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Apparently people with a healthy mental outlook on life live longer. I take this to mean people who see life as half full, rather than half empty, people who relax easily, laugh a lot, worry little. On the face of it nothing gets to me, I slide through life'
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In true English winter style, we've gone from 10C and 30mph winds to 1C and completely still. The barometer graph for the last two weeks looks like seafront fairy lights, dipping up and down every 48 hours. A senior member of staff has resigned, my intestines hurt, it&
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Peter Singer's book asks 'How are we to live?', meaning, 'what constitutes a life lived well today?'. His answers lay in sustainability, environmental responsibility and active wealth redistribution. For Singer, giving to charity is not a 'good' thing, but just the right
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Got my membership pack through from HDRA (www.hdra.org.uk). Ordered seeds and organic pest control stuff from Chase organics. Plan for this weekend is to disinfect and smoke out the polytunnel. Ordering seeds marks the beginning of the new growing year. A turning point
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Hamamelis (Witch Hazel) in flower Jan 05
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I've got two wonderful winter trees that I'd like to propogate. I don't know how, so I'm planning to experiment and see what works. I do know that neither need grafting, so in theory cuttings or seeds should work. Both trees are
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8 Jan 2004 weather graph. I like the symmetry of the barometer trace. Gives a much better 'picture' of a depression than all those isobars I think. The red trace is maximum wind speed in mph, the blue is average windspeed. The anomometer is only 10ft off the
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The north west living up to it's inclement reputation with lashing rain and high winds. Not enough to do any damage, but enough to rattle the house and wake me up. What with work and the weather, I gave gardening a miss and went to a Brahms concert
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Nice tree, shame about the polytunnel
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Back to work today. Dark before and after so gardening is off until the weekend. New fence looks nice though - good paint job! I need a free baby rowan tree (explanations later). Have to get out and find a self-seeded one, or find some berries and try to grow
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It's been dry all day so I painted the new fence green. Plan is to plant mainly white flowering climbers against it. So far I've picked up Clematis armandii and Clematis 'Early sensation'. Both are evergreen so that's a start. In flower
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Picture: A bronze phormium weighed down with snow. The yellow dots in the background are berries from Sorbus 'Joseph Rock'. Boxing Day 2004.