SPRING TIME IN MY TINY BATTERED GARDEN

TULIPS
For some reason the deer left some tulips this year, which I’m very pleased about. Haven’t seen them in awhile and I thought I didn’t like them, maybe to protect myself since they usually gets eaten? Anyway, I like tulips and I’m buying some more for next year and I hope the deer is continuing to be nice to me.

New book

“The Canterville ghost and other short stories” Different stories by Oscar Wilde, Mark Twain Theodor Storm, Robert Louise Stevenson. Good with a short book, or there is now way I’ll make it.

Promise

To write at least four pages a day. That doesn’t sound like a farfetched dream, it could be a reality. I do want my own computer though, peace and quiet without people bothering me. But if I was to have a computer in my bedroom, when would I go to bed at night? Have a feeling I would stay up way too long… I wonder what a computer costs?

But the idea of getting time to write sounds so much better if I had my own little place to go to, a place where I wouldn’t be bothered. People snooping around, reading over my shoulder, hate that! The dream would be to have my own little shed though...

(PS. Just Decided to get my own computer, the promise will start when it arrives; I think I’m worth it)

I’m reading way too slow

I finally managed to finish my book… There’s no way I’ll make 101 books in 1001 days, unless I start to read really short books… I should have finished that book a long time ago; I should be a few chapters in on a new one by now. It doesn’t look good for the whole 101 books thingy right now.

They are taking my plants!!

It’s hard to be a guerrilla gardener. I planted some violets and some Blue-eyed Mary (Omphalodes verna) and now they are gone! So is the cute little pansy that was growing there, I hadn’t planted it there. There’s no trace of my Silene coronaria either, someone is taking them! So far my daffodils are okay but that’s probably because they are not in bloom right now. I don’t want to plant more stuff is people are taking it…

Deadly Girlz new collection

I had been looking forward to Deadly Girlz new collection but I was a little worried and it looks like I had reasons to be. It’s pretty damn dull… The favorite one is this green one and that’s because it’s my favorite color at the moment.

Thank god for Deadly Ca$h

Who wants tea?

I have a few flavored black teas that I don’t like and will never drink so… Elderberry, apple and one called Himalaya, not really sure what’s in it but some kind of fruit.

Found the lovely lady at MAD POTS of Tea

Boxwood vs Lavender

Trying to make something out of the “backyard”, it’s a mess but I spent the entire day yesterday digging and pulling weeds and there is an improvement. I want a nursery/kitchen/herb garden with cold frames and everything, little stone paths so that there’s no grass that needs to be mowed.

I want to make little borders to the flowerbeds and I think I want boxwood but lavender is nice too, but boxwood is evergreen, but lavender smell nice and is easy to sow… What to do? Maybe I can have both or perhaps that will make the flowerbeds too wide? My heart says boxwood but it would be a lot easier with lavender. Tricky, tricky…

Boxwood, picture from Odla

Lavender, picture from Burgundy Experiance

Like it!

Cute little cape from Heavy Red, I like the fact that most of their stuff is either red or black. They also have a cute Little Red Riding Hood costume and an Alice in Wonderland. And it’s not that expensive either, sure shipping and stuff added but still.

WTH!?

First of all, Terminator 4, please no… Why is Christian Bale making so much crap? I like him but what is he doing… Christian as John Connor and then Josh Brolin as Terminator?! You got to be kidding!

Just because

I might have a little crush on her, just a tiny one which might just be a phase and I will be over her in a month or so but until then… I like her, she’s cute! And she looks better with clothes on if you ask me.

Guerrilla Gardening

Love the idea of Guerrilla Gardening! There are so many places that need to be fixed up around here. I would love if people didn’t throw trash on the street, smashed the bus stops or throw their garden waste in the woods but they do… May 1th is apparently the International Sunflower Guerrilla Day so I’ll arm myself with as many seeds I can, I know just the right place for them too!

There’s also a book on the subject, could be interesting. I might do that whole sunflower thing in stages, start today and continue. It might rain tomorrow so it would be good to get the seeds down right away.

I’ve wanted to do this for sometime but I would go a step further and have the lovely Laura Satana make a log and stuff. (When is her web shop coming, waiting and waiting…)

Poppy Porn

Found some more poppy-porn in Tyras Garden. A really nice combo by the way, maybe I should do something like that too…

Picture by Tyra

Current book

Reading this at the moment, “True history of the Kelly Gang” by Peter Carey, I really need to go to bed and read some if I want to have a shoot at this 101 books thingy…

Poppy Time

I have bought so many different poppy seeds I don’t even know how many they are now… or where to plant them if when they grow. I think I have at least seventeen different kind of poppy seeds! Where should I plant all of these?! Since I have at least seven different kinds of grass maybe I should plant them with some grass? I have some weird attraction to poppies…

Very pleased today when I saw some of my poppies peeking up, Oriental poppy “Carneum” and “Royal Wedding”, let’s hope the rest of them start peeking up too.

On my Poppy wishlist
Oriental poppy “Coral reef”
Oriental poppy “Miss piggy”
Oriental poppy “Central park”
Oriental poppy “Manhattan”

I guess this is my porn, I go on the net and just look at garden pictures. I have folders full of pictures and magazines everywhere. When I was out on the net I found this cute site called, Everything French Gardening where this cute picture is from.

My current wallpaper

I sort of like it, I took the picture by the way and I think it looks cool. Not sure when I took it but I was just snapping away trying some different things and voila… but maybe I should change to something a little bit brighter, looks gloomy doesn’t it.

Is that the time? I should be in bed reading!! I’ll never make a 101 books in 1001 days…

101 books in 1001 days

Through Amiee I found 101 books in 1001 days and it sounds like fun so I’ve started working on a list of books to read. So typical that my library is close until August, I’ll manage somehow. I do have some books at home and I know I’ll buy some more and then it’s August and the library opens up again, and it’s my birthday and hopefully I’ll get some more books.

Boring…

Last movie I saw was Down with love and what the… so dull I don’t know how I managed to sit through it. Like Ewan but it wasn’t enough to make the movie enjoyable, I find Renée so dull, maybe I should just avoid all movies she’s in from now on.

The Stepford Wives

I’ve been thinking about reading the book by Ira Levin but when the movie was on TV the other day I recorded it and yesterday I watched it and I doubt I will read the book but it was so scary. Screw insane clowns hacking up teenagers and things like that, The Stepford Wives are scarier. I thought I had recorded the remake from 2004 with Nicole Kidman but I’m glad it was the original one because I have a crush on Katharine Ross.

The lovely Katharine, can you blame me having a crush on her?

Finally!!

I ordered some books TWO WEEKS AGO and finally, I got a mail today and they said they have sent my package. Let’s hope I don’t have to wait another two weeks. Sure, I’m already reading a book and I have a pile of books that I haven’t read but that’s no reason not to order new books is it?

Last seen movies

In a strange way was “Nosferatu” better than “Chicago”. Not a big fan of Renée Zellweger or Richard Gere, maybe that has something to do with it? Besides some Charlie Chaplin and Mel Brooks “Silent Movie” this was my first silent film but being a movie freak I should really watch a few more.

TOPSY TURVY DESIGN

I only find clothes that I will never be able to wear. How cute are these hats? Very! But when can I wear a hat? It would be fun to wear it to a job interview but… I don’t have anything to go with it, I would look pretty damn ridicules in one of those, but they are cute.

Found them at Etsy and they are by Topsy Turvy Design(etsy) more on her website Topsyturvydesign.com

My Fair Lady

I think I want to see this… never been to a musical so why not right. And I do love all thoes peonies, I can almost smell them. Oh, I have to buy a peony this summer, a "Sarah Bernhardt"...
Picture is from Myfairlady.se

Current book

“My double life” by Sarah Bernhardt. I had no idea who this person was until I watch “Moulin Rouge” and Nicole says something like, “Do you think I can be like Sarah?”

I think Baz should make a movie about Sarah.

Latest book

I finished it the other day and I don’t know… It was pretty boring to me, I don’t think it was anything special, and Tim is actually making a movie out this? I wonder if Helena will play a witch one more time, she’s pretty good at that by now.