h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I planted some outside. Nine of them. I'll be getting some more.

There are lots of daffs out there, too many and too hodgepodge for my taste. I'll did them up after they've finished for the season.

The ferns I planted last year haven't come up yet, but they didn't die down til quite late. I'm hoping they'll grow, spread and multiply for themselves.

I'll get some honeysuckle too to climb. And I think perhaps some mint and other perennial herbs.


Been thinking of getting a bread maker, or at least a tin. The bakery in Lindfield is good, but, is so popular they tend to run out or have people in line running out the door when I take the 20 minute walk into the village.

Fresh bread is subtle pleasure. I think the process of kneading the doe and experimenting with what one can make would a pleasure too.

Here's an example of the fun one can have applying reason to world:
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-polishing-a-turd.html

I fancy having a turn at this Japanese art. Snailrind's rabbit has volunteered some droppings. But, I think I'll work local soil before I graduate from hikaru dorodango to hikaru dorodungo.

Skeptics in the Pub launched successfully, http://www.carolineofbrunswick.co.uk/
Richard Wiseman came and gave an entertaining talk.
http://www.richardwiseman.com/
The room was packed and we had to turn away people who hadn't bought tickets in advance.
It shows that there is appetite to explore ideas, be informed and entertained and socialise at the same time.


Within myself, well I have been more aware of the BPD lately and have increased my quetiapine, but it is the only med I'm taking for it now. And it manages things at less than tenth of what I had been using, even after this increase.

I came across an interesting study on us Borderlines only recently:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sci;321/5890/806

It adds to the data showing just how differently our brains are structured. Some feel this suggests a genetic component, but I think it shows just adaptable the brain is. BPD starts young, and that age a pattern of defensive behaviours set in, and seemingly lead to a brain that processes emotions and perceptions very differently from the norm. These behaviours later become self-defeating and destructive or "maladaptive", and very difficult to shift. Unsurprising given that our brains have been dramatically reorganised.

Oh, and here are some pictures from TAM:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=114818&id=672353393&l=a1368b42eb

It may have been AMAZ!NG, but the few pictures I took on my phone were not.

So, I spent this evening digging the daffodil bulbs up. In a few months I be planting them again, but on the other side of the house. Except the white flowered ones which I'll put back in the out front but not all bunched up in one spot by the door, as they were.

Haven't got the honeysuckle or rest of the primroses yet.


The ferns I planted are now coming up.

Next time I'm in Crawley I'll get some herbs, they sell packs by the check out in Debenhams and I ordered some boots there which will hopefully turn up soon.

Sounds great. Good luck it will all grow nicely.