Monthly Archives: September 2010

Sorites at the dump

Posted on 2010-09-12 by colin

The local authority send round sacks for biodegradable waste. Among other things, you’re not allowed to put logs in them, though twigs are fine. You might as well forbid heaps.

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the iii

Posted on 2010-09-08 by colin

Look, there’s visibly not twenty of them. At least Gang of Four actually had four members.

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Aggermemnon

Posted on 2010-09-07 by colin

“A very fine cake here, sent in by a Mrs Clytemnestra…”

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But plants don’t have joints!

Posted on 2010-09-06 by colin

Secateurs can be a tool for understanding your garden as well as controlling it.

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Talking rot

Posted on 2010-09-04 by colin

Everybody likes to watch stuff decompose, but getting a compost heap is one of the very few socially acceptable ways of doing it on the premises.

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for both of us

Posted on 2010-09-02 by colin

I noticed on an atlas the other day that just outside Reno there’s a town called Sparks. It didn’t say how big it was.

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