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[cybermule]

I'm having a great weekend :)

Yesterday I went to Brean Down. I've never been there before, but I got some good photos.

Finally watched the Shawshank Redemption. Someone lent it to me, and I (a) didn't fancy it, and (b) suspected that I may have already watched and forgotten it :P But I guess it was OK.

Some of my Thai Basil seeds have come through, and the Vegetable Spaghetti is showing signs of root activity. The False Acacia has shoots on, and my rocket seem to be growing well too. Next time it looks like it might rain heavily, I'm going to chuck some fertiliser down. I also got some edging tiles to make a border between my fence and my lawn. A narrow one, for bean pyramids ans sunflowers. One day, I'll add shrubs at the back of the lawn, and a neat mini-hedge at the front, and another border on the right, to try and make it look longer and thinner.

Eh. I'm off to London for a few days. Bah... Grr... I've located the nearest M&S to my hotel, plus the local pool and the opening times for the London Eye. Fingers crossed that I don't hate it too much...

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[unsane1.livejournal.com]

Vegetable Spaghetti is showing signs of root activity.


Keep us posted on your bizarre genetic experiments...


The False Acacia has shoots on, and my rocket seem to be growing well too


That sounds so... sci-fi.

[quercus.livejournal.com]

Vegetable Spaghetti is showing signs of root activity.

I should hope so. In the vintage spaghetti year of 1957, the Swiss spaghetti crop came into fruit only about a week from now. There was a famous BBC TV programme showing the trees being harvested.



I love Brean Down - interesting gun emplacements and it's a great beach for kite flying too.

Did you see the rocket launching track ? Tiny little rails that point off across the Bristol Channel. During WW2 a super-secret sea-skimming missile was tested here. The missile didn't have any undercarriage and was launched by getting it up to speed on a little railway trolley running out from the headland.

The boffins made ready to fire it up, but things didn't quite go to plan. Rather than separating neatly from the trolley and winging its way off across the water, it remained fastened to the trolley and shot clean through the buffers at the end of the line, dragging the whole lot off into the channel (where it still remains).

[aras-55555.livejournal.com]

I remember seeing 'The Shawshank Redemption' and I didn't really think it was that great either. Not quite sure why other people like it so much :)

M&S -> Marks & Spencer?

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

*grins* It's my biomechanical garden - didn't I tell you about it? The vegetable spaghetti is actually serious, although I'm doubting it until I see evidence. It's a gourd that you split open and is apparently full of.. uh... vegetable spaghetti. Honestly - I'm sure the seed company wouldn't lie!

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

I know... I know... I saw the vegetable spaghetti in a seed catalogue, and had to buy it, even though my first thought was of that documentary.

I saw the rocket launching track, yeah. That whole fort seemed a bit jinxed really, as people seem to have kept accidentally blowing bits up :) It was absolutely brilliant though - I plan to go up there again and do some photography some time soon. I've been to Brean loads of times (kite flying :)), but never really thought to explore up there!

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Yes - Marks and SPencer :) Purveyors of fine snack foods and salads. And thanks for the confirmation on Shawshank Redemption, as it's really high on "good film" lists, whereas personally I find it hard to think of a "confinement drama" that's worse. And I though the great escape took some beating. I think it was the narration that completely killed it for me, as I hate that kind of forced narrative overlay :(

[aras-55555.livejournal.com]

It's been a while since I've been to one, but it always struck me as odd that what seemed like a clothing store from the outside would for some reason also have a food section :)

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Yeah - very weird. Although most of the people that I know who seriously shop there seem to be agoraphobics. No kidding. SO maybe they're just catering for a niche market?

[zleetle.livejournal.com]

One day, I'll add ...another border on the right, to try and make it look longer and thinner.

I'm doing that now - grading a gravel path to look narrower at the back of the yard than the front so it doesn't look like the 20-ft long garden it is. I can sympathize with little plots! So jealous of your vegetables - we have daffodils and pansies up and not much else :)

I was always surprised Shawshank got made into a movie - it wasn't that long of a story and I felt like the movie reflected the lack of source material.

Glad you had a good weekend!! (only a week late...I'm catching up!)

[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Ah - the vegetables are just starting in year #2 of the garden. Mainly because I like the idea of growing my own food, but also because gardens seem somehow intrinsically wasteful :) Your path sounds great - I think we must have the same shaped gardens!