I suddenly realised today – this month I have washed my car more times than I have driven it. It seems like a good time to be a car – my neighbour spent several hours polishing his car. Of course it could have been yet one more attempt to stake out my house to see if he could find my toilet paper. Just watching Red Dwarf – the episode where they review the excess toilet paper.
My third onion planting day today, that makes about 140 onions this year – probably enough for me. I also planted out some of the tomato plants out. A bit early, so I’m not sure they will survive, but I have so many germinating it seems worth the attempt. I am testing two varieties in hanging baskets – be interesting to see if they work.
Looking forward to an early night to rest the muscles…
Discovered I had reduced the resolution of photos from Greenland 2006 when I copied them on to hard disk. Thankfully I still have the original cards from the trip. If you look at the middle bottom of the picture you can see a wall making a three sided enclosure with some rocks behind it. This is a wall built by vikings at least 600 years ago (and probably closer to 1000 years ago).
At one modern farm you can still see the outline of Viking fields on the hills, in places that can’t be farmed with modern technology.
I remember one of the students at university joked that the only thing that would be found of the human race in a million years was the plastic from the Trabant car.
One place I used to work had a rule set by the government – any new buildings had to be temporary structures – nothing that would last should be built. The main reason was not cost – it was something called liability.
That wall in the picture was probably the work of one or two people – not more.
I am looking at knocking down that old shed and replacing it with decking and raised planting areas (finally sorted out the design I am going for). But that will hardly last 20 years. Am I building anything that will last as long as the wall that Viking farmer built?