting in a wheelchair putting ornaments on a Christmas tree, something I knew that Andrew would have done with us," Nash said. "To this day, we get a lot of satisfaction driving through the park at Christmas seeing that display and thinking of him."
The Nashes became parents again in 1992. They adopted a daughter, 4-day-old Kiley, on Nov. 24.
"There were family members and other people who didn't feel that that was right," Nash said.
"However, I knew it was not to replace Andrew, but to give all the love that I had to a new child. It was too late for me to have another baby, but we knew we weren't finished being a mom and a dad."
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The sample ballots voters should have already received from their mail carriers lay out precisely what will beam up from the computer screens at ballot boxes on Election Day. A bit more substance, though, can serve as a helpful guide. So here goes: City Paper's cheat sheet on what Baltimore City voters will face at their polling places on Nov. 6-or earlier, for those heading out to the city's five early-voting sites between Oct. 27 and Nov. 1.
President/Vice PresidentThe probability that Maryland will go for Obama and his running mate, Joe Biden, stands at 100 percent, according to Nate Silver's wonky, poll-aggregating FiveThirtyEight blog at The New York Times, so Romney and vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan aren't looking to Free State Republicans to get them anywhere. For those so inclined, then, the luxury of wasting votes on the quixotic tickets put up by the Libertarians and Greens is available, free of consequence. The former consists of Gary Johnson and James Gray, and the latter of Jill Stein and Cheri Honkala. Johnson, the former Republican governor of New Mexico, is anti-war, anti-taxes, pro-civil liberties, and seriously concerned about an imbalance of power in the hands of the White House. Stein, a Harvard-educated physician and environmental-health advocate from Massachusetts, espouses a panoply of progressive positions that lefties may find lacking in Obama. Protest voters can rest easy that neither is a wacko slouch.
U.S. SenatorIncumbent Sen. Ben Cardin (D) is facing his first re-election, seeking to continue a storied political career that includes lengthy stints in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Maryland House of Delegates. His major-party challenger is Daniel John Bongino (R), a staunchly anti-government former U.S. Secret Service agent who is endorsed by Sarah Palin and has pledged to oppose any tax increases. The Libertarians have Harvard-educated astronomer/astrophysicist and Islam expert Dean Ahmad, whose history with Maryland's Libertarian Party goes back as far as Cardin has been in elected office. Unaffiliated candidate S. Rob Sobhani is an international businessman whose five-point platform prescribes measurable, monetary investments in Maryland's future, and, if elected, he promises not to run again if they aren't met. A Washington Post poll conducted in mid-October has Cardin with 53 percent, to Bongino's 22 percent, Sobhani's 14 percent, and Ahmad's two percent.
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2nd DistrictC.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger (D) is seeking his fifth re-election to the House since first winning in 2002, after having served two terms as Baltimore County Executive. His Republican opponent, state Sen. Nancy Jacobs, currently represents a district spanning Harford and Cecil counties, and has been in the General Assembly since 1994. The Libertarian, Leo Wayne Dymoski, is a Dundalk native who serves as a Maryland Parole Commission hearing officer, but the Army veteran with a master's degree in urban planning also had lengthy stints as a trial attorney and with the Housing Authority of Baltimore City.
3rd DistrictJohn Sarbanes (D), first elected to Congress in 2006, is a son of late U.S. Sen. Paul Sarbanes, who held the seat back in the early 1970s. With his Princeton/Harvard Law education and a few terms under his belt, he'd be hard to beat. Trying to do so is Eric Delano Knowles (R), a Tea Party devotee who ran for Maryland Governor as the Constitution Party candidate in 2010, and Libertarian Paul W. Drgos Jr., a computer programmer from Pasadena who used to be a Republican.
7th DistrictElijah Cummings (D) has had plenty of time to become a local institution since first winning this seat in 1996, in a special election to fill a seat left vacant when Kweisi Mfume became president of the NAACP. That's not stopping Republican Frank C. Mirabile and Libertarian Ronald M. Owens-Bey from trying to beat him, though. Mirabile, a landscape architect from Catonsville, tried before in 2010, and he's running again on an anti-tax, pro-life, get-government-off-our-backs platform. Owens-Bey, a social worker, files for office pretty much every election-including against Cummings two years ago. Though he's run under the Democrat, Republican, and Populist banners in the past, Owens-Bey's been a steady Libertarian now for several election cycles.
Baltimore City Circuit CourtThis year's six sitting judges campaign together, and, as usual, no one's opposing them. They have to run in the next election after their appointments or after serving 16 years on the bench. Electing judges is controversial, since it means they have to raise campaign funds-almost exclusively from lawyers who may appear before them, creating something uncomfortably close to an appearance of a conflict of interest-but the Sitting Judges Committee is ostensibly fashioned to buffer the robe-wearing jurists from the dust and dirt of actual electoral politics. Of this year's crew, five-Kendra Y. Ausby, Jeannie J. Hong, Charles J. Peters, Michael W. Reed, and Yolanda A. Tanner-were appointed by Gov. Martin O'Malley since 2010, while David W. Young was appointed in 1996 by then-Gov. Parris Glendening.
Maryland Court of Special AppealsStuart R. Berger and Shirley M. Watts are also both running unopposed. Both served as Baltimore City Circuit Court judges prior their appointments to the intermediary appellate court since 2011. Berger had been in private practice before his 1998 Circuit Court appointment, working for some of the Baltimore area's blue-chip firms. Watts' Circuit Court appointment came in 2002 and before that she had been a federal administrative law judge for the Social Security Administration, a federal public defender, and a Baltimore City prosecutor.
Maryland Court of AppealsChief judge Robert M. Bell first got the title in 1996, by Glendening's appointment, after having served five years on the state's highest court. Before that, he'd been on the Court of Special Appeals since 1984. There's more before that-Baltimore City Circuit and District courts-but does it really matter? Bottom line, he's been a judge in Maryland of one sort or another for nearly two generations. That he graces the ballot, unopposed, serves mainly as a reminder that he's still the top dog of the state's judiciary.
State Ballot Questions
Questions 1 and 2: Orphan's Court judges qualificationsQuestion 1 requires that judges of the Prince George's County Orphan's Court-which handles probate and guardianship matters-be attorneys and members of the Maryland bar in good standing. Question 2 requires the same of judges of the Baltimore County Orphan's Court. Two years ago, Maryland voters approved this same ballot question for Baltimore City. On the same day, Baltimore City voters elected a non-lawyer, Laudette Ramona Moore Baker, to the three-judge bench of the city's Orphan's Court. To settle the contradictory outcomes at the polls, O'Malley didn't seat Baker and instead appointed a lawyer, Michele Loewenthal. Now Prince George's and Baltimore counties seek to join Baltimore City in adding the qualification. At the very least, requiring that jurists handling rather arcane matters of law be lawyers can do no harm-other than to the likes of Baker, who ended up not getting the taxpayer-funded job she wanted.
BOTTOM LINE: Vote "For" the amendment if you want it these judges to be lawyers or vote "Against" it if you think the proposed qualification is unnecessary.
Question 3: Removing elected officials for criminal convictionsToday, under the Maryland Constitution, when a sitting Maryland politician accused of a crime is found guilty or pleads guilty or no contest, he or she remains in office until sentencing, which may not take place until months later. Qualifying crimes include felonies and misdemeanors related to the official's public duties or moral turpitude that carry possible prison terms. This situation played out twice recently-in the cases of Baltimore City Mayor Sheila Dixon (D), who pleaded guilty to state theft and perjury in 2010, and Prince George's County Councilwoman Leslie Johnson (D), who pleaded guilty to federal obstruction-of-justice charges in 2011, in connection with a probe that resulted in her husband, county executive Jack Johnson, pleading guilty-after his term in office expired-to an extortion conspiracy related to his official duties. Dixon and Leslie Johnson both stayed in office until they were sentenced, rather than when they entered their pleas. Under the proposed amendment, both would have had to leave when they entered their guilty pleas. The idea here is, if they're guilty, the sooner they go, the better.
BOTTOM LINE: Vote "For" the amendment if you believe convicted politicians should leave office immediately or vote "Against" it if you think they should be able to stay in office until they are sentenced.
Question 4: DREAM ActThe proposal that some undocumented immigrants may be granted in-state tuition at Maryland colleges and universities-the DREAM Act, which stands for Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors-has sparked outrage among opponents who believe that it would attract a flood of illegal immigrants to Maryland, resulting in mounting costs, and that it extends a break to those who are in this country illegally. The qualifying requirements that would need to be met are highly restrictive, however, and if it passes, the foregone tuition revenues are estimated at about $3.5 million annually by 2016-a relatively small amount, given the likely outcome of more tax-paying Marylanders with higher educations, higher incomes, and lower likelihoods of committing crimes that would result in prison. Along the way, as the students gather diplomas, they may find available ways to straighten out their immigration status.
As it stands, undocumented immigrants who are Maryland residents do not qualify for in-state tuition, no matter how long they've resided in the Free State. To remove this barrier, the act would establish restrictive requirements, so that only children with Maryland high school diplomas, who come from families that have long-running, tax-paying terms of residence in Maryland would qualify. The checklist for qualifying is long and detailed, assuring that, should the act attract new families of undocumented immigrants to Maryland, they'd only receive this benefit after having been here-working and paying taxes while their kids successfully complete at least three years of in-state high school-for a good while. The potential per-family financial impact is large; at University of Maryland, for instance, out-of-state students currently pay about $27,000, while in-state students pay about $8,900.
Supporters of the DREAM Act in Maryland-and there are many, according to a mid-October Washington Post poll that found 59 percent in favor to 35 percent opposed-extol its potential economic benefits and its fundamental appeal to fairness in society. If it passes, Maryland would be the first state to approve such a ballot measure, though 13 others have passed similar legislation. For years, Congress has been sitting on a proposed federal DREAM Act, which was first introduced in 2001.
BOTTOM LINE: Vote "For" the law if you want in-state tuition to be available for qualified undocumented immigrants or vote "Against" it if you don't.


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Walkers Corporate Services Upgrades Online Client Portal
GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman and WILMINGTON, Del., Sept. 22 /PRNewswire/ — Walkers Corporate Services is pleased to announce a series of enhancements made to its online Client Portal.
In an increasingly global financial environment, the Client Portal has made it possible for global corporations and financial institutions to have information and documents available at their fingertips 24 hours a day from anywhere in the world. Walkers Corporate Services has added new tools and resources that will help users comply with corporate filing requirements as the demand for transparency grows in the U.S. and around the world.
"The enhancements to our Client Portal will ensure that users meet filing deadlines and payment schedules. It will help our clients comply with regulatory obligations with more ease, whilst at the same time providing increased transparency throughout the process," said Anne Dolan, Chartered Secretary with Walkers Corporate Services.
New features include an interactive component that provides clients with a live overview of their corporate filing requirements across all jurisdictions. Clients can also sign up for email alerts that advise of upcoming filing deadlines and events, and notifications as to when documents have been uploaded to the Client Portal. A further enhancement is an international event calendar which highlights public holidays and other important dates across multiple jurisdictions served by Walkers Corporate Services.
"Some of our clients are managing hundreds of companies," Ms. Dolan added. "In today's fast-paced world deals are closing literally in the middle of the night. Having easy, secure access to details and data with a few clicks of a mouse ensures that our clients can meet deadlines and fuel global business deals."
The increased functionality of the Client Portal follows the existing security and permission structure tailored for each client, thereby ensuring that the right people have access to the right statutory information and documents. Other features include an industry news feed, entity management, and immediate access to billing and payment history. For a complete list of benefits and features, please visit the Client Portal section of Walkers' website, www.walkersglobal.com.
In October 2009, Walkers became the first offshore law firm to offer an online Client Portal. Since then, Walkers Corporate Services has continued to lead the market with enhancements and client training around this service. The Client Portal is available for all global entities within Walkers Corporate Services' international network.
About The Walkers Group
The Walkers Group is comprised of leading offshore law firm, Walkers, and management services provider, Walkers Management Services, which provides special purpose vehicle (SPV), fund and corporate services from offices in the British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Delaware, Dubai, Dublin and Hong Kong.
For more information on the Walkers group, visit us on the web at www.walkersglobal.com or contact us by e-mail at email@example.com. To contact Walkers by phone, call our Cayman Islands office at +345-949-0100.
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Philip Wilson Steer
1 portrait of Philip Wilson Steer
© National Portrait Gallery, London
Philip Wilson Steer
by George Charles Beresford
bromide print, June 1922
5 3/4 in. x 3 3/4 in. (147 mm x 96 mm)
Given by Charles Henry Collins Baker, 1955
Photographs Collection
NPG x27332
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- Philip Wilson Steer (1860-1942), Painter. Sitter in 14 portraits, Artist of 3 portraits.
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- George Charles Beresford (1864-1938), Photographer. Artist associated with 386 portraits, Sitter in 2 portraits.


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Updated: Thursday 31 December 2015
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So we are finally fully installed in our little house. Who knew buying and renovating a house could be such work!? The boyf has worked his socks off and inside the house is stunning. We need to work on our green-ness but as we settle down it will get easier to remember the recycling regime, water saving ideas and composting. Here's a sneaky peak inside... Now that the sun is out and the exam classes are gone I am no longer hiding inside by the fire marking of an evening but racing out of school to get home and enjoy my beautiful garden. Unfortunately, spring has sprung and the garden has gone mad! The site of the garden last summer when we first viewed the house was terrifying but the boyf worked hard to clear the end garden (henceforth know as the orchard despite its teeny tiny size) so we can loll about in the evening and drink wine. This is where my greenhouse is (minus 2 panes of broken glass) and my raised veg beds will live, it also homes a huge, beautiful and very old apple tree which after a bit of pruning looks like it will be fruitful. The Orchard is separated from the rest of the garden but an ancient grape vine arch which was so overgrown we though it was dead. Clearing through here has revealed many treasures including a well established Clematis, roses and lilac tree. We have decided to develop the screen that the vine produces by adding an espalier conference pear and a plum- can't wait to get them in the ground! As the garden grows it is kicking up some amazing surprises. The neighbours warned us that a lot of money had been spent only the garden but it's been hard to see where in the last few months- although now it is clear. We keep finding little gems, from hellebores to peonies, roses to clematis. In the last week we have uncovered a magnolia tree (my favourite) 4 gooseberry bushes, 2 loganberries, a lilac tree, a dwarf peach, sweet Cicely, a bank of chives, roses, japanese quince, 3 clematis, raspberries and loads of other little bits and bobs. This garden is amazing! The front garden is becoming a jungle and I am hacking my way down the path in the morning to get to work. I kind of like it though as it's full of forget-me-nots and bees. The boyf spent an arduous afternoon cutting back the wisteria that was covering the front of the house and now there are flowers budding.... Life is rampant in the garden, it's such an exciting time! Now if only we can get rid of the less savoury resident...Rattigan the enormous bloody great rat! Ewww...
Happy New Year one and all! There is so much to be miserable about at this time of year: the rain, the lack of money, the taking down of the twinkly things.. but I bloody love the first few weeks of January. Nothing gets me going like the annual clear out, the new stationary to be filled and the return to crunchy food after a good month of existing on cheese and chocolate. With my new house nearly ready for furnishing (after the boyf's many many hours of toil) my favourite part of the new year, resolutions, take on more importance. So here they are: 1. Be less wasteful 2. Buy second hand or swap where possible 3. Be more organised (I make this every year it NEVER happens- but this year, there's stationary!) I have got off to a pretty good start. The skater boy and I vowed to deck the house out second hand and the kitchen is coming along better than I could have hoped. We bought this unit and another like it from a charity shop for under £200 for both. These will form the basis of our kitchen units and we're reclaiming stuff from skips and my parents kitchen renovation to do the rest. The de-clutter resulted in 3 bin bags for the charity shop and a bag for ebay. The money from flogging the more valuable stuff will go into the allotment fund. Whilst selling on ebay it seemed rude not to peruse the goods on offer and I have nabbed myself 2 brand new dresses for work for under a tenner for bot- one woman's unwanted Chrimbo pressie is another woman's back to work wardrobe! During the clear out I found a tonne of unopened make-up and in the spirit of New Year I offered them for swaps on a beauty forum I am addicted to. So, one unopened dusty foundation bottle has got me 2 stunning vintage necklaces. I am feeling inspired and hopeful for the new year- I just need to start the diet...maybe I'll wait till back to work times next week....hmmmm What are your resolutions?
After years of saving, months of hunting, days of stress and countless sleepless nights, we finally have our very own little bit of green. Our tiny cottage is in the middle of National Trust woodland with streams and ponds and fields and hills and comes with a massive overgrown jungle of a garden. The house has been lived in but unloved by the same couple for the last 30 years and the neighbours have confirmed that they never took so much as a tin of paint inside. Needless to say the house needs a bit of TLC. The grey muddy living room carpet, the brown wallpaper, the dingy, grimy kitchen and the asbestos kitchen floor all need a lot of attention- as does the 14 foot crack which runs the height of the house... (no nails?) The problems are these: our combined salaries (teacher and skateboard shop dude) do not amount to much we want to live our lives with as little impact on the environment as we can The Solution: Our little bit of green is going to be furnished with entirely second hand/ vintage/ antique furniture (including the kitchen which the boyf is building with a selection of old chest of drawers- more on that later) We are going to do all the work ourselves (mainly the boyf- being a skateboard dude totally doesn't take up as much time as inspiring young minds and indoctrinating teenagers towards feminism and away from David Cameron...and marking) We are going to make all our selections based on choosing the products with the lowest environmental impact within our budget (obviously on our budget farrow and ball throughout might put back the fixing of the crack by a few years) We are going to grow as much of our own food as we can (this part of the plan wont come into effect until we have attacked the garden in the spring) We are going to heat our house with a wood burner and try as hard as we can to resist putting the heating on (blankets and an open fire- terribly romantic..right?) Easy right? I'll keep you up to date!
So, the sun has come out? After three month of solid rain and misery I come to you live from my garden where the temperature is currently 32 degrees. I know gardens up and down the land are in disarray. I have practically given up on the allotment. Every seed I plant is washed away, the slugs have eaten everything that made it out of the rain soaked ground and the only thing thriving is thistles. If you could eat thistles I would be completely self sufficient right now. The only things that have given us anything are the rhubarb and the raspberries. Now everything is dying of thirst. I am not talking to the allotment. I have retreated inside. I have never been one for houseplants, not when I've been lucky enough to have a big garden and an allotment- who needs indoor plants? Well three months stuck inside has led me to a new addiction. Every windowsill, shelf or cranny I could claim has now been crammed with plants. I have even bought school plants home for the summer holidays. I have had more success growing and even propagating indoor plants than I have with the veg this summer. These are just some of my growing collection... This is a flaming katie which I reckon is one of the best indoor plants. It's a cactus but as far as I can see it flowers constantly- its awesome! I have revived a few plants from my mother, the notorious plant killer. I repotted, fed and loved this fella but I have no idea what is it! It's doing incredibly well in a pot on a sunny windowsill but I would like to know what it is....any ideas? I also have this little fella, which I revived from another crusty pot...any ideas? The flowers are great! If you've always been an outside gardener, I urge you to have a go at indoor gardening, if only for the fun of collecting pretty pots. One statistic that shocked me is that the air in our houses is often worse than the air in our towns. Plants = oxygen! Look at this guy- I can taste the fresh air!
At last the rain has stopped. That was scary for a while eh? For nearly 4 weeks I woke up fearing I would see the chickens floating past my bedroom window. The rain has had an impact on my seed sowing. It's been too wet and I have been too miserable to sow much. In the short bursts of dry we have had I have done something I rarely do and bought plants- actual proper little plants, not seeds. I have stocked the allotment (for the time being)and nearly nothing I have planted has been mine from seed. The exceptions to this are flowers,I have grown my favourite flowers, sweet peas, from the seeds of the beauties I had last year and some extra packets I bought online during the dingy winter months. I have also had a go as some cosmos and asters and some lupins, we'll see how they go. On the home front things are looking promising. During a particularly miserable Sunday afternoon I commandeered the conservatory (much to my mothers pleasure) and bought a selection of tomatoes to grow in it.I have never seen tomatoes grow so fast or so strong. They are doing marvelously in there. However, now they are nearly finished growing up, and starting to grow fruit they looked a little sad. I resisted the urge to chuck some shop bought fertiliser on them and went nettle picking instead. The neighbours already think I'm mad so me fumbling through nettle patches on a Sunday afternoon is nothing new. Having retrieved a bag full of lovely nettles I chopped them up a la Jamie Oliver and a bunch of basil and have left them to steep in a bucket full of water. Hopefully they'll start to rot and once it warms up a bit the toms can go outside and enjoy the stinky fertiliser and all its goodness. The cut and come again salad is good eating already, I keep promising myself to grow more as it really is one of the most cost effective things to grow. I have also been on a bit of a cutting rampage recently. It started at school where I had my eye on a rogue lemon balm plant for a while- last week the caretakers strimmed it so I had to think fast and dug up some root cuttings (they were transported home in my lunch box- much to my student's amusement!)I've also managed to nab a cutting from a friend's beautiful peppermint. Can't wait for them to grow! Now I have had too much gardening fun- it's time to get back to this pile of marking I've been neglecting... do you think I could buy a little more time with the promise of a nice mint tea?
As my alarm goes off at 6am and I stumble through piles of unmarked exercise books and books I should be reading for the essays I should be writing, I am heartened to see that the sun is starting to rise. And as I make my journey home from school, eyes held open by match sticks, lesson plans swirling through my head I am relieved to know that there is still time to walk the dog and see the chickens before it's too dark. Spring is nearly here.
As I get used to this timetable of teaching and learning and planning and evaluating, I am determined to keep up the hard work of last year in terms of my growing. My visits to the allotment have been few and far between this winter but to keep up my spirits and remind me why it's worth it I planted some Sweet Pea seeds in February. They are now lovely strong little plants which need a sunny day to be potted on and even more sunny days to have beds prepared for them. But we will get there.
Is there anything more restorative after a miserable, dark winter than to see your favourite plant emerging and realising that soon, there will be flowers again. Flowers and fresh food. Roll on spring!
It's been too long, far far too long. Who knew that teaching would take so much time! It's going well but with so much work to do my hobbies are suffering.
Now its dark when I get up and when I get home, I barely see the gorgeous Maude and Mildred during the week. I have taken to waking them up for a cuddle by torchlight but I don't think they appreciate it. I make it up to them at the weekends with plenty of time free ranging about and lots of snacks. Now the leaves are falling, they are in scratching heaven and a bucket load of leave in the run every few days keeps them occupied! Luckily the weather hasn't got too cold for them yet. Don't tell anyone but I've pinched a big box from the boyfs shop to let them sleep in by the fire when the winter really kicks in. Slightly better option that the mother's original idea to astroturf the spare room...questionable.
The allotment is being wound down for the winter. I've managed to find a spare couple of hours here and there to get things done. The compost heaps are heaving, the leaf mould bin beginning all over again. Things are looking tidy. I know it's wonderful when you have a mess of fecundity in the summer but I do like it bare neatness of it in winter a little bit.
The boyf and are making use of his shops waste cardboard (not only in chicken beds) by lasagne layering the newly cleared bed. Laying up peafmould, carboard, compost etc until the beds are heaving and then leave to rot down over the winter. The idea is that by planting starts in spring things are rotted and ready to go! We shall see!
It's nearly time to start thinking about next year's growing. The seed catalogues are out, I have already spent a small fortune on seeds in the end of season garden centre sales! I am going a bit mad for flowers next spring, I sense I will need pretty cut flowers and things to keep myself sane during the long spring/summer term and the job hunting phase. Also, I am looking for some unusual but easy to grow fruit or veg. I don't have a green house but with the success of the mystery goldenberry/ tomatillo-y plants this summer I am still keen to experiment. Any tips!?
Last week I started my PGCE, thats post grad certificate in Education for those wondering. This basically means that someone somewhere decided I am allowed to teach children English. This is most exciting. But a lot of work. With all the PGCE work I have been undertaking I have unfortunately (or fortunately depending on how you look at it) been a little slow on the shopping front. But today in a brief break from essay-ing I hit the highstreet, well the charity shops. The town I live in is in middle class suburban Surrey and you would not believe the stuff that people give to charity shops- it definitely beats the days I spent trawling in Leeds believe me. With a positive mental attitude and an open mind I quickly slipped back into my former charity shop shopping ways.
I came away with a gorgeous brand new polka dot dress (for when I'm a teacher dontcha know) for a mere £6 (as much as I would normally spend on a sandwich in my lunch break) and a brand new pair of M&S leopard print pumps (I'm a little bit obsessed with leopard print...) for a fiver! Amazing. I will definitely be hitting the charity shops again soon- what a fabulous way to save pennies and reduce the amount I consume! Keep your eyes peeled guys!
I hope you are all well my lovelies- I promise to try my best to keep up to date with you all this year, but stand by I think it's going to be a toughie...the chooks already feel neglected!
What with starting uni (again) next week and signing over my life and mental health to the teaching profession- I have decided that now is the time to get all my fruit and veggies in storing mode. I am yet to master the art of chutney ( I think I just don't really like it and I still have jars of the bloody stuff from last years' marrows going ignored at the back of the cupboards) , jam I am very good at (if you ignore the ill fated rose petal jam which ended up going mouldy and was rejected by most of the family at first sniff). I've had a go at drying, I have loaded the cupboards with little jars of herbs from the garden which look very pretty but again will probably be ignored in favour of ketchup (don't blame me!). Freezing is where I really shine. I have commandeered a drawer in my mother's precious freezer and explained how the new system will work, she seems ok with this now but my beautiful courgette patties will probably be moved out in favour of oven chips by my brother some time soon. I've filled the drawer up with raspberries, strawberries, rhubarb, peas, courgettes, a tonne of marrows and whatever else has come back from the lottie to be received with groans of "oh god not again". My family may not share my enthusiasm but when I'm eating lovely organic veg right into the winter they'll be singing a different tune I'm sure!
I was lucky enough to come across some gorgeous crabapple trees outside The Boyfs mum's flat (apparently 1960's council blocks were always planted with fruit tress- result!) Anyway, as I tend to do I got a bit over excited and ended up dragging a few massive carrier bags full of the little fellas home with me- never having tried them before. The helpful Boyf bought home a huge bag of cooking apples from one of his gardening clients as well so the house is a little over run. I have made (and frozen, naturally) the standard apple pie/ crumble filling to be used at a later date. The little crabapples are actually quite sweet so I'm pretty happy with the result- their pink skin turns the whole mix a lovely girly colour too- I am definitely looking forward to a pink pie to cheer my autumn evenings! Do any of you have any recipes that could use up my glut? I mainly like puddings...
I also thought you might like to see my little kitchen helper. Maude and Mildred my chicken children have taken to coming into the the house to demand food and attention now rather than just screeching in the garden. In truely unhygenic and nosey moment, Maude has discovered this is the best place to scrounge....
My mother would be horrified to know this is going on in the house, let being posted on the internet! Obviously I do not cook when she is on the oven mum, it would be VERY unhygenic and well...a bit dangerous for little Maude.
So, making the most of the long weekend, The Boyf and I headed to Kew Gardens for the Start@Kew exhibition, encouraging sustainable and green living. It was a great day out, the sun was shining as we sat in deck chairs on the lawn and watched sustainable fashion shows, a musical about bees and talks from some of London's leading eco lights.
One of the most interesting talks of the day was from a group of people who run an amazing network called Project Dirt which is a community of smaller groups who work together to make London a little bit more green. This brilliant scheme includes an amazing project called Food From the Sky, a community vegetable plot on top of supermarket Budgens in Crouch End. These guys not only grow their own fruit and veg but sell it in the supermarket. I'm hoping to get down there soon and have a proper look around so keep your eyes peeled.
We staggered home with more reusable bags than we could carry, samples of green washing up liquid and fabric softener and a head full of ideas. On the way home The Boyf and I established our own Guerrilla Gardening group, we later gained an extra member in the form of my Old Pa...it's a small group but we're working on it!
Our first hit was a verge outside our house. This is Resident's Association territory- living in a private road is like living next door to the Gestapo...(verges to be trimmed, gutters to be cleaned and swept, cars to be cleaned- you get the picture!) anyway we started by using some of the tonnes of seeds we've been collecting over the last few weeks, everything from blousy hollyhocks to dainty poppies in every colour from black to pastel yellow. I also threw a couple of butterfly wildflower seed mixes in there for good measure. My initial plan to also plant a few veggies in there (I'm always over run with courgette plants, those buggers are just desperate to grow) and turn the verge into an edible snack spot for the kids walking to school (and REALLY annoy the residents association) was shot down by the rest of my group (Old Pa and The Boyf) but I haven't given up on it yet! I am now on the scrounge for spring bulbs and new places to plant. My horizons are broadening beyond my front verge!
Come of the Hollyhocks seeds...
Our first spot...
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On August the 5th I turned 23. This is old. I know. I feel the presents I got just about sum up my life- a pair of vintage diamond earings from The (lovely) Boyf and a compost wormery, the can-o-worms. glam.
As this was also the day I was unchained from my desk and allowed to go on holiday, I got an "IOU" for the actual worms from Wiggly Wigglers.
Naturally, I sent off for the worms as soon as I got back from holiday and the little loves will be winging their way to me soon. Of course, as soon as I get them settled in I will post and show you all my gorgeous new pets! Anyone got any tips for a novice?
Last night, after two weeks away I decided to brave the allotment. Whilst we were in France The Boyf's mum had been looking after the plot, watering and harvesting so we knew nothing would be dead...quite the opposite in fact. Everything from the broccoli to the chard has gone to seed.
Now, I feel the normal reaction to this would be disappointment but the hippy in me was pretty pleased. Who knew broccoli turned into such beautiful flowers? It almost seems a shame to eat it. The bees were absolutely mad for it and that makes me just as happy as having a plate of steamed broccoli...well almost.
Interestingly, for those who are inclined to neglect their veggies, chicory also transforms from a horrible hairy bitter vegetable into a lovely flower...although I won't be wasting space with them again as they're yicky.
My chard, another vegetable I have been particularly uninterested in this year has grown to absolute mammoth proportions, at least 6 foot. Do you think I could enter it into the tallest sun flower competition?
I also found this beauty growing up my runner beans...I think it could be a beetroot or a radish gone wild...pretty though eh?
My wildflower section, which is my favorite part of the plot was absolutely blooming when we got back. Full of bees and bugs and lovely things. I cut lots of little bunches of flowers to take home and fill the house. And the sweet peas are still going!
I have decided next year to focus more on fruits at the allotment as I think it's the most value for money and I get the most pleasure from them, jams, pies, compote....yum yum yum. Alongside the usual raspberries and strawberries I have also been growing goldenberries, which taste like a cross between a tomato and a pineapple apparently- they're the things you sometimes get on the side of your pudding in restaurants, in the Chinese lantern like leaves. Mine have been falling off the plant too early which is no good, but at least the chickens are enjoying them. I have collected and frozen a few but I'm not really sure what to do with them! I have also picked up a goji berry for a couple of pounds in a garden centre sale, I don't know if it will grow but we'll see. Does anyone have any recommendations for interesting fruits which are fun to grow and productive?
Never fear dear readers, I am back. I nearly stayed in Provence but I was dragged cruelly from my pool side lounger when the wine was dried up, the cheese finished and all the fruit and veg eaten.
Eating has been the theme of my fortnight- it's so easy to eat constantly when all the food is so absolutely beautiful. Even the most simple dish of pasta becomes a gastronomic delight when you add freshly made sauce, herbs straight from the garden, locally produced cheese and a carafe or two of wine from the vineyard down the road. I was in food heaven.
One particularly beautiful restaurant, where we sat nestled amongst lavender flowers and surrounded by butterflies and hummingbird moths and later bats sticks in my mind as some of the most beautiful food I have ever eaten. Most small French restaurants don't do so well with the old vegetarian option, the veggie main option on a very limited menu, explained at great length by the owner was- "tomato"- I wasn't expecting great things. How wrong I was. The starter of summer salad was bejewelled with stunning edible flowers, miniature mushrooms and interesting leaves. Even The Boyf, the ultimate salad dodger was impressed. The "tomato" main blew me away as I was presented with a platter of more types of tomato than I could count, in every colour from black to green to yellow, interlaced with a mixture of fresh and smoked mozzarella. I ate so much I had to be carried back to the house.
The town we stayed in had some stunning markets -it was easy to see where the restaurant got their produce from. Tuesday morning is the big one, the whole of the town is taken over by stall after stall of homemade bread and crafts and home grown fruit and veg. For next to no money you could fill bags full and spend the next few days eating nothing but fruit, veg, bread and cheese. Returning to the tomatoes, I was completely baffled. How can one farm produce so many different types of tomato every week when Sainsbos and Waitrose can only deliver watery red tomatoes whose variety extends to small , medium, large? I think we're being diddled! (I am, needless to say, already drawing up plans for a greenhouse where I can gow my own!)
There was also a small, more local market on a Saturday morning. Here old farmers from the small holdings and farms around the town bought their weekly wares to sell. There was everything from cut flowers to olive tree saplings- including one very elderly man selling tiny little bunches of Parsley and nothing else. They won't let you buy anything until you have had a taste so you come away feeling as if you'd eaten dinner. It was absolutely stunning.
I am still in my sunny foody day dream, despite arriving at St Pancras international in the rain last night and being plunged right back into the madness that is London on a Saturday night. To go to work tomorrow seems like a complete travesty! Tomorrow it is back to reality, the post holiday diet must begin and I must venture to the allotment. But for now, I lie back, eat a tomato and dream of Provence.
This weekend the sun has been shining and I had four long sunny days off work...bliss. So I decided to get my creative hat on. The last time I dusted down my creative hat the experience ended in a paddy that the ingredients I wanted for my gruyere and asparagus quiche had not magically found their way into the fridge. I was left holding four eggs and a smashed up quiche tin. Bad times.
Taking it easy I decided to go for one of my famous "allotment" prefixed recipes...allotment soup, allotment jam, essentially anything I can get my hands on mixed together. Now I have a new one to add to my list, Allotment Coleslaw. An assortment of raw allotment veg covered in mayo. No quiche tin involved. Despite almost losing a finger tip in the onion cutting process- this came out lovely. A massive bowl of Coleslaw for lunch and dinner yum. I used one of my amazing red cabbages (which have really taken me by surprise this summer), a red onion, some of my lovely little French market carrot (a little tricky to grate- I really am surprised I came away with 10 fingers after this...) and one of my many many courgettes.
During a particularly productive internet recipe porn session I came across and recipe for Rose Petal Jam. The whimsical, Enid Blyton sounding name of it was enough for me to head out with my secateurs, determined to serve it with lashing and lashings of cream and ginger beer.
I think the essential recipe is to match whatever you have in rose petals with sugar and a squeeze of lemon. I kind of blagged it. But a word of warning- 5oz of rose petals is a lot of roses! I ended up going feral and collecting wherever I went- it took me about 3 days to get enough petals. You have to cut off the white bit at the bottom of the petals and then boil the rest with sugar. I did read somewhere that you should only use white, red or pink petals. I haven't yet got a nice photo of the jam. I think that says quite a lot- it's not very pretty. The texture is a little strange because I used fairly big petals, next time I think I'll cut them up and mix with some fruit. It didn't taste that bad though- just not as good as my lovely raspberry lovely.
With a slightly different creative hat on, The Boyf and I travelled up to Oxfordshire on Sunday morning to build a Princess Fort. Oh yes indeedy. I say we, obviously I was supervising from the sidelines whilst The Boyf and my cousin my lovely baba cousins Tabitha and Scarlett their castle, complete with slide. What talents that boy has!
Tonight I am going blackberry picking- I can't stand the thought of going on holiday and leaving all that lovely fruit lying around to go off by the time I get back. I will pick as much as I can, with the help of the long suffering Boyf and his massive blackberry picking boots and stick (flip flops will not cut it on this mission!) and freeze them, ready to make jam and compot when I get back from France.
I hope you're all out enjoying the sunshine!
I feel as though I have let the side down a bit in the fashion stakes. During lent, I managed to avoid buying anything that didn't have top notch ethical and/or green credentials...this basically meant that I managed to avoid buying anything. This was fine then, I was still in the new chicken love haze and happy to mong about the house in dirty dungarees and old pyjamas covered in feathers and mud. Eco living was easy...
Since then, my ethical conscious has been ignored by the greater need to buy clothes that will allow me to pass for a teacher come September. Admittedly I haven't tried that hard. A quick wiz round a charity shop here, a browse of People Tree there...ultimately I have ended up relying on asos.com and Zara for their wonderful, cheap, fashionable work clothes. At what cost? I feel bad, but the stress and panic of starting out in a new career and wanting to look professional and maintain my fashion credentials have momentarily outweighed my desire to buy green.
I have come to my senses. I vow to start again. Sales do not count as eco shopping. I must buy better. I am going to start doing a bit of research for good value, fashion led brands which have the same focus on people and the environment as I do. I also intend to find some high end charity shops and finally get my head around E-bay.
I will, of course let you know how my hunt goes and what I end up with...if, that is, I can stop myself posting pictures of the chickens...
I guess we shouldn't have complained when there was no rain back in May or whenever those glorious sunny days were... As soon as the words "hose pipe ban" or "drought" get banded about you can almost guarantee the entire summer will be a wash out. And here I am, in July, with my raincoat and wellies at the ready. Forget your new summer shade chickens...
Last Friday, on my lovely, well earned (I might add!) day off- the sun came out!I dust down the sun cream and hit the garden. I was not the only one enjoying the brief warm spell...
...my lovely Mildred was also out enjoying the sun. If you have never watched a chicken sunbathing you are missing out- Mildred is a pretty dedicated sun worshipper. She walks around the garden with her wings out, finding the spot with the perfect sunshine to shade ratio before collapsing onto the grass where she lies cooing. Not even the dog can move her on!
Even lovely Maude, who normally dives straight under the hedge and sets up camp, was out in the sun. She likes plonk herself right on top of my wonderful chamomile- She even picks the flowers and places them carefully on her back. She is such a hippy chicken!
Apart from the glorious fortnight in Provence that awaits me at the start of next month, (11 days of sitting at my desk away...) I am pretty much writing this summer off. I am turning my attention to Autumn/ Winter before it's too late. I may not be ready to buy my annual winter coat and boots but I am ready to buy veggies.
I normally lose interest in planting vegetables at this time of year, as I'm too busy trying to eat what I've grown, so once again lovely readers I turn to you for advice. What should I be planting right now? This weekend? That will bring me a full tummy and a bit of sunshine through Autumn and most importantly winter...
Brussels Sprouts are a given, they are my favourite...but what else? What works for you lovely lot?
Hello lovelies-
I have a problem that would love you to help me with...
Maude the Chicken is laying soft eggs. I don't mind her not being productive, she is after all, my pet and I love her whether she's laying me delicious breakfasts or not (obviously I would prefer the egg ended up in my tum rather than the run floor though!)but I just want to be sure it's not something that I am doing wrong. I don't mind her being useless if she's just going to be one of those awkward types but she looks like she's in so much pain when she's laying a softie...
So here are the clues-
She laid one wonky egg a couple of weeks back, since Sunday she's been laying eggs with paper thin shells which obviously don't hold up and the eggs end up being eaten to smushed about. She laid a hard shelled egg last night, in the run, but it was really rough and the colours were very patchy.
Mildred is laying fine, she doesn't like doing it as it interferes with her "pretending to be a human" activities and reminds her of her poultry status, but she's laying good eggs.
We recently moved the run from grass to bark chippings.
I changed their brand of layers pellets a few weeks ago, they haven't noticed.
My dad has started feeding them bits of bread in an effort to train them to sit on his shoulders, I suspect this is a reaction to his narrowly missing catching an escaped parrot to keep as a pet a few years ago.
She is now laying softies in the evening, out in the run. This is not like her. She loves hanging out in the nest box. She has always been a bit of a funny one for this, when we let them free range she immediately makes herself a little nest under the hedge and stays there cooing.
I know lots of my lovely followers are chook mad too so if you have any ideas as to what's up with my little Maudey and how I can help her I'd be dead dead chuffed and send Maude round in person to thank you with one of her special cuddles.
It feels like I'm always starting these posts with an apology- but I am, once again, sorry for taking so long to post. Work is taking up more and more of my life and I'm dreading going back to university again next year- no weekends! agh!
Anyway- an update from my weekend:
New Chook House:
Maude and Mildred's rampage of the lawn is over. We can no longer sustain their destructive digging tendencies by moving the eglu every day so we have built them a permanent patch. Normally, this would be a precision engineered, long time planned and expertly carried out Boyf job- not this time. The dad and I took a little trip to Wickes and built the whole thing ourselves- we're feeling pretty pleased with ourselves. The chickens weren't too impressed at first but seem to have settled down now. I'm so impressed with my handiwork, if that Ground Force was still about, I'd no doubt be employed to take over from Tommy Walsh...
We're a little worried about Maude chicken who has generally been looking a little down in the dumps and is laying soft eggs. I'm starting her on a regime of calcium supplements and cuddles so hopefully she will improve- watch this space!
I spent a bit of time at the allotment and came home with the usual bounty. We're pretty over run with chard, but I have no idea what to do with it- any tips? I bought a griddle so I can cook and store some courgettes in oil according to a recipe I found ages ago- again any tips welcome here!
I can't get over how many sweet peas we're bringing home! Once a week I totally strip the bushes and I come home with pots full and then a week later the bushes are full again. They really are the most wonderful flowers- I'm going to try and grown perennial ones next year as well as saving the seeds from these fellas.
I've also been taking cuttings from next doors hydrangea- with permission of course. I absolutely love these plants and the cutting a took a couple of years back is growing well in the garden.
Of course, alongside all this hard work and harvesting there was a bit of time for some rest and relaxation. Although not for my old dad...
...every time he sits down, his little friends appear waiting impatiently for snacks!
I hope you all had a lovely weekend too! Monday comes too soon eh?
Last night whilst out walking Alf the dog with the Boyf we came across a hedgerow full of raspberries. This particular spot is always overflowing with blackberries in late summer but I've never seen raspberries growing wild like this before. The hedgerow lines an allotment site so I assume that the bushes have escaped from someone's fruit cage and grown like mad!
The school children had got there before us and munched their way through the easy to reach berries- no worries, I sent the boyf and the dog deep into the nettles in search of bounty.
We came away with a fair few, topped up with some of the strawberries from the garden we had enough for a jar of yummy jam!
I'm very pleased with my free hedgerow bounty! It was yummy on my toast this morning!


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"Singer Chubby Checker promotes a new 'twist' in the law which could provide extra help to thousands of senior and disabled Americans who need assistance paying their prescription drug costs at B.B. Kings on January 8, 2010 in New York City."
Without knowing what this law is, the fact that whoever's promoting the law has enlisted Chubby Checker to do a legal "twist" for seniors strikes me as immediately suspicious. Suspicious as in, the result of a conversation that began with "There's no way the seniors will vote for this law — but what will they vote for?" and ended with "I got it – Chubby Checker!" and had no sentences in between and the same guy was speaking both times.
It could be a perfectly fine law, and maybe it'll actually help seniors; I don't have the seconds to waste to read into that. I'm just glad that on the eve of the Simpsons' 20th anniversary, someone's chosen to use Chubby Checker for their own version of the senior-pleasing Matlock Expressway.


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The pair are divided over where future welfare cuts should be made.
The Chancellor's personal approval ratings move in line with the government's, and a strong year of growth has reversed his dire ratings.
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An ambitious growth plan could be implemented with no public borrowing at all.
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The share of post-tax income received by the top 1 per cent has risen, while falling for the bottom 90 per cent.
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New and Published Books
11-20 of 67 results in Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression
Philosophical Perspectives
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Personal Autonomy and Social Oppression addresses the impact of social conditions, especially subordinating conditions, on personal autonomy. The essays in this volume are concerned with the philosophical concept of autonomy or self-governance and with the impact on relational autonomy of the...
Published December 6th 2014 by Routledge
Believing Against the Evidence
Agency and the Ethics of Belief
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
The question of whether it is ever permissible to believe on insufficient evidence has once again become a live question. Greater attention is now being paid to practical dimensions of belief, namely issues related to epistemic virtue, doxastic responsibility, and voluntarism. In this book,...
Published November 17th 2014 by Routledge
Authenticity as an Ethical Ideal
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Authenticity has become a widespread ethical ideal that represents a way of dealing with normative gaps in contemporary life. This ideal suggests that one should be true to oneself and lead a life expressive of what one takes oneself to be. However, many contemporary thinkers have pointed out that...
Published November 10th 2014 by Routledge
Mind, Language and Subjectivity
Minimal Content and the Theory of Thought
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
In this monograph Nicholas Georgalis further develops his important work on minimal content, recasting and providing novel solutions to several of the fundamental problems faced by philosophers of language. His theory defends and explicates the importance of 'thought-tokens' and minimal content and...
Published October 23rd 2014 by Routledge
Deleuze and Pragmatism
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
This collection brings together the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and the rich tradition of American pragmatist thought, taking seriously the commitment to pluralism at the heart of both. Contributors explore in novel ways Deleuze's explicit references to pragmatism, and examine the philosophical...
Published September 22nd 2014 by Routledge
Metaphysics and the Representational Fallacy
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
This book is an investigation into metaphysics: its aims, scope, methodology and practice. Dyke argues that metaphysics should take itself to be concerned with investigating the fundamental nature of reality, and suggests that the ontological significance of language has been grossly exaggerated in...
Published August 12th 2014 by Routledge
Kant and Education
Interpretations and Commentary
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy, political philosophy, and philosophy of judgement have been and continue to be widely discussed among many scholars. The impact of his thinking is beyond doubt and his ideas continue to inspire and encourage an on-going dialogue among many people in our world today...
Published July 3rd 2014 by Routledge
The Pittsburgh School of Philosophy
Sellars, McDowell, Brandom
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
In this volume, Maher contextualizes the work of a group of contemporary analytic philosophers—The Pittsburgh School—whose work is characterized by an interest in the history of philosophy and a commitment to normative functionalism, or the insight that to identify something as a manifestation of...
Published July 3rd 2014 by Routledge
Democracy in Contemporary Confucian Philosophy
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
This book examines democracy in recent Chinese-language philosophical work. It focuses on Confucian-inspired political thought in the Chinese intellectual world from after the communist revolution in China until today. The volume analyzes six significant contemporary Confucian philosophers in China...
Published June 19th 2014 by Routledge
Evidentialism and Epistemic Justification
Series: Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
Evidentialism is a popular theory of epistemic justification, yet, as early proponents of the theory Earl Conee and Richard Feldman admit, there are many elements that must be developed before Evidentialism can provide a full account of epistemic justification, or well-founded belief. It is the aim...
Published May 8th 2014 by Routledge
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Music and Aesthetic Reality: Formalism and the Limits of Description
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Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality: From Frankfurt and MacIntyre to Kierkegaard
To Be Published June 29th 2015
Civic Virtue and the Sovereignty of Evil
To Be Published June 29th 2015
Knowledge, Virtue, and Action: Putting Epistemic Virtues to Work
To Be Published June 29th 2015
Contrastivism in Philosophy
To Be Published July 7th 2015
Philosophy in Schools: An Introduction for Philosophers and Teachers
To Be Published August 15th 2015
Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century
To Be Published September 10th 2015
Science and the Self: Animals, Evolution, and Ethics: Essays in Honour of Mary Midgley
To Be Published September 17th 2015
Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political, and Performative Strategies
To Be Published September 18th 2015
Aspect Perception after Wittgenstein: Seeing-As and Novelty
To Be Published October 1st 2015