Last night due to the forecast of heavy rains and the invasion of slugs in the garden, I’ve harvested the garlic. I’ve got about 15-20 bulbs, three or four of the strongest I’ll save for seed for the autumn planting. The rest are tied up and drying out. I’ll buy a different variety for the autumn planting too, so that I can have a trail.
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Spent a few hours last night weeding the veg patch. Turns out I’ve been growing the onions and garlic all wrong. You need to clear the earth away from the bulbs to encourage them to grow outwards. I’ve done that now for the onions so hopefully they will start looking like onions rather than scallions.
I don’t think I’ll get much of a harvest this year. Still, you live and learn. I hope the spuds fare better they are starting to flower so should have a crop in around six weeks time.
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Added del.icio.us and flickr links to the side bar. Swell!
And got tabs for Paddy Casey’s Saints and Sinners. I’ll be learning that this weekened.
Off work tomorrow so a nice long weekend, with my folks coming to visit.
Now I’ve started back on this perhaps I’ll get me brother’s website sorted out for him!
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Joachim’s colleague reckons that Africa has been wallowing in self pity for the last hundred years.
The thing with Africa is that European, Western, and Asian superpowers are still in a semi-colonial role in the contintent by propping up dictators who give them the valuable resources while keeping the average folk, under educated and poor.
With Germany and Japan after the war they *were* helped back on their feet, to an extent that German economy was the powerhouse of Europe by the seventies. The “aid” given to African countries is more or less taken back in loan repayments anyway. That doesn’t really count as help in my book.
Access to education is probably the most important thing for Africa rather than hard cash. Try selling that to a starving / poor family though.
All too easy for corrupt leaders to blame Europe, to get support for themselves.
Thought-provoking but ultimately a pretty condescending view of Africa.
The saga that is decorating the nursery continues although I hope this is final chapter. Rather than plain white the walls will be a more calming yellow/straw colour, and I’ll get come coving to tidy up the ceiling. Once that is doen there is fireplace and skirting to strip and repaint. Couple of weekends should see it.
In the great tradition of things being done properly by version 3.0, (windows, gcc, debian etc thanks for that Terry), it give me great pleasure to release version 3.0 of the tvgateway firmware. This brings in tons of fixes and usablity and performance improvments, support for decrypting channels and just general tidying up of the code base. I’m proper proud of this one, and I hope there is not some nasty bug lurking there once it gets in the field. To that end it is going to be tested at a few beta sites.
This is the first project I have taken from start to finish in quite a while as I tend to have to move onto new products and leave the final polishing to others. It is also finished just in time for my impeding departure on paternity leave, which should happen anytime soon.
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