vital functions

Reading. ( Ed Yong, Steve Haines, Tim Spector, Cat Sebastian )

Stationery blogs continue. So do misc medical research.

Writing. Mentally drafting some chunks of essay on chronic pain; actually making some notes on same. Haven't actually transcribed any of the mental drafts yet, though.

Cooking. Dragged myself through making amaretti go this evening. Moussaka at the beginning of the week still somehow less good than my mother's, so I'm going to have to ask her to make it again while I watch.

Eating. Artichokes. Gooseberries. Jostaberries. Small handful of redcurrants. Raspberries. Blueberries nearly ready.

Exploring. Established the location of more of the nominally available-for-public-use bike pumps in town (one actually public and broken; one presumably working but behind a swipe card lock); in the process found a water bottle refill station that I must have been past any number of times before but had totally failed to notice on any previous occasion, so that's useful.

Growing. Persimmon dead (probably of too much water), about which I am somewhat sad. Soft fruit all doing very well. Squash keep germinating and then disappearing.

Observing. Teenage moorhens at the civic centre! Mulberries starting to turn red, also at the civic centre. Many many amorous shieldbugs. The Bat.