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Sep. 27th, 2020 11:01 pmReading. The Things I Would Tell You, edited by Sabrina Mahfouz: an anthology of writing by British Muslim women, including poetry and plays and memoir and reported interviews and stories. On the one hand I found this difficult in much the way I usually find anthologies hard going (my speculation is that this has to do with executive function and task-switching), and on the other I was utterly absorbed by the play in a way I didn't expect at all, and plenty enjoyed lots of the rest of it.
Brit(ish), Afua Hirsch. This arrived from the library today! And I have actually started reading it, instead of getting sucked entirely into the pit of "okay but can I make the library send books to my ereader instead of my phone, because that... would be nice."
Writing. Current chapter has been dithering back and forth between just over and just under 7k words, as I edit and restructure and consolidate; currently it's on the just-under side of things, but. It's progressing.
Watching. As previously related, a bunch of YouTube videos about master putter-togetherers of handmade scissors up in Sheffield.
CXG S01E11. ( Read more... )
Listening. TMA 180. ( Read more... )
Playing. Alas, the official cooperative Untitled Goose Game requires two sets of controllers, so we've not started that yet (wings crossed for more DLC to come, though).
I've got quite sucked in to playing a bunch of easy sudoku, about which I can mostly say that there are worse self-soothing strategies.
PoGo: I have been really enjoying the ridiculous number of Lapras provided by the current event.
Horn: have been managing longer practices this week, and really enjoying the pay-off.
Cooking. Oh I have had some really satisfying cooking this week. ( Read more... )
Making & mending. Hmm. I've been investigating replacing the battery (and possibly the rear camera) in my current handset, because the PoGo has finally taken its toll; I'm not convinced I want to give it a go, but also it looks like parts are under a tenner so I... might. (For the cost of getting someone else to do a battery replacement I can buy a replacement second-hand phone, so.)
Growing. Harvest: another 1.5kg of tomatoes, for 21.5kg total so far. The first (small!) handful of autumn raspberries. Ongoing patty-pan squash, sweetcorn, Cosse Violette beans, cucumber. Bonus: tiny purple sweet peppers, and another few Sugar Magnolia pea pods to dry for seed storage for next year. (I want to grow a lot more of these next year than we did this.)
Bonus poor photo of tonight's TREASURE (500g tomatoes, a good handful of dark purple beans, four small purple peppers, two ears of ridiculous bicolour white-and-red sweetcorn, two patty-pan squash):
( Read more... )
Observing. A has made it easier to observe the bats! From the warm and the inside. And now our sofa chitters at us (if we remember to turn it on).
I've also been enjoying the Very Shouty Parakeets, but have still not got my act together to actually make a recording of the ?woodpecker, which is definitely Hanging Around.
Brit(ish), Afua Hirsch. This arrived from the library today! And I have actually started reading it, instead of getting sucked entirely into the pit of "okay but can I make the library send books to my ereader instead of my phone, because that... would be nice."
Writing. Current chapter has been dithering back and forth between just over and just under 7k words, as I edit and restructure and consolidate; currently it's on the just-under side of things, but. It's progressing.
Watching. As previously related, a bunch of YouTube videos about master putter-togetherers of handmade scissors up in Sheffield.
CXG S01E11. ( Read more... )
Listening. TMA 180. ( Read more... )
Playing. Alas, the official cooperative Untitled Goose Game requires two sets of controllers, so we've not started that yet (wings crossed for more DLC to come, though).
I've got quite sucked in to playing a bunch of easy sudoku, about which I can mostly say that there are worse self-soothing strategies.
PoGo: I have been really enjoying the ridiculous number of Lapras provided by the current event.
Horn: have been managing longer practices this week, and really enjoying the pay-off.
Cooking. Oh I have had some really satisfying cooking this week. ( Read more... )
Making & mending. Hmm. I've been investigating replacing the battery (and possibly the rear camera) in my current handset, because the PoGo has finally taken its toll; I'm not convinced I want to give it a go, but also it looks like parts are under a tenner so I... might. (For the cost of getting someone else to do a battery replacement I can buy a replacement second-hand phone, so.)
Growing. Harvest: another 1.5kg of tomatoes, for 21.5kg total so far. The first (small!) handful of autumn raspberries. Ongoing patty-pan squash, sweetcorn, Cosse Violette beans, cucumber. Bonus: tiny purple sweet peppers, and another few Sugar Magnolia pea pods to dry for seed storage for next year. (I want to grow a lot more of these next year than we did this.)
Bonus poor photo of tonight's TREASURE (500g tomatoes, a good handful of dark purple beans, four small purple peppers, two ears of ridiculous bicolour white-and-red sweetcorn, two patty-pan squash):
( Read more... )
Observing. A has made it easier to observe the bats! From the warm and the inside. And now our sofa chitters at us (if we remember to turn it on).
I've also been enjoying the Very Shouty Parakeets, but have still not got my act together to actually make a recording of the ?woodpecker, which is definitely Hanging Around.