I have a lot of feels over the finale of Fringe

Spoilers.

( my, oh my )

I've have invigilation funtimes coming up soon so I need fic, lota of fic to keep me going.

Can you rec me good fic (one-shots or multi chapters) for:
[x] Sherlock
[x] Thor
[x] Captain America
[x] Avengers

Thankee kindly

And I've just spilled broth over the keyboard of my laptop. gaaaaah!

All week I've been having problems with my iPhone (and iPod) accessing my wireless. It would connect but it would be sssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooooooo slow or not work at all. My laptop and the PS3 (on the same wireless) absolutely fine.

Spent an age on the phone to Vodafone who suggested that I upgraded my iOS to version 5 (or whatever fancypants name it has) and it's made absolutely no difference but has left me with an added annoyance as now my Stanza ebook reader refuses to work and just crashes over and over!! I'm halfway through the second Ice and Fire book, gaaah!

I don't know what I can do to sort out my WiFi speed, back to Google it is then.

So here are the work in progress shots of the vegetable patch:

This is how it began:


A patch of garden that was doing absolutely nothing. I'd originally planned to dig up the interfacing and the stones and grass it over, but decided a veggie patch was a better use of the 'land'


And here it is after 3 hours of back breaking labour and playing with a 2 year old (who got bored of helping very quickly and went to play in her house. So many little stones. I need to rake them out down the side of the play house (still) and tidy up around the bottom of the veggie patch, make the garden look a little bit tidier.

So those photos were taken the start of March and here's how it looks now:


Baby plants! So clockwise from top right, peas, a patch of ground where the tomatoes are going to go, carrots, mixed lettuce, iceberg lettuce.


Some more peas and some sunflowers. There are random pea plants growing all over the garden where ex-Cheddar helpfully planted them. I think I spotted a couple growing in the front garden too. I'll be having surprise!peas through the summer.


Here's the lettuce and some courgette seedlings that are currently sunning themselves in our greenhouse/conservatory. (Yes I know the tomatoes are a bit bit to be in such a shallow seed tray unfortunately it keeps being frosty round by us and I don't want to kill them off. I'm going to re-pot them in a flower trough this weekend so at least they'll have room to grow.

Not pictured, but also growing:
[x] strawberry plants in a hanging basket. Haha now try and eat our delicious strawberries, little ants!
[x] rhubarb that came from the old house and even the stresses of digging it up (sans most of it's roots) and having it sit in a tub of water for a couple of weeks didn't kill it off. It is mighty, our rhubarb
[x] 2 plum trees that came with the house. Hopefully it will be as fruitful this year as last.

I want to go out and buy a blackcurrant and a raspberry bush now that would be trained into a pair of pyramids in a pair of pots for the patio, especially with the amount of money we spend on fruit in Tesco.

I've got the LJ App for posting to LJ via my iPhone, is there a Dreamwidth equivalent?

Oh I wish I could get Semagic for my phone, it would make life so much easier.

And set myself up a shop on Folksy. There's nothing in it and I need to write all my policies, make a banner and price up and photograph my jewellery but by the end of the Easter break it will be ready to show off to you all!

Here!

And let me know what you think!

At the weekend I went on an actual course to learn how to enamel (properly) not playing about with a torch and creating a fire hazard like I'd been doing at home.

See what I made here

For Christmas I bought myself a slow cooker. It didn't really get any use until about eight weeks ago when the bookman came in to work and one of his books was a slow cooker recipe book. 

It was only £4. An utter bargain. 

Well, we've not looked back since. We're probably doing 2 slow cooker meals a week from hotpots to poached eggs. Really the only thing I've not done are steamed puddings and that's only down to my lack of pudding bowls. 

His Lordship and I have now got a decent familiarity with our slow cooker so we're starting to cook off-book. It's proper ace fun. 

Tonight we did chicken and butternut squash and it was rather delicious. I'm going to start writing down our recipes. Would anyone be interested in me sharing them either here or via my craft blog?