vital functions

Reading. Made In India, Meera Sodha. Apparently this one contains 130 recipes. I marked (having just counted) somewhere over 25 of them as Of Interest, which means that this is one of those frustrating cookbooks that has multiple chapters that are of zero practical interest to me (because vegetarian) but otherwise a fairly high hit rate. At some point I will have a go at working my way through the marked recipes, and see how many of them I like enough to want to make again.

mauve, Simon Garfield. Started this in late Feb, got distracted by Suddenly Library Hold Queues, am now picking it back up and amused (as noted yesterday) by its direct relevance to some of my current nonsense.

And I FINISHED A Slob Comes Clean, by which I mean "I'm up to the present day and given that most of her blog posts over the last year have been notifications that she's released another podcast episode, which are not of interest to me, I am Probably Done". I have definitely got several useful bits out of that archive binge but goodness I am glad to be finished with this particular completionism.

Making & mending. The fruit cage now really and truly has TWO DOORS, and I should probably wrangle the hinges of the older one, but it basically works. Next step: actually get a bunch more wood chip in along the path(s).

I did not actually get a sewing machine out to fix a seam we ripped on a useful storage bag, but I thought really hard about it.

Growing. ( Read more... )

Observing. A group of Very Yell Small Brown Birds were having a tussle while I was wrestling jostaberries into my pannier. There continue to be foxes; we have not yet spotted the bat, partly because I'm not really coping with having curtains open and partly, I think, because while they do generally wake up around now it's been quite damp and windy. Soon, though, hopefully!