Gardening Diary 🌱 — 📅 23rd April 2021
In July 2011 my father-in-law built a treehouse for our children.
(Apologies for the quality of the photo - it was taken with an old Blackberry 9300 mobile phone)
Now, nearly 10 years later, the children have long outgrown such things. Having a shed up in a tree wasn’t too practical or convenient so (finally!) over the last couple of days I have dismantled, relocated and reconstructed it.
It took me considerably longer to dismantle and get down from the tree than it did to rebuild.
The shed is still in fairly good condition but the next job is to paint it with a wood preserver. I also need to take advantage of the good weather over the next couple of days to build a roof where the shed used to be - we use the area that was underneath the treehouse for storing, drying and seasoning logs.
Currently reading: Medical Grade Music by Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi 📚
Published 1 photos on my Flickr account 📷 🏷️ food, dal
Medical Grade Music 📚🎵
Received my signed copy of Medical Grade Music by Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi.
Last week I joined a Rough Trade hosted Zoom meeting with Kavus and Steve where they read excerpts from and discussed the book and some of the stories from and behind it. They were both very enthusiastic!
In addition to reading the book I’m particularly looking forward to investigating music I haven’t heard before. In the Appendices there are several musical lists, including recommendations for an album a week for a year from both authors. I’m not familiar with many of them (although more of Kavus’ than Steve’s).
I find myself eating 😃 for the first time in years.
Compulsory worship of national symbols is the sure sign of a culture in decline - Article by Nesrine Malik, The Guardian 🔗
Leaving Wales for a few hours. Prince of Wales Bridge across the River Severn, heading into England.
🎵 My Top weekly artists: Abbado, VPO, Norman (48), Vijay Iyer, Linda May Han Oh & Tyshawn Sorey (19), The Utopia Strong (8), Glenn Gould (3) & Leonard Cohen (3) via tweekly.fm
Watched: Greenland, 2020 - ★★ 🎥
Watched: Band of Outsiders, 1964 - ★★★★★ 🎥
