vital functions

Reading. ( Tade Thompson, Jane Austen )

Watching. The Matrix, because A had a craving. My goodness but it had been a small age since I watched this, and I'd completely forgotten a... lot... of the thematic parallels. ( Read more... )

Listening. TMA(AAAAAAAH). ( Read more... )

Playing. Stumblehill. You've all heard about being a horrible goose; here's your chance to be a shit penguin. A & I played this cooperatively, in a way that was never intended, as we did with Untitled Goose Game. The premise: you're a rubbish genderqueer penguin who keeps falling over, and you're trying to climb a mountain. With UGG I was directions and A was picking things up/flapping wings/etc, and with this I was jumping and object manipulation while A was directions. Probably we'd not have completed (A) or started (me) it without playing cooperatively, but given that we were we giggled at it a lot. I was mildly irritated that your character appears to cry every time they go donk against something (especially given that some tasks require that you go donk), but -- yeah, overall we had fun.

Horn: I definitely still have a face that contains muscles.

PoGo: a second shiny Drifloon, and a 100% Snivy! Both research rewards, thank you kindly. (why don't i get small sparkly friends to take home in exchange for ACTUAL research i ask you) New species: Genesect! (Also a research reward.) I am... extremely dubious about Jesse and James, though I will allow that I'm a fan of HOT AIR BALLOONS.

Cooking. Oh gosh such things. Another Ribiselkuchen, this time with hazelnut because I remembered, which we're most of the way through. A batch of Kardemummebullar, at the request of some COUSINS, who got sent away with most of them. My first essay at gooseberry fool, only I didn't bother stewing the gooseberries with sugar as they're sweet enough to eat straight off the bush: topped and tailed, cut in half, served with cream whipped with a little vanilla sugar. There's probably enough of them to do it again, and we're intending to.

Also jostaberry jam, which I am looking forward intently to sampling in greater depth than "licking the spoon on the way to the washing-up", but I want to finish our existing jams first, or at least the open ones.

Eating. More blackberries! More mysterious hybrid-berries! and A TINY PURPLE CHILLI, because I wanted to check if they were chillis, so I... ate one. in the greenhouse. despite knowing perfectly well that they were advertised as very hot. This was A Choice That I Made.

Making & mending. Oh gosh we have been doing a lot of tidying this week -- but possibly Most Interestingly, A very kindly did the power-tools bits of wrangling a raised bed into its final form such that I could fill it in at last, which I'd been avoidant about for months. But it is DONE.

I have also gathered myself a goodly quantity of dead raspberry canes from seasons past, and have consequently substantially reinforced the pea climbing frame (and also given some of the beans something to climb while the maize gets properly going).

I have not sawn up any more pallets. That is perhaps a job for this week.

Growing. At home: more blueberries are coming ripe! The patio cucumber is considering setting fruit! I... think the thing that's wrong with the basils might be powdery mildew? So I'm misting them with a weak milk solution and we'll see if they perk up.

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Observing. TWO BAT TWO BAT TWO BAT AT ONCE. Excellent treat this evening Yes Thank You.

I have not further disarrayed the Fake Snakes; I've been enjoying the parakeets and misc. other birds, and also the Back Garden Fox. Mostly, though, I am Excited about Bats.