Posted by Ceri Davies
Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:34:00 GMT
I went up this morning to check out the new plot, and it’s not looking too bad:
The shed needs a new door and wall, but it’s structually sound and the roof is in good condition. Unfortunately, that’s dock that you see growing around it, but the couple on the plot next door (on the left of the fence in the picture above) have covered most of it with plastic so I at least have somewhere to start without having to clear the whole plot (which had been my original plan, but I’m so glad it’s not necessary).
The only worry I have is that I’m unsure of the boundaries of this plot; the corner markers by the shed are clear enough but at the far end they don’t seem to exist. There are a pair of yellow ones on the plot next door but they are 18 inches apart (indicating that they delineate the mandatory path between plots), whilst the boundary at the back of this plot is supposed to be 2 metres. The fact that this is a 9 perch plot rather than the usual 10 doesn’t help to clear the confusion. I’ll have to go up with a measuring tape to get sizes for the shed, so I can work it out then.
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Wed, 28 Sep 2005 20:52:09 GMT
I got a new 9-perch allotment with a broken shed on. Have yet to check it out with owner’s eyes, but it looks good based on times I’ve been past it and there is a water trough going in right next to it in the near future.
Once I get up there I’ll take some photos and see what I have to deal with over the next month…
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:02:00 GMT
I’ve decided to move the web log to Typo, purely so that I can stop running MySQL (because it keeps spinning on EAGAIN on some pipe or other), the worst excuse for a database I ever came across.
The process of doing so has only confirmed that I am doing the right thing; for example, you’d think that the --compatible=postgresql or even the --compatible=ansi options to mysqldump would produce SQL that PostgreSQL would understand. No. All that does is leave out the MySQL-specific storage clauses and quote things with with real quotes rather than backticks. The data types are not converted into something that PostgreSQL understands.
For example, PostgreSQL doesn’t understand int(n) as a datatype; integer is what it wants to see. --compatible=postgresql doesn’t know that for some reason. I count that as pretty basic.
Anyway, the point is that for now, all the articles have not been moved. They will be, I just have to work out the best way of doing it. For now, old web log is at http://submonkey.net/wordpress/ and the new one is at http://typo.submonkey.net/.
The gardening news is that I finally got hold of the site supervisor and I’ll be picking my new plot next Wednesday.
Update, 20/09, 22:48: Turned out to be easier to migrate all the posts by hand. Some comments were lost but I’m not bothered.
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:17:00 GMT
I picked the first three courgettes today, and the last time I posted I had only just planted them out. Lazy old me.
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Sun, 22 May 2005 17:22:00 GMT
Peas and courgettes are in (the peas actually went in two weeks ago, but I forgot to note it here).
As I watered in the last courgette today, I could hear my neighbour Matt being told by a friend that “they reckon there’ll be another ground frost this week”. Well, “they” had better be mistaken; it is practically June for crying out loud. That is all.
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Posted by Ceri Davies
Sun, 01 May 2005 13:26:00 GMT
My seedlings have finally worked out what month it is and begun sprouting; those are the courgettes but everything else has got the idea at the same time. It is rather late, but perhaps this year won’t be a total loss after all.
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