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May. 5th, 2020 11:48 pm1. Fruit cage: so nearly there. I spent some of this afternoon weeding around the base of the redcurrant, and some of it attaching final bits of the mesh together; I've probably in the region of another hour's work on the infrastructure, plus however much weeding I need to do to actually be able to peg the base out.
2. Grandmother's secateurs, grandfather's army-issue (we assume) shirt, grandfather's Tilley (gift from great-uncle), hiking boots I got for myself before going on fieldwork, trousers bought from a discount rail in Coniston while on fieldwork. Stepladder and pliers from A. Lots of feeling supported and connected and competent and loved.
3. CUCUMBERS ARE HATCHING. (Not the seven-year-old seeds, unsurprisingly, or at least Not Yet, but the rest are doing pretty well.)
4. In non-allotment news: video call with the cousins this evening. We collectively had a variety of flaps about logistics, but then spent several lovely hours chatting, and it was Very Nice.
5. Shipton Mill continue great, and I now have 25kg of cake & pastry flour to go with all the bread flour, so can just stop Fretting about whether I'm Allowed To Make Treats. (50kg of bread flour lasted me ~6 months; I don't have a good handle on how long I expect plain flour to hang around for...)
6. Sourdough with caraway seeds for tomorrow morning, which I'm expecting to repeat (with a little rye) next week, hopefully thereby recreating approximately the bread from That One Shop In Newnham.
7. Finally picking back up the PhD work I've been ignoring since before the paper revisions started... only to discover that I'd already done the tedious bit of data-processing I was all geared up to. On the one hand, this means I abruptly had to recalibrate my expectations re what I was aiming to do; on the other, progress was made.
8. Tentative skill acquisition (in progress): Blue Sparkly Eyeliner Edition.
9. I'm really appreciating the ways in which FutureLearn and Duolingo Irish courses overlap and diverge and complement; it's really nice to reach a FutureLearn unit and find Duolingo's made it rather easier than it might otherwise be, and vice versa.
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findingfeather is perpetrating and amplifying a lot of excellent TMA meta and it makes for excellent trauma-analysis snacks between Work Various.
2. Grandmother's secateurs, grandfather's army-issue (we assume) shirt, grandfather's Tilley (gift from great-uncle), hiking boots I got for myself before going on fieldwork, trousers bought from a discount rail in Coniston while on fieldwork. Stepladder and pliers from A. Lots of feeling supported and connected and competent and loved.
3. CUCUMBERS ARE HATCHING. (Not the seven-year-old seeds, unsurprisingly, or at least Not Yet, but the rest are doing pretty well.)
4. In non-allotment news: video call with the cousins this evening. We collectively had a variety of flaps about logistics, but then spent several lovely hours chatting, and it was Very Nice.
5. Shipton Mill continue great, and I now have 25kg of cake & pastry flour to go with all the bread flour, so can just stop Fretting about whether I'm Allowed To Make Treats. (50kg of bread flour lasted me ~6 months; I don't have a good handle on how long I expect plain flour to hang around for...)
6. Sourdough with caraway seeds for tomorrow morning, which I'm expecting to repeat (with a little rye) next week, hopefully thereby recreating approximately the bread from That One Shop In Newnham.
7. Finally picking back up the PhD work I've been ignoring since before the paper revisions started... only to discover that I'd already done the tedious bit of data-processing I was all geared up to. On the one hand, this means I abruptly had to recalibrate my expectations re what I was aiming to do; on the other, progress was made.
8. Tentative skill acquisition (in progress): Blue Sparkly Eyeliner Edition.
9. I'm really appreciating the ways in which FutureLearn and Duolingo Irish courses overlap and diverge and complement; it's really nice to reach a FutureLearn unit and find Duolingo's made it rather easier than it might otherwise be, and vice versa.
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