Now, don’t misunderstand me, I love a bit of time off work. Hell, I’d like a whole lot more of it. But free time brings its own dilemmas, as illustrated below:

(This cartoon ©Shannon Wheeler; click through on image for original location.)

Continue reading “Productivity versus procrastination”

I know you’ve all been missing seeing plants at VCTB on Fridays, so here’s a bit of seasonal foliage for you:

I was hoping to be able to display one or both of my christmas cacti in resplendent full bloom, but as neither of them have deigned to flower you’ll have to make do with the sprig of poinsettia there. One of the cacti has flower buds, but they only appeared a few weeks back and are nowhere near ready - which could have a lot to do with the very mild autumn we’ve had this year. Yes, that’s it. Nothing to do with my amateur plant husbandry skills, that’s for certain. Hmmph. Continue reading “Friday Plant Blogging! Holiday greetings”

OK, so there’s nothing clever or interesting (or even masquerading as clever or interesting) to read here today. What can I say? It’s been a bank holiday weekend here in the UK, and I’ve had other demands on my time that didn’t involve hammering at this keyboard. Normal service will be resumed tomorrow - in the mean time, I’m sure you’ll grant a guy who doesn’t actually make any money from writing having a day off from posting on his blog.

Oh, you won’t? Well, that’s me told off…feel free to call me all the bad words under the sun in the comments. It’s been a while since I attempted to throw an open thread, anyway…

What did you all get up to this weekend, if you weren’t at the WorldCon in LA?

PZ Myers at Pharyngula, after a succesful campaign against a certain other horrendously over-commercialised and ultimately false and silly Christian festival, has decided to go for the throat of Easter. This guy is a strict rationalist, and brooks no religious mumbo-jumbo of any type. He rather enjoys baiting the Bible bashers. And why not? Continue reading “Declaring war on Easter”

Well, the Armchair Anarchist is off to snowy Austria for a week and a day, as of tomorrow. Continue reading “An absence of Anarchists”