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vital functions
May. 15th, 2022 10:58 pmReading. The London Nobody Knows, Geoffrey Fletcher. I continue to work my way through this slowly, with frequent breaks to look things up.
I have not made any progress on the Silm because reading dead tree while making analogue notes doesn't combine brilliantly with photosensitivity. This has been frustrating me.
Writing. A wee bit of python for A! Which he proceeded to almost entirely rewrite, but hey, I've now introduced him to matplotlib and pandas and I think it was useful proof-of-concept. :)
Watching. Does it count if we only watched the UK and Ukraine Eurovision entries? Because we watched them and did not at all understand why the UK's entry was so popular...
Playing. More Degrees of Separation! We continue to enjoy, and are a bit grumpy with ourselves for having had to look up how to get the scarf on top of the well in Fields of Promise...
Cooking. I baked some peaches in spiced white wine syrup; I made some courgette fritters; and today I've prepped pizza dough and passata for tomorrow...
Eating. ... because I didn't get to it til late in the day so we decided on takeaway from one of the local Turkish restaurants this evening, and relatively-quick-to-assemble-but-tasty pizza tomorrow, when A has a standing engagement, so that we don't need to make any more decisions about food.
(The restaurant was out of ayran so he popped -- masked obv -- into the shop over the road from the restaurant to pick some up, and also got us some plantain and a tub of Exciting Halloumi. Our first plantain since the Before Times! I am excite.)
Growing. The tomatoes continue enlargening and need to go out. The sweet basil is once again in decline. The blueberries and strawberries are all thinking very seriously about the world. I have not made it to the allotment this week for reasons of migraine, but I did sow some peas in pots at home to hopefully get established before they go out. Fingers crossed for allotment trips in the coming week; I'm due at least a few days migraine-free.
Observing. The bat; I have not actually observed its physical form with my eyes this week but Adam has, and I heard it when he pointed the detector at it. Parakeets shrieking their way around the back garden. I put wool insulation from food deliveries around some of my plants at the beginning of winter, and it's gradually dispersed around the garden with more or less help from the foxes; some of it's wound up stuck in the mat we have outside our back door, and to my delight the robins are saving me a job by carefully picking it all back out, presumably to line their nest. (Which might be in the mahonia? I will keep an eye out this week and see if I can't work out where they're building.) This also means that they're coming much closer to the back door than usual, which I am finding delightful!
I have not made any progress on the Silm because reading dead tree while making analogue notes doesn't combine brilliantly with photosensitivity. This has been frustrating me.
Writing. A wee bit of python for A! Which he proceeded to almost entirely rewrite, but hey, I've now introduced him to matplotlib and pandas and I think it was useful proof-of-concept. :)
Watching. Does it count if we only watched the UK and Ukraine Eurovision entries? Because we watched them and did not at all understand why the UK's entry was so popular...
Playing. More Degrees of Separation! We continue to enjoy, and are a bit grumpy with ourselves for having had to look up how to get the scarf on top of the well in Fields of Promise...
Cooking. I baked some peaches in spiced white wine syrup; I made some courgette fritters; and today I've prepped pizza dough and passata for tomorrow...
Eating. ... because I didn't get to it til late in the day so we decided on takeaway from one of the local Turkish restaurants this evening, and relatively-quick-to-assemble-but-tasty pizza tomorrow, when A has a standing engagement, so that we don't need to make any more decisions about food.
(The restaurant was out of ayran so he popped -- masked obv -- into the shop over the road from the restaurant to pick some up, and also got us some plantain and a tub of Exciting Halloumi. Our first plantain since the Before Times! I am excite.)
Growing. The tomatoes continue enlargening and need to go out. The sweet basil is once again in decline. The blueberries and strawberries are all thinking very seriously about the world. I have not made it to the allotment this week for reasons of migraine, but I did sow some peas in pots at home to hopefully get established before they go out. Fingers crossed for allotment trips in the coming week; I'm due at least a few days migraine-free.
Observing. The bat; I have not actually observed its physical form with my eyes this week but Adam has, and I heard it when he pointed the detector at it. Parakeets shrieking their way around the back garden. I put wool insulation from food deliveries around some of my plants at the beginning of winter, and it's gradually dispersed around the garden with more or less help from the foxes; some of it's wound up stuck in the mat we have outside our back door, and to my delight the robins are saving me a job by carefully picking it all back out, presumably to line their nest. (Which might be in the mahonia? I will keep an eye out this week and see if I can't work out where they're building.) This also means that they're coming much closer to the back door than usual, which I am finding delightful!