This week - 2018-04-22


This week I have been:

Computers 💻

Now I have a separate work laptop I’ve been looking at making configuration sync better between devices. I’ve re-arranged my dotfiles repo to be the right structure to use Gnu Stow, which creates symlinks in your home folder to the directory it’s run in. This seems to be a bit of a hidden but amazingly useful tool.

Garden 🏡

I spent a lot of time in the garden this week, getting some Sun and making things neat and tidy for Spring. Dead flowers and branches have been removed and I planted a Date Palm and a Hibiscus in a couple of bare spots.

I’ve put together a bit of a map of the garden. Still too much in there that I don’t really know what it is.

┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  a          b           c                 │ 
│                                 ┌─────────┤ 
│                                 │         │ 
├─────────────────────────────────┤    d    │ 
│                                 │         │ 
│                                 │         │ 
│                                 │     e   │ 
│                                 │ e       │ 
│                                 │         │ 
│                                 │         │ 
├────────────┐                    │         │ 
│         o  │                    │         │ 
│            │                    │         │ 
│            │                    │      q  │ 
│     n      │                    ├─────────┤ 
│            │                    │p        │ 
│            │                    │         │ 
│          m │                    │         │ 
│            │                    │p      g │ 
│     l      │                    │         │ 
│            │                    │h        │ 
│            │                    │         │ 
│  j       k │                    │     i   │ 
├────────────┴────────────────────┴─────────┤ 
│                                         f │ 
│                                           │ 
│                                           │ 

- a :: ???
- b :: ???
- c :: Photinia Red Robin
- d :: ???
- e :: Cordyline
- f :: Pyrocantha
- g :: Hibiscus
- h :: Lavendar
- i :: Convolvulous Cneorum
- j :: ???
- k :: hypericum???
- l :: Rhubarb
- m :: ???
- n :: Sage
- o :: onions
- p :: viburnum???
- q :: date palm

Life ⽣

I’ve started doing overnight oats for breakfast. It seems to be a potentially good way of controlling sugar consumption in the morning with very little effort. It also means I can make breakfast for my wife easily.

Winning flavour so far is chocolate spread… so not doing so well on controlling sugar intake. 🙂