I have a pea seedling!
ON DECK: Rewrites! And hopefully chopping out the last of the wisteria on the patio surface so I can reseat the mini-greenhouse and install the new one.
INBOX: 56
LISTENING:
OUTSIDE: the brilliant Richard Belzer passed.
WARREN ELLIS LTD Articles.
My last two bare root apple trees arrived. The thing I learned about buying dormant, bare-root apple trees is that they generally cost the same as a new hardback, fat graphic novel or DVD. They are not, in the grand scheme of things, the vastly expensive indulgences I had believed them to be. These two, from the East Of England Apples And Orchards Project, were twenty quid. The other two were 17.99.
ON DECK: Honestly, I’m home alone until Sunday and thinking about taking a long weekend for myself. I’ll probably finish the newsletter today.
INBOX: 68, avail on email all day
LISTENING: Faure’s Requiem, apparently
READING: I’m across a few different books, none of which seem to be hooking me. It happens.
LAST WATCHED: THE POTENTIAL OF NOISE, a fantastic documentary about music producer Conny Plank. I did not know that he produced “Vienna”!
OUTSIDE: So sad to hear Bruce Willis has been diagnosed with frontotemporal dementia. I’ve met him a few times, and got to introduce my daughter to him on one of those occasions, and he was never less than kind, warm and engaged.
SHIPPING FORECAST: probably back to making notes here on Monday. A long weekend and a refocus is probably a good idea, as I have shit to do and record.
Selecting the day’s soundtrack. Just ordered a shitload of garden supplies, which was dumb because I’m still stemming the bleeding from buying my partner’s immense birthday present, but this batch should be the last garden expense for a while and should get me where I need to be for spring once I’ve chopped some more stuff down and reduced the woodpile.
ON DECK: finishing the second draft of a document for a prodco. Setting up for DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT polishes. Probably various other things I’m forgetting.
INBOX: 80
ON DECK: finished up first tranche of consulting job yesterday. Today is for the potting of tomato seedlings and the drilling of holes in containers and the starting of pea seeds in the propagator. Later, I may make a start on the polish drafts of DEPARTMENT OF MIDNIGHT, as we’re getting closer to recording time. And I do need to revise a pitch document. But, right now, I want to get out of the office chair for a bit and be useful in other ways.
INBOX: 78
LISTENING: Radio 3 In Concert. Educating myself.
SHIPPING FORECAST: Taking today for myself.
Got the new mini-greenhouse up yesterday, planted some bulbs, got the blackberries into containers, dumped the last of the compost into the pollinator area so I can sow next month. Newsletter went out yesterday too.
ON DECK: aiming to finish the first tranche of consult job documents today so that I can have my brain back for the rest of the week. I want to be potting up tomato seedlings from the hydroponic propagator into this mini greenhouse tomorrow, and sowing peas and other things. Also, I have two more bare-root apple trees arriving this week, to complete the pollinator bridge.
INBOX: 71. Absolute disaster.
LISTENING: VOICES OF FORGOTTEN WORLDS
READING: A MOUNTAIN TO THE NORTH, Krasznahorkai
SHIPPING FORECAST: I have a post in the scheduler for later, and a bunch of notes to type up. But first, work.
Tell that to the rain.
I’ve delivered three script documents in four days. The next one is going to be intensive, so I need to slow down a little bit. Inbox 75. Catching up with all the things today.
Heavy fog this morning, and a lot of overnight animal damage to the garden, which means I have a lot more to do during daylight than I planned on.
ON DECK: consult job, re-marking the boards
INBOX: 71, it’s also an email day, I’m around and picking up.
SHIPPING FORECAST: Dunno. Let’s see what happens.
Cold bright morning with just a hint of fog. Lovely start to the day.
ON DECK: Want to finish section 3 of consult job by end of the afternoon. Need to mark up the boards and start prep for Friday phone conference. Am now across AUTHORITY book reprint plans.
INBOX: 74
LISTENING:
READING: cracked and bought the new Krasznahorkai. It radiates Beckett, Borges, Calvino and Kafka.
The little person ran off back down the garden before I could get a close shot, but we now have two increasingly brave squirrels visiting the garden daily.
ON DECK: pre-conference notes document to finish, then the next section of the consult job, then WRITTLE 2 105
INBOX: 72. Email tonight, probably.
LISTENING:
READING: TLS
LAST WATCHED: (most of) TOP GUN: MAVERICK.
SHIPPING FORECAST: No idea. Depends on whether this slight eyestrain clears or not! Happy Monday.
We tend to get a false spring out here on the Thames Delta. It’s come a little earlier than usual this year, and will last for another few days before the temperature drops again. Everything in the garden is very confused, and I will have to wait another week before I do the late winter pruning.
ON DECK: All the things. Need to mark up the boards with a bunch of changes and new things. As soon as I can see properly, I’m going into two different scripts, to clear the weekend for a pitch document I need to write following yestetday’s phone conference. And also buying herself’s large and expensive birthday present. Argh.
INBOX: 61. Processing email now.
LISTENING: