Hamlet moves so beautiful walking through the flowers.

[reddragdiva]

The new laptop will be called tart. She's small, cute, friendly, versatile, gets around, has lots of interfaces, is keen to get into everything, will (initially) dual-boot Windows and Linux (reinstallation time! woo. yay.) and she has underwear (a base unit) but doesn't like wearing it because it's annoying and gets in the way. And she runs just as happily on a sixteen-volt IBM adapter (doesn't charge, does run) as she does on an eighteen-volt Compaq one.

Yesterday we went on another Homebase run. I got cupboard hinges and batteries, arkady got sandpaper, a sanding mask and silver polish and we got asters for redcountess to fill the spaces in the garden. And I bought lovely flowers for Arkady:

Bob, a Venus Fly Trap (Dionaea muscipula).

Homebase Walthamstow has lots of Venus Fly Traps for £3.99. "FEEEEED MEEEEE!"

Comments

[ksta.livejournal.com]

man, my mum wouldn't let me get a fly trap. Don't remember why.

[hazejam.livejournal.com]

did you have pets? maybe she was scared it would eat the hamster...

[arkady.livejournal.com]

It would be more likely the hamster would eat the flytrap....

[lithiana.livejournal.com]

i would be terrified just to be in the same room as that.

[reddragdiva]

It's only tiny! The photo's a closeup — the pot's about 10cm wide.

[reddragdiva]

Actually, about 8cm wide. It's really quite small.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Hooray for flytraps.

My flytrap Parker is perking up a bit. I am still waiting for Trinny and Susanna to be delivered.

[reddragdiva]

Then you can call the flies Captain Jack Harkness.

[steer.livejournal.com]

Ah... you think I'm going to waste mental energy fantasising about Trinny devouring other men?

Read up on the little debuggers if you haven't already

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

I've got a happy mini-terrarium of sundew, a pitcher plant, and butterworts. Venus fly traps need to be chilled overwinter. Squirrels here eat all sorts of things.

Re: Read up on the little debuggers if you haven't already

[arkady.livejournal.com]

Bob isn't my first Dionaea; I used to have a pair of them plus a couple of Sarracenias and a sundew. They were all thriving until I moved back to London; alas none of them survived the actual moving process. :-(

I'm planning to repot Bob into a nice wide earthenware dish and give him a couple of Sarracenias for company; I quite like the idea of a terrarium myself. :-)

Re: Read up on the little debuggers if you haven't already

[mouseworks.livejournal.com]

I've got mine in an open fish bowl in a somewhat shaded south window. The Pingulas seem to need a bit of air. It's a wee bit cramped for the Sarracenia.

[medakse.livejournal.com]

it's like a Georgia O'Keefe come to life.
quite literally, as it were.

[medakse.livejournal.com]

err, maybe O'Keefe meets Freud?
some dentata in there, surely