It’s a midsummer nights dream. We dare not mention that we want change because we love the sun. The lack of rain is great for weeding. May is a good month to weed because most plants have not yet seeded. June isn’t bad either and many plants were delayed this year. It’s certainly been a …
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Category:Home and Garden
OK, I’m a nerd.
While doing some background reading on transcoding I came across this page titled Computers but giving a pretty accurate description of a so called non-hardcore nerd. It is very familiar. So I must confess to being one. This is the paragraph that clinched it: … we non-hardcore nerds do have something very important in common …
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Farewell Shahbaz.
Shahbaz died in a car accident yesterday. He is a wonderful person whose legacy lives on in the spirit of his family and all the friends that he touched with his intelligent, balanced, honest approach to life. I miss him. It is difficult to face death from life. Grief is a part of that process. …
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BT Notes – Spring!
Nearly every day reflections about things to say in this newsletter occur to me. But I find myself busy and so procrastinate another day. As the days grow longer important changes take place in home and garden – the heating bill goes down, the time children spend outside goes up. A few days ago we …
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BT Notes – good times …
Since our last newsletter we have had some good times. There was the visit of Ed and Mary-Lou from Canada which we enjoyed so much. It was wonderful to share a few weeks with them and we are so grateful for their time here. They pitched in with everything, as usual, and gave us a …
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DNA of potato blight reveals fearsome mold!
Scientists have decoded the DNA secrets of the notorious pathogen phytophthora infestans, or “potato blight”, which still costs the industry more than € 3 billion a year due to crop failures. When comparing P. infestans with similar organisms in the same genus, stretches of the genome stood out as being highly variable, unusually large and …
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BT notes – What a summer!
What a summer! It’s passed so quickly it almost seems as if it hasn’t yet happened. But in fact so much was going on, time just flew by. Having the children at home all the time changes the schedule. Having the whole family at home is lovely though it can pose some scheduling challenges. They …
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Garden tips: the trailer
Here’s an experimental podcast. A brief reflection on the usefulness of the trailer on the smallholding. trailer comments mp3, 422kb, 53 seconds.
BT Notes – solstice, fathers’ day, community games.
Solstice, father’s day and community games. Whew! The great thing about the summer solstice (4.20am this morning) is that it marks the longest day of the year. Sunrise is 4.57 and sunset 21.57, with an extra 60 to 90 minutes of light at dawn and dusk as light spills over the horizon, daylight lasts for …
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The prophecy is coming true!
They said that pigs would fly before a black man became president, and then after Barack Obama had been in office for 100 days, swine flu. Sorry! Just grabbing at straws now … 🙂