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[quinara]

Many thanks to whomever nominated me at absence_oflight! I have my suspicions who it was, but I shall keep quiet - it's very much appreciated!!

In other news, I bought some new plant pots and will be attempting to grow/maintain basil plant number three. Don't know why I bothered buying more coriander; may not bother with it and just grow mint instead. Yum, mint. Have moved my jade plant into this hideous blingy mosaic glass ball thing (meant for candles and presumably the ugly nineties spa look?), but as I hoped the soil tones down the blingy glass and leaves it a nice-ish textured pot that goes with the living room. (It was the right size, basically, and everything else was horrible too. This was so ugly it charmed me...)

Generally, I am in complete love with this song - ish. It's the best off the album (which isn't that great, but nice enough), and the original was one of my favourites off the original album. It's definitely better than the original, but I feel like something's supposed to happen after the first two minutes that never does. :(

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[evilawyer]

I've been thinking of trying the pots of herbs again. I've always killed them in the past, but maybe I'll get lucky this time.

[quinara]

It sounds as though some are much easier to kill than others... I'm hoping basil and mint live up to their reputation of being hardy. Thyme's supposed to be quite good as well, but I never really use thyme, so I didn't see the point in getting a whole pot of it.

[evilawyer]

I've killed so many basil plants, so I hope your luck is much better than mine. Thyme goes really well with fish and egg dishes (I've found I'm able to cut back on salt when I use thyme or savory), but I've killed so many thyme plants that I shy away from it, too. I think I'll start off again with rosemary, which I don't use much of but maybe it'll give me confidence to move on to things I do use.

[quinara]

I think I tend to kill my basil plants by overwatering and not giving them a big enough pot so their roots get all crowded, so I'm hoping the new pot will work. TBH, they're only 76p from the supermarket and I always get enough use out of them to make it worthwhile, so I don't playing around with trial and error (+ the windowsill in the kitchen looks very sad with nothing on it). Best of luck with the rosemary! It's not something I'm fond of, but I hope it's a good plant to you.