End of a season

Well that’s the end of that, we’ve handed in our notice at Oatlands Allotments that we are giving up our plot.

A sad day, but we had to be realistic with the arrival of Ruaraidh and the fact that we’re helping Lindsay’s Mum out with the garden in Eaglesham, which for the record is approximately 85 metres in length!

We’ve learned a lot about the ins and outs of growing your own veggies.  That and the internal politics of an allotment, but that’s best left alone, trust me, if I let myself get started there I will just become growly, and it’s all about moving on and upwards.

So what have we learned, we’re reasonably good at the whole thing but we need to find the time to do it, so we’ll need to decide on days/nights to work on the garden.  The area dedicated to fruit/veg is about what you’d expect of a normal size allotment so that’s going to be a fair amount of work, but there’s also the fruit trees and the general garden to take care of to make it safer for the wee man to run around in, not to say it isn’t just now, probably just the usual new parent worrying J

A shame to leave, but best to let someone else take care of the ground who can work on it properly, will miss the banter with the old guard, they were a great laugh for the end of day wind down after work, we’ll still do small bits of veg in the back court as well so our green thumbs will stay green no matter what!

Cheerie!

Thoughts of zombies and parenthood

Kind of two thoughts at once, a sudden realisation of my attitude changing, and how it makes complete sense that it has.

To roll back to where this started in my head...

Caught a trailer for a new zombie related game, before it started I was thinking "Great!  Another zombie shooter, this will be fun", but then it started and to not make it too tearful it shows, in computer graphics, a family being attacked by zombies.

Unfortunately it doesn't end well and looks like the three of them, mother, father and child are taken, the way they do it with a couple of scenes is what had me turn off getting into the game, with the father outstretching his arm to get his kid on his shoulder and then barricade the door as the mother puts the child on the bed, new world zombie stuff there as the kid turns zombie almost immediately and attacks her mother.

Now, today, I came across a graphic novel/comic in the library with a different scenario where there is a baby that doesn't survive a post apocalypse world situation.

So it seems I no longer find this acceptable as much in books/games as I may have used to, I say may have because I'm not entirely sure I ever would have in those scenarios and it's simply that my sensitivity to all things children has been dialled up a notch or two, given that I actually really like 'The Walking Dead' which is  a zombie world related drama, where in the first episode the hero is forced to shoot a zombie kid who is about 9/10 years old.

I also still really like the original 'Dawn of the Dead' by George A Romero where one of the hero's of the piece is put in the exact same situation and forced to shoot two zombie kids of about the same age.

But you then have the remake of the same film where you have a pregnant woman who has a zombie baby and I find that pretty much over the line and will never watch it again.

So it appears parenthood brings some interesting realisations amidst the no sleep, baby giggles and running around, I'm sure I'll come across other films/games/books that I used to like that now drop off my radar as 'likes'.

See below for a lift to the slightly dark thoughts above :)

Space is big

Caught the BBC2 programme with Professor Brian Cox on Monday night, Wonders of Our Universe.

Thought compelling stuff, made me realise again that I need to poke my head up out of baby world once and a while to see what interesting stuff is going on.  First time I’ve seen one of his programs, he has a really good straight forward way of explaining concepts and genuinely appears to be excited about everything science and space related.

Something fresh amongst all of the one brain cell programs that are out there just now, the concept of Entropy can be a bit scary and depressing given that it highlights there will be an end to everything eventually, but you know what, that end is so far in the future that it really should be seen as interesting rather than scary.

Given what the human race has achieved in it’s short time on this planet there is no reason not to imagine how advanced we can get, given the chance and our own ability to get over land grab wars, religious wars, the list goes on.

When you see how many wonders are out there, and even down in the oceans of our own world it is quite easy to get frustrated and mad over how many lives are wasted over all of these disputes and wars, can you tell it personally frustrates me?

So here’s to the wonders of science and the Universe, may we keep stretching and striving for the future as much as we can!

Hello world

Finally getting around to sorting out one place to record thoughts, general dribbling etc so I've closed down 'officially' updating in Microsoft's live space, will still post on the old Facebook but closing down everything else as I have less than no time to be mucking about with multiple spaces!


Today's thoughts - Swimming last night, learning back crawl is a new favourite as I appear to be able to do it, interesting sub note, my fear of drowning, drowning reflex, call it what you will appears to have flown the coop.

Have no idea why, Linz thinks it's down to an overall state of tiredness, e.g. too tired to care!  Whatever way it's great, now that I'm not panicking in water I can stand up in I can concentrate on actually learning to swim.

So I can do the back stroke legs, just, knackering stuff, haven't got the hang of the arms yet, funny stuff as I ended up effectively swimming head under water for about 20 seconds as I was so concentrated on learning I appear to have forgot my head was about 2 inches under water, until I stopped for breath lol.

 More general thoughts on life, parenthood and fledgling scribblings to come, have a good day world!