Garden and Typewriting

[bugshaw]

Have just spent an hour in the garden: mowed the lawn then spiked it over with a fork. The soil is fairly shallow, particularly in a band across the middle where it only seems to be 3" deep. This, perhaps not coincidentally, is where the grass is sparsest and brownest. I hope the spiking helps.

Buried the hamster (it's okay, he was dead). Unwrapped him from the towel he came home from the vet's in, and she had arranged him all peacefully as if he'd just gone for a little sleep. Made a nice little change from the usual croaked-rodent faces we have come home to in the past. Goodbye Brownie. I was very attached to him. (Especially after all those hours he spent in my cleavage - makes for a good bit of bonding.)

Sprinkled some additional soil over the thin bit of lawn, then raked it over with the grass clippings. Was about to water, but then the skies clouded over and it looked like the rain might do the job for me. Sadly, the sun came out again. Must get a rain butt.

In other news, I have been having the most peculiar experiences with the Dvorak keyboard.

Comments

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

Water butts rawk! Got three huge ones cheap when the local garden centre was having a sale, and G's just properly plumbed in the first one. I've got enough rain water to last for a few weeks now :-)

I remember the builders rubble which is under your garden. Ideally, I think you need to take up the turf, dig down with a large Tonka toy, and then dump tons of composted green waste mixed with a little bit of brick dust, before rolling back the turf...

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Access to the garden is through doorways (house or garage) - I'd imagine the equipment wouldn't fit through? :-(

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

Water butts rawk!

Water butts do indeed kick galactic ass. (Ours is located in the front garden because if placed in the side passage it would block same altogether.)

[rhubarbfool.livejournal.com]

There was a leaflet round at some point (a year or two ago I think) about a special half - price water butts and composters via the council it may be still going but I'm not sure where to point you too.
I also noticed that there were a couple of hamsters in among the cats in the Cambridge Weekly News pets looking for homes section.

[aeglefinus.livejournal.com]

"I also noticed that there were a couple of hamsters in among the cats in the Cambridge Weekly News pets looking for homes section."

Hamsters living dangerously there.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

[Runs downstairs and pounces on paper] Gosh yes! That's where Brownie came from originally. Dunno about Pip though, it says he's a hamster but with that photo resolution it could be anything...

[marypcb.livejournal.com]

they didn't just put soil over a path did they?

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

No; they put soil over the layer of rubble that used to be the camera component factory that stood here. Much the same effect, really.

MC