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Nov. 7th, 2021 11:52 pmReading. I spent the last week on holiday, and singularly failed to take with me any of the physical books I was reading. I did, however, pack my e-reader (as well as a single solitary French horn), and even managed some reading. ( T. Kingfisher, Martha Wells, Maggie Stiefvater... )
Playing. In addition to my terrible phone games: three rounds of Scrabble! A, my mother and I won one each, which was very pleasing. Alas I did not actually manage to get in around of Splendor with A.
Cooking. So much food. Apple & mint jelly (~7 340g jars); Apfelmus (4 ~600g jars). A variant sea-spicy aubergine recipe, which I am going to be trying again tomorrow.
Eating. Courtesy of my mother: stroganoff; Apfelstrudel; a variety of other treats. Courtesy of vendors various: a vegetable pasty (Rowes); a cheese and vegetable pasty (Ann's Pasties); and a curried vegetable pasty (the National Trust, on our way back upcountry). Courtesy of the village chippy: chips! And nibbles of Adam's bits and pieces.
Exploring. We bimbled down to the beach, and also around Trelissick briefly, and also Kynance Cove. A drove the Tramper all the way down to Cornwall, and I was delighted to actually explore some with it.
(On the way back upcountry, we stopped at Castle Drogo, but didn't actually get beyond the café.)
Creating. A house sign! Chalk marker, one of the roof slates retrieved from a stack in the vegetable patch, and some poking around Art Deco fonts. We will see how it holds up to the elements before fixing it to the wall -- it might yet find itself in need of varnishing or similar...
Growing. I took the basils down to Cornwall, and then snapped one of the stems this morning while packing up. That's currently sat in a container of water to see if I can persuade it to root -- cuttings do theoretically work...
I was relieved when we got home to find that both the squash and the chilli had survived a week or so's drought.
Observing. MANY THINGS. Lots of plants, obviously, including a lot of sloes -- BUT in particular and especially, we were amazingly lucky at Kynance. We saw both a pair of choughs (screeching! doing aerobatics! displaying their wee pink feet beautifully on their way in and out of one of the less-human-accessible caves!) and A SEAL bobbing around with its nose, and occasionally the rest of its head, out of the water.
(A & my mother also saw they're-pretty-sure three choughs around the fields behind the house -- these I did not see but am Very Excited About.)
Elsewise: lots of wild snails (some white-and-black striped; some CONICAL), plus plenty of Antics inside our tank; lots of amazing sunsets; fluid dynamics in action at the beach. ETA: OH! AND! On the beach at home! A very pretty blue-and-purple-and- fragment of a Portuguese man-o-war!
I have had a really lovely week. <3
Playing. In addition to my terrible phone games: three rounds of Scrabble! A, my mother and I won one each, which was very pleasing. Alas I did not actually manage to get in around of Splendor with A.
Cooking. So much food. Apple & mint jelly (~7 340g jars); Apfelmus (4 ~600g jars). A variant sea-spicy aubergine recipe, which I am going to be trying again tomorrow.
Eating. Courtesy of my mother: stroganoff; Apfelstrudel; a variety of other treats. Courtesy of vendors various: a vegetable pasty (Rowes); a cheese and vegetable pasty (Ann's Pasties); and a curried vegetable pasty (the National Trust, on our way back upcountry). Courtesy of the village chippy: chips! And nibbles of Adam's bits and pieces.
Exploring. We bimbled down to the beach, and also around Trelissick briefly, and also Kynance Cove. A drove the Tramper all the way down to Cornwall, and I was delighted to actually explore some with it.
(On the way back upcountry, we stopped at Castle Drogo, but didn't actually get beyond the café.)
Creating. A house sign! Chalk marker, one of the roof slates retrieved from a stack in the vegetable patch, and some poking around Art Deco fonts. We will see how it holds up to the elements before fixing it to the wall -- it might yet find itself in need of varnishing or similar...
Growing. I took the basils down to Cornwall, and then snapped one of the stems this morning while packing up. That's currently sat in a container of water to see if I can persuade it to root -- cuttings do theoretically work...
I was relieved when we got home to find that both the squash and the chilli had survived a week or so's drought.
Observing. MANY THINGS. Lots of plants, obviously, including a lot of sloes -- BUT in particular and especially, we were amazingly lucky at Kynance. We saw both a pair of choughs (screeching! doing aerobatics! displaying their wee pink feet beautifully on their way in and out of one of the less-human-accessible caves!) and A SEAL bobbing around with its nose, and occasionally the rest of its head, out of the water.
(A & my mother also saw they're-pretty-sure three choughs around the fields behind the house -- these I did not see but am Very Excited About.)
Elsewise: lots of wild snails (some white-and-black striped; some CONICAL), plus plenty of Antics inside our tank; lots of amazing sunsets; fluid dynamics in action at the beach. ETA: OH! AND! On the beach at home! A very pretty blue-and-purple-and- fragment of a Portuguese man-o-war!
I have had a really lovely week. <3