It’s barren here: no sign of winter ending, everything is dry and bare. I did plant out the Laburnum tree however in the gap between home and the sun going down. Again, chose a spot that was shielded by a slab; how many more of these damned things are there under this soil. I should know, I have lived here for 13 years.

Is there something up with VW’s sensors? My car needed diagnostic tests to find why the emissions warning light up. It turned out to be nothing, probably the sensor is faulty causing the equivalent of a false positive.That’s the second time something like this has happened in 6 months. It’s no use, VW, using sensors that are less reliable than the thing they are testing for reliability.

I have deeds, this is a good thing on a symbolic level.

I have a working compost heap at last. Only took 3 hours digging to get it right. Last time, when I thought it was done, I found concrete slab underneath. I got that one out and found another beneath, to my surprise. Now it’s done, there is no real effort to run the thing. My little invertebrate labourers are kept warm with a cover and a few bags of horse manure, plus a full wheelie-bin of house-scraps to kick start the whole colony. Thanks to Ken Thompson for the encouragement.

Patience: very impressive film seen at The Electric Cinema. We had the luxury seats; sofas with waitress service (orders by text message). High points- the acting worked wonderfully, especially the lead character’s mother who had a role that could easily have been overdone. It wasn’t, it worked. The low points- maybe my failing, but I struggle with New York accents sometimes, so some passages of dialogue were lost on me. The problem for me is it sounds like they only pronounce the first half of each word. It’s all quite mumbling. They probably know this though; it was parodied in the film Dick Tracy (1990), remember the character ‘Mumbles’?

Sky is leaden heavy with rain today, not that I minded. It’s been a rather tumultuous week. I’d like to pull the threads that are woven through the last month. Pull them hard so that they straighten out. They’d be easier to follow straightened out. You have to be careful though, doing that just makes the oddly twisted bits knot up so that you can’t undo them.

Tomorrow will see the downpour. I can plant my new plants and skip watering them. Too many Lupins. Look out for a bloke ignoring the rainfall, padding about deciding where to put site them. At least the potted ones can move.
Tired and blurred now; everything I see is blurred like the asbo kids on TV. Best to bed.

Photo from my mobile. The quality is worse than usual probably because the light was fading. Pictures in full daylight are clearer.