More specifically concerning: gardening
Crambe repetita (50)
9 June 2021, around 10.44.
Al-Nuwayri, The Ultimate Ambition in the Arts of Erudition.
Crambe repetita (51)
27 March 2022, around 16.35.
Edward Gibbon, Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Lettuce now: tend to our garden
1 April 2022, around 4.47.
A partial and incomplete consideration of Latin words for crucifers.
dotty
3 February 2024, around 18.45.
So when I got through telling Dorothy what I thought up, Dorothy looked at me and looked at me and she really said she thought my brains were a miracle. I mean she said my brains reminded her of a radio because you listen to it for days and days and you get discouradged and […]
florilegium
16 February 2024, around 18.25.
Time is a wayward traveller, who sometimes rides post-haste through thick and thin, sometimes loiters on the road or falls asleep in the saddle, so that, fearing he is engulfed, we are half inclined to send with ropes and lanterns to drag him out of the deep miry ways: it is therefore not surprising if […]
earthy
3 June 2025, around 18.25.
Early in the morning, before the sun is up, I go out and water the odd rectangle of dirt that I have reclaimed as a garden, although the only things that seem to want to grow are peas and buttercups. The dog politely respects the boundaries of the plot, perhaps because it does not smell […]
in the garden
26 September 2025, around 14.47.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. The interest of the man must be connected with the constitutional rights of the place. It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human […]