The War Between the Land and the Sea

I tried watching the BBC's new "The War Between the Land and the Sea", which was being put into the Saturday-evening slot. Unfortunately I really struggled to understand what was going on.

( If I am going to struggle, I should prefer it to be with Russian )

Sorry, Russell T. Davies, but you had one chance to fix my interest, and you didn't make it. (Which, by an ironic coincidence, was more or less what Boyarsky was saying about his own experience of recent film releases in that school-interview :-p)

Plant progress

I finally got round to cutting back the dead sticks on the mint and oregano (which I really ought to bring myself to get rid of, as it is still virtually flavourless).
I ( repotted the sorrel )

but the plant does seem to have survived.

Which is more than I can say for the new pot of spring onions, which are now all dead. The little tuft of chives is still alive, but not exactly thriving -- we shall see if it makes it through the winter.
I still have marigolds (second generation) and pot-marigolds flowering, and of course the pink Linaria. Both the garlics are happy.

( Front light )

( Drying out )

I got round to cutting my hair this morning, and have ended up with the sort of unfortunate glimpse-of-scalp patch round the back that is always the hazard of cutting by touch aided only by a three-inch pocket mirror.( Read more... )