Farcebook

  • According to Fitbit, gardening is cycling

    One of FitBit’s more useful features is its ability to automatically detect exercise. I think it uses a combination of your heart rate and how the device is moving. The pattern of motion and heart rates must be categorised by FitBit so the app can tell the difference between “swimming” and “running”, etc. It’s not…

  • Planting Fruit Bushes

    Poundland sells cheap fruit bushes, and if you pick the ones with leaves on, they tend to grow fairly well and make a nice hedge type thing. If you pick the ones with no leaves on… they’re dead, you’re buying a dead plant… They’re also not a pound each, but never mind.

  • Making a Basic Raised Planter

    I set up a simple raised planter to make part of my garden more useful.

  • Preparing for Spring

    It’s been pretty windy here again, so I went to the plot to see if the shed had tried to escape again…

  • Accidental Fruit Tart

    Attempted to cook a fruit pie, but the pastry I’d made was more like biscuit dough and didn’t want to stay together. Ended up turning it into a giant fruit tart thing instead. Worked out pretty good. The trick it appears was to leave it to cool down after over cooking the fruit into a…

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