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Jul. 25th, 2021 11:57 pmReading. ( Susanna Clarke, Yoon Ha Lee/Rivers Solomon/SL Huang/Becky Chambers )
I am stalled on making more Silm notes (WHAT EVEN IS GEOGRAPHY), but I am gonna attempt to pick that back up this week coming.
Watching. Orphan Black S05E06. ( Read more... )
CXG S03E09. ( Read more... )
Cooking. A very pleasing crumble: jostaberry and apple, with spelt flour and whole oats in the topping.
More japchae, this time with black fungus. Also more black pepper tofu and sea-spicy aubergine (which I am annoyingly still not getting quite right), more aubergine kuku, and another Ribiselkuchen.
Eating. Raspberriesss. And the start of the blackberries, but they're still decidedly tart, so I nibble them only out of Intense Desire For Blackberry, and am impatiently anticipating them being Actually Ripe.
Also my mother made me padron peppers (fried with salt), and fennel-pepper-paprika stew, and RASPBERRY TRIFLE.
Making & mending. I made an abortive attempt at breaking up some slate using my hammer and a chisel (and eye protection!), and will be revisiting the topic with an angle grinder at some point this week.
I have also poked at secateurs some more, and made progress on that front (thank you all!).
Growing. Most of my squash have indeed failed to come up for reasons I don't entirely understand, but it looks like something has Eaten The Seeds for many of them so I suppose I'm starting next year's batch off at home instead of in the greenhouse. On the upside, the one that did germinate is one that we adored last year, so I'm mildly sad I'm not getting to try out new winter squash but, you know what, that's okay.
Elsewise, I have actually managed to make a start on potting up (aubergine, chilli, some tomatoes) and planting out (one tomato), alongside ongoing harvest of soft fruit.
... the lemon. is very bravely. growing an inch-long branch. from the bottom of its trunk. and I'm going to have to try to work out how to keep it alive and marginally happier over this winter coming. Bubble-wrap tent in the greenhouse it is, I suppose. *facehands*
Observing. While we were sat out on the decking on Friday night, with Pimms and the bat detector and the bat, we are pretty sure that I/we spotted, in relatively quick succession, the Multipurpose Laboratory Module and the ISS, completely unintentionally, because we happened to be outside and I happened to be staring at the sky while I tried to articulate some things about my career and my relationship with my family and the (entirely sincere) joys of growing older.
Plus today while I was attempting to do some weeding I stumbled upon a plant covered in absolutely tiny baby snails -- holler if you want pics -- that I assume must have hatched pretty recently, which was delightful and extremely distracting. So small. So smol.
I am stalled on making more Silm notes (WHAT EVEN IS GEOGRAPHY), but I am gonna attempt to pick that back up this week coming.
Watching. Orphan Black S05E06. ( Read more... )
CXG S03E09. ( Read more... )
Cooking. A very pleasing crumble: jostaberry and apple, with spelt flour and whole oats in the topping.
More japchae, this time with black fungus. Also more black pepper tofu and sea-spicy aubergine (which I am annoyingly still not getting quite right), more aubergine kuku, and another Ribiselkuchen.
Eating. Raspberriesss. And the start of the blackberries, but they're still decidedly tart, so I nibble them only out of Intense Desire For Blackberry, and am impatiently anticipating them being Actually Ripe.
Also my mother made me padron peppers (fried with salt), and fennel-pepper-paprika stew, and RASPBERRY TRIFLE.
Making & mending. I made an abortive attempt at breaking up some slate using my hammer and a chisel (and eye protection!), and will be revisiting the topic with an angle grinder at some point this week.
I have also poked at secateurs some more, and made progress on that front (thank you all!).
Growing. Most of my squash have indeed failed to come up for reasons I don't entirely understand, but it looks like something has Eaten The Seeds for many of them so I suppose I'm starting next year's batch off at home instead of in the greenhouse. On the upside, the one that did germinate is one that we adored last year, so I'm mildly sad I'm not getting to try out new winter squash but, you know what, that's okay.
Elsewise, I have actually managed to make a start on potting up (aubergine, chilli, some tomatoes) and planting out (one tomato), alongside ongoing harvest of soft fruit.
... the lemon. is very bravely. growing an inch-long branch. from the bottom of its trunk. and I'm going to have to try to work out how to keep it alive and marginally happier over this winter coming. Bubble-wrap tent in the greenhouse it is, I suppose. *facehands*
Observing. While we were sat out on the decking on Friday night, with Pimms and the bat detector and the bat, we are pretty sure that I/we spotted, in relatively quick succession, the Multipurpose Laboratory Module and the ISS, completely unintentionally, because we happened to be outside and I happened to be staring at the sky while I tried to articulate some things about my career and my relationship with my family and the (entirely sincere) joys of growing older.
Plus today while I was attempting to do some weeding I stumbled upon a plant covered in absolutely tiny baby snails -- holler if you want pics -- that I assume must have hatched pretty recently, which was delightful and extremely distracting. So small. So smol.