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Jun. 21st, 2020 11:18 pmReading. ( John Scalzi, Martha Wells, Alix E Harrow, Ibram X. Kendi )
Watching. Planet Earth: the future. ( Brief notes, not liveblog. )
Listening. TMA 172. ( Spoilers. )
Up to episode 45 of the relisten. ( Minor continuity spoilers. )
Cooking. Sourdough of note: 50% wholemeal with figs and hazelnuts (I'm a massive fan, especially with goats' cheese; A is dubious about both the goats' cheese and the bread-additives); 10% dark rye with caraway, which was also very good but at these proportions I can't tell the difference between the light and dark rye flours.
Sweet potato & chickpea salad.
Two quiche cases, one cheese-and-onion quiche, and one tiny apple-and-blackberry pie. Also pretty pleased with the potato wedges that went with for the first evening.
Making & mending. ALLOTMENT INFRASTRUCTURE. In particular: finally all the parts for redoing my greenhouse staging arrived, so I spent a good chunk of Tuesday and Wednesday working on that. I got some of these kits (hurrah birthday-presents-to-self) plus a three-tiered shelving unit and the greenhouse is so much tidier and more pleasant to exist in; it is great.
At home: I've started actually cataloguing all the photography gear we hauled up from Cornwall on our last trip, and badgered A into helping me bring all of the Kenwood Chef... bits... in. So far he's got my stand mixer working again after we burned something in it out last week (by just swapping out a working motor unit from a chassis with some broken exterior parts), and done an audit of which chassis actually work. I have been beginning the catalogue of what all attachments we have, and also cleaning them some more -- I did give them all a scrub down before we removed them from the Mouldering Ancestral Pile but they've since sat untouched in our garage for... some time... and need yet more clean-up. Progress, though.
Growing. It... continues growing season.
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Observing. Lots of bat, and occasional giant moth. There's also been a fair old bit of the back garden fox trotting around the place, even during daylight. Some I-think-tree-sparrows having dust-baths in the track down to the allotments, before all the rain happened. Some excellent beetles.
Playing. Mrrf. Another round of frustrated-with-horn-playing, though at least there's a fairly clear causal link between practising less and losing clarity of tone etc on the high range, though it does also help to remember that pointing the bell out into the room instead of just sort of back at a desk and some chairs makes a much nicer noise.
PoGo: ( Read more... )
Watching. Planet Earth: the future. ( Brief notes, not liveblog. )
Listening. TMA 172. ( Spoilers. )
Up to episode 45 of the relisten. ( Minor continuity spoilers. )
Cooking. Sourdough of note: 50% wholemeal with figs and hazelnuts (I'm a massive fan, especially with goats' cheese; A is dubious about both the goats' cheese and the bread-additives); 10% dark rye with caraway, which was also very good but at these proportions I can't tell the difference between the light and dark rye flours.
Sweet potato & chickpea salad.
Two quiche cases, one cheese-and-onion quiche, and one tiny apple-and-blackberry pie. Also pretty pleased with the potato wedges that went with for the first evening.
Making & mending. ALLOTMENT INFRASTRUCTURE. In particular: finally all the parts for redoing my greenhouse staging arrived, so I spent a good chunk of Tuesday and Wednesday working on that. I got some of these kits (hurrah birthday-presents-to-self) plus a three-tiered shelving unit and the greenhouse is so much tidier and more pleasant to exist in; it is great.
At home: I've started actually cataloguing all the photography gear we hauled up from Cornwall on our last trip, and badgered A into helping me bring all of the Kenwood Chef... bits... in. So far he's got my stand mixer working again after we burned something in it out last week (by just swapping out a working motor unit from a chassis with some broken exterior parts), and done an audit of which chassis actually work. I have been beginning the catalogue of what all attachments we have, and also cleaning them some more -- I did give them all a scrub down before we removed them from the Mouldering Ancestral Pile but they've since sat untouched in our garage for... some time... and need yet more clean-up. Progress, though.
Growing. It... continues growing season.
( Read more... )
Observing. Lots of bat, and occasional giant moth. There's also been a fair old bit of the back garden fox trotting around the place, even during daylight. Some I-think-tree-sparrows having dust-baths in the track down to the allotments, before all the rain happened. Some excellent beetles.
Playing. Mrrf. Another round of frustrated-with-horn-playing, though at least there's a fairly clear causal link between practising less and losing clarity of tone etc on the high range, though it does also help to remember that pointing the bell out into the room instead of just sort of back at a desk and some chairs makes a much nicer noise.
PoGo: ( Read more... )