Daily Archives: 3 November, 2007

My Garden Has a Secret

Does yours? I spent the morning yesterday planting bulbs. I got crocuses and narcissus, freesia and tulips, and some other bright and cheerful stuff. If you haven’t planted bulbs in your garden, get on it. Bulbs are awesome. And they come up year after year, making them much less of a pain in the butt

They Are the Borg

While I was cruising the NaBloPoMo randomizer looking for a great site to link to this morning, something struck me: many (not all) female bloggers seem to blog about either knitting, or children. Or wanting to have children. Or the process of adopting children. Or knitting baby clothes. Or their pregnancies. I literally went through

Secretive Shingles

A British distance runner is also a mother, and a pretty hardcore one; she ran the day before giving birth to her baby. And again 12 days afterwards. Woah. San Francisco’s health benefits are under fire in court because the revolutionary law may also be illegal. Oops. Blackwater isn’t just content being a mercenary firm;