Made an abortive (due to Jewsons closing at lunchtime on a Saturday) attempt to make the vegetable garden today. As our garden is on a bit of a slope, the idea was to flatten out a piece about 2 metres by three and a half and hold the soil back with decking planks. We'll have to do it next week and get the timber from Jewsons in the week. I'm looking forward to having the vegetable plot, nowhere near as big as the allotment I used to have (and I have my name down with the council for another), but probably about as much as I can manage at the moment. (The allotment waiting list is so long you just put your name down on the off chance that when one finallly turns up your circumstances mean you can work it.) Full time work plus full time husband and mother tending (I'm sure kids would be easier) mean I have very little time. However, hopefully I will end up growing peas (adore them raw straight off the plant), shallots (husband likes to pickle them), tomatoes and courgettes (use them by the megatonne) parsnips (easy, keep for ages in the soil), beetroot (yuk! but husband likes it) beans and herbs. Have got seeds for broad beans, useful because you can plant them in November and they produce fresh veg in about March when nothing else is up and your running out of the winter stuff. Thought I was going to have to get cloches for them and them found a sort that can be planted outside in November as seeds and don't need cloches - might get some anyway because always useful for early beans, and now we've moved to a house with a garden we have a shed and can store all that stuff.
Anyway due to the abortive nature of today's vegetable plot building I ended up taking Mum into town to Marks and Sparks for a new skirt and trouser suit. Tried out the new Shopmobility here, good drop off outside and I can put the car in the carpark for free as shopmob validate your ticket. Anyhow, stopped for the usual cuppa in the Milkmaid near the Cathedral and met a couple who live in our road. the guy commented on the clayey nature of the soil, it is, and it stains too, rusty red stains on your clothes, never encountered soil that does that before - even in this bit of Devon where it's all brick red.
The cornet playing is coming along both better and slower than I hoped - my brain seems to have grasped, in an unconscious way, which harmonic each note is made on (so A to E which is the same fingering, different harmonic is done by the lip) but staying on control of producing the notes in tune without splitting for more than half a tune before I get tired is taking longer than I hoped. Husband seems to have decided that playing a footie matches this year is out. (Sorry I've taken a real leaf out of Belle Du Jour's book by referring to him as 'Husband' - d'you think she's for real?, I think shes a writer - after all I'm not bad at putting thoughts on paper but she's in a different league when it comes to enjoyable writing.)
What I intended to post up today was my idea for Flat Fashion. It's not an idea that I have time to take forward myself and I've gone through phases of thinking about writing out the idea and selling it to a fashion house (probably not a good enough idea) selling it on Ebay to a fashon student desperate for a project (that might work) or just putting it on here and letting anyone who wants to run with it. As I've said before, the net is a big free for all, so lets throw out ideas into the fertile seas out there and see what evolves. So will have to work on Flat Fashion in the next few days - tell all your fashion student mates.
