plant update.

there is no rhyme or reason to my gardening skills. while one day a plant can look green and leafy:


the next, it can look like it has lost all hope. so you decide to put it outside, maybe it needs some fresh air, but no...it just continues to curl up.



i just don't know what i'm doing. here is another example. these tomato plants are kept indoors. they are completely green and looking good, but don't seem to suck in the water that quickly. that's okay, i won't water them as much.





these are kept outside. they dry out quicker, so i water them more, but their leaves are starting to brown and they just don't look as perky as the ones inside. what am i doing so differently? how can i keep these guys alive?



these two (marigolds grown from seed! and zucchini plants grown from seed) are...at the moment...doing really, really well. give me a week or a month and i'll kill them, right? why? i just don't get it.

watch out world

i now knit mittens. and if you're very lucky, you'll get a pair of your own someday. i take color requests.



i also kill plants. sadly, it's true. i can't bring myself to take a picture of the poor plant while it's dying. i like to remember it all green and leafy.

i'm giving the planting another go. this time, with tomato plants. we have 8 tomato plants scattered about. i expect at least one of them to fruit. i've grown them from little seeds and let me tell you, you'll know when i get a tomato. i'll be so happy i'll probably tell strangers in the street that i've grown a tomato.

here's a picture of my good husband doing housework. he may not clean the floors or the bathroom, but he does laundry like nobody's business.

it was the bike

what a lovely weekend! the weather today was just so beautiful. no complaints.

it was so lovely that we went cycling on saturday AND sunday. we got pretty chilly on saturday, but it was still pretty decent and only started to sprinkle on the way home. we headed out to regent's park and had a sit and read there and then just headed back. sunday we were a bit more adventurous and rode along the canal path and then into the park. i wonder what it would be like to live on a houseboat.

as it turns out, this road bike toby's put together for me is a lot more comfortable than the beautiful dutch bike. it doesn't have the style, but i am able to stand up on it when i cycle up a hill, which helps a lot. i was barely crabby! no, seriously, you can ask toby, i barely complained at all and i came home and was STILL in a pleasant mood.

it's getting there

my cardigan is looking like a cardigan! i have to sew on buttons and sew on the sleeves and make sure the pockets are in place, but other than that, it's a real cardigan!!



i'm really pleased, but now that i see what it's become, i'm thinking about the likeliness of me wearing it. pretty sure i'll be too embarassed to wear it to work. i mean, it looks like i knit the thing and that can't be good. people will ask if i knit it, i'll say yes, and they will (very kindly, though totally unconvincely) say how lovely it is. i don't know if i'll be able to take it, so i reckon it'll be a round the house sort of cardi. at least i'll stop wearing out my other cardigans.

in other news, we went to regent's park today and walked around the camden green fair and bikefest. went last year too. it's such a hippy fest. i say that in the nicest way, i promise. we ate freshly made donuts covered in sugar, listened to music, watched toby gaze at other people's bikes AND bought some herbs! my growing of herbs from seeds is going very slowly, so i thought if i had some plants it might go a bit faster. i have an apple mint plant, a coriander plant and some golden lemon thyme. i'll see how long it takes me to kill them. any advice though so i don't would be appreciated.

keep green. as i know you all are.