vital functions

Reading. I Contain Multitudes (still Ed Yong): look I WAS making progress, I've even made it up to about 75% of the way through, buuuuuuut someone else had a hold on it so now I get to either Actually Buy It (and I think I don't, unlike An Immense World, love it enough for that) oooooor wait two weeks to get back to the front of the queue.

Possibly I'm going to pick something else I'm part way through back up. Maybe I'm going to pick up something new to mostly ignore. WHO KNOWS.

Listening. The Hidden Almanac: I have got myself set up with a podcast app! There was a long drive! We are partway through December 2013!

Honey Black I the way you die, because A wanted to demonstrate to me the extent to which he is hindbrain-level Convinced it appears in the soundtrack of The Old Guard. (It doesn't! He Has A Point.)

Playing. I continue to peer over A's shoulder at the story bits in Tactical Breach Wizards. Fluxx. Was the

Cooking. Discovered, to my delight, that leftover stock-and-herb-and-lemon-oil from Greek lemon potatoes is an excellent base for one-pot chickpeas.

Eating. Cream tea (Roskilly's)! Gear Farm pasties! Gwella Dairies ice cream! (Well, one tiny tub of blackcurrant ice cream and one large tub of raspberry sorbet.) Parsley from the garden!

Exploring. The Cornish Seal Sanctuary (puffins! a tree partway through being felled by the beavers! three VERY SHOUTY adolescents now with GPS transmitters in preparation for being released!). ... I feel like there were other grockleisms but maybe we mostly did just bimble around the house and the village? OH WAIT RIGHT there was an Adventure To Constantine, which involved the satnav insisting we should drive up what turned out to be a footpath...

Oh! Tyntesfield! Alas we did not have time to make it to the orangery to view the gourd display, but there were excellent tiny clusters of Absolute Nonsense around the windowsills in the Cow Barn Café, which itself was indeed A Cow Barn, with stalls converted into booths...

Growing. Stuck a plant in the ground. Inspected some other plants.

Observing. CHOUGHS. SAW THE CHOUGHS. Three of them! Also a hairy molly (probably fox moth?).

... definitely most excited about the choughs, but did also visit the llamas, and generally enjoyed looking at sheep/cows/plants/etc. Also spent some time sat in places various listening to and watching the waves. All v satisfactory.