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[kaberett]

Reading. Finished: a comfort reread of your blue-eyed boys, which fit the bill excellently. Have only restrained myself from launching straight into (even if I could) make a deal with god (and for that matter the other two series) on the grounds that I need to reread Prophet (Helen MacDonald, Sin Blaché) so that I can properly appreciate rydra_wong's a word you've never understood.

You see, I read the first two paragraphs, had a lot of feelings, and promptly decided the way to Maximise Feelings would be to do the reread I didn't set off on immediately after first finishing it.

Thus far I am going "my goodness, I forgot a lot of the detail here". For one this time I am understanding from the get-go the sections that are POV tiny!Adam; the first time round I was looking at the number of pages left and going "this is... a whole nother different character who is going to get braided in at some point???" and not linking things up; this time I am, from the start, and Gaining More From It that way. Had DEFINITELY forgotten the position in text of the various Revelations About Afghanistan. Also definitely getting more out of The Relationship this time through, now I have a better understanding of what it is I'm looking at.

I have also listened to a little bit more of Furiously Happy (Jenny Lawson). There are definitely aspects I don't love (like, as someone who is taking an antipsychotic for non-psychosis reasons, and someone who can at this point go entire years plural without any significant episodes of even very mild psychosis, the way antipsychotics are discussed makes me... a bit twitchy), and I'm annoyed by how much more disruptive needing to reread sentences is in audio than in text (and how much more frequently I'm needing to do it), but also it turns out rather to my own surprise to be a thing I can listen to when I'm not doing anything else with my brain, provided I don't mind not really retaining any of it for longer than about five minutes.

Eating. I have been fed a slightly ludicrous amount of (more-or-less responsibly harvested) wild asparagus this week, which has been A Delight.

A Variety of other things, courtesy of having someone else doing meal prep all week. Still suspicious of Nutritional Yeast, mind.

FIRST STRAWBERRIES from the plot.

Growing. Swung by the plot this evening (courtesy of significant support from A) and in addition to STRAWBERRIES:

• the ridiculous purple kohlrabi are swelling up beautifully and I am delighted
• cherries and redcurrants both thinking about changing colour
• gooseberries also swelling up impressively, and it really does look like I might actually get to make a recipe of some kind this year, if nothing goes horrendously wrong
• Kelvedon Wonder and Sugar Magnolia (dwarf and sugar snap pea, respectively, the latter purple) have both set pods!!! my primary goal with the Sugar Magnolia this year is just to build up a reasonable stock of seeds, rather than to eat lots of them, but Fingers Crossed I'll manage some of each
• greenhouse chillis also mostly survived week without watering, and the sad squash I've not yet planted out perked up considerably with application of liquid feed
• alas two of the sets of squash I planted out Did Not Survive the week of not being watered
• outdoor tomatoes also mostly doing well
• Annoyed by how rapidly the bindweed has tried to take over the fruit cage in my absence (I was only gone a week!) but fixing that is a job for, uh, whenever this migraine fucks off

Observing. No yelling this evening from the hollow where the woodpecker nest is, which in combination with some of the noises coming from the other side of the access road suggests that at least some of the babies fledged successfully while I was away. Fed some eggshell to some wild snails.