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kaberettReading. No finishes, lots of fragments.
Started: The Old Guard: Opening Fire, Rucka et al. Their faces are WRONG and I don't LIKE it. (Shared Reading Experience.) I also don't like The Smoking, and I really feel the absence of the baklava scene.
In progress: Forgotten Fruits, Stocks, which despite saying I was going to DNF I have continued working my way through, with occasional grumpy squawks; Index, a history of the, Duncan, in very small nibbles; and I'm now a third of the way through Ouch!, Kerr + McRobbie, which is much more sociology than I was expecting when I bought it, having failed at that point to register that one of the authors is a sociologist. A bunch of the neuroanatomy is irritatingly (and unnecessarily! they could have just been less specific!) wrong; we've had a lengthy case study focussing on endometriosis but as yet no indication that they're actually considering the role of ongoing tissue damage. Not ruling out that they'll get there, though.
Dreamwidth catch-up: UP TO SEPTEMBER.
Listening. Cornish waves recording.
Cooking. Ridiculous Textures Of Beetroot from The Modern Vegetarian (good, did like); mildly underwhelmed by Bengali five-spice roasted squash, a totally acceptable meal it was very pleasant to be able to stick in the oven and forget about while I did something else; and stir-fried pumpkin with cashews from Rosa's Thai Café: the Vegetarian Cookbook.
Buttermilk continues to work. Managed some bread. Baked some crabapples and then singularly failed to actually make the ginger-and-lime caramel to coat them in, so this lot probably needs composting and I'll try again next week. Maybe. (Raymond Blanc recipe, from The Lost Orchard, which I much preferred at least so far to Forgotten Fruits.)
Eating. Particularly excited this week by Limonera pears, which are apparently DPO Spanish-cultivated Docteur Jules Guyot! All of the descriptions say "very reminiscent of Williams, flavour not as good unless you get them just right", to which I add that they are sliiiiightly firmer fleshed in a way that I think is an active plus.
I am very much enjoying yoghurt + hazelnuts + a drizzle of quince syrup.
Creating. ... took some photos of some plants?
Growing. MORE SAFFRON. Still very excited by the saffron. Also the chillis. (Home saffron also now definitively coming up, in the trough if not around the fig, but no sign of it intending to flower, alas.)
Cannot tell if the windowsill lemongrass is in fact just dried out or if it's in the Growing Many Roots stage. Grumpily aware that going digging is counterproductive. Pineapple continues pineapple.
Observing. A MUNTJAC. There was, at the plot, A Great Rustling out of the plum tree on the neighbouring plot, and I looked up and thought, for an entire moment, "gosh that's a remarkably large fox with a remarkably short tail", before my brain caught up with the data it was actually being sent. Less than twenty metres away. Think that's the closest one of them's ever been to me (at least that I've noticed)!
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Date: 2025-10-20 07:33 am (UTC)SO MANY OF THEM. SO MANY.
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Date: 2025-10-20 10:41 am (UTC)We were within touching distance of one at one of our last visits to the zoo, since they were (at the time) keeping some in one of the bird enclosures. It was one of those magical moments. *___*
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Date: 2025-10-20 02:29 pm (UTC)All over the place. There's at least one in the woods near the ice rink in Cambridge, I quite often see it when cycling home after late-night practice.
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Date: 2025-10-20 04:40 pm (UTC)The first time -- only time? -- I've seen one IRL, I was a smallish child, we were staying in the country, I think it may have been snowy, and my sisters and I found this THING that had come out of the woods, and we couldn't figure what it was at all, because it was the size of a dog but obviously wasn't a dog and it had horns and fangs. I think we considered "dragon" as a possibility at one point.