some good things make. a. post.

[kaberett]

1. Swung by the allotment on the way to the gym; ate a couple of raspberries; packed up the spinach to process for seed.
2. Gym. Gym gym gym. Picked things up and put them down again. Got my favourite rack. (Which rack is my favourite depends on which things I am doing; I got the appropriate favourite for today.)
3. I am doing a thing where I fill my main water bottle with ice and water before I set off, and also fill the subsidiary water bottle -- the one that is insulated -- with ACTUALLY Just Ice, and then stick it in a coolbag, and then leave it in my pannier while I am doing Gym Things. The first water bottle gets finished on my way down; I mask up; I do the gym things; I refill the water bottle on my way back out; I gulp down enough of the water to make space for ice; I decant the STILL AN ICE into the space I have just made; I have Cold Water all the way home. It's working really well. It's great.
4. I got into the house thirteen minutes after the government's plaintive "please don't be moving your body outside in this unless you really gotta???" deadline, and promptly became A Horrid Floor Slug. The kitchen floor, you see, is tile. And it is therefore cold. And I therefore shed most of my horrid clothing, and pressed myself against the floor, and periodically slithered to a new and therefore Still Cold patch. I... only belatedly realised about The Trail...
5. This afternoon I have been greatly enjoying doing a whole bunch of really inefficient slow-method seed threshing and winnowing. I... definitely have enough spinach seed for the foreseeable future. (Well. I didn't isolate it, but even so it is... probably still spinach seed! I will find out when the time for autumn sowing rolls around I Suppose.)
6. Several of the Accessing Healthcare steps have been Taken. I have a todo list for tomorrow once the phone lines open again, but I have achieved progress.
7. We have batted some ideas around for things to do while we're Navigating Possible Shutters and have managed to coalesce on a plausible stopgap that does not fall foul of Block Politics on account of technically not involving any changes to The Fabric Of The Building. (Our ground-floor flat has uPVC windows that open from the bottom outward and slide down a little at the top, generating gaps at both the top and the bottom of the window. Ergo The Plan: take a sheet of plywood of a size to cover the window; affix to it both a bunch of the essentially silver reflective heavy-duty bubblewrap, and some thin-but-robust webbing straps; pass the webbing through the top and bottom gaps and then close the window, holding the "shutter" in place. Cheap relative to proper shutters and also sufficiently ugly to potentially prompt Necessary Individuals to reconsider their positions.)
8. Remembered that I could have a small bowl of frozen edamame as a hot-weather high-protein snack! They are not alas as tasty (for an Alex) as frozen peas but they are nonetheless Definitely Acceptable.
9. Strawberries are currently £6/kg.
10. There are a number of Treets on their way to me in the post. I am excited about my Treets. (Some stationery with an immediate designated purpose, some Make It Easier To Film Myself Lifting indulgence, and... probably another thing that temporarily escapes me so can just be a nice surprise.

Comments

[vass]

<3

[cesy]

Good luck with the shutters!