Sunday, May 17, 2009

An assortment of unsorted thoughts (of sorts)

Today, I bought baking potatoes with a blank Best Before Date. It wasn't so much the potatoes I wanted as a little unpredictability. (But only a little).

Is it safe to put unpredictability in a microwave?



Lately, I've been reading a lot of webpages written by people with a positive "can do" attitude. It's very inspiring.

Lately, I've been reading a lot of webpages written by people with a positive "can do" attitude. It's very annoying.

The web's very polarising like that.

So are people, though.

And mood swings.



It's long been a mystery to me - and to anyone else who's ever been optimistic enough to ask - what exactly it is that I do all day. I'm still not 100% sure what the answer is, but I'm starting to narrow it down.

I think it involves a sort of metaphorical gardening.

Metaphorical gardening and coffee.

(Come back when the flowers are starting to bloom - I'll be the one trying not to sneeze. But at least I should have a better answer by then).



MATCH OF THE DAY. POST-MATCH INTERVIEW.

JAMIE CARRAGHER: "We were a bit like a daisy today... [LONG PAUSE]... Lackadaisical."



4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Do you need metaphorical gardening tools to do your gardening?

Occasional Poster of Comments said...

Oddly, quite the opposite. Pen and paper and some coffee usually suffice.

In other words, I noticed the other day that after months and months of sitting around drinking far too much overpriced coffee, my notebook suddenly seems to have become full enough that I can either sew new ideas in it, or, if I don't have any, just have a flick through and cultivate some old ones, or play about with a bit of grafting and cross-pollination and see what interesting hybrids result. Which is quite comforting, really - apparently I haven't been doing nearly as much 'nothing' as I'd imagined :)

Anonymous said...

Your compost doesn't need any extra fertiliser then? (Coffee grounds are reputed to be a good mulch, by the way!)

Occasional Poster of Comments said...

I'm sure there's more than enough "fertiliser" in there.