Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

We finally managed to go swimming yesterday! Edward did complain that we aught to get up early, and that day we woke up 7:30 in the morning because there were these people chopping down branches of trees right outside our apartment window.
There weren’t too many people in the pool but the water wasn’t very clear. […]

Finally! The second Prince Edward crocheted bag is here!
Unlike the Princess Louise and the Prince Edward 001 crocheted bag which are constructed radially from a center point, this Prince Edward 002 crocheted bag is constructed from four large medallions joined together by smaller medallions.
The large medallions were made using a technique called Maltese […]

The kalachuchi branch that my partner and I got from the Veterans hospital has started budding! There were these two women cleaning the golf areas of the hospital compound who kindly helped get the branch (one of them climbed the tree to break off a branch!) and told us how to grow it.

This one is […]

After soaking the hard thing that looked like dogpoo for several days, it finally became soft enough to open. Apparently there was a nut inside. I heard that it is called a “pili” nut and has now been planted in one of the pots.

Perhaps one day we will have a dogpoo tree growing here….

I have just printed over a hundred pages of text about Prolog for Edward to read. I have over a hundred pages of text about crochet for me to read! It would be good if we spent less time printing, reading and writing/blogging, and more time getting some physical exercise.
I did […]

Some time ago, the humans bought a “citronella” plant because they thought it would keep away the mosquitos. Apparently, it didn’t work, because it wasn’t even a real citronella but only a “citronella geranium” (which ia a geranium that looks like a citronella)…. and even if it had been a real citronella -it still wouldn’t […]

What a surprise, Alwin rang yesterday. He had to call to tell me that he has seen germs through a microscope. He remembers when I brought out my microscope (an old one I had as a child, a gift from my dad when he worked in Saudi Arabia) to show him how it works and […]