Finally Warm Enough To Plant Some Vegetables

The weather has finally improved enough for me to plant some seedlings outside, you can hardly see them in the picture as they are still so small, but I've planted Spinach Tomatoes and Little Gem Lettuce so far. I've also planted some marigolds around the tomatoes as they help to deter pests. I still have Broccoli and Cabbages to plant next month.
The bucket of weeds you can see is all the weeds I've had to clear off the plot I'm using, I want to grow organically so I'm not going to use weedkiller.
Luckily I got a new gardening book that explained what hoe is actually for ( I thought they were just for breaking up the soil) you can break the roots off weeds as you get them out, hopefully stopping them coming back too quickly.
I've joined goodreads.com and will be publishing more book reviews soon so keep reading :)

Save The Internet!

In America the FCC is pressing for new net neutrality laws, and as we all know whatever the US does the UK does pretty soon after so we need to support the campaign against these new rules. Click here to send an email to congress urging them to support net neutrality so we don't lose freedom of speech!

And sorry about the lack of posts I've been busy with my degree and various other things, I will be posting some book reviews soon.

Saturday Six

What’s the one thing that really annoys you?
People qho are ignorant and or/unfairly judgemental

If it was the end of the world what be the last thing you would try to do?
Listen to "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" by Pink Floyd

If you had the choice of designing a mobile phone what one feature would you add to it?
All the features of an iphone, without it actually being an iphone (made by apple)
Diamonds or pearls?
Both!

Silver or gold?
Silver, though it's cheaper than gold I like the colour better.

Are you at home or work?
Home.

Happy International Womens Day

Today is almost the 100th international women's day (the centenary will be next year), in 1910 a woman named Clara Zetkin (Leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) suggested the idea of an international day for women to press for our demands. The conference of over 100 women from 17 countries greeted Zetkin's suggestion with unanimous approval and thus International Women's Day was the result. Despite celebrating nearly 100 years of economic and social development for women around the world, we are tragically still witnessing the needless deaths of thousands of women every day in child birth or from pregnancy related factors.
Amnesty International are working to lobby world leaders to show real commitment to improving the situation and making sure an improvement in global maternal health is priority. Ten years ago world leaders committed to a millennium development goal of cutting the rate of maternal deaths by 75% by 2000 and 2015, we are way of track. Recent statistics reveal that in some parts of the world pregnant women are no better off than they were in 1910, a statement that shocked me when I read it earlier.
You can help by uploading a photograph of yourself and your mother to their flickr group here (or emailing it directly to them from this page) and they will be used to make giant card they will give to the prime minister later this year. If you don't have picture of yourselves together in a digital format you can use a picture of yourself with any mother you know, and you don't have to be from the UK to take part. You can also take action by sending an email Gordon Brown (The Prime Minister) Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat leader) and David Cameron (The Conservative leader) visit this page to send your email.

Seedlings Sprouting.

Sorry for the lack of posts, I had a virus on my computer and had to repair Windows which took ages. The cold weather has meant my seeds have been growing slower than usual too but most have now come through now. I hope the weather improves soon as it's not been warm enough at night to plant anything outside yet.