vital functions

Reading. ... yep, still going with the Keller. Still most of the way through the letters. Borrowed it from the library again.

Did, however, get as far as transferring a bunch of recent purchases onto the e-reader, so that's something.

Watching. A livestreamed class on making roti canai!

Listening. TMA, where I put most of this week's thoughts in comments over here. Julia Indelicate did a livestream, which we caught... most of! I think!

Cooking. Copied A's scone-mixing technique for the soda bread, and it worked so much better oh my goodness.

Roti canai! ()

This week's tagine was sort of disappointing, to my mind, for reasons I don't entirely understand. Possibly something in the bread-prep stage.

Date and walnut sourdough getting ready to be breakfast tomorrow.

Eating. A bean from the allotment. There was a broad bean that was big enough to eat whole; I picked it and we had half each with lunch, and Lo It Was Good.

Also allotment fennel.

Creating. Started doing another colour! Desmodium skinneri.

Making & mending. ( Read more... )

Growing. SUCH PLANTS.

• Lemon has proper grown-up leaves and is looking much happier.
  
• Chillis starting to set fruit; sweet peppers starting to think about flowering.
  
• All the tomato plants have flower buds; several of them have open flowers.
  
• I've moved the Thai basil to the greenhouse because honestly it probably wants a lot more direct light than it was getting in our living room, and it seems to be doing rather better for it.
  
• Some identifiable salad is germinating in the bed where I sowed it!
  
• Lots of onions coming up!
  
• Soft fruit starting to ripen! Except the strawberries, which have just about set.
  
• I have potted up, um, approximately thirty-five purple sprouting broccoli plants, because I sowed a whole packet of seeds and they pretty much? all? came up? apparently six plants is enough to feed a family of four? ... we... are going to be eating so much broccoli.
  
• another batch of maize set going (mostly sweetcorn, some hard corn): three of them have come up so far! (This morning it was two.) And goodness but I am getting a lot of use out of my paper potters.
  
• All eleven cucumber plants potted up; ditto most of the peppers.
  
• I... four loofa have come up. I was not... expecting four of them.
  
• Many weed. Much mulch.
  
• The wee volunteer oak that we'd sort of assumed had died but hadn't yet gone brown-and-dead... is putting out new, tiny leaves! I am SUPER proud of it. And the walnut also is Persevering Bravely.

Observing. BAT. Also some more lawn fox. Also the coal tits continue getting through a startling amount of seed, presumably because they have a bucket full of tiny gaping maws. Also witnessed: two magpies, drinking, only they don't? do the peristalsis thing? so they were patiently getting beaks full of water and then pointing them All The Way Up In The Air so they could swallow, and it was great. Two robins, also, who were within about three feet of each other and not fighting so presumably they also have a gaping maw or several stashed away somewhere.

The honeysuckle's coming out, at last.

Playing. Horn: tone is improving again post some tuning tweaks, which is a relief.

PoGo: 95% Stunfisk (from a job), 98% Snover (wild caught) and Alomomola (hatched). 100% hatty Pikachu for all the good it might do me (Lucario-variant, wild-caught!). Oooh, and a hatched new-to-me species -- Axew!