Tired After Hours Planning

 After a long day in the office, I foundcacquiet spot to catch up on some planning before heading home forcthe weekend. Looks like it us goung to be a tiring couple of monthscahead...

Ploughing on through 2026

It has been a pretty hectic first month of the year, and there is still much to do.

See Swansea and See Gower are now both up and running and I will be spending the rest of January getting content onto the See Glastonbury website...

February looks like it will be as equally busy for yours trully, so continue to watch this space for updates. More detail on what I will be up to in February 2026 to follow soon...


X2 New Cacti Bad Boys

Looks like my specialist Shamanic cacti collection is growing again πŸ™‚



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An Eagerness for Spring

Acheing for Winter to withdraw its devilish grasp, we ventured out to our first garden centre trip of the year. Having to do a work shift beforehand, and given the time of year, the sun was alreafy starting to set as we arrived.



Mrs P.L. had a Christmas voucher to launder and I had a crisp £20 note to swap for some gardening delights.

Luckily, there was a great sale on.

This meant, at long last, I was able to take on of these bad boy pots home with me:





Looking like the had been hauled from the decks of a sunken galleon, lost to the oceans centuries ago and now coated with colourful and rugged barnacles and coral, these have been beckoning me from this corner of my favourite garden centre for manyca year. With 50% off thecasking orice, I finally got to bring one of these 'maritime' gardening treasures home with me this evening, which makes me a very happy boy.


Given the sale, I even had enough cash left for these seeds and still come home with a spare pound coin in my pocket πŸŒΏπŸƒ.  


I won't go into Mrs P.L.'s more wanton spending, except to say she is now the proud keeper of one this mother plant's speckled babies: 

Thai Constellation Monstera

Goodbye Penguin

Finally got my hands on a copy of this;


While I already had the oversized Penguin edition, I can now offload that as it did not fit in with the other books published by Biblioasis.

I just need the following book to to keep my collection of Seth's A Ghoat Story for Christmas bang up to date. This was supposed to have been releases in time dor last Christmas but, apparently, Britain are not getting copies to sell for a short while yet:

Sunrise over Swansea

My first day working back at the office. Little good news there, but it was nice seeing the views available from the place: