In which Dan bores 85% of the readers.

During our trip to Greg and Deb’s last month we ate out at restaurants a lot. When we did Greg and I invariably found ourselves ordering the same things from the menu. Our similar taste in food was just one of the things we had in common, in fact there were so many similarities between us that it began to get slightly unnerving. We both shared the same senses of humor and political outlooks. Hell, I recently found out we both had diarrhea at the same time. The only difference between us it seems is that I am a youthful and sprightly 31, while he is an old and doddery 40.

But it’s not just Greg who I find myself having a lot in common with. Lee over at Quit Your Day Job writes humorously and eloquently about popular and pulp culture with an enthusiasm which reminds me very much of my own at one time. That was a time of course before parenthood forced me to lose touch with my inner geek and move my comic collection up to the attic. Still, Lee has the ability to awaken the sleeping fanboy in me, and for that I am grateful.

But now Lee has revealed he shares another one of my interests: trying to grow vegetables with very little prior skill or experience. He’s even started up another blog to chronicle his adventures in horticulture – Urban Cultivation (I strongly advise you to go and take a look, it’s full of drama and suspense – like a soap opera, except with lettuces).

I was half tempted to follow Lee’s lead and create my own separate blog to deal with my gardening efforts, but then I thought about how much work it would be and decided against it. And anyway, this blog was always intended to be a way of recording the growth of my family for posterity. I’m just going to expand my definition of family to include a few plastic pots full of dirt that’s all.

So – for the record. Out in the front garden at the moment there are pots of tomatoes, potatoes, runner beans, chives and strawberries, as well as assorted flowers I’ve stuck in because I liked the pictures on the packet. Inside the house on various windowsills are french beans, rosemary, and even more chives waiting untill they get big enough to plant out.

Of course all these plants look virtually identical because they are only about an inch high at the moment, but all the seeds were different shapes so I’m fairly confident they’ll look different eventually.

I’ll keep you updated. I bet you can hardly wait can you. Just be thankful I’m not on a redecorating kick at the moment, then you might have had to read through my riveting accounts of the paint drying process.

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