vital functions
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kaberettReading. The Raven Tower, Ann Leckie. Feat. Important Talking Rocks, on which more to follow. Conversations With Friends showed up from the library; I've inhaled most of it, and just like Normal People it's an absolutely luminous portrait of this precise emotional experience, but as far as I can tell it's essentially the same story, so I'm a little perplexed at the literary reception it's received. Possibly in the same way that I'm a little perplexed by Buffy being an everywoman; I'm not sure.
Watching. I caaaaaare about Good Omens. I'm not a fan of the horsemen but I do care about a lot of their faces we are parcelling it out slowly and have just had episode 4. (AZIRAPHALE IS POSSESSED BY A DEMON. I... had entirely forgotten that line? Is it in the book? IS IT IN THE BOOK.) Elementary, which is settling down into its stride for the season. We now have Farscape on loan from a friend, so that is probably up next, because A wants to rewatch it, and to show it me.
Listening. Gently poking at TMG, BUT ALSO: Orphan Black is coming back! As an audio series! In the future! I really don't cope well with new-to-me audio-only media a lot of the time, but for this! I will make an exception! Aaaaaaaaaah.
Growing. Having moved the various herbs Across The Patio and thereby Out Of The Worst Of The Wind they're perking up a little (and indeed the lemon seems, cautiously, to be happy with where I've put it; it's putting forth new flowers, etc.)
A walnut, apparently! Found byewt, who was helping weed a bed, and who has also very generously passed on some of her superfluous-to-requirements tomato/aubergine/pepper seedlings. (Now to see if I can keep them alive.)
Significant progress this week: on Saturday (again, with help from ewt) I finished a first pass at mulching the greenhouse, did some general weeding, and got all the carpet up from under one row of beds. (There is possibly some other good carpet-related news but I dare not speak of it out loud quite yet.)
The fennel is producing flowers and therefore, presumably, hopefully, lots of seeds, which I am looking forward to because I enjoy them in a culinary sense as well as having really liked the flavour of the fennel itself (though I do need to... be better at doing things with it).
Observing. New visitors this week: a wren!!! And also the robin has deigned to come over from the garages and peer around suspiciously.
I mentioned, at the end of May, having seen a very sexy stag beetle at dusk. On Friday I was poking around the market square and churchyard and met! Another one! This one was not Super Sexy; it was crawling around the path grumpily and Was Not Interested in being moved onto the grass. (And was also definitely a Lesser Stag Beetle; I couldn't get a good ID on the one that was AGGRESSIVELY FLYING but, you know, it was a very distinctive flight.)
Also met: another new Canada goose! And there's an entire coot nest I hadn't previously realised existed, on the canal, and I was delighted by its contents, vis, One Enormous Coot... that actually wasn't, it was just sitting on top of some Medium Coots that weren't exactly scraggly little hatchlings any more but also weren't quite big enough to go in the water yet, and were YELLING. The yelling was entertainingly muffled, and the parental coot was being entertainingly bumped around, and periodically the yelling would become Less Muffled as a head emerged, briefly. It was pretty great.
-- STOP THE PRESSES THE BAT HAS BEEN SIGHTED AAAAAAAAH I HAD BEEN WORRIED ABOUT IT BAT (so there you go, self, First Bat Sighting was the 14th of June, it might well have been around longer and you've only just noticed it, but BAT. It! Is okay! Or at least its relative is).
And! Bonus slow worms! Four of them!
Poking. A shiny Lileep and a shiny Cubone.
Watching. I caaaaaare about Good Omens. I'm not a fan of the horsemen but I do care about a lot of their faces we are parcelling it out slowly and have just had episode 4. (AZIRAPHALE IS POSSESSED BY A DEMON. I... had entirely forgotten that line? Is it in the book? IS IT IN THE BOOK.) Elementary, which is settling down into its stride for the season. We now have Farscape on loan from a friend, so that is probably up next, because A wants to rewatch it, and to show it me.
Listening. Gently poking at TMG, BUT ALSO: Orphan Black is coming back! As an audio series! In the future! I really don't cope well with new-to-me audio-only media a lot of the time, but for this! I will make an exception! Aaaaaaaaaah.
Growing. Having moved the various herbs Across The Patio and thereby Out Of The Worst Of The Wind they're perking up a little (and indeed the lemon seems, cautiously, to be happy with where I've put it; it's putting forth new flowers, etc.)
A walnut, apparently! Found by
ewt, who was helping weed a bed, and who has also very generously passed on some of her superfluous-to-requirements tomato/aubergine/pepper seedlings. (Now to see if I can keep them alive.)Significant progress this week: on Saturday (again, with help from ewt) I finished a first pass at mulching the greenhouse, did some general weeding, and got all the carpet up from under one row of beds. (There is possibly some other good carpet-related news but I dare not speak of it out loud quite yet.)
The fennel is producing flowers and therefore, presumably, hopefully, lots of seeds, which I am looking forward to because I enjoy them in a culinary sense as well as having really liked the flavour of the fennel itself (though I do need to... be better at doing things with it).
Observing. New visitors this week: a wren!!! And also the robin has deigned to come over from the garages and peer around suspiciously.
I mentioned, at the end of May, having seen a very sexy stag beetle at dusk. On Friday I was poking around the market square and churchyard and met! Another one! This one was not Super Sexy; it was crawling around the path grumpily and Was Not Interested in being moved onto the grass. (And was also definitely a Lesser Stag Beetle; I couldn't get a good ID on the one that was AGGRESSIVELY FLYING but, you know, it was a very distinctive flight.)
Also met: another new Canada goose! And there's an entire coot nest I hadn't previously realised existed, on the canal, and I was delighted by its contents, vis, One Enormous Coot... that actually wasn't, it was just sitting on top of some Medium Coots that weren't exactly scraggly little hatchlings any more but also weren't quite big enough to go in the water yet, and were YELLING. The yelling was entertainingly muffled, and the parental coot was being entertainingly bumped around, and periodically the yelling would become Less Muffled as a head emerged, briefly. It was pretty great.
-- STOP THE PRESSES THE BAT HAS BEEN SIGHTED AAAAAAAAH I HAD BEEN WORRIED ABOUT IT BAT (so there you go, self, First Bat Sighting was the 14th of June, it might well have been around longer and you've only just noticed it, but BAT. It! Is okay! Or at least its relative is).
And! Bonus slow worms! Four of them!
Poking. A shiny Lileep and a shiny Cubone.
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Date: 2019-06-18 07:45 pm (UTC)Awa' we ye, ye spawn o' hell
I'll have ye ye evil bastard I ken what ye be about, comin' up here and seducin' women to do yer evil will
I could see what yer were aboot
(A denies)
I bet the ain't
Bell
Book
Practically candle (it's a lighter)
By the powers et. cetera et.cetera
The scene as rendered, on the surface level; I am bad at a close watching and may have... missed the innuendo. Oh I clearly need to watch again who am I kidding.
bap!
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Date: 2019-06-18 05:37 pm (UTC)I always love hearing about your garden and animal encounters!