Lurking in the Lair
05/05/2010 09:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
izmeinaIzzie's been a lazy serpent again. Not much slinking in Cyberia. Lots of snoozing instead. The afternoons have been rather more productive though. It's been glorious weather since the start of the month. Cold, crisp and crunchy in the morning and warm and sunny during the day. The light at this time of year is so delicate especially at dawn and twilight.
So the afternoons after work consist of coffee crawls using the two hours on the bus ticket back to the Lair followed by sitting in the garden and planting various things such as coriander and chia seeds and garlic
With a bit of luck, this will be the year where Izzie gets lots of garlic that not only sprouts and grows all pretty and green but actually sets a bunch of bulbs too
Buying local garlic has become a decadent luxury and Izzie simply refuses to eat the Chinese rubbish swamping the supermarkets
Tomorrow's grand plan involves visiting a native plants nursery in Fremantle and getting lots of banksias, grevilleas and the ever reliable acacias (wattles)
There's a very small window of planting time here as Izzie has learned from painful experience. If you don't get them in during April to the end of June, most trees and shrubs will be sizzled dead wood once the scorching summer arrives.
This time last year, the grand plans included rainwater tanks and ceiling insulation. Thanks to the federal government rebate, the attempts at getting insulation turned out to be a big fail. All the reputable companies were cherry picking and the Lair did not fit their definition of low hanging government guaranteed fruit. Now all the grants are gone, they'll be falling over themselves to get business.
This sort of weather - especially the gorgeous light has got the Izzie fingers all itchy. Got two weeks holidays coming up at the end of the month and cannot afford to waste them like those back in March. Got to make the most of the May muses while they are still lurking
Got all nostalgic reading about the latest play with Ian McKellan. Will most definitely not be queuing up to see it. Seen "Waiting for Godot" once in Dublin and it was the most boring pretentious bit of batshit ever. Even Jeffrey Archer plays were not that bad
But there's still fond memories of not just the brilliant Richard 3 movie but seeing him live in the play itself. That was way way back in 1990 in Hamburg thanks to a tip off from BBC world service
Long long before the gorgeous Gandalf days.
It was so good that greedy Izzie decided to see their King Lear as well which turned out to be very long and rather boring. Would have preferred McBeth.
Used to be such a culture vulture. You can never see too many plays especially if you can get tickets at half price. But back in 2000, the airhead yuppies took over the local arts festival and the days of half price tickets ended. Or rather - there's so many strings attached to them now that it is not worth the effort.
Should be slinking off soon. There's lots of playing with tarot cards to do - practising for November's Nanowrimo. Will be needing oodles of ideas and inspiration for plots and things and it's good to have a big fat larder full of useful ideas to snatch
So the afternoons after work consist of coffee crawls using the two hours on the bus ticket back to the Lair followed by sitting in the garden and planting various things such as coriander and chia seeds and garlic
With a bit of luck, this will be the year where Izzie gets lots of garlic that not only sprouts and grows all pretty and green but actually sets a bunch of bulbs too
Buying local garlic has become a decadent luxury and Izzie simply refuses to eat the Chinese rubbish swamping the supermarkets
Tomorrow's grand plan involves visiting a native plants nursery in Fremantle and getting lots of banksias, grevilleas and the ever reliable acacias (wattles)
There's a very small window of planting time here as Izzie has learned from painful experience. If you don't get them in during April to the end of June, most trees and shrubs will be sizzled dead wood once the scorching summer arrives.
This time last year, the grand plans included rainwater tanks and ceiling insulation. Thanks to the federal government rebate, the attempts at getting insulation turned out to be a big fail. All the reputable companies were cherry picking and the Lair did not fit their definition of low hanging government guaranteed fruit. Now all the grants are gone, they'll be falling over themselves to get business.
This sort of weather - especially the gorgeous light has got the Izzie fingers all itchy. Got two weeks holidays coming up at the end of the month and cannot afford to waste them like those back in March. Got to make the most of the May muses while they are still lurking
Got all nostalgic reading about the latest play with Ian McKellan. Will most definitely not be queuing up to see it. Seen "Waiting for Godot" once in Dublin and it was the most boring pretentious bit of batshit ever. Even Jeffrey Archer plays were not that bad
But there's still fond memories of not just the brilliant Richard 3 movie but seeing him live in the play itself. That was way way back in 1990 in Hamburg thanks to a tip off from BBC world service
Long long before the gorgeous Gandalf days.
It was so good that greedy Izzie decided to see their King Lear as well which turned out to be very long and rather boring. Would have preferred McBeth.
Used to be such a culture vulture. You can never see too many plays especially if you can get tickets at half price. But back in 2000, the airhead yuppies took over the local arts festival and the days of half price tickets ended. Or rather - there's so many strings attached to them now that it is not worth the effort.
Should be slinking off soon. There's lots of playing with tarot cards to do - practising for November's Nanowrimo. Will be needing oodles of ideas and inspiration for plots and things and it's good to have a big fat larder full of useful ideas to snatch
