Categories: life-in-general
Tags: plants, flat pack, folk, feng shui
Date: 05 September 2006 15:10:49
I am back at home now and happily settled down at my desk catching up on Mike Harding's Radio 2 show on listen again. Lots of new versions of songs I know already this week. Lovely.
In the frenzy of flat-pack building I had put too much furniture in my study, making it into a room that I instinctively avoided. This would not be a good state of affairs, were it to continue. However, I am glad to report that all is now well. It turned out that the futon needed to be turned 90 degrees and the rug moved out from under it. Then all I had to do was stick a nail in the wall and hang my clock and a Lord of the Rings picture on and all was well. Strange how minor changes can make such a huge difference to a room. Maybe there is something to all this Feng Shui stuff after all.
There is a hook in the ceiling of my study, about 3 inches from the wall. What shall I hang from it? I was wondering about a plant, but I would probably kill it. Can anyone think of a plant that looks pretty hanging from the ceiling, but is hardier than a spider plant [*].
In other news, I did some genuine academic reading the other day, taking notes and everything. This is good - term starts in a couple of weeks. I fear there is going to be quite a lot of that sort of thing over the next months and years.
There are many more people to advise my recent change of address, so I will be good and go and sort some of them out. Thankfully, we have post forwarding for six months so it is not hugely urgent.
[*] Yes, I can even kill spider plants. I managed it in a fortnight once. I have a basil plant in the kitchen that is two days old and already looking a bit unhappy, although that may have something to do with not having a saucer to put under the pot - it must be feeling quite naked.