Miscellany, with flower pics
Feb. 28th, 2009 04:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urocyonThe past couple of days have been pretty good. I was feeling enough better yesterday that I hiked down to the town centre to do some shopping, which hadn't happened in a couple of weeks. I wasn't even dizzy enough to need the stick until almost time to head home (by bus). It's only a little over a mile, but that's a good start. This is an encouraging sign that maybe all the B vitamins are doing some good!
Trying to find some replacement bed reading lamp bulbs at QD (we'll probably just have to go to IKEA to get more Edison screw of the right size), I got distracted by another Phaelaenopsis orchid and a cute little pink azalea. :) Given that the huge sack of potting soil we picked up at B&Q last year is acidic enough that I'm going to have to add some gypsum to the chard tub, one of the spare pots full of it ought to suit the azalea. Believe it or not, I did resist bringing home some other plants.
Then I hit Sainsbury's, and didn't get unmanageably tired and overloaded until I'd grabbed just about everything we needed. Including ice cream ingredients, since I'd gotten to the post office to pick up the ice cream maker earlier in the afternoon. *g* After I finish here, I'm going to start experimenting with some sugar-free Mexican chocolate stuff. It'll take the custard a while to cool down sufficiently, so we can have it tonight.
Today I've mostly been lazing around, and doing some laundry. I did manage to turn out some edible corny pasta in the microwave for lunch (yay!), so am planning to cook some linguine-like brown rice noodles to go with the crockpot peri peri chicken that went in earlier. Some veggies thrown in the pot with the chickeny peri peri sauce for a while ought to work well mixed with the pasta. No, we still don't have the new stove installed. Meh.
Another reason I've been wanting to spend more time in the kitchen recently: the potted hyacinth bulbs on the windowsill. Mmmm. Thus far, I've mostly avoided forced bulbs, ephemeral as they are, but I'm glad I picked up some pots at Lidl for about 40p each. They can go outside when they're finished blooming, and they certainly have brightened things up.
Ah yes, and I got a nice surprise yesterday: Tim sent me a CD. That was thoughtful enough that it choked me up. I still need to thank him. Getting things straightened out with family is a good thing. Of course, it can also mean that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vatine is subjected to more Ramones than he'd like. *g* Leave Home was a sound choice, since most of my CDs (200+) got burned up in the house, and not many have gotten replaced so far. That was one of the ones I did want to replace, largely for sentimental reasons. :)
Here's the hyacinth. I wasn't expecting the drooping flowerheads--haven't grown hyacinths before--but the placement turned out to be a good one! Just try to ignore the '70s pseudo-Mediterranean wall tile; that's what I do.
Some crocus and grape hyacinths, also from Lidl, lodging on the dishwasher:
And the new orchid, with another bloom stem in the works:
Our first mini daffodils to bloom outside:
The other big hairy leaves in that pot are green alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens), which seeded itself all over the place, from one plant I left growing in a patio crack. They're going after the bulbs are done blooming, fairly pretty blue flowers or no!
The pot with cypress and primroses I rescued from Tesco is doing well:
I tried to get some shots of the fishies while I was out there, but they didn't co-operate at all. After not getting much attention over the winter, Cushaw and Chickenback aren't sure that looming landmonkeys are a good thing.
Trying to find some replacement bed reading lamp bulbs at QD (we'll probably just have to go to IKEA to get more Edison screw of the right size), I got distracted by another Phaelaenopsis orchid and a cute little pink azalea. :) Given that the huge sack of potting soil we picked up at B&Q last year is acidic enough that I'm going to have to add some gypsum to the chard tub, one of the spare pots full of it ought to suit the azalea. Believe it or not, I did resist bringing home some other plants.
Then I hit Sainsbury's, and didn't get unmanageably tired and overloaded until I'd grabbed just about everything we needed. Including ice cream ingredients, since I'd gotten to the post office to pick up the ice cream maker earlier in the afternoon. *g* After I finish here, I'm going to start experimenting with some sugar-free Mexican chocolate stuff. It'll take the custard a while to cool down sufficiently, so we can have it tonight.
Today I've mostly been lazing around, and doing some laundry. I did manage to turn out some edible corny pasta in the microwave for lunch (yay!), so am planning to cook some linguine-like brown rice noodles to go with the crockpot peri peri chicken that went in earlier. Some veggies thrown in the pot with the chickeny peri peri sauce for a while ought to work well mixed with the pasta. No, we still don't have the new stove installed. Meh.
Another reason I've been wanting to spend more time in the kitchen recently: the potted hyacinth bulbs on the windowsill. Mmmm. Thus far, I've mostly avoided forced bulbs, ephemeral as they are, but I'm glad I picked up some pots at Lidl for about 40p each. They can go outside when they're finished blooming, and they certainly have brightened things up.
Ah yes, and I got a nice surprise yesterday: Tim sent me a CD. That was thoughtful enough that it choked me up. I still need to thank him. Getting things straightened out with family is a good thing. Of course, it can also mean that
vatine is subjected to more Ramones than he'd like. *g* Leave Home was a sound choice, since most of my CDs (200+) got burned up in the house, and not many have gotten replaced so far. That was one of the ones I did want to replace, largely for sentimental reasons. :)Here's the hyacinth. I wasn't expecting the drooping flowerheads--haven't grown hyacinths before--but the placement turned out to be a good one! Just try to ignore the '70s pseudo-Mediterranean wall tile; that's what I do.
Some crocus and grape hyacinths, also from Lidl, lodging on the dishwasher:
And the new orchid, with another bloom stem in the works:
Our first mini daffodils to bloom outside:
The other big hairy leaves in that pot are green alkanet (Pentaglottis sempervirens), which seeded itself all over the place, from one plant I left growing in a patio crack. They're going after the bulbs are done blooming, fairly pretty blue flowers or no!
The pot with cypress and primroses I rescued from Tesco is doing well:
I tried to get some shots of the fishies while I was out there, but they didn't co-operate at all. After not getting much attention over the winter, Cushaw and Chickenback aren't sure that looming landmonkeys are a good thing.
