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vital functions
Reading. ( Angie Thomas, T. Kingfisher, Kate Bornstein, Malka Older )
Also read: the rules for Hanabi, so maybe we'll get to playing that at some point this week; ongoing slow satisfying progress with my reread of The Starless Sea. Up next: Thinking Fast and Slow, loaned to me by someone who'll be moving away soonish and who wanted the book back within ~6 months... in The Before Times. Onward.
Watching. CXG S01E07, I'm So Happy That Josh Is Happy! Still riveting; de-e-efinitely for Small Doses, though; only watching one episode this week was... sensible.
Playing. honk honk honk honk honk
(and also I enjoyed the trailer for two-player Untitled Goose Game)
PoGo: I do not at all understand what's going on with Mega Evolutions, but nevertheles this week I have wild-caught: my first Tirtouga (shit IVs, but TINY BLUE TURTLE FRIEND), a 95% Machop, another 98% Murkrow (level 30!), a 98% Cacnea, aaaaaaaand... a 100% Ditto. THANKS, GAME. Also a 95% Charizard off a Mega Charizard X raid! So that was pleasing.
Cooking. So many tomatoes need eating good grief (feat. v good tomato-mint-shallot-olive-oil salad, yes splendid). A round of potato (sweet & Irish) wedges + fried beefsteak tomato + omelette. Continued experiments with injera. I've also been making myself a lot of hot chocolate sweetened with condensed milk, because I had a tin as needed using up.
Eating. Cooking's been Hard this week on a number of evenings, the above notwithstanding, so Notable Eating has included My First Pizza Express Pizza Since The Beginning Of The Quarantimes, arranged by A to be my standard (via customisation, as it wasn't available for order directly), delivered to us, for which I was very grateful.
Also another round of tonkotsu: today A realised there was a branch right there by the outdoor distanced social we were doing this afternoon, and ordered some for us to take away and eat at home. Their ramen is still so good.
Bonus points: the Ruby Violet pear sorbet I made a few months ago. I'm doing an okay job of remembering to get it out the freezer in time to let it soften to scoopability, and I'm enjoying it immensely.
Exploring. A park in St Albans, with a picnic blanket and a warm blanket and a picnic packed by A and a collection of my cousins (at appropriate distances), where we hung around outside Happening at each other until the rain got determined enough that we retreated; the very edge of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, this afternoon, for More Social.
Growing. Honestly this week I have been Quite Remiss in making it to the allotment, due to a combination of Thesis Swamp and Actual (Weather-Warning-Rain) Swamp; nevertheless I have somehow achieved another 4kg of tomatoes brought home (and three cucumbers, and a bean).
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Observing. A cormorant, at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, pointed out by A, who needed it identifying! My cousins saw a red kite in a tree in St Albans but I alas did not. We are contemplating moving one of the pairs of binoculars to live in the car. Gingko trees are still green, and I've been enjoying them.
Also read: the rules for Hanabi, so maybe we'll get to playing that at some point this week; ongoing slow satisfying progress with my reread of The Starless Sea. Up next: Thinking Fast and Slow, loaned to me by someone who'll be moving away soonish and who wanted the book back within ~6 months... in The Before Times. Onward.
Watching. CXG S01E07, I'm So Happy That Josh Is Happy! Still riveting; de-e-efinitely for Small Doses, though; only watching one episode this week was... sensible.
Playing. honk honk honk honk honk
(and also I enjoyed the trailer for two-player Untitled Goose Game)
PoGo: I do not at all understand what's going on with Mega Evolutions, but nevertheles this week I have wild-caught: my first Tirtouga (shit IVs, but TINY BLUE TURTLE FRIEND), a 95% Machop, another 98% Murkrow (level 30!), a 98% Cacnea, aaaaaaaand... a 100% Ditto. THANKS, GAME. Also a 95% Charizard off a Mega Charizard X raid! So that was pleasing.
Cooking. So many tomatoes need eating good grief (feat. v good tomato-mint-shallot-olive-oil salad, yes splendid). A round of potato (sweet & Irish) wedges + fried beefsteak tomato + omelette. Continued experiments with injera. I've also been making myself a lot of hot chocolate sweetened with condensed milk, because I had a tin as needed using up.
Eating. Cooking's been Hard this week on a number of evenings, the above notwithstanding, so Notable Eating has included My First Pizza Express Pizza Since The Beginning Of The Quarantimes, arranged by A to be my standard (via customisation, as it wasn't available for order directly), delivered to us, for which I was very grateful.
Also another round of tonkotsu: today A realised there was a branch right there by the outdoor distanced social we were doing this afternoon, and ordered some for us to take away and eat at home. Their ramen is still so good.
Bonus points: the Ruby Violet pear sorbet I made a few months ago. I'm doing an okay job of remembering to get it out the freezer in time to let it soften to scoopability, and I'm enjoying it immensely.
Exploring. A park in St Albans, with a picnic blanket and a warm blanket and a picnic packed by A and a collection of my cousins (at appropriate distances), where we hung around outside Happening at each other until the rain got determined enough that we retreated; the very edge of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, this afternoon, for More Social.
Growing. Honestly this week I have been Quite Remiss in making it to the allotment, due to a combination of Thesis Swamp and Actual (Weather-Warning-Rain) Swamp; nevertheless I have somehow achieved another 4kg of tomatoes brought home (and three cucumbers, and a bean).
( Read more... )
Observing. A cormorant, at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, pointed out by A, who needed it identifying! My cousins saw a red kite in a tree in St Albans but I alas did not. We are contemplating moving one of the pairs of binoculars to live in the car. Gingko trees are still green, and I've been enjoying them.