Hacking away at the garden
February 6th 2009 06:14
Well, after my concerns about lack of exercise yesterday, I can say that today was an improvement in this regard. During the last week of our holidays, my wife and I spent a good deal of time clearing up the garden, shifting the compost heap from one side of the house to the other, planting vegetable seedlings, cutting back much of the overgrowth of bushes that had occurred over the last year or more. In fact, we’ve cut back so much of this growth that it seems as though there’s far more light around the property now.
Once we were back at work, of course, (entering dates and details into our PDAs, of course) the garden took second place.
However, today, being yet another holiday (Waitangi Day), we got on and sorted out the front path where the rhododendrons and some Chinese bush and various other plants were all competing for space. Not any more. Each one has been trimmed of excess baggage and there is ample space for them all to grow. Some of them look a bit bare, admittedly, but you can’t have everything!
And the result of doing all this clearing and cutting and moving of shrubbery was that I got some exercise. Whoopee! Maybe I won’t entirely look like a plum pudding by the time I have my prostate op.
PDAs - yeah, I had to look it up too. Personal Digital Assistants. Also known in the past as handhelds and so on. Now they come with their own slide-in/slide-out keyboards. In other words, they've turned into mini-computers.
Once we were back at work, of course, (entering dates and details into our PDAs, of course) the garden took second place.
However, today, being yet another holiday (Waitangi Day), we got on and sorted out the front path where the rhododendrons and some Chinese bush and various other plants were all competing for space. Not any more. Each one has been trimmed of excess baggage and there is ample space for them all to grow. Some of them look a bit bare, admittedly, but you can’t have everything!
And the result of doing all this clearing and cutting and moving of shrubbery was that I got some exercise. Whoopee! Maybe I won’t entirely look like a plum pudding by the time I have my prostate op.
PDAs - yeah, I had to look it up too. Personal Digital Assistants. Also known in the past as handhelds and so on. Now they come with their own slide-in/slide-out keyboards. In other words, they've turned into mini-computers.
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