Petite shoots and leaves

We're now just over a week into the sunflower contest. Venturing into the garden on Monday evening I was greeted by a rather beautiful sight...

I'll soon be needing the tape measure!

I say, I say, I say...

...have you heard about that new Morgan Spurlock film? He decides to live as a Jew for 30 days.



He has to follow Hebrew ways for that month, and Hebrew ways only.

It's called 'Circum Cise Me'.



Cheers.



Garden update (and this is also a few days old now) - how do you know if a shoot is the flower you planted? or just yet more weeds?

We plough the fields and scatter...

This is a week out of date unfortunately but if I'm going to do this sunflower thing properly I should have an entry from the beginning. After Friday & Saturday's shenanigans, we recovered from post-birthday hangovers with an afternoon of intensive gardening.


Sunflower seeds were planted in beds and pots (along with a few in indoor pots in case of any freakish late frosts).

Last summer I waged a one-man, largely unsuccessful campaign against local pigeons. This year my targets are sighted on bindweed. Man, that stuff is incredible! I expect that I'll return to that topic again before too long.

And how better to end the day than with a bonfire! Splendid. Bay leaves go up a treat. Not sure my neighbours were too impressed though - I only noticed after lighting it that they had some washing out....oops. I think CP was a little concerned at one point too - she had a bucket of water on standby in case things got out of hand.

The age old dilemma....I've a free evening, do I finish that scientific paper, or try and wrap my scarf around my head?

Earlier this week I had a brief conversation with a fellow blogger. "Why have you stopped blogging?" I asked the erstwhile blog chum. "I don't feel I have anything to say," came the reply.
It's a good job that there is no such strict criteria enforced here at Tombolablog. There'd be a lot fewer than 116 entries if there was.

Some might say that I should have taken that comment on board, perhaps spending time to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest it. However, instead of reflecting, and maybe realising that I, too, have nothing to say, I've decided to embrace the 'nothing to say' content of most of what's on here by continuing to mine my usual themes. Beginning with a knitting update. My scarf has been 'on the needles' since January 2006. A bit shameful that really. However, it's now long enough to do this, perhaps in preparation for a Himalayan trek:


or this, the arctic combat/woolly ninja look:


Look, it's as big as me! Yes, well done, but isn't it really about time it was finished?

Hang the pigeon

It's been brought to my attention that the recent picture of bizarre pigeon death wasn't very clear. Ok, sickos, if you really do want to see an avian corpse, we've delved into the pigeon detective files and come up with this. Any better? As ever, click on it to make it go big.























The investigation remains open.

Flower power

Last summer's projects included modified birdfeeding devices, failed lawnmowing attempts, and knitting (I just reflected on my adventures in June 2006 here). That scarf still isn't finished you know, though it is pretty lengthy now.



So as summer 2007 approaches, Tombolablog is pleased to announce a new activity.

Ladies and gentlemen, fellow bloggers, we hereby introduce the 2007 Blog Sunflower Challenge!



Seeds have been purchased and the garden weeded. We're ready to go. But better yet, we're inviting YOU to play along too. Two fellow bloggers have already accepted the challenge so come join the fun. The progress of the Tombolablog sunflowers will be reported here over the coming weeks and months.


Rules:



There aren't any really. Just plant some sunflower seeds and hope to grow a whopper. We'll be planting ours before the weekend. Don't be evil and cheat with chemicals. Go organic!

EDIT:
Within minutes of this going up one competitor asked about slug prevention. Good point. Slug pellets are allowed.




Bring me sunshine.....