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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011I got back from Ireland and London this week. Very glad I went — Ireland was great, very green as everyone says, restful, great people, good food. I’ll write more about places we went when I get around to uploading photos.
It was nice being in places where you could go for an invigorating walk. I don’t think there’s any such thing as an invigorating walk in Bangkok. If I walk fast I come home feeling like a piece of chewing gum squashed on the bottom of a shoe. If I walk at regular Thai pace, which is slightly faster than standing still, I come home feeling similar, but without the benefit of exercise. I don’t think I’d have liked the Irish winter, but the Irish summer was very refreshing. The rain it rainethed pretty well every day — all that green comes at a price, I guess — but not very hard or for very long.
My flowering vine isn’t flowering. It flowered when it was just a plant in a pot, no doubt regularly pruned, but once I let it grow it stopped making flowers. So I’ve stuck some ‘flower spike’ fertiliser sticks in its pot to encourage it. Its companion didn’t grow at all, due — I think — to a weed in its pot that turned out to be a chilli plant. I’ve repotted the chilli and we’ll see if vine #2 recovers. None of my plants are really enthusiastic flowerers, except for an ylang-ylang I picked up in a street market. The flowers look weird, like rather ratty yellow sea anemones, but they certainly smell good. Maybe the others aren’t getting enough sun on the balconies, or maybe they need more fertiliser. I bought some bat guano to try — how could I resist a bag of bat shit?
And randomly, some Winnie the Pooh mental disorder gifs by Matthew Wilkinson.
