Yes, we (or should I say I) am/are back after a very restful two months of blog shirking. Thanks for sticking with us and for your words of encouragement (especially Blueduck). How to start eh? I am sitting here while a very nice man fixes us up with a new sink system in order to make way for our new purchase of a dishwasher. Gone are the days of intense squabbles over who gets their hands soapy. Having a dishwasher is supposed to save us ¥30,000 a year in gas and water bills too! Easy life and saving money – fantastic!
It’s been a very mild winter – so much so that my chocolate brown rose has already started to rot. I haven’t really got a clue how to take care of it though so it will be a miracle if it finally flowers – watch this space. Apart from that I can think of little else to entice you back in to our world with. Got a new bass guitar and still gigging away. Got our text book idea awaiting approval at the publishers and one of my articles has been accepted for publication in a journal (once I’ve written it!) – anyway I hope that’s enough in the way of excuses for not bothering with the blog for so long. I will try to update more regularly from now on so please don’t desert us alltogether. Meanwhile check out the links to our friends’ blogs if you really want to see how one should be kept up.
Bu x
Ah…lovely to hear from you again!!! Happy Chinese New Year.
If you are having trouble with your roses, perhaps I should send you the deviously camp book I picked up at a local flea market recently. “The flower Arranger and Her Garden” by Jane Derbyshire (not her real name apparently…) was first published in 1967…and never saw the inside of a print press again it would seem. In her chapter on roses she weighs the pros and cons of dozens of different colours, hybrids and varieties. Her most scathing comments are reserved for the “Peace” variety of yellow rose, to wit: “I find it too blowsy and showy, like a city barmaid!” She then goes on to expouse the virtues of hormone rooting powders for roses…maybe that’s what your poor specimen needs??
Good to see some new blog action. I am intrigued by this dishwashing device you speak of. Is it one of the tiny ones that can sit on a countertop? Congrats on the writing pursuits.