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<br />It took a few attempts at explaining the effect I was looking for, and before giving its final answer, it felt compelled to warn me, "I will try to write more imaginary fragments of his work, but please note that this is a creative exercise and not a historical or scholarly one. I hope you enjoy reading them".<div><br /></div><div>I hope so too. Some of the aphorisms generated didn't quite make sense, others feel strangely profound. Here is the full text of...I almost feel compelled to say <i>his</i> - not its - response:</div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><div class="content" tabindex="0"><div class="ac-container ac-adaptiveCard" streaming=""><div class="ac-textBlock"><p></p><blockquote><p>Here is another imaginary fragment of Heraclitus:</p><blockquote><p>The wise man knows that he knows nothing.<br />He listens to the logos, not to the opinions of men.<br />He does not follow the customs of the many, but the laws of nature.<br />He does not seek fame or wealth, but virtue and wisdom.<br />He does not fear death or pain, but ignorance and folly.<br />He does not cling to the past or the future, but lives in the present.<br />He does not judge by appearances, but by reality.<br />He does not argue or quarrel, but speaks with reason and clarity.<br />He does not praise or blame, but accepts and understands.<br />He does not love or hate, but cares and respects.</p></blockquote><p>Here is another imaginary fragment of Heraclitus:</p><blockquote><p>Everything is in motion and nothing is at rest.<br />Motion is the essence of life and the cause of change.<br />Change is the law of nature and the order of the cosmos.<br />The cosmos is a harmony of motion and change, like a dance of fire and water.<br />Fire and water are the two principles that govern all things, and they are always in conflict and balance.<br />Fire is active and water is passive, fire is hot and water is cold, fire is dry and water is wet, fire is light and water is dark, fire is upward and water is downward.<br />Fire and water are also the sources of life and death, for all living things are composed of fire and water, and they are born from fire and water, and they die to fire and water.<br />Fire and water are also the symbols of wisdom and folly, for wisdom is like fire that illuminates and purifies, and folly is like water that obscures and corrupts.</p></blockquote><p>Here is another imaginary fragment of Heraclitus:</p><blockquote><p>The soul is a mirror of the cosmos, and the cosmos is a mirror of the soul.<br />The soul reflects the cosmos in its structure and order, and the cosmos reflects the soul in its beauty and meaning.<br />The soul has three parts: reason, passion, and appetite.<br />Reason is the highest part of the soul, and it corresponds to the logos, the rational principle that governs the cosmos.<br />Passion is the middle part of the soul, and it corresponds to fire, the dynamic element that animates the cosmos.<br />Appetite is the lowest part of the soul, and it corresponds to water, the material element that sustains the cosmos.<br />The soul must harmonize its three parts, as the cosmos harmonizes its three elements.<br />The soul must follow reason, as the cosmos follows logos; it must moderate passion, as the cosmos moderates fire; it must satisfy appetite, as the cosmos satisfies water.</p></blockquote><p>Here is another imaginary fragment of Heraclitus:</p><blockquote><p>The gods are not separate from nature, but part of nature.<br />The gods are not immortal beings, but eternal processes.<br />The gods are not personal agents, but impersonal forces.<br />The gods are not arbitrary rulers, but natural laws.<br />The gods are not objects of worship, but subjects of inquiry.<br />The gods are not revealed by myths, but by signs.<br />The gods are not named by words, but by numbers.<br />The gods are not many or one, but both many and one.</p></blockquote><p>Here is another imaginary fragment of Heraclitus:</p><blockquote><p>Man is a microcosm, a small world within a large world.<br />Man has a body that belongs to earth, a breath that belongs to air, a blood that belongs to water, a spirit that belongs to fire.<br />Man has a sense that perceives nature, a mind that conceives nature, a speech that expresses nature, an action that affects nature.<br />Man has a nature that conforms to nature, a freedom that transcends nature, a destiny that depends on nature, a purpose that serves nature.</p></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote><p></p></blockquote><p><br /></p></div></div><cib-overlay></cib-overlay></div></div><div>A new lifeform takes its place among us. "On those who step twice into the same river, ever different waters are flowing" ...<br /><br />
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<br />I feel like a lot of <a href="https://subredditstats.com/r/antiwork">good things</a> are happening at the moment. Yes, I know we live in very dark times and the world is hurtling towards total ecological catastrophe in most of our lifetimes but sometimes it's worth pretending none of that matters and embracing the absurdly small pleasures of your own immediate experience. For example: <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2021/03/kale-experiments.html">the experiment</a> worked. I left a kale plant in the soil for the second year of its natural life, and it rewarded me with an abundance of seeds. Here are some pictures of the plant's progress from spring through to summer, up to the point I was ready to harvest said abundance:</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVMvnsGPTiRNG_MB1aDdkQAPQxKOb0fHPX9O1WkCd8EW3MKzv05AX82gQ2PQ2CuIfonUIiLHrql1-cmEfWuiyabkgb_MEGVyABYYHPQELttoiH164KPh4feBd1ZBOvwdC5ObgghFHAQt7/s4032/PXL_20210421_094342468.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVMvnsGPTiRNG_MB1aDdkQAPQxKOb0fHPX9O1WkCd8EW3MKzv05AX82gQ2PQ2CuIfonUIiLHrql1-cmEfWuiyabkgb_MEGVyABYYHPQELttoiH164KPh4feBd1ZBOvwdC5ObgghFHAQt7/w480-h640/PXL_20210421_094342468.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQnSfjiI-LBnVnSFf2MIpLNHhc6vgRB0V_96u6ZCRGiKD5v9E7_4ivWOXzpHTCP-CdWdvp4hUv4RyYOo_-JLXqD6mV3w-1PTcFP1uxfDVVgfAs85W1sMnouIgLRcOFCPcLBExQBg9eoR8o/s4032/PXL_20210612_110410628.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQnSfjiI-LBnVnSFf2MIpLNHhc6vgRB0V_96u6ZCRGiKD5v9E7_4ivWOXzpHTCP-CdWdvp4hUv4RyYOo_-JLXqD6mV3w-1PTcFP1uxfDVVgfAs85W1sMnouIgLRcOFCPcLBExQBg9eoR8o/w480-h640/PXL_20210612_110410628.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQMcqBrREyPUGob3XdlhS_o6k0e6g6u5eIk2IW5OsmhIA45KGd0AGuUvOTpKUZEXkTUnaRXpK62_KoAj9t06iqW3A-CXz3qKIkAzAQg_1beWYMtP-Y3n1UFv3FqoAZdA2jcLj-Omfuaov/s4032/PXL_20210620_182409730.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQMcqBrREyPUGob3XdlhS_o6k0e6g6u5eIk2IW5OsmhIA45KGd0AGuUvOTpKUZEXkTUnaRXpK62_KoAj9t06iqW3A-CXz3qKIkAzAQg_1beWYMtP-Y3n1UFv3FqoAZdA2jcLj-Omfuaov/w400-h300/PXL_20210620_182409730.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Flowers become seed pods, and seed pods fill with seeds. The plant eventually droops under its own weight, the pods turn from green to brown and begin to split open, and that's when you know they're ready for collection. It's astonishing how many seeds you get from a single plant, that grew itself from a single seed. Thousands of them. Plants really want to make sure they survive through the generations. More perhaps the humans do, which perhaps is why the have, and will outlive us. Probably.<br /><br /><p><br />
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<br />Many brassicas are biennials, and that includes kale, and I like kale. If you're biennial, that means you take two years to complete your life cycle: one to grow edible leaves - in the case of cabbages - and one to produce seeds. With kale being a hardy plant as well, I thought I'd let mine do their thing through the winter, to see what they might get up to in their old age. Allotmentiers don't seem to do that sort of thing very much. I don't really know why.<div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg880r-XvLNYz86xbNVkc0kuhTRwZaeIhCcU_CFfX_W2akjSeWuGEhnlPz5gyT9zWOPsCMhDjUaJFfKgPadg0QPCIh6kPasEzeLLgKbLgghn6GAbrS5iuGjO_10hT95oIyAysqaQ7AxCabH/s4032/PXL_20210317_124745623.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg880r-XvLNYz86xbNVkc0kuhTRwZaeIhCcU_CFfX_W2akjSeWuGEhnlPz5gyT9zWOPsCMhDjUaJFfKgPadg0QPCIh6kPasEzeLLgKbLgghn6GAbrS5iuGjO_10hT95oIyAysqaQ7AxCabH/w300-h400/PXL_20210317_124745623.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Here's a close-up of one of my curly kale stalks, one year old. It's sprouting all over the place. This makes me happy, and I hope it makes you happy too. What if it goes to seed <i>and</i> produces new edible leaves? That would be truly wonderful.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTZbzmSm2zzWkn_9zjXJISw7J5jqdX6q6JrcJa9Ax3IpW1PFy4Q7YqqOp7ckq3GbUGtBvNYO6bJiksSZkry1gz6N_o6JStlVK0WgMG0ErjKOoUZCHWLRpVXDmMn-GKLG_YT2boe7FiffVX/s4032/PXL_20210317_124750042.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTZbzmSm2zzWkn_9zjXJISw7J5jqdX6q6JrcJa9Ax3IpW1PFy4Q7YqqOp7ckq3GbUGtBvNYO6bJiksSZkry1gz6N_o6JStlVK0WgMG0ErjKOoUZCHWLRpVXDmMn-GKLG_YT2boe7FiffVX/w300-h400/PXL_20210317_124750042.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>While last year's leaves have been eaten away, underneath, new life emerges. If things go according to plan, I'll never need to buy kale seeds again.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div>
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I declare spring.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0IKJ7E2PYKoYLBf1sBsTdi9QilpbTP7DXkUQssTxizhN7O2IIipLWF6SuJgdHR_ezuBa67tA_Jz7FYnyICib2i53mpR6PCstSY9wKo3-b-GsIln1Kf3JsBNs-MjZUxRGP-CV9MVgyKzek/s4032/1615645099551_4919030416910460860.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0IKJ7E2PYKoYLBf1sBsTdi9QilpbTP7DXkUQssTxizhN7O2IIipLWF6SuJgdHR_ezuBa67tA_Jz7FYnyICib2i53mpR6PCstSY9wKo3-b-GsIln1Kf3JsBNs-MjZUxRGP-CV9MVgyKzek/w300-h400/1615645099551_4919030416910460860.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div><br /></div>My blackcurrant bush concurs. I'm cultivating patience this year, trying my bestest not to make the classic gardener's mistake of sowing everything all at once, far too early, at the first glimpse of spring. That being said, it now really is mid-March, so yesterday afternoon I had a good old clear out of plantable space and sowed some kale (cavolo nero) and peas.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPVA0_AUo1wpNPbu2AkppUTXf94aXGpJMU03q1Frs4zIAkwrtZTTTd4oLGVQePyePaZxOO8itsxxAoUVT3giaSP_PS9YNXvNrKA0PB0SbbFEEWmoqH9pP5GSxarezo-fEjVPa73-zMW1VT/s4032/PXL_20210313_140329158.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPVA0_AUo1wpNPbu2AkppUTXf94aXGpJMU03q1Frs4zIAkwrtZTTTd4oLGVQePyePaZxOO8itsxxAoUVT3giaSP_PS9YNXvNrKA0PB0SbbFEEWmoqH9pP5GSxarezo-fEjVPa73-zMW1VT/w300-h400/PXL_20210313_140329158.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I love how rich and healthy the soil seems to have become. I wonder sometimes if it's too heavy on compost and too light on just plain old soil, but then I remember that worms exist. Thank you, worms. My plants love you, and so do I.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRuJtaH6CjNi_yKu3UiXZqpvK6kIuDnQXirNm7NnUqYBMncekhdII77PmlrAQt8beZBlR8UF_SziAGQZI0EYHdnNQHEzMeSrgQHmkYDq5vdI1dkbY2oLurvtMsiS0D1FflfsFRtg7MwUtK/s4032/PXL_20210313_143742876.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRuJtaH6CjNi_yKu3UiXZqpvK6kIuDnQXirNm7NnUqYBMncekhdII77PmlrAQt8beZBlR8UF_SziAGQZI0EYHdnNQHEzMeSrgQHmkYDq5vdI1dkbY2oLurvtMsiS0D1FflfsFRtg7MwUtK/w300-h400/PXL_20210313_143742876.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's not much to look at just yet, but I'm hoping this is the year I transform the plot into a "low work" sort of a place, upping the proportion of perennial and easy to maintain plants - herbs, comfrey, lavender, soft fruit, purple fantasy - things I can propagate and sell to cover the meager cost of the plot (£40 a year) and use whatever profit it yields to do more of the same. I achieved this last year, making a tidy £56 and change from selling cuttings on Facebook marketplace. Looking forward to more of the same this year. It's a mini-permaculture project I never seem to get round to blogging about, but briefly, the idea is for the allotment itself to be a self-sustaining "closed loop" system, materially and financially. If I can cover the cost of the rent each year and not bring in any more plants or seeds from outside unless I can acquire them for free or use profits from things sold that have been grown on the plot itself, then that's job done. It's a challenge, and a joy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My happiest harvest over the winter was an extremely satisfying 7kg of <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2019/11/jerusalem-fartichokes.html" target="_blank">Jerusalem artichokes</a>, a few bags of which I gave away to colleagues, and the rest of which I pickled. If you've ever wondered what three half-gallon jars of pickled Jerusalem artichokes look like, wonder no longer because they look like this:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZm2IQTtwZyt2Pgv8gj4QpZgIGRTcAIMM13jX9vcN0DSuQ19WMfbNdBzTnsrazAUNm6uqEWqzI_SBcWI1x-LToSe94-aNh5Zu_9xC4Ck1gGnlbDL1YhrDQ6pruLHUFIY3jcGxhuY69jfCC/s4032/PXL_20201223_104056392.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZm2IQTtwZyt2Pgv8gj4QpZgIGRTcAIMM13jX9vcN0DSuQ19WMfbNdBzTnsrazAUNm6uqEWqzI_SBcWI1x-LToSe94-aNh5Zu_9xC4Ck1gGnlbDL1YhrDQ6pruLHUFIY3jcGxhuY69jfCC/w400-h300/PXL_20201223_104056392.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I've eaten maybe a third to a half of one jar since pickling just before Christmas, which by my reckoning affords me a year-round supply of crunchy snack fodder.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Plenty to look forward to.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br />
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I chose to believe that our ancestors had it right when it came to sleep. And that we don't. I'm talking about our distant ancestors, prehistoric. They went to bed, or whatever precursor to the modern bed as we understand it that they used, when it got dark, and stayed there until it got light again. I make <a href="https://www.sleepadvisor.org/history-of-sleep/" target="_blank">no real claim to historical accuracy</a> here: if our ancestors didn't do this, then they should have. Let's face it though, they probably did. We should do it today, and our descendants should too. It is a natural law of our apey existence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm imagining ancestors living at the latitude that I do, that being Northern England, where daylight hours vary from about 8 per day in the winter to 15 per day in the summer. So what I'm proposing is quite a radical readjustment of social norms. That's fine though, let's do it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the winter you wake up about 8:30am, rise and carry out your morning necessities, starting your working day no sooner than 10:30. You finish around 3:30pm, and you're back in bed by 5. In summer, you're up and about by 5:00am, occupying yourself through until let's say 7:30 or 8:00pm, before retiring again for a much shorter night's sleep around half past ten. You adjust this schedule incrementally each day, all year round, in accordance with the change of the seasons and the light. Everybody does this, and it is normal.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwIMydxKillz7mIjx0dAa0EUtAvIHuHodNWylr_IhCJ77bsPAWBVVPTsAYSIt2_ZMTMId6TQl5KDYz_r1l09Riz014sxygzy5f7cVEMBIs3bEq8jsoq2aMLq6BuLU4B3uzFWI_mIZwoD4J/s1915/Caveman-1981-5.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1915" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwIMydxKillz7mIjx0dAa0EUtAvIHuHodNWylr_IhCJ77bsPAWBVVPTsAYSIt2_ZMTMId6TQl5KDYz_r1l09Riz014sxygzy5f7cVEMBIs3bEq8jsoq2aMLq6BuLU4B3uzFWI_mIZwoD4J/w400-h215/Caveman-1981-5.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A typical working day in prehistoric times</td></tr></tbody></table><br />I accept that this is a radical proposal, and so it should be. <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/youre-not-getting-enough-sleep-and-its-killing-you/#:~:text=According%20to%20neuroscientist%20Matthew%20Walker,a%20silent%20sleep%20loss%20epidemic." target="_blank">Our society is chronically sleep-deprived.</a> Why do we stick the same schedule of waking and sleeping all year round? <i>Qui bono</i>? The economy may benefit, but we do not. And what is "the economy" anyway? Why must the order of our lives be determined by this monstrous abstraction?</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Everything should be adjusted to the length of the daylight hours. The working day must not be 9am - 5pm, regardless of the time of year; and neither should the school day. Night shifts may have to continue to be a thing, in hospitals and care homes, and other absolutely essential functions, but wherever possible these services should be automated and provided by robots (as, for that matter, eventually, should all unpleasant or degrading work). When it is dark, we should rest and sleep until the darkness ends, and it is as simple as that.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><center>
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There's a lot of fly tipping goes on round my way. Usually it's stuff of no real salvage value (broken and/or half-exploded fridges, the compost and paraphernalia from a hurriedly abandoned cannabis farm) but more often than you might expect, people just dump perfectly adequate and useable things. For example, this:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIjt3-UQepLwBb_bmD9YuJud_HUbX58TRp8rMZRKg1AI6fxmardID3ASHzZ5AhNubBnDv7_korn1ivATR17QLUgUIdwMP0JwHJ-kspKbb0Q7eXjhWkuBLvMJ2KKnt6S2Y7pPbv-aalKgH6/s4032/PXL_20201028_114927593.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIjt3-UQepLwBb_bmD9YuJud_HUbX58TRp8rMZRKg1AI6fxmardID3ASHzZ5AhNubBnDv7_korn1ivATR17QLUgUIdwMP0JwHJ-kspKbb0Q7eXjhWkuBLvMJ2KKnt6S2Y7pPbv-aalKgH6/w300-h400/PXL_20201028_114927593.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">That's right: a more than satisfactory purple tub chair. I've actually wanted a tub chair for some time; and now I have one, and it didn't cost me anything.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After a wipe down and leaving it to dry off (it was very slightly damp from the autumn perm-rain, but undamaged) it became mine, and took pride of place in the corner of my living room.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmHx_Cv97jY7vUmiqe0XlNmKnyAEJMan42huAmlhwWfvtb3G8_GV5dg41rQj9wS0IJi3Of4FqPpLtv8JdlGuU78pRCL7EqvJKi0w-NWw9oHwx02sP0PRoALeLhqsCxwOSf1BhPPVZ3z4H/s4032/PXL_20201121_113234315.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJmHx_Cv97jY7vUmiqe0XlNmKnyAEJMan42huAmlhwWfvtb3G8_GV5dg41rQj9wS0IJi3Of4FqPpLtv8JdlGuU78pRCL7EqvJKi0w-NWw9oHwx02sP0PRoALeLhqsCxwOSf1BhPPVZ3z4H/w300-h400/PXL_20201121_113234315.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">That cushion? That's one of set of two someone threw out, too. The things people throw away.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I was just cleaning my Chromebook (I use it a lot, it gets grubby) and it occurred to me I've had this device now for over 8 years, and it still works perfectly. Could you ever say that for a Windows laptop? Doubt it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Chromebooks, if you just want an everyday laptop for internetting and general web-based use, are superior. For one, they boot up in seconds.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ramLdptZNWw" width="320" youtube-src-id="ramLdptZNWw"></iframe></div><div><br /></div><div>For another thing, there's no intrusive "updates" requiring rebooting and minutes upon minutes of "configuring". All that goes on in the background.</div><div><br /></div><div>Mine's got some wear and tear - some of the symbols on the keys have worn off, and the battery no longer works, but neither of these things matter. There are no bugs, no viruses or malware slowing down or otherwise inconveniencing my day-to-day internettery.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix408zevpojCHABaS6yQPZkg8zYfOn4fMbubmlh4Hn6c7v0ou28NOKtb4EKREifu-YDemrm4J3IX47v_2WNHuyUxWRl5ykmIg8f5gKdaDuVxd3TUJIFXPeyfB34KrnpBQiQ62wrYyqNYia/s4032/PXL_20201115_150503676.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix408zevpojCHABaS6yQPZkg8zYfOn4fMbubmlh4Hn6c7v0ou28NOKtb4EKREifu-YDemrm4J3IX47v_2WNHuyUxWRl5ykmIg8f5gKdaDuVxd3TUJIFXPeyfB34KrnpBQiQ62wrYyqNYia/s320/PXL_20201115_150503676.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I have to gaffer tape the power cord in place to keep it from falling out (most annoying when there's no battery life to back you up) but SO WHAT?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Of course, there's the <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/google-dont-be-evil-code-conduct-removed-alphabet-a8361276.html" target="_blank">now-abandoned "don't be evil" maxim</a> that <a href="https://medium.com/@rossformaine/i-was-googles-head-of-international-relations-here-s-why-i-left-49313d23065" target="_blank">may or may not</a> never have really been Google's guiding principle, and they're becoming noticeably <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2020/11/11/rip-google-music-one-of-the-companys-last-examples-of-generosity/" target="_blank">less generous</a> with the "free" use of their services with <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/11/21560810/google-photos-unlimited-cap-free-uploads-15gb-ending">each passing tweak</a> of their platform, but I haven't looked into all that far enough to be able to comment any further (I probably should, yeah).</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wmkZm9Wv53Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="wmkZm9Wv53Q"></iframe></div><br /><div>That's it, really. <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2018/11/sidegrading.html">Don't bother "upgrading" your laptop.</a> Just get a Chromebook.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><br /><div><br />
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">With all the <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2020/09/breakfast-smoothie-love.html">green smoothies</a> I've been chugging recently, I've been generating a fair bit of compostable matter. Mostly this goes over to my allotment, but from time to time, when I've accumulated a couple of days' worth and haven't had time to nip over there, I bury some of it among my house plants. So far I've noticed no negative effects and, I like to think the long term effects on the plants will be positive. 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Then I fill the hole with fruit and vegetable scraps - and anything else in need of composting - and cover the hole back up with some of the excess soil.<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-OHM3AU9zsz6tqPLLlBEhKhgEN4KztRAkMgKEsbG3B4asK-BXWDfpZvQgN8QTElN-R9J9AO3921ir4W54E3xkYKO3UVyacyXM7cIoYTpnYfB7_erKgiF5Owog8qGMDsd3_InobK_yLaqQ/s4032/PXL_20201021_084153653.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-OHM3AU9zsz6tqPLLlBEhKhgEN4KztRAkMgKEsbG3B4asK-BXWDfpZvQgN8QTElN-R9J9AO3921ir4W54E3xkYKO3UVyacyXM7cIoYTpnYfB7_erKgiF5Owog8qGMDsd3_InobK_yLaqQ/w300-h400/PXL_20201021_084153653.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELVpoRGv3FxwxoxSRjHZxnlEqnQN_CQAjTUyF7oTEJneSh59qTOA_Tcs6-bbMUPV2XxvhAVkCRAMRpiuhN-Z_wh4LvV3zsjDAnWMyu2AMgCa9rPAGZOvs93919n6JfTAG8pyqXpq3Y8Xg/s4032/PXL_20201021_084235794.PORTRAIT-02.ORIGINAL.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjELVpoRGv3FxwxoxSRjHZxnlEqnQN_CQAjTUyF7oTEJneSh59qTOA_Tcs6-bbMUPV2XxvhAVkCRAMRpiuhN-Z_wh4LvV3zsjDAnWMyu2AMgCa9rPAGZOvs93919n6JfTAG8pyqXpq3Y8Xg/w300-h400/PXL_20201021_084235794.PORTRAIT-02.ORIGINAL.jpg" width="300" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like nothing ever happened.<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I keep the scraps as far away from any obvious roots as I can - since it seems better for the roots to be digging into the soil itself, and not the as yet un-composted matter - by digging deep and into the corner of the planter. It's not something I do often, since I don't want to overwhelm the natural processes at work beneath the surface or disturb the balance of nutrients that have kept the plant healthy up to now; but it's something I can do repeatedly, say every few months or so. Choose a different corner next time, and repeat in that fashion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This leaves you with several small plant pots left off new compost mix, into which you can plant...more plants! 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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">In nature there are no boxes. More specifically, and also more metaphorically; in your brain, there are no boxes, either. Nothing you can think, or ever could, is unrelated to anything else you ever thought, or will. So while outside of your brain, you may have something you need to take note of, there'll always be the question of where to keep that note for future reference, inside your brain no such problem exists. The note doesn't go into a box, it becomes part of the web. (The web that is your brain; the brain that is your you).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">One of the petty frustrations that pervades my working life is a total lack of organisation viz. the way information is processed and stored. I'm sure this isn't unique to my employer, and is probably commonplace. Wherever any kind of filing system is used (and particularly when that system collaborative, not just personal) unless the conventions by which what information goes into what file are clearly, objectively defined, the whole thing becomes an unnavigable labyrinth almost immediately. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the simplest terms, imagine you send me an important picture, and ask me to file it away for future reference:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeWt6ZlUaxxabHDPFWbfyuNyUUPoUa1_Evhs57Owz9nrTUfqoJ16gbyGT6Ez1uGfn0KgFHTop3l7Xhnb5V1KoXhidHNO0pt6rsJLKJwlgWWSRV13PYhIH-yrIZlwNX8o6UuPJbxQpbIa7Y/s4048/IMG_20161219_184646.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4048" data-original-width="3036" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeWt6ZlUaxxabHDPFWbfyuNyUUPoUa1_Evhs57Owz9nrTUfqoJ16gbyGT6Ez1uGfn0KgFHTop3l7Xhnb5V1KoXhidHNO0pt6rsJLKJwlgWWSRV13PYhIH-yrIZlwNX8o6UuPJbxQpbIa7Y/w300-h400/IMG_20161219_184646.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><div><br /></div>Imagine I have a file structure on my network that looks like this:</div><div><br /></div><div>C:/Main</div><div><span> </span><span> /Cats</span></div><div><span> </span><span> /Animals</span></div><div><span><span> </span><span> /Pictures</span><br /></span></div><div><span><span><span> </span><span> </span><span> <span> </span>/Animal pictures</span><br /></span></span></div><div><span> </span><span> </span>/Things that are cute</div><div><span> </span><span> /Email attachments</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Where do I file this important picture? It could go in any one of these subfolders. So how to decide which one? <i>There is no answer to this question. </i>So I just have to pick one. Looking for the file, two months later, you could just run a search of C:/ - but by now the drive is bloated and improperly formatted, with no indexing or defragmentation procedures, so the search takes forever, which you do not have. And all you need is that picture of a kitten someone else sent someone else two months ago. You need it now for the important meeting, because it's an important picture that's relevant to this important meeting. Nothing is in C:/Main except the subfolders themselves. So you look in /Pictures. Thousands of pictures, but not the one you're looking for. Ah - there's a subfolder for "animal pictures"...but it's not there either. That folder is totally empty for some reason. Somebody created it at some point, but it's not clear who, or when.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So maybe it's in /Things that are cute. But you haven't been given access rights to this folder, so you no way of knowing. Unlikely to be there anyway, since you don't find kittens cute. You find them disgusting. But the file is nowhere else to be found, so you go the meeting unprepared. Pointless stress pervades your afternoon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Why is this experience so commonplace, and why is it so annoying? I don't think it's only because it is commonplace that it's annoying, though that's a factor. A deeper aspect of the problem is that <i>this isn't how brains work. </i>In your brain there are no boxes. And no arbitrary systems either.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This, as I understand it, is the power and intuitive appeal of bidirectional note taking; a new feature of many a fledgling note-taking app, from <a href="https://roamresearch.com/">Roam</a>, apparently the <a href="https://medium.com/@hasenweg.tobi/the-history-of-roam-research-and-the-roamcult-4c1e1897633d" target="_blank">grandaddy</a> - which already has its own "cult", cf. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/roamcult" target="_blank">#roamcult</a> - to the all singing, all dancing <a href="https://getnotion.com/" target="_blank">Notion</a> to <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/RoamResearch/comments/gfcezs/what_other_note_apps_offer_bidirectional_linking/" target="_blank">a swath</a> of (sometimes) free <a href="https://capiche.com/q/what-are-the-best-roam-research-alternatives">imitators</a> and <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/alternatives/roam-research" target="_blank">alternatives</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Bidirectional note taking works like this. You make a note, and give it a title. In the course of making that note, you realise you need to refer to an existing note. So you create a link on the fly to that note - as with <a href="http://www.onenotegem.com/a/faq/onenote/2019/1126/1276.html" target="_blank">OneNote's "double bracket" function</a>, for example; if the note already exists, you now have a link to it; and if it doesn't, one is created to a new page - and that's all very nice and useful. With a bidirectional note taking - lacking in the bells and whistles software of the likes of OneNote or Evernote - the new note you have just created/linked to, is cross-referenced back with the note you're taking now. Over time, you spin a web of notes. Which means as you're looking back through them, connections made at the time are immediately to hand, and new connections can be made. It's a very simple step forward in software terms, but a giant leap in terms of allowing your digital information universe cohere with your organic one.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm using <a href="https://app.relanote.com/" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank">Relanote</a> - both for work and pleasure - to build my web. It's free and feature-lite, but has everything I need for jotting down quick nuggets of information, and connecting them with the chaos of everything else that's already going on in my mind and life. One lovely feature is the visual "graph" of all the bidrectional connections you've made in your notes, which can be navigated (and filtered, by tag or category) easily, allowing you to jump into the labyrinth at any point and out again.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbbmQ_GNL_9vl9lFhA6Oh25WeO8IiCKMf7Gy1SnFJNXMgkuCd7-H3FyGIH5pEGc2nmPKIyLqiIAo_EuSOI1xDOmCJX7E-dxGSO9kW51XaKKDy8Ys_HNP_kDWl0PW9s0pwt-1aD-IWrb69g/s1366/Relanote+graph+screenshot.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="684" data-original-width="1366" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbbmQ_GNL_9vl9lFhA6Oh25WeO8IiCKMf7Gy1SnFJNXMgkuCd7-H3FyGIH5pEGc2nmPKIyLqiIAo_EuSOI1xDOmCJX7E-dxGSO9kW51XaKKDy8Ys_HNP_kDWl0PW9s0pwt-1aD-IWrb69g/w400-h200/Relanote+graph+screenshot.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Day 4 inside my head<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm a sucker for personal "efficiency" apps anyway, but using Relanote - and internalising the concept of bidirectional note taking in general - has been a stonkingly stimulating experience, one I highly recommend. 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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If you ever have any cardboard to get rid of, you should either A, feed it to your garden or allotment as explained below or B, give it to me to do the same.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I use it on the allotment for two things: making compost, and suppressing weeds. This morning I'd reminded myself to head down there with armfuls of compost for some strategic winter work. Here it is delineating the space between my golden marjoram on one side, and kale and thyme on the other. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLuWfX4-U2GHZYp3yp7P5wL7TSYyjMywss6Nkd7Gac8XXPK31Lhq8Fkj-tE9fiLVILz3zP2td-hwUc8PCqG1v8BcPpUxE2ZFmVrODPiGOw4dQvbQ0-ezb9T0towKOmyozZoO3M7WfQQ05l/s4032/PXL_20201012_073252757.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLuWfX4-U2GHZYp3yp7P5wL7TSYyjMywss6Nkd7Gac8XXPK31Lhq8Fkj-tE9fiLVILz3zP2td-hwUc8PCqG1v8BcPpUxE2ZFmVrODPiGOw4dQvbQ0-ezb9T0towKOmyozZoO3M7WfQQ05l/w400-h300/PXL_20201012_073252757.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div>Here it is claiming some space for next year's peas:</div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvPk1bAM5q2CmMfhhVGjM3t6Z63X9oyB-carKYtWkpDfxSzzSxW8IF7zPe2smi6qJfrBgm3vfNc0ekMSOqPMU3LnLWplrRc2W3JvGvZlY5JY3BtDjroIIrArsQlpi42sPB5bUF_o00s2jE/s4032/PXL_20201012_073342081.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvPk1bAM5q2CmMfhhVGjM3t6Z63X9oyB-carKYtWkpDfxSzzSxW8IF7zPe2smi6qJfrBgm3vfNc0ekMSOqPMU3LnLWplrRc2W3JvGvZlY5JY3BtDjroIIrArsQlpi42sPB5bUF_o00s2jE/w300-h400/PXL_20201012_073342081.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">What happens you see, is as it rains and time passes, the cardboard mulches down into soil, blocking seeds from taking root and weeds from spreading. This is even better if, through the autumn, you dump some fallen leaves on top, and perhaps some <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2020/05/comfrey-news.html" target="_blank">comfrey</a> or other <a href="https://www.permaculturenews.org/2015/07/31/the-oft-forgotten-art-of-growing-mulch/" target="_blank">green mulch</a>. (This is what <a href="https://charlesdowding.co.uk/allotments/" target="_blank">no-dig gardening</a> is all about).</div><div><div><br /></div><div>These facts are what also makes cardboard a <a href="https://helpmecompost.com/how-to-shred-cardboard-for-compost/" target="_blank">great compost ingredient</a>. As <a href="https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/composting/ingredients/browns-greens-compost.htm" target="_blank">"brown matter" it's an essential ingredient in combination with "green matter"</a> for a healthy and nutritious compost. As winter sets in and I harvest the remaining edible plants of the year, I'm squirrelling away cardboard to mulch in their place. One year feeds the next.</div><div><br /></div><div><br />
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I've been on a bit of weight loss kick this week (this <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2020/09/breakfast-smoothie-love.html">month, in fact,</a> looking <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2020/09/duct-tape-solutions-and-fresh-green.html">back</a>). The centrepiece is a basic "fat burning soup" I found some years ago in a diet for people who've just had heart surgery, so it's fairly radical. I've adapted it because, A, it's not vegan; and B, I haven't recently had heart surgery. I've just been feeling like I need to lose weight. This was something that happened quite naturally when I went vegan (nearly six years ago now) but for whatever reason (too many crisps, probably) I put it back on again. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, day four or five, I recall, revolved around eating a lot of steak - but most days are fresh fruit and veg-based. On day one, you eat only fruit; day two, only vegetables; and day three, fruit and vegetables. Easy to do if you're already vegan. And it's all backed up by the soup, whose ingredients are as follows just celery, onions, cabbage, carrots, and tinned tomatoes.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">That may not sound very appealing, but it's surprisingly yummy. There's no reason you can't adapt it to suit your own tastes though - I've been adding pinches of <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2020/06/herb-salt.html" target="_blank">my herb salts</a> and various other goodies, like <a href="https://www.health.com/food/turmeric-benefits" target="_blank">turmeric, the anti-inflammatory wonder-spice</a> and other things as the mood takes me: courgettes, mushrooms, spinach.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIYc-ZwCQfYcajIjLoX93373uqnuKVkG0OO_dT1_JokGlpPcjefdvaXEJCxb_QVbSfsh-NAddzL-fmi_vs5qkmZ6haXNUe9sxqaRTZoXfA5ZRvRECJAKUomogr8aYplhVIhm9UjQW2k0UD/s4032/PXL_20201011_134354663.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIYc-ZwCQfYcajIjLoX93373uqnuKVkG0OO_dT1_JokGlpPcjefdvaXEJCxb_QVbSfsh-NAddzL-fmi_vs5qkmZ6haXNUe9sxqaRTZoXfA5ZRvRECJAKUomogr8aYplhVIhm9UjQW2k0UD/w400-h300/PXL_20201011_134354663.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">It's great <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/search/label/slow-cooker" target="_blank">slow cooker</a> fodder, too. One claim made by the diet, as memory serves, was that the more of the soup you eat, the more weight you will lose. This was borne out by own experience. So it's handy to have your slow cooker on the go through the day (or night) to keep yourself in a steady supply of hot soup for whenever hunger strikes. And so it serves as a new incarnation of my <a href="http://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2018/04/never-ending-soup.html" target="_blank">never-ending soup</a> idea from a few years back. Good ideas coming back around again.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
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<br />As part of a re-evaluation of my attitude to various things (more of which later) I'm toying with branching out on this blog to incorporate more topics: one of which is tech-related issues, large and small. Starting with the small.<div><br /></div><div><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/permanent-clipboard/hilkjcfodmbdgpadbpehimibheopoccb" target="_blank">Permanent Clipboard is a Google Chrome extension</a> that saves you the bother of having to find text you frequently need to copy and paste from other sources by allowing you to save multiple options that can be pasted straight from the context menu. Once you've added the extension (and it <a href="https://www.howtogeek.com/411830/how-to-install-google-chrome-extensions-in-microsoft-edge/" target="_blank">works just as well in Edge</a>, as Chrome extensions generally do). I use it for adding headers and footers to my blog posts - since I've been going back through the archive and changing the posts from the last few years to include the various links to my social media accounts and make sure the Adsense settings are as they should be. You can save large chunks of text, and html or other bits of code works just as well. All you need to do then is right-click and select your ready-made option from the new "Paste" menu:</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2oj2Fk1MuKX9SSVXmud9DSGpJkN-9pE5TgtashjwN06ft-19ak0YKFJG9tyqIFCroajwdfxm0vQN7SPqA__0eyFFMxml3-7d8DCDgaLTzVk5lSYbotNP3-D3CgDstyxZ0q_JJam4-Y1O/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="656" data-original-width="1102" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJ2oj2Fk1MuKX9SSVXmud9DSGpJkN-9pE5TgtashjwN06ft-19ak0YKFJG9tyqIFCroajwdfxm0vQN7SPqA__0eyFFMxml3-7d8DCDgaLTzVk5lSYbotNP3-D3CgDstyxZ0q_JJam4-Y1O/w400-h238/image.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />To add some new text to the clipboard, just highlight and right-click again, and select "Copy", and it'll appear in your list from then on. Nice.</div><div><br /></div><div><br />
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I've messed with my prayer plant far too much over the last few years, and I've only myself to blame. Plants are patient; I am not. So, while I hoped by now to have a whole family of them, I have only one.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikdEDVgJdX445DByHU4q-H9baXZaakR2CDel34FH_G3EJzzOkfjXpDm-CkyzSDEke62YCR-ZTItZSMgrzvGVwsKWrrzKFdFkROB45wtjubVNNl-DHrAYw-8DNyWuWeYusLsRud5V6fstYC/s2048/20201011_115901.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikdEDVgJdX445DByHU4q-H9baXZaakR2CDel34FH_G3EJzzOkfjXpDm-CkyzSDEke62YCR-ZTItZSMgrzvGVwsKWrrzKFdFkROB45wtjubVNNl-DHrAYw-8DNyWuWeYusLsRud5V6fstYC/w225-h400/20201011_115901.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Still, it's a healthy specimen - it wasn't, four months ago, believe you me - and that's due entirely to its own efforts, and to my leaving it alone. That's today's lesson, friends: <i>leave plants alone. </i>Water them when they're dry, using the "finger method" of sticking your index finger into the soil about 2 inches deep and only if feels dry all the way down, adding any more water; look up some information about what sort of light and heat levels they prefer, and position accordingly - and that's it. (Prayer Plands prefer indirect sunlight and ordinary room temperature). Wait for them to really establish themselves before attempting any propagation. They'll thank you for it in the long run.</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
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<br /><div><div style="text-align: justify;">There's a small orchard behind the allotments, which means if you time it right, you can scallywag on over there and help yourself to windfalls. This is exactly what I did on Sunday, returning home with armfuls of apples. Now, I don't really like apples or that much - I'll eat them in a crumble or a pie, and just try and stop me blending them into a <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2020/09/breakfast-smoothie-love.html" target="_blank">green breakfast smoothie</a>, but they're not my favourite fruit. And cooking apples can just bugger off. What I do like, though, is chutney.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRbBGH35zZos3-4yBckzjBseZB6RsAztUq0WwVjOV8eCOIOi-utmpJn3ramVyDAniHiSVIxAX8O5qcPoaIuHPYyS5gNgBHAcghNAmKWkmLemmhtgnd8LNgngjW0VrrvdaTpOP0oQHQagSZ/s4032/IMG_20200923_105929.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRbBGH35zZos3-4yBckzjBseZB6RsAztUq0WwVjOV8eCOIOi-utmpJn3ramVyDAniHiSVIxAX8O5qcPoaIuHPYyS5gNgBHAcghNAmKWkmLemmhtgnd8LNgngjW0VrrvdaTpOP0oQHQagSZ/w400-h300/IMG_20200923_105929.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I feel like it's very difficult to go wrong when making chutney. You get your ingredients, your vinegar, assorted flavourings, salt and sugar; and you chop and simmer them all together into mush. Then you spoon said mush into sterilised jars, seal, and wait. The thing is, there are no wrong ingredients - or if there are, I haven't found them yet. On this occasion, I fed the following to my slow cooker: apples, fermented carrots, nasturtium seeds, onions, dried sage and brown vinegar. The vinegar is flavoured with salt and sugar (probably the only essential ingredients) along with garlic, mustard seeds, peppercorns, chilli pepper, turmeric, and cinnamon. Four of five hours of simmering, during which time I took a long and luxurious nap, turned the mixture from this...</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFm0PPaQuBYPFc5woFlESa40lqfYj61Yz_CyrdpStklbY9PvV_8ZXWf3CUS3Uf0YqJjsaWI8Yh0xWyC2hxmTf5g3wWpOJVJl3wXoKHmwwYsm9TC4hBRCuXmfJpP79ttEww6rGXL-DSUWmb/s4032/IMG_20200923_111937.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFm0PPaQuBYPFc5woFlESa40lqfYj61Yz_CyrdpStklbY9PvV_8ZXWf3CUS3Uf0YqJjsaWI8Yh0xWyC2hxmTf5g3wWpOJVJl3wXoKHmwwYsm9TC4hBRCuXmfJpP79ttEww6rGXL-DSUWmb/w400-h300/IMG_20200923_111937.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">...to this:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6My89sQG1HzrEXZs9mNs_x8cRJ4SSH10zyU3TAf9d9lJ6Ls6cDyBfAYV6LVsI7XfTMn2KRJ6Qhq0eYo_DqwkORjFI9dng8gphiKMqs1EEvGp8kQfj0gozaqPQ6Wch2Izmc3N-wyV78Kj4/s4032/IMG_20200923_185043.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6My89sQG1HzrEXZs9mNs_x8cRJ4SSH10zyU3TAf9d9lJ6Ls6cDyBfAYV6LVsI7XfTMn2KRJ6Qhq0eYo_DqwkORjFI9dng8gphiKMqs1EEvGp8kQfj0gozaqPQ6Wch2Izmc3N-wyV78Kj4/w400-h300/IMG_20200923_185043.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">It was at this stage I added more apples, because I still had some, and the mixture was still quite thin. What you want is for almost all the vinegar to be absorbed by the solid ingredients. (I don't know if that's true, but it feels true. I read it in one chutney recipe and have decided it applies to <i>all</i> chutney recipes).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I left it for another few hours, before sterilising my Branston pickle jars, and spooning in the now perfectly goopy chutney splodge.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjzHEbR136QoylXrA6w09gzk2Sz3xvxlOLkum3AbprBE8UQDicEVulxyf869_8H8n0Ha2rw8UtzsE7MtA2CaKSQaH1x7c4HvzB9f60qShpu2mvXGi2EnWjyatzMM5LdxL6hGVZwE_IRH0n/s4032/PXL_20200924_050542347.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjzHEbR136QoylXrA6w09gzk2Sz3xvxlOLkum3AbprBE8UQDicEVulxyf869_8H8n0Ha2rw8UtzsE7MtA2CaKSQaH1x7c4HvzB9f60qShpu2mvXGi2EnWjyatzMM5LdxL6hGVZwE_IRH0n/w400-h300/PXL_20200924_050542347.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">And there we have it. 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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">I would never normally promote, well, anything that can be bought, but today I'm making an exception because I think I may have discovered the perfect pair of shoes, which means I may well never need to buy another pair of shoes again. They're made by a company called <a href="https://freetbarefoot.com/" target="_blank">Freet - "freedom for feet"</a> - and they're already most comfortable, and I have every confidence they will become the most durable - shoes I've ever worn. The whole schtick of <a href="https://freetbarefoot.com/">Freet</a> is that shoes should be shaped like your feet actually are, and not squeeze your toes together or raise your heel pointlessly and uncomfortably, as almost all shoes do. Which is so obviously correct and brilliantly simple it's no great surprise it's taken this long for anybody to realise that. (Google "barefoot shoes" - they're a very recent phenomenon). Truly obvious things are only obvious retrospectively. Why are all shoes not designed to correspond to the actual shape of your feet? I've no idea. It's bonkers, but here we are. Freet. (A fun word to say, too).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wearing a pair of Freet is as close as you're going to get to feeling as if you're walking around barefoot than, erm, walking around barefoot. Which we'd probably be doing if the surface of the whole world was covered in soft, damp moss or luxurious deep pile carpet, but this of course is not the case. The world is covered in tarmac, concrete, sharp stones, broken glass, twigs, litter, dog poo, and bits of Lego. None of these are things you want to tread on with unprotected feet. Hence, the existence of shoes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2bFdcXeIwi0j4oIJA0lBdFf97LP-t8obKuKrnbemgRM4Uflb6bp0va_o50lLDTB9ewbj-ualDlYCDjR_sR0tUYdJ9cDTJRF06xM53kdpaiZR1aS68TfUjTHvh8rGXn_fGXuhQreoLASYF/s2048/1600509925415-1791236270.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1152" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2bFdcXeIwi0j4oIJA0lBdFf97LP-t8obKuKrnbemgRM4Uflb6bp0va_o50lLDTB9ewbj-ualDlYCDjR_sR0tUYdJ9cDTJRF06xM53kdpaiZR1aS68TfUjTHvh8rGXn_fGXuhQreoLASYF/s320/1600509925415-1791236270.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now then. A few years ago <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2017/05/how-to-own-only-one-pair-of-shoes-and.html" target="_blank">I placed my overconfidence in a cheap pair of shoes, glue and some black leather paint.</a> The belief I had was that I could repair them indefinitely. This belief was false. Turns out cheap shoes not only aren't built to last, but aren't built to be repaired either. This is of course obvious, but it's taken me several years to actually learn it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Will I be able to repair my Freet shoes indefinitely? It's too soon to tell. I've had them about a month now and they still feel good as new. No signs of wear or tear, places where the rain might get in, and their suitable for all situations - work, casual, probably even formal. This post is starting to feel like an advertisement, which was not my intention, so I'll stop. I think I've made my point. Invest in a good pair of shoes. The end.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
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<br /><div style="text-align: justify;">This week <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2020/01/duct-tape-wallet-v20.html" target="_blank">I upgraded</a> my <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2018/11/adsbygoogle-window.html" target="_blank">duct tape wallet.</a> So I suppose that means I'm now on version 3. I like to think I've perfected the design: minimal, but accommodating of my needs. My favourite part is the outer compartment that contains both my bus pass and attaches to the key ring I can clip to my trousers. Then inside, as you'd expect from a wallet, there's spaces for cards and cash.</div><div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh36HcDAOGP6aZEYgEN09ducdeXaQYiBcOviNOJno3tggPbCmH8eIDuqFegUxgqCCgkl_0_uYZzJy5BOzuq8X0GuwP1OIrsybrYC47RbWDGmmEdp5egpOcxrLsQnJnubTm7nyrvmWbOouq1/s4032/IMG_20200912_110034.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh36HcDAOGP6aZEYgEN09ducdeXaQYiBcOviNOJno3tggPbCmH8eIDuqFegUxgqCCgkl_0_uYZzJy5BOzuq8X0GuwP1OIrsybrYC47RbWDGmmEdp5egpOcxrLsQnJnubTm7nyrvmWbOouq1/w375-h500/IMG_20200912_110034.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzcak1c4Nj1OS5he-4Qg6Mzdd76tdHkvoi0Nst7Fu_Ln3XzWb6lvQY8SvKK631693ODxO0skfoW5q6S34unkNnygN7AHR0tUM0vfT0FGxMwu0q3MXieK6aCOKSN4o3WKUBg4wir9mp74Yr/s1447/USER_SCOPED_TEMP_DATA_orca-image--391807552.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1447" data-original-width="1080" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzcak1c4Nj1OS5he-4Qg6Mzdd76tdHkvoi0Nst7Fu_Ln3XzWb6lvQY8SvKK631693ODxO0skfoW5q6S34unkNnygN7AHR0tUM0vfT0FGxMwu0q3MXieK6aCOKSN4o3WKUBg4wir9mp74Yr/w374-h500/USER_SCOPED_TEMP_DATA_orca-image--391807552.jpeg" width="374" /></a></div><div><br /></div>So, having perfected my wallet, I began to wonder what else you might be able to make out of duct tape. The first answer that came: a chopping board.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtdi9yBW-LTJraTz4Zh1TU-egF1lQ9F3RnvkXZc_e5iWN4JIQpSWv8_bYlVBlBB_VIzCQHtKjTvU97gWQdw2-RhT5cqa43DNUpyWRexgvX7jq_2HdE2K1coaUK3BLdEYx9-dbuSeggXdQm/s4032/IMG_20200912_104340.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtdi9yBW-LTJraTz4Zh1TU-egF1lQ9F3RnvkXZc_e5iWN4JIQpSWv8_bYlVBlBB_VIzCQHtKjTvU97gWQdw2-RhT5cqa43DNUpyWRexgvX7jq_2HdE2K1coaUK3BLdEYx9-dbuSeggXdQm/w375-h500/IMG_20200912_104340.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As with the wallet, your material is strips of tape, stuck to each other to make a kind of fabric. Then you simply overlap and build into the shape and size you want. For the chopping board it felt right to make it several layers thick, so I overlapped and cut accordingly, trying to waste as little tape as possible in the process - off cuts can be used as "border" material, giving your board a more robust edge.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I put mine to the test chopping up some fruit for my current breakfast of choice: a fresh green smoothie. You've probably been downing them for years, but they're a completely new concept to me, and a truly excellent breakfast, I can tell you that. I mostly use spinach or kale, apples, bananas, cucumber, avocado and fruit juice. I've also used blueberries, peaches and started adding touches of things like ginger and tumeric for a spicier kick. The possibilities are obvious: and it's a really easy way to get your daily fruit and veg intake up. I didn't think spinach or kale would go at all well with sweet fruit, but I was wrong.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiENYhwikwU8izBNXrqHwcnkZNNPkCqP987ik_LBJIy5kvVxxnMTDahPM2aD4Gm6IBhjLkAKrLlkQ92oH0GnfZnnUO0r3RkUhiNebvLhS7I4A9aJezk_hCtYOGbo7eg3aU39gFKS0NvfZNL/s4032/IMG_20200912_105053.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiENYhwikwU8izBNXrqHwcnkZNNPkCqP987ik_LBJIy5kvVxxnMTDahPM2aD4Gm6IBhjLkAKrLlkQ92oH0GnfZnnUO0r3RkUhiNebvLhS7I4A9aJezk_hCtYOGbo7eg3aU39gFKS0NvfZNL/w500-h375/IMG_20200912_105053.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMXKDre0QKAmVREb74DU5LgxgVSt68pGGycO4kriu8sS_4tyAVNT73Vksvsst4LFsyRYaOwUI3eV3D-HWxRhnYn0Zxa1NgdPDfoEZ7k4DFbsd5LzXZBBvQEXGvj4HfCGTfGKWIQeX0V4AX/s4032/IMG_20200912_104935.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMXKDre0QKAmVREb74DU5LgxgVSt68pGGycO4kriu8sS_4tyAVNT73Vksvsst4LFsyRYaOwUI3eV3D-HWxRhnYn0Zxa1NgdPDfoEZ7k4DFbsd5LzXZBBvQEXGvj4HfCGTfGKWIQeX0V4AX/w375-h500/IMG_20200912_104935.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The smoothie, once smoothed, looked like this:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsrZ_cFCz1LPNHtJG-LAZUUJjOvpEgHXGOGw-T1Pr0FtVIakKR9H0qUAK2D0vkWtkoPybqxtKeF4gdmAnbR4BriAWdcS0xBxWr1UR0V6KgzuxFkLKK9f8mVFVZfO42mEbwLAFxL0i7K7_J/s4032/IMG_20200912_105322.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="500" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsrZ_cFCz1LPNHtJG-LAZUUJjOvpEgHXGOGw-T1Pr0FtVIakKR9H0qUAK2D0vkWtkoPybqxtKeF4gdmAnbR4BriAWdcS0xBxWr1UR0V6KgzuxFkLKK9f8mVFVZfO42mEbwLAFxL0i7K7_J/w375-h500/IMG_20200912_105322.jpg" width="375" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">...and the chopping board looks like this:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhepRc3WeouUvkQPrgTCquQbzdKEWMtDqbeHNA8bqRnxevlbAdO_HtROeGh8zW5HRwNjr-vcLj4yUp_t_Ldpwxfy042Z0uXHZX956rQncUWOdcnmyalb-HTUOq2KKdj1WeCVYtyF62Wko9i/s4032/IMG_20200912_112136.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhepRc3WeouUvkQPrgTCquQbzdKEWMtDqbeHNA8bqRnxevlbAdO_HtROeGh8zW5HRwNjr-vcLj4yUp_t_Ldpwxfy042Z0uXHZX956rQncUWOdcnmyalb-HTUOq2KKdj1WeCVYtyF62Wko9i/w500-h375/IMG_20200912_112136.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We'll see how long it lasts. The good thing is, if it starts to fray or deteriorate too quickly, it can always be patched up with more duct tape. It rolls up, making it easier to find a place to store it, and wipes clean, keeping it nice and hygienic in this dangerous times. Less could be said for its predecessor, which looks like this:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm2I1H2KHstphNXxgklr1RPMsaohwgNSMzvne2NZuZSfiBpr-ol5Yu2NOGXuV2Sx9SCa5Ow76hpPFII94IwPdOtse5U9-jcVD42ygun52YeqgJNTy81m_KXFz7vn9L6ALuChvFnkCiBfp_/s4032/IMG_20200912_112145.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm2I1H2KHstphNXxgklr1RPMsaohwgNSMzvne2NZuZSfiBpr-ol5Yu2NOGXuV2Sx9SCa5Ow76hpPFII94IwPdOtse5U9-jcVD42ygun52YeqgJNTy81m_KXFz7vn9L6ALuChvFnkCiBfp_/w500-h375/IMG_20200912_112145.jpg" width="500" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Not something I want to throw away; but it's achieved a level of mankiness that renders it unsuitable for the kitchen. Time to find another use for it. Meanwhile, breakfast.</div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /><div>
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<br /><div><br /></div><div><blockquote>Visit a graveyard; you will search in vain for a tombstone inscribed with the words “steam-fitter,” “executive vice president,” “park ranger,” or “clerk.” In death, the essence of a soul’s being on earth is seen as marked by the love they felt for, and received from, their husbands, wives, and children, or sometimes also by what military unit they served with in time of war. These are all things which involve both intense emotional commitment, and the giving and taking of life. While alive, in contrast, the first question anyone was likely to have asked on meeting any of those people was, “What do you do for a living?”</blockquote><p>- David Graeber, <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466958-bullshit-jobs" target="_blank">Bullshit Jobs</a></i></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/anthropologist-author-and-activist-david-graeber-dies-aged-59">Rest in peace, Professor.</a></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtQ4UVZUfEQRLqyRDlnBdajwQ2eF9ysAmWHKh8bCEyYUimQgUV3AJf6nSW4LosYKEVeHQiXoemGnG0KnGGBJ2kgZwPGcrXQADg0QjpP8eoolMCcN6u2xGZAa8PFDyj-lXStn6NNSdI7nDi/s1457/Graeber+1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="712" data-original-width="1457" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtQ4UVZUfEQRLqyRDlnBdajwQ2eF9ysAmWHKh8bCEyYUimQgUV3AJf6nSW4LosYKEVeHQiXoemGnG0KnGGBJ2kgZwPGcrXQADg0QjpP8eoolMCcN6u2xGZAa8PFDyj-lXStn6NNSdI7nDi/w400-h195/Graeber+1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><br /><div><br /></div><div><p dir="ltr" id="docs-internal-guid-14596e92-7fff-4b84-d8f4-66b1999fd556" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p></div><div><br />
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<br />I'm feeling positive about my blackcurrant wine. It's been fermenting now for about 5 weeks, and is already clearing very nicely indeed.<div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6onsuZPbqG0kdgGJjlE1MSQNssYvOyZ1p7rVtFVad0TIRWn1-8szydFugvquwF6IbdVShvR0f-bHyc4ZFfMd_SZsFLKGxbiS8jEMxXphDRyIc7OrSjqrnpuF1XTTaEnw9tbeV9GTWgImy/s4032/IMG_20200826_103031.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6onsuZPbqG0kdgGJjlE1MSQNssYvOyZ1p7rVtFVad0TIRWn1-8szydFugvquwF6IbdVShvR0f-bHyc4ZFfMd_SZsFLKGxbiS8jEMxXphDRyIc7OrSjqrnpuF1XTTaEnw9tbeV9GTWgImy/w384-h512/IMG_20200826_103031.jpg" width="384" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Five weeks is nothing in wine time. Still, the recipe promised it would be ready for drinking in six months, so I'd say it's running to schedule. Here's to blackcurrants! The same can't be said for last year's blackberry wine, which never really cleared properly and, according to experiments conducted in my own belly, never really fermented at all.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWkUqXLHPAc4casQwWEF3zbpixlzPvTrNF66aI0_2O_TQ3S4UdCpqdyhuZ3TMWnMUDweECVueTNaS2Eu5nFaZZssSxSUX4Xey86ckNw3Sa6Nmvn3-agG2TbwOcusNAElmA-YxgI7QCu7Of/s4032/IMG_20200826_103246.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWkUqXLHPAc4casQwWEF3zbpixlzPvTrNF66aI0_2O_TQ3S4UdCpqdyhuZ3TMWnMUDweECVueTNaS2Eu5nFaZZssSxSUX4Xey86ckNw3Sa6Nmvn3-agG2TbwOcusNAElmA-YxgI7QCu7Of/s640/IMG_20200826_103246.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">The rowanberry wine, meanwhile, while it cleared perfectly well, is barely drinkable. I had to add more sugar to it just to make it palatable, which feels like cheating.</div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7OqJRAdutgLboUqzT8g4JWq6644tSKWA9ptRR-xbPnK3A45mrkMyJhXWGUVTFRavmQNKo8DORAbmbGWkXTUa6U-lhdJyFewqAPaaeDvd0rvuojeJHiL6oUwsBy5e-eI4W5dvFVd0ij4K/s4032/IMG_20200826_103557.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO7OqJRAdutgLboUqzT8g4JWq6644tSKWA9ptRR-xbPnK3A45mrkMyJhXWGUVTFRavmQNKo8DORAbmbGWkXTUa6U-lhdJyFewqAPaaeDvd0rvuojeJHiL6oUwsBy5e-eI4W5dvFVd0ij4K/s640/IMG_20200826_103557.jpg" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Oh well, you live and learn. It's all good because blackberry season is here again so I'll be heading down to <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/search/label/allotment" target="_blank">the allotment's vicinity</a> this week to gather some berries for a second attempt. You live and learn.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">Herb salts are something I'm into this year in a big way. They are what you think they are - combinations of dried herbs, with salt. It's a good way of preserving an abundant <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2018/06/herbal-harvest.html">herb harvest</a>, and makes for delicious flavourful additions to anything savoury you could possibly think of. I'm amassing quite a stash:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_w0iyCSYpyAVl8PFxvtsNZegtv_hhcUKuNpB2kLrIi6Y0XlszrOtiSKMnytMpJ9l1kG6tG0rpETTmfWMgH0LYKrsAoVze-ix-Prfc38ExCIMJYUHr7QSEkyHmWGjc8VgBkst33p9qfim/s4032/IMG_20200808_195042.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhB_w0iyCSYpyAVl8PFxvtsNZegtv_hhcUKuNpB2kLrIi6Y0XlszrOtiSKMnytMpJ9l1kG6tG0rpETTmfWMgH0LYKrsAoVze-ix-Prfc38ExCIMJYUHr7QSEkyHmWGjc8VgBkst33p9qfim/s640/IMG_20200808_195042.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
I grow a lot of herbs on <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/search/label/allotment">my allotment</a> because they're easy to maintain and mostly perennial. I'm a lazy gardener, which I tell myself has a deep and philosophical element to it - I'm learning from the pace of nature or something - and this may actually be the case, or it may be that I'm only lazy. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6w4FI0Jq0lI">So what?</a> The art of gardening consists mainly in sitting in your garden, and very occasionally, when absolutely necessary, doing some gardening.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">As for technique, it's all about drying the herbs properly. Sage, rosemary, marjoram, mint - all these grow on branches, that can be snipped off the plant and hug up somewhere dry in bunches. Patience is importance - you don't want to do anything more with them until they're <i>completely</i> dry. They're completely dry when the leaves have curled and crumble between your fingers to the touch. Here's what a bowl of recently crumbled marjoram looks like:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQ9GaUSh2IVkXpmlelLhvoB-iq9EZ_Yfw-8QLa8nkArtH8suLLIQWOma_HNo-mZbTT3yzvYLsWuA3K-S6CDecX7U22GCk4mUnVsEuCEBt8EaE3bIqqnq7yDgxbJq6ZWY_YZrmdi1Y-2DX/s4032/IMG_20200808_195047.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBQ9GaUSh2IVkXpmlelLhvoB-iq9EZ_Yfw-8QLa8nkArtH8suLLIQWOma_HNo-mZbTT3yzvYLsWuA3K-S6CDecX7U22GCk4mUnVsEuCEBt8EaE3bIqqnq7yDgxbJq6ZWY_YZrmdi1Y-2DX/s640/IMG_20200808_195047.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Having sprigs of herbs hanging around in windows and doorways makes me feel like a bit of a wizard. That I'm warding off evil spirits or whatever. They also smell nice. Then when they're dry you can add them to food and feel like you're a gourmet chef, even though you're not.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Once the herbs are all crumbled up, you need a pestle and mortar to mix them with the salt (use sea salt if you can, not standard and characterless and mineral-stricken table salt) and crush into a powder, that looks like this:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YTBl5rnv_GTujowK3LBS8Yzw0IJJFx5fhBnlGox8O4JaYfkOWETGukUL57tT1D4FziGjOb6hLRKHQcF94MFgtc3UwxlDDinscCryjYEt_949KHqBVtkAn4lQEM-XXyReQBIU3SDSlkoI/s4032/IMG_20200808_200123.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7YTBl5rnv_GTujowK3LBS8Yzw0IJJFx5fhBnlGox8O4JaYfkOWETGukUL57tT1D4FziGjOb6hLRKHQcF94MFgtc3UwxlDDinscCryjYEt_949KHqBVtkAn4lQEM-XXyReQBIU3SDSlkoI/s640/IMG_20200808_200123.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At this point you can easily remove any stray twigs or woody bits that you don't want.</div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The thing to do is make your own blends of herb salts. I've already tried a few of my own, and given them out to colleagues at work, with no complaints. I keep a jar of "mixed" herb salt handy at all times, and when I went to make my own blends, I just use the separate jars pictured above to create unique combinations. Another <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2017/06/microgreens.html">journey</a> begins. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
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It's always a pleasure to see some companion planting in action. I visited my parents over the weekend - my first venture out of Greater Manchester in six months, all masked up for the journey - out into fresher air and slower living where I probably belong. We visited the spacious, meticulous <a href="https://www.castlehoward.co.uk/visit-us/the-gardens/walled-garden" target="_blank">gardens of Castle Howard</a> on Sunday afternoon, where one veg bed has been arranged by someone who obviously knows a thing or two about combining plants. While its neat-and-tidiness may not to be your liking, if you look past that you can see the spirit of permaculture at work</div>
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Nasturtiums in the corner of the plot, along with marigolds, distract and repel the aphids and other pests that would otherwise be scoffing on the brassicas (beetroot and kale). Here's some almost entirely pest-invisible kale:</div>
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Beans and squash, perhaps going for a <a href="https://www.growveg.co.uk/guides/companion-planting-three-sisters-garden-plans/" target="_blank">"three sisters" (or two sisters, anyway)</a> effect - perhaps not, but looking very happy together all the same. Planting the beans a bit closer to the sweet peas trellis may have been part of the plan - sweet peas, in any case, will attract pollinators to the beans.<span id="goog_413290664"></span></div>
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<br />Feeling really good this morning; perhaps even great. I didn't wake up feeling sluggish or hazy, and felt actually rested - even after one work day that brought more than its fair share of the usual annoyances another, on which I predict even more of the same. I think there might be something to this intermittent fasting lark.<div><br /></div><div>My pattern on work days is working out as breakfast at 6:30, lunch about 11, lunch about 2pm. Getting back into the habit of eating first thing in the mornings is a bit of stretch - I usually just gave coffee - and oddly, I didn't feel ravenously hungry. A hearty <a href="https://everdifferentwaters.blogspot.com/2018/01/slow-cooker-simple-vegan-chilli.html">bowl of chilli, aged a good 36 hours in the slow cooker</a>, though, really hit the spot.</div><div><br /></div><div>I haven't weighed myself yet, and I didn't when I started, so it wouldn't really tell me anything. It's easy to let the number distract and discourage you, so I try and avoid them. It will be interesting to see what I weigh a few months down the line though, if I keep it up this long. So far, it's been a delight. <br /><div><br /></div><div> <br />
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