Things to do when your ISP is down for a week
- read Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre
- plant 50 freesia bulbs
- direct planting of plum tree
- put alyssum and lobelia seeds around base of plum tree
- take naps
- prune 10 -12 foot high suckers out of old crape myrtle
- have son build teepee out of crape myrtle branches
- plant honeysuckle near teepee
- read Dorothy Sayer's Unnatural Death
- direct the planting of two boxwoods, replacing two dead shrubs in hedge
- put out delphinium seeds
- wait impatiently for Easter so vegetables can be planted

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Dorothy Sayers is so funny and is really good at describing personalities:

Miss Climpson was one of those people who say: "I am not the kind of person who reads other people's postcards." This is clear notice to all and sundry that they are, precisely, that kind of person. They are not untruthful; the delusion is real to them. It is merely that Providence has provided them with a warning rattle, like that of the rattlesnake. After that, if you are so foolish as to leave your correspondence in their way, it is your own affair.

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Gotta go now. John is asking whether crabs and fishes are good or bad and whether they can talk, because he thought he heard a good crab talking to him - "it was a Dwacie-twab*," says John, "a yiddle gel** one, a dood*** one."

We don't have any crabs about, to my knowledge, so this bears investigation.
Cheerio! :-D

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*Gracie-crab
**little girl
***good