vital functions

[kaberett]

Reading. At the Feet of the Sun, Victoria Goddard. Work in progress; I found the first third pretty hard going but thank GOODNESS it picked up shortly after the landslide. Am I going to finish this before I vanish off to a field? PROBABLY NOT. Am I going to have time to finish it in a field? ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT. If Site don't get to borrow me to put big tents up because I have an important book to read, is the person who'll get in trouble be the senior member of Site who get me started on these books? ALMOST CERTAINLY NOT. (I can hear the head-of-dept's response to "can't put up tents, busy reading" with crystalline clarity, and it is "That's fine, you can explain to [head of crew welfare] and [dude who runs the whole show] why there's nowhere for people to have dinner" -- said, to be clear, with amusement!)

And The Unwanted Guest, Tamsyn Muir, about which [WORDLESS SHRIEKING].

Also a whooooole load of LRP plot shite because that's how we find out what Fuckery players are going to expect us to know about and process...

Writing. I have been playing with my pens and my new notebook, by which I mean "I have set up a pen test page and am working my way up to seeing how badly the unexpectedly sheeny inks smudge". I have also been continuing to play with pens on different paper, having convinced myself that the remarkably cheap fountain pen-friendly A4 pads are a good time for handwriting practice. I am very suspiciously practising some flourish-y capitals.

Watching. Good Omens S01E04. Definitely still prefer (my memory of) the book's handling of Adam Coming Into His Power over the show's, and continue underwhelmed with the Newt & Anathema climax, but de gustibus, eh?

Eating. PICNIC. Lovely at-home picnic complete with Trays and Cake Stands and Lots Of Fussy Little Bits. Made me very happy. Going to do again more often.

From the plot: TOMATOES; all of a sudden the Cosse Violette.

Growing. This has been rather a quiet week in terms of Doing Things At The Plot, but I have managed watering and weeding and harvesting, and the Greek Gigantes are setting fruit, and I hand-pollinated a Queensland Blue so with a bit of luck I'll actually get seeds for next year (though I have yet to discover whether I like the actual fruit...) AND the ridiculous peas that I have been attempting to baby my last few seeds of are making flowers and pods. Or, well, one of the six is -- two went into the squash bed and got eaten; two went into the other squash bed and are struggling grimly on but are only barely surviving; and the two left in the tiny 3" pot in the greenhouse because I didn't get around to planting them out... are producing peas for me. I am trying to work out whether I dare move them down into the ground-level bed; if I'm not going to I should probably give them a bit more by way of legroom and things to climb...

Observing. Bat! Bat has not yet gone to sleep! And when I was hunting treats to make sad A slightly less sad I found a CURLY DUCK BUTT FEATHER. In that it was a remarkably curly feather, near a collection of mallards, and it gradually dawned on me -- as I continued to admire the mallards' tail curls -- that what I was holding--

Also there was a tiny adolescent moorhen that was approximately 80% leg and 90% CHEEP by volume! Truly I am blessed.

Comments

[azurelunatic]

*shrieks with you*

[lunabee34]

Cheap fountain pen friendly paper is glorious!

[simont]

I was going to comment that in order to make the total correct, the entire remainder of the moorhen must add up to −70%.

But now I realise that this is zeugma, or do I mean syllepsis? "80% leg by volume" and "90% CHEEP by volume" are using "volume" in different senses :-)

[shanaqui]

You continue to make me really eager to reread The Hands of the Emperor and progress with the rest. I'm almost on track with my reading goals! Sooooon I shall be allowed.

I love moorhens.

[troisoiseaux]

And The Unwanted Guest, Tamsyn Muir, about which [WORDLESS SHRIEKING].

RIGHT????????

[zasu]

Aw, curly duck butt feathers are adorable!