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vital functions
Mar. 1st, 2020 06:28 pmReading. ( John Chu, Ruthanna Emrys, Maria Dahvana Headley, Phenderson Djèlí Clark; Amal el-Mohtar and Max Gladstone )
Watching. ( Two episodes of Planet Earth, liveblogged )
Listening. Mooooore TMA, surprising no-one. Continuing to get flashes of intense sense-of-location when out and about and generally wandering.
Cooking. We made another batch of vanilla ice cream together! A was brave and Did The Vanilla Pods and also Fed The Machine and did most of scooping the resultant ice cream back out into a tub, so, ice cream!
I have so much glutinous rice flour, so we're also intending to have a go at ice cream mochi (using some of the vanilla and some of the black sesame), and maybe if I'm feeling really enthusiastic I'll cook up another batch of red bean and just make myself some red bean mochi.
Eating. Notably: raclette! Which was exciting, and appeared to feature (inexplicably?) a deep-fried strand of spaghetti. It was tasty! I was just... perplexed.
Making & mending. I have Observed that one of the sets of slipper socks needs darning again, and have put them aside for same. This is not actually equivalent to Having Fixed Them, but I've thought really hard about it, okay.
Growing. I began nervously attempting to harden off the nightshades a little in preparation for abandoning them to their own devices for a little while; currently the Warm Plant Box is going off during the day and getting turned back on overnight, in the hopes that I'll be able to move it to Off Entirely while I'm away for a bit (thereby reducing the volume of watering required...). Fingers crossed for them.
I also made it to the allotment on Friday! I fed the bin a lot! Via the magic of Going After Bloods And In The Rain, I achieved spending some time sorting out the interior of the greenhouse (which needs gently shunting back into a sensible shape after all the gales, whoops). And, to my very great excitement, two of the broad beans are still actively alive and flourishing (amusingly, the ones that started out shortest; the tallest ones have... struggled rather with the Weather). I might have a go at getting some more started.
Lemon: has not lost any more leaves this week, to the best of my knowledge.
Observing. SLEEPY BIRD OF PREY curled up in a tree with its head under its wing in a tree at the edge of a field bordering the Ridgeway! Probably a red kite, I think. I'm not sure I've ever consciously seen one stationary before.
A remarkable number of badger setts along the Eurostar embankments between getting back above ground and reaching the outskirts of Paris.
Playing. Caught a CRYOGONAL in the SNOW from my SOFA on Thursday morning.
Also achieved A Shiny Hatty Eevee, and was further very excited by hatching MY FIRST DWEBBLE. It's such a good little friend! It spits HF! I'm... kind of terrified of it!
Scrabble on the Eurostar with A, which was Great Fun.
Horn! I continue enjoying having been Doing More Practice: I'm having much more fun at orchestra rehearsals, and I'm a little surprised by how little focussed practice it is taking me to sort out specific phrases I'm struggling with. It's nice.
Watching. ( Two episodes of Planet Earth, liveblogged )
Listening. Mooooore TMA, surprising no-one. Continuing to get flashes of intense sense-of-location when out and about and generally wandering.
Cooking. We made another batch of vanilla ice cream together! A was brave and Did The Vanilla Pods and also Fed The Machine and did most of scooping the resultant ice cream back out into a tub, so, ice cream!
I have so much glutinous rice flour, so we're also intending to have a go at ice cream mochi (using some of the vanilla and some of the black sesame), and maybe if I'm feeling really enthusiastic I'll cook up another batch of red bean and just make myself some red bean mochi.
Eating. Notably: raclette! Which was exciting, and appeared to feature (inexplicably?) a deep-fried strand of spaghetti. It was tasty! I was just... perplexed.
Making & mending. I have Observed that one of the sets of slipper socks needs darning again, and have put them aside for same. This is not actually equivalent to Having Fixed Them, but I've thought really hard about it, okay.
Growing. I began nervously attempting to harden off the nightshades a little in preparation for abandoning them to their own devices for a little while; currently the Warm Plant Box is going off during the day and getting turned back on overnight, in the hopes that I'll be able to move it to Off Entirely while I'm away for a bit (thereby reducing the volume of watering required...). Fingers crossed for them.
I also made it to the allotment on Friday! I fed the bin a lot! Via the magic of Going After Bloods And In The Rain, I achieved spending some time sorting out the interior of the greenhouse (which needs gently shunting back into a sensible shape after all the gales, whoops). And, to my very great excitement, two of the broad beans are still actively alive and flourishing (amusingly, the ones that started out shortest; the tallest ones have... struggled rather with the Weather). I might have a go at getting some more started.
Lemon: has not lost any more leaves this week, to the best of my knowledge.
Observing. SLEEPY BIRD OF PREY curled up in a tree with its head under its wing in a tree at the edge of a field bordering the Ridgeway! Probably a red kite, I think. I'm not sure I've ever consciously seen one stationary before.
A remarkable number of badger setts along the Eurostar embankments between getting back above ground and reaching the outskirts of Paris.
Playing. Caught a CRYOGONAL in the SNOW from my SOFA on Thursday morning.
Also achieved A Shiny Hatty Eevee, and was further very excited by hatching MY FIRST DWEBBLE. It's such a good little friend! It spits HF! I'm... kind of terrified of it!
Scrabble on the Eurostar with A, which was Great Fun.
Horn! I continue enjoying having been Doing More Practice: I'm having much more fun at orchestra rehearsals, and I'm a little surprised by how little focussed practice it is taking me to sort out specific phrases I'm struggling with. It's nice.