Entry tags:
vital functions
Reading. Most of the way through the letters in the Helen Keller volume now. I'm being completionist about wanting to at least start the section on her education; I'm getting on with the correspondence much better now I'm up to 1895 and Keller being about 15 and having decidedly more personality and less Being An Obediently Charming Child.Watching. She-Ra, obviously. Spoilers. ( Read more... )
Planet Earth: seasonal forests. ( Read more... )
Listening. TMA. Spoilers for 168. ( Read more... )
Cooking. smitten kitchen's sweet potato and chickpea salad, minus coriander and plus some buttermilk in the dressing. Was good. Will make again.
Sourdough loaf feat. bottom of the proving basket filled with poppy seeds. This worked and I Am Going To Do It Again.
Eating. A made a flapjack variant using treacle! Which was... interesting, but we came to the conclusion that fundamentally neither of us is actually particularly keen on Interesting Depth Of Flavour in our flapjack, thanks, so that probably won't be repeated.
Exploring. Another Reckless trip to Trent Park; we saw CATERPILLARS and also visited the Water Garden, which I'd been keen to. Azaleas and rhododendrons excellent. Flag irises also pretty great.
Creating. A massively self-indulgent aerial view of the allotment!
I'm gearing up to start attempting to put something together with plotly.
Making & mending. Soddit, allotment infrastructure projects go here now, It Has Been Decreed.
ERGO: I have, I think, completed the fruit cage. As of Thursday I'd moved the door (involving digging up two large lumps of masonry, ugh) and got mesh into place around all the newly-reorganised sides, and applied a few more netting clips to some gaps in the ceiling.
This is particularly pleasing because I was able to finish it up using parts I had kicking around spare when the initial fruitcage plan Didn't Work, such that I didn't actually have to buy anything and then wait for postage in order to finish it. Fruit cage.
Growing. At home: another batch of Greek Gigantes germinating, along with the Double Red sweetcorn sowed in small newspaper pots. One more go at purple holy basil going in the propagator; the tulsi that's potted up is big enough that I pulled a ceremonial leaf off for inclusion in dinner tonight, which is a nice milestone.
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Observing. I've been greatly enjoying the ridiculous thirty-foot-high wisteria-and-clematis tower just down the road, and ditto the various other wisteria. Intermittent cowslips in the lawn. LAWN FOX has made more appearances. Haven't seen the bat in a while, but I'm reminding myself that I didn't spot it at all until June, last year.
Playing. Horn: I continue vaguely actually reading the book while doing exercises around it. The retune of the horn appears in most respects to be an improvement, but for various reasons I'm having to work a bit harder to get the top of my range and I'm trying not to sulk too much about having gone in one fell swoop from an actually almost pleasant tone on my top C to one that is... less so.
PoGo: I got in from the allotment on Wednesday evening shortly after the clock struck 6, and speculatively opened up the app, and speculatively tapped on the nearby gym I thought might people might be raiding at... and got into a Terrakion raid with a remote pass and about 2 seconds to spare. The previous round I utterly failed to get one, so imagine please my delight at having a shiny.
Elsewise notable: 100% Oshawott. Shadow Larvitar that'll be 93% if purified. Two shiny Seedot during rather desultory community day play.
Planet Earth: seasonal forests. ( Read more... )
Listening. TMA. Spoilers for 168. ( Read more... )
Cooking. smitten kitchen's sweet potato and chickpea salad, minus coriander and plus some buttermilk in the dressing. Was good. Will make again.
Sourdough loaf feat. bottom of the proving basket filled with poppy seeds. This worked and I Am Going To Do It Again.
Eating. A made a flapjack variant using treacle! Which was... interesting, but we came to the conclusion that fundamentally neither of us is actually particularly keen on Interesting Depth Of Flavour in our flapjack, thanks, so that probably won't be repeated.
Exploring. Another Reckless trip to Trent Park; we saw CATERPILLARS and also visited the Water Garden, which I'd been keen to. Azaleas and rhododendrons excellent. Flag irises also pretty great.
Creating. A massively self-indulgent aerial view of the allotment!
I'm gearing up to start attempting to put something together with plotly.
Making & mending. Soddit, allotment infrastructure projects go here now, It Has Been Decreed.
ERGO: I have, I think, completed the fruit cage. As of Thursday I'd moved the door (involving digging up two large lumps of masonry, ugh) and got mesh into place around all the newly-reorganised sides, and applied a few more netting clips to some gaps in the ceiling.
This is particularly pleasing because I was able to finish it up using parts I had kicking around spare when the initial fruitcage plan Didn't Work, such that I didn't actually have to buy anything and then wait for postage in order to finish it. Fruit cage.
Growing. At home: another batch of Greek Gigantes germinating, along with the Double Red sweetcorn sowed in small newspaper pots. One more go at purple holy basil going in the propagator; the tulsi that's potted up is big enough that I pulled a ceremonial leaf off for inclusion in dinner tonight, which is a nice milestone.
( Read more... )
Observing. I've been greatly enjoying the ridiculous thirty-foot-high wisteria-and-clematis tower just down the road, and ditto the various other wisteria. Intermittent cowslips in the lawn. LAWN FOX has made more appearances. Haven't seen the bat in a while, but I'm reminding myself that I didn't spot it at all until June, last year.
Playing. Horn: I continue vaguely actually reading the book while doing exercises around it. The retune of the horn appears in most respects to be an improvement, but for various reasons I'm having to work a bit harder to get the top of my range and I'm trying not to sulk too much about having gone in one fell swoop from an actually almost pleasant tone on my top C to one that is... less so.
PoGo: I got in from the allotment on Wednesday evening shortly after the clock struck 6, and speculatively opened up the app, and speculatively tapped on the nearby gym I thought might people might be raiding at... and got into a Terrakion raid with a remote pass and about 2 seconds to spare. The previous round I utterly failed to get one, so imagine please my delight at having a shiny.
Elsewise notable: 100% Oshawott. Shadow Larvitar that'll be 93% if purified. Two shiny Seedot during rather desultory community day play.