Yesterday I reduced a viburnum by half, hacked back salvia and holly, raked a bed, dug a trench in it, mixed a hundred litres of compost into the trench, and planted three cherry trees. Today I am actually less achy and knackered than I expected, especially bearing in mind that I still have this plague in my system. Once I have some charge in my phone, I’m going to check the weather and see if I’m going to have the space to plant some apple trees today.
Today it’s the Swatch Metropolis, yesterday it was the G-Shock G-Rescue because it was a day of working with saws and chainsaws and other implements of destruction.
And my fourth leather notebook cover arrived, so now I have a system that can contain everything I’m working on with space to accommodate more.
TODAY:
- More than four decades after a teenager was murdered in California, DNA found on a discarded cigarette has helped authorities catch her killer – I did that bit in my novel GUN MACHINE, didn’t I?
- (not actually) A reality check on SpaceX moon and Mars plans (also, as of yesterday, NASA’s new moon launch vehicle fixed its leaky pipes only to discover blocked pipes
- weird materials science: electrodynamic dust shields for moon missions
“Kiyoshi Awazu［KIYOSHI AWAZU SCPAP BOOK］.published by Tabata Shobo.1970.”
Accessions: The complete works of Plato
READING: THE BIG THREE: SOCRATES, PLATO, ARISTOTLE, Neel Burton (UK) (US+)
When asked why he had made death the penalty for most offences, Draco replied that he considered the lesser offences to deserve it and had no harsher punishment for the greater ones.
LISTENING: Monument Podcast (MNMT 506 : Síoda Rua) – listened to a lot of it yesterday while working in the garden and it’s an amazing mix
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