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kaberettReading. Kari, Amruta Patil. Gorgeous graphic novel; check her stuff out. Also still plodding along with Tales from the Inner City.
Not reading, but did get myself to the point where I can, in fairly short order, actually get the recently-bought books onto my ereader and then actually read them, so, you know, watch this space for The Raven Tower squee, finally.
Watching. Good Omens! Elementary. Continue v fond of both. (We're cowatching the Fortunate Prognostications with the Oxford lot, so having to find time that (a) we're all actually approximately able to spend an hour in front of a screen, and (b) isn't past anyone's bedtime is exciting moving parts; we've had the third episode. Very much enjoyed What They Did with the title sequence in this one.)
Listening. A sat me down with This Year, The Mountain Goats. I tentatively don't hate it, and will tentatively try listening to more of them.
Cooking. Adventures in bread (breadventures): it does indeed work to flour the banneton with Some Bonus Poppy Seeds.
Phở! My first! Or at least my first in... about eight years, wow, this being the reason I originally bought a half-kilo sack of star anise, but I was then Sad about the Inadequacy of my Attempt and gave up. It turns out I now live in London, such that holy basil is trivial to acquire, which means: NOODLES YES. Plenty of room for improvement, but I am delighted by the proof-of-concept.
Experiments with scones continue. This batch had slightly too much buttermilk but Progress Continues, and there's another batch of buttermilk culturing (hopefully) in the bathroom, so poor A will be subjected to Yet More Experiments.
I succesfully blanched, dehydrated and powdered four carrots. They smell, approximately, of carrot, and are bright orange. They have not yet been reconstituted into macaron. (And I should buy some mascarpone to make the filling.)
Exploring. I Accompanied a Younger Relative on a Scandalous Trip to Sh! (NSFW) (they're no longer kind of terrible about trans people; it's pretty great) and subsequently For Ice Cream. This conveniently enabled me to buy a new Mooncup without giving Boots money, which I'd otherwise been stalling on. (I got my first one ciiiiirca... 2004? 2005? I think? I took a chunk out of it while cleaning it over-aggressively the other week, so I want to have a back-up in anticipation of silicone Doing The Thing that silicone does at an inconvenient moment. It has had a bloody good innings, etc.)
Vanilla Black on Friday, as a belated birthday dinner. I remain inordinately fond of (1) the architecture thereabouts, and (2) the crockery. Proper write-up to follow, promise.
A friend's pub board games on Sunday afternoon; played a new game (King of Tokyo) and won the first of three rounds, ahahaha.
Growing. I appear to have killed all the chilli seedlings, bah.
However! The strawberries are doing pretty well and I've repotted them into their dedicated planter along with straw (albeit I need to net them now the bird feeder is attracting the attention of etc) and the lemon is Putting Forth New Flowers (and lots of new leaves). The bay has approximately doubled in size in the last couple of weeks. The orchid has produced its FIRST POST-PURCHASE FLOWER (I mean, it did develop some new ones on the existing flower stalks last year, but the flower stalks Existed At Point Of Purchase, which these ones! did not!)
Observing. We've been seeing wood pigeons at the feeder (they keep Sexily Flying Into The Window, it is... very), mostly, but we also now have at least two very regular coal tit visitors. Alas the squirrel is undeterred by the cayenne.
Poking. Did a bunch of clearing out my Pokébox by trading with A... and therefore am now the proud owner of four new Lucky Pokémon: Slowpoke, sunhatty Raichu, Muk, Ivysaur. (A got another two Lucky Magikarp out of the deal.) Rather to my surprise, I caught four shiny Slakoth during the... 45 minutes or so... of community day we actually participated in.
Not reading, but did get myself to the point where I can, in fairly short order, actually get the recently-bought books onto my ereader and then actually read them, so, you know, watch this space for The Raven Tower squee, finally.
Watching. Good Omens! Elementary. Continue v fond of both. (We're cowatching the Fortunate Prognostications with the Oxford lot, so having to find time that (a) we're all actually approximately able to spend an hour in front of a screen, and (b) isn't past anyone's bedtime is exciting moving parts; we've had the third episode. Very much enjoyed What They Did with the title sequence in this one.)
Listening. A sat me down with This Year, The Mountain Goats. I tentatively don't hate it, and will tentatively try listening to more of them.
Cooking. Adventures in bread (breadventures): it does indeed work to flour the banneton with Some Bonus Poppy Seeds.
Phở! My first! Or at least my first in... about eight years, wow, this being the reason I originally bought a half-kilo sack of star anise, but I was then Sad about the Inadequacy of my Attempt and gave up. It turns out I now live in London, such that holy basil is trivial to acquire, which means: NOODLES YES. Plenty of room for improvement, but I am delighted by the proof-of-concept.
Experiments with scones continue. This batch had slightly too much buttermilk but Progress Continues, and there's another batch of buttermilk culturing (hopefully) in the bathroom, so poor A will be subjected to Yet More Experiments.
I succesfully blanched, dehydrated and powdered four carrots. They smell, approximately, of carrot, and are bright orange. They have not yet been reconstituted into macaron. (And I should buy some mascarpone to make the filling.)
Exploring. I Accompanied a Younger Relative on a Scandalous Trip to Sh! (NSFW) (they're no longer kind of terrible about trans people; it's pretty great) and subsequently For Ice Cream. This conveniently enabled me to buy a new Mooncup without giving Boots money, which I'd otherwise been stalling on. (I got my first one ciiiiirca... 2004? 2005? I think? I took a chunk out of it while cleaning it over-aggressively the other week, so I want to have a back-up in anticipation of silicone Doing The Thing that silicone does at an inconvenient moment. It has had a bloody good innings, etc.)
Vanilla Black on Friday, as a belated birthday dinner. I remain inordinately fond of (1) the architecture thereabouts, and (2) the crockery. Proper write-up to follow, promise.
A friend's pub board games on Sunday afternoon; played a new game (King of Tokyo) and won the first of three rounds, ahahaha.
Growing. I appear to have killed all the chilli seedlings, bah.
However! The strawberries are doing pretty well and I've repotted them into their dedicated planter along with straw (albeit I need to net them now the bird feeder is attracting the attention of etc) and the lemon is Putting Forth New Flowers (and lots of new leaves). The bay has approximately doubled in size in the last couple of weeks. The orchid has produced its FIRST POST-PURCHASE FLOWER (I mean, it did develop some new ones on the existing flower stalks last year, but the flower stalks Existed At Point Of Purchase, which these ones! did not!)
Observing. We've been seeing wood pigeons at the feeder (they keep Sexily Flying Into The Window, it is... very), mostly, but we also now have at least two very regular coal tit visitors. Alas the squirrel is undeterred by the cayenne.
Poking. Did a bunch of clearing out my Pokébox by trading with A... and therefore am now the proud owner of four new Lucky Pokémon: Slowpoke, sunhatty Raichu, Muk, Ivysaur. (A got another two Lucky Magikarp out of the deal.) Rather to my surprise, I caught four shiny Slakoth during the... 45 minutes or so... of community day we actually participated in.
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Date: 2019-06-09 04:53 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-09 05:00 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-09 07:26 pm (UTC)I didn't a shiny slakoth, sadly, despite trying. Did get an ex raid invite for the 17th...when I'm in Newcastle, damnit. Oh well, Newcastle is more fun than ex raids I'm fairly sure.
We also got our first strawberries at our patch and fetched another bunch of lifted tulips from the park - people were nearly fighting over them because they had Very Pretty Tulips this year and they are free. All your talking about your plot makes me really keen on helping mum getting more stuff for hers. :D Flowers are Fun and I haven't dealt much with them since my paternal grandmother died when I was young.
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Date: 2019-06-10 01:31 am (UTC)Dilaudid (all the chickens come on home to roost / plump bodies blotting out the sky / you know it breaks my heart in half, in half / when I see them trying to fly / 'cause you just can't do / things your body wasn't meant to / hike up your fishnets / I know you)
Damn These Vampires (tie those horses to the post outside / and let those glass doors open wide / and in their surface see two young, savage things / barely worth remembering)
Younger (it never hurts to give thanks to the broken bones / you had to use to build your ladder)
Never Quite Free (it's okay to find the faith to saunter forward / with no fear of shadows spreading where you stand)
Until I Am Whole (I think I'll stay here 'til I feel whole again / I don't know when)
Letter from Belgium (in the cold clear light of day down here everyone's a monster / that's cool with all of us, we've been past the point of help since early April)
Any Available Surface (someday the only thing I want to rely upon / is any available surface that you've rested your head on)
Burned My Tongue (woke up this morning about a quarter to five / said the prayer you taught me to keep myself alive / it burned my tongue)
The Fourth New Tree (but the fourth new tree is my enemy / yeah the fourth new tree shouldn't be here)
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Date: 2019-06-11 12:58 pm (UTC)Is the reason for not giving Boots money one that would apply to other people?
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Date: 2019-06-11 08:39 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-11 08:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-11 08:44 pm (UTC)(the entire internet had been telling me they were great, but new audiovisual media is Hard unless I'm being sat down to listen to it by someone.)
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Date: 2019-06-11 08:46 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2019-06-11 09:46 pm (UTC)