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The trouble with gardening when disabled

I had the energy to cut a few leeks and chard. Now they're in water waiting for me to clean and process and I'm in bed trying to decide between doing that or making supper, because I don't have the spoons for both.

It's going to be supper because we have to eat. And no way I'm chopping things on painkillers.

#personal #gardening in pain

Lovely leftovers!

#potatoes #heritage veg #from the garden

Gazleme!

A new dish for the old year, with carrots, zucchini and basil from the garden

I actually got harvest! Rice and flour will be more interesting for a week or two! 😀😀😀😀😀

#carrots #beetroot #potato #leek #beans #zucchini

So like many many folks, I've been functioning at the very edge of my cope for months. Hence the silence. I'm at the point of looking at my peaceful place and wanting to cry. Taking slow, steady bites of time to fix things up, and it is showing improvement.

But! For those on the edge as to whether to mulch or not, and for the sceptics about the effects of mulching on weed pressure, I present this photo. The straw was laid months before the path was cleared.

#organic gardening #mulch

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For those asking for my new food list, I’m technically up to 22 things I can eat safely if you include the small handful of spices I can manage and basic stuff like salt and baking powder/soda. Which yes, can be allergy triggers for some.*

The list is:

Chicken, Oats, Egg, Olive Oil, Milk, Cornmeal (which means I can have bread, waffles, and breaded chicken!), Leek, Maple syrup, Cane Sugar (sparingly) Potato, Red Grape, Spinach (extremely sparingly), Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Pink Salt, Rosemary, Oregano, Thyme, Basil, Marjoram, Butter, and Apple

Quite the array for someone who was living on oats, water and chicken just over a year ago :D

My hope is maybe in December or January to get either sweet potato or bell peppers back into my diet. So keep those fingers crossed for me fam. There’s just about nothing I wouldn’t do to be able to eat sweet potato fries again lol

Allergy explanation/ramble under the cut for anyone who wants it.

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Dear gods almighty someone suggested farming? Do they know how much backbreaking work, soulgrindingly narrow margins, Delphi-levels of weather predition and z oh yes - space is involved in feeding yourself from a veg patch?

Do they observe the conflict between "randomly allergic to anything on the planet", "able to eat maybe 20 things" and BEING OUTSIDE?????

Never mind. I know the answer is "fuck no". *sigh* I'm so sorry.

#organic gardening is high risk

After a very busy few weeks, I took a few hours to try to restore order. Here is evidence of the weed-suppressing effects of mulch. Bear in mind, mulch might not be for your garden, for other reasons, but guess why the lettuce bed is going to take a lot more time to clean up than the onions and squash.

#organic gardening #lazy is better #mulch #gardening tips #onions #squash #lettuce

Allium flowers!

My zinnia, marigolds, cornflowers etc aren't blooming yet, so everything is going to seed.

Leeks, spring onions, red onions and walking onions 💚

#organic gardening #onions #leek

I love seeing these little darlings in the garden. Frogs are marvellous for keeping down pests.

Now I need to divert Nina's predatory instincts away from them and towards the goddamned Indian Mynahs*.

*an invasive pest of a bird in South Africa, with no natural predators. They are territorial, aggressive, murderous and clever. They've been seen to chase off indigenous birds from "their" space and to attack eggs & chicks.

#organic gardening #frogs and toads are fantastic for keeping down garden pests #they are also very sensitive to pesticides and pollution

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Dance Theatre of Harlem Company. Magnifique! 🩰

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Beautiful! The piece is Bach Violin Concerto in A Minor (3rd movement)

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Wear a mask.

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It's kinda warm here

Goodbye my garden

#organic gardening #in tears #hailstorm

Goodbye my garden

#organic gardening #in tears #hailstorm

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Skylar Brandt was supposed to debut as Aurora today but since the season was canceled she debuted her own Rose Adagio.

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Ok this is SO COOL because the Rose Adagio is a partnered dance–Aurora does exactly what’s shown in the video, but with the prince there rotating her and holding her waist, both for the attitude balance and the pirouettes. That wobbling you see while she turns? That’s not because she’s off balance (you could literally never do this without absolutely pinpoint perfect balance), that’s from the subtle movement of her foot to rotate herself. She is all the way en pointe, rotating sheerly by veeeery slightly adjusting her foot. You may be looking at this going “I don’t know much about ballet, but this looks pretty amazing.” I know ballet, and let me tell you, this is 100%, absolutely, INSANELY difficult, impressive, and fucking radical. Amazing doesn’t even begin to describe it.

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ANYONE ELSE REMINDED OF PRINCESS TUTU?!?!

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OH GOOD IT’S NOT JUST ME.

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https://youtu.be/PKKaHJ3Hmng

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Excellent, it has subtitles.

For anybody wondering just how incredible Skylar’s ability is, the character in this clip who’s dancing a pas de deux alone is facing off against a prima ballerina—a master—who’s also benefiting from magical enhancement. AND EVEN SHE THINKS IT CAN’T BE DONE. This show was made with a ton of research and input from real ballerinas and ballet teachers; much of what you see in it, from a technical perspective, is completely accurate, including how the steps are done and how positions are held. So when Kraehe says “she couldn’t be doing that,” that’s the opinion of actual dance professionals. What Princess Tutu is doing—which is what Skylar does in the first video—is supposed to be impossible.

IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE IMPOSSIBLE.