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Jul. 11th, 2021 09:51 pmReading. ( Te-Nahisi Coates, Scientific American, Ryder Carroll, J. R. R. Tolkien )
Watching. CXG S03E07. ( Read more... )
BBC Life: the Challenges of Life. This is a liveblog. You have been warned.
( Read more... )
Leverage: Redemption, S01E01. ( Read more... )
Playing. This week I have (for reasons) been doing my honking with a mute in! And have been cheered by the rapid progression from "wow, this is a mess" to "huh, this is basically functional" -- so HURRAH for ongoing skill development.
Creating. I continue to play with lettering, and have settled on (yet another) new numbering style. I finished my previous pen full of ink so got to START MY TROUBLEMAKER STARRY NIGHT BLUE (see also). I am pleased to report that despite a bunch of grumping about them on the internet, the Starry Night Blue in a TWSBI Diamond 580 with 1.1mm stub nib showed no ghosting, no bleed-through, and minimal feathering in an Archer & Olive notebook. (Lettersssss.)
Growing. This week, I have harvested about 2kg of redcurrants. There are... more. to come. And I haven't even started on the jostaberry yet. And the gooseberries are getting there!
Outside: sweetcorn are getting rapidly taller but I suspect I'm going to have to put up canes for the Cosse Violette to climb anyway (but those ARE all coming up and AREN'T all getting eaten by [whatever], so maybe I'll try putting some more peas in that bed as well, sigh, given that even the ones I planted out at ~12" tall are getting Consumed). Second sowing of fennel is germinating, but I'm annoyed by the total evaporation of all of the first sowing, even the one that managed a Proper Leaf. Oca continue cheerful. I found the ants. I have potted up the Chaenomeles japonica courtesy of my mother, and put a hat on the lovage in the hope that this too will discourage Monching. We have had a strawberry off the patio; I'm trying to work out where to plant some baby plants at the allotment. And the sage has self-seeded, and that is going to wind up in the awkward bit of verge once I've... caught up with the Ribes various.
Inside, various: the tomatoes need to go out. The aubergine are Thinking Real Hard and probably need potting up. The tomatoes need me to decide where I'm putting them and then put them there. Cucumbers, chillis, and the one (1) single solitary squash I managed to hatch are... coming along. Fingers crossed for the squash Making It.
I have not yet caved and bought myself seeds for a bunch of decorative succulents.
Observing. BAT bat bat bat bat bat, two fox at once, and... we are up to ten snails, because when I sat down in front of Leverage last night, with A and a tub of redcurrants that needed processing, I wound up finding... two tiny snails I had inadvertently brought home that are, apparently, Ours Now. We... still know the whereabouts of one of them. (They both... fit through the air holes in the snail tank. At least until we've fed them up a bit more.) I am enjoying them all a great deal.
Watching. CXG S03E07. ( Read more... )
BBC Life: the Challenges of Life. This is a liveblog. You have been warned.
( Read more... )
Leverage: Redemption, S01E01. ( Read more... )
Playing. This week I have (for reasons) been doing my honking with a mute in! And have been cheered by the rapid progression from "wow, this is a mess" to "huh, this is basically functional" -- so HURRAH for ongoing skill development.
Creating. I continue to play with lettering, and have settled on (yet another) new numbering style. I finished my previous pen full of ink so got to START MY TROUBLEMAKER STARRY NIGHT BLUE (see also). I am pleased to report that despite a bunch of grumping about them on the internet, the Starry Night Blue in a TWSBI Diamond 580 with 1.1mm stub nib showed no ghosting, no bleed-through, and minimal feathering in an Archer & Olive notebook. (Lettersssss.)
Growing. This week, I have harvested about 2kg of redcurrants. There are... more. to come. And I haven't even started on the jostaberry yet. And the gooseberries are getting there!
Outside: sweetcorn are getting rapidly taller but I suspect I'm going to have to put up canes for the Cosse Violette to climb anyway (but those ARE all coming up and AREN'T all getting eaten by [whatever], so maybe I'll try putting some more peas in that bed as well, sigh, given that even the ones I planted out at ~12" tall are getting Consumed). Second sowing of fennel is germinating, but I'm annoyed by the total evaporation of all of the first sowing, even the one that managed a Proper Leaf. Oca continue cheerful. I found the ants. I have potted up the Chaenomeles japonica courtesy of my mother, and put a hat on the lovage in the hope that this too will discourage Monching. We have had a strawberry off the patio; I'm trying to work out where to plant some baby plants at the allotment. And the sage has self-seeded, and that is going to wind up in the awkward bit of verge once I've... caught up with the Ribes various.
Inside, various: the tomatoes need to go out. The aubergine are Thinking Real Hard and probably need potting up. The tomatoes need me to decide where I'm putting them and then put them there. Cucumbers, chillis, and the one (1) single solitary squash I managed to hatch are... coming along. Fingers crossed for the squash Making It.
I have not yet caved and bought myself seeds for a bunch of decorative succulents.
Observing. BAT bat bat bat bat bat, two fox at once, and... we are up to ten snails, because when I sat down in front of Leverage last night, with A and a tub of redcurrants that needed processing, I wound up finding... two tiny snails I had inadvertently brought home that are, apparently, Ours Now. We... still know the whereabouts of one of them. (They both... fit through the air holes in the snail tank. At least until we've fed them up a bit more.) I am enjoying them all a great deal.