wenda

It has been remarked to me that I haven't been spending very much time online lately. So, I shall post an apology on my various blogs in case anyone has missed me (even though I haven't been at SG for long enough to create much of a presence yet, but on the off chance anyone HAS missed me, then ).

The reason is, I've been gardening. Obessively and relentlessly, every minute of spare daylight I have, I've been gardening. I'm trying to get the whole thing finished, top to tail, by the end of spring. It's a 1500m2 block so that's a lot of work. Hence, I don't have a lot else to talk about at the moment, so I'm really very uninteresting right now... unless anyone likes hearing about how utterly vile my compost heap smells, or how frustrating it is to try and dig up patches of lawn which have aggressively random chunks of concrete buried in them, or whether or not I should plant pansies in the front.

So that's why I'm not talking much to anyone, and probably won't be for some time. Partly because my time is divided between working, and being exhausted from so much working; and partly because I know all I'll talk about is the wretched garden, and I don't want to bore the pants off anyone.

Oh! But there IS the new bird. Icarus is pretty rough around the edges and needs to learn a few things about 'acceptable' amounts of force (he bites a lot - not maliciously, just in the manner of a very young animal investigating how much he can chew on things, and flesh is SO delightfully chewy), but he's also very playful. Yesterday he discovered a new game where he rolls over on his back and tussles with my fingers while I try to poke him in the belly. He spends a great deal of time rolling over now to make me play with him, and it's funny as hell. I need to take some photos of him soon.