vital functions

Reading. So much October Daye. Now working my way through Notes of Sorrow, which is the twenty-first of the 35 short stories set chronologically before the first novel. I'm continuing to wince about continuity blips, but it is nonetheless Extremely Satisfying to be working my way through this stack of stories I've had for ages but not been able to executive function my way to reading.

I have also finally finally finished my read-through of Ottolenghi's Plenty. I thiiink it wasn't quite sufficiently relevant to my interests to get to take up bookshelf space, but I have made copies of the couple of dessert recipes that particularly appealed...

Listening. On the drive back upcountry we listened to Several things I hadn't in a while (... because, as much as anything else, migraine...) including Diseases of England (The Indelicates) and Anaesthesiology (ONSIND) and I Had Forgotten How Much I Loved These Albums. Somehow.

Cooking. Lots of carrot and leek soup.

Eating. SO MANY GOOD FOOD.

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Exploring. The Eden Project (again), where I keep learning new things! We poked around Roskilly's a bunch including some bits of the farm I don't think I'd ever walked around! And we also tried to find the footpath down to Godrevy beach and I failed utterly but Adam followed his nose and, well, found it, for what good it did us...

The village market (mostly an excuse for a coffee morning in the village hall). Coverack (I sat on a bench by the car park because my knee was Not Interested in the steps down to the beach, but A & co had a good poke around while I read a book).

Kynance (avec spectacular rainbow), Mullion Cove, Poldhu. And up to Church Cove, which I don't think I've visited in over a decade but was very pleased to plod over to. Said hello to the Marconi Monument and patted its nose and told it it was good.

Growing. Did not actually wind up weeding the lawn at the mouldering ancestral pile but DID very much enjoy the flowering tamarisk (which I don't recall ever seeing before!) (happily the chunk I had to cut back was NOT flowering so I didn't feel horrendously guilty about it); reconstructed the fences around the hebes, all of which are doing fine.

At home: nothing seems to have died of neglect while I was away thank goodness; the allotment whatsapp informs me that the CRIMINAL who has DUG UP AND EATEN my CORNISH RHUBARB is probably a rabbits; PATTYPAN SQUASH ARE FINALLY SETTING; there are more Cosse Violette than we can keep up with (and I was VERY entertained to see them also growing prolifically at the Eden Project); Adam acquired me some new nonsense tomato seeds; the nonsense chilli seeds I wanted (Yellow Bumpy) were sold out so I'm going to be placing an order for them In Due Course; my first batch of Biquinho Red chillis are ripe and the one of them I nibbled straight off the plant was entirely pleasant.

Observing. SO MANY BIRDS. Goldfinches, both at the Eden Project and at home; chaffinch; the roul roul in the Tropical Biome (though alas no chicks); at Roskilly's, TINY BABY RED PEEGLE and also QUAILS and SHIT TEENAGE CHICKENS and SHIT TEENAGE MOORHENS, and HEIFERS who TALKED TO US.

Inevitably but extremely welcome spectacular skyscapes, with a wide variety of weather including sheet lightning and rainbows and beautiful sunsets.