Weeknotes 2025.18: Gardening

This is the first time I have weeknote’d on this site in over a year (some quick maths suggests that if I was hoping to do one every week when I resumed briefly at the start of 2024, I have missed 66 posts.) It turns out keeping up any kind of journaling habit is hard, when you have a job, hobbies, and the never-ending torrent of admin slurry that life entails. Maybe blogging isn’t ‘for me’ so much—at least not when I don’t have to put my professional face on on my developer blog.

Maybe there is something to be said about the concept of a digital garden. The idea of re-wilding this Web site or others into a less structured web of pages does interest me. I recently became taken with Obsidian as a personal wiki system which is helping to organise my worldbuilding in my fiction projects. If I can make blogging work reliably (RSS feeds and all - maybe to make it easier to weeknote) I am tempted to abandon Ghost in favour of turning jonathanis.online into some kind of digital garden. Redirects might be a problem too - but I’m sure that’s manageable.

Today we went to Kew Gardens—we had planned to go anyway to take advantage of the bank holiday weekend, but it turned out yesterday that one of the corpse flowers was in bloom. They must have quite a few of them which they cultivate and rotate according to which is the next most likely to flower. We are very lucky to live on the other end of the Mildmay line and be only an hour and a half or so away from Kew.

The flower was attracting quite a substantial fan club. It didn’t really smell of anything. (I learned later from Wikipedia that the odour only really emanates at night, to attract flies that think there’s a dead body to feed on.)