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guerrilla gardening

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I read this news article about a guy who calls himself a Guerilla Gardener and I thought it sounded like something a few of you might like the idea of :) Actually, I even like the idea of the really simple seed dropping attacks. That’s even easy enough for me.

An army of self-styled guerrilla gardeners is growing across the world, fighting to transform urban wastelands into horticultural havens.
They work under the cover of night, armed with seed bombs, chemical weapons and pitchforks. Their tactics are anarchistic, their attitude is revolutionary, their aim is to beautify.

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by any other name..

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Through an otherwise unrelated series of links, I came across this page with a very long list of euphemisms for condoms. There are a lot of pretty silly names there but some of them are quite amusing. I think my absolute favourite is cumbrella, it’s just such a simple change that makes perfect sense :) I also liked embryno and third leg trouser and I like the rhyming of zucchini beanie and the quite simple wank tank.

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why we write

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I can’t remember now where I came across this, but it’s an interesting blog being put together by some TV writers. Each day they have an essay by a different writer talking about why they do what they do.

Why We Write is a series of essays by prominent – and not so prominent – TV and Film writers… and by people like you: writers and those who hope someday to call themselves writers. Conceived by Charlie Craig and Thania St. John, the campaign hopes to inspire and inform all writers.

They say they hope to continue at least as long as the strike continues. While the essays are very interesting, I have to admit that I hope they don’t get to post many more – I miss my TV.

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riddle

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Here’s a question for you: what do little girl’s tongues, a hot glue gun and an ice pack have in common?

The answer is that they are all tools I have been using this morning in preparing the invitations for Kristian’s naming ceremony. The little girl’s tongues were used to lick the envelopes before sealing them; the ice pack was used for sitting the wax stamps on before making impressions; and the glue gun is used for melting the wax onto the envelopes.

We ordered some of this wax a month or two ago but this is the first experimentation I’ve done with it. Previously I used the old fashioned kind of wicked wax sticks. I think it will take practise still to get the technique perfected, but I’m quite pleased with how the seals came out. I wasn’t using the ice to start with but I think it makes a definite difference to the quality of the impression.

I want more sealing stamps. I’ve been lusting over the tetragrammaton one for ages but it’s so expensive. :(

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