Many other projects have reduced my posts to weekly entries
for the present. I am writing the newspaper column and several freelance
projects, having just finished the piece for Low-Tech magazine. My day job
continues, unlike many jobs in Ireland, but absorbs more time than it used to.
On the weekends the daylight hours have filled with spring
preparations; digging our garden beds, laying newspaper and mulch between the
beds, turning the compost, pulling and burning the weeds and brambles, climbing
and pruning the trees, making charcoal and chopping wood for the fire.
I have also been working on:
Several types of wine: hawthorn and crabapple; parsnip and
elderberry; parsnip and ginger, and parsnip and beetroot, to add to our aging
bottles of cowslip, elderflower, nettle and meadowsweet.
Chicory, not just for winter vitamins but ground like coffee; while
not as good as the coffee I’m used to, it does taste similar. It works well for
stretching your coffee supply, both reducing the price and the amount of caffeine.
Baskets -- this one intended for potatoes, if I can ever find time to finish it.
The most important project: The Girl, seen here on last week’s
trip to Dublin’s National Gallery.
1 comment:
The level of inquisitiveness manifested at the gallery, literally and figuratively, is simply priceless.
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