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kaberettWatching. A Midsummer Night's Dream (dir. Nicholas Hytner), as a National Theatre Live screening.
With my cousins, on Thursday: the first episode of Good Omens, the first four episodes of Over The Wall, and a lot of music videos various.
Cooking. Flapjack! I had a craving.
Bread experiments continue, with a focus on the trade-offs between flavour and structural integrity.
Boiled up a batch of stock & actually got it into the freezer.
And, for cousins & also All Souls': Kardemummebullar, which turn out to work rather better (in my opinion) with granulated than with caster sugar; smitten kitchen's pear bread, with some experimental tweaks (and bonus nutmeg and cardamom); Seelkuchen, which I'm getting the hang of doing with the jam in the middle; madeleines; scones, which are still not quite doing the thing I am hoping for; shakshuka; experimental caramel popcorn.
Creating. I've been doing a lot of quietly messing around with my watercolour pencils and my botanical colouring book and the... Winsor & Newton Series 7 brushes... I picked up at a charity shop...
So far I have been experimenting mainly with laying down & blending colour dry, then adding water, but I've also been doing a little drawing onto wet paper. On the cards for further experimentation is washes created by laying down a thick layer of colour on some sacrificial paper, picking it up with a wet brush, and then applying it as desired.
A source of minor anxiety is that the colouring book I'm working with has "here's the original with all its colours, here's a black-and-white for you to fill in"... with the original on a rather darker background, such that I'm really not managing to reproduce the saturation. I am spending quite a lot of time gently-but-firmly telling myself that it is Okay, I do not in fact have to Copy It Perfectly, I get to just mess around and see how things go.
Growing. Okay, so: the current batch of Thai basil hasn't died yet (!). AND I made it to the ALLOTMENT (with lots of encouragement from A) where I WRANGLED THE COMPOST BIN A BUNCH (partially filled in a bed!) and took some tentative steps toward constructing the next raised bed structure and confirmed that the water butt is very much Still Leaking, alas.
Playing. UNTITLED GOOSE GAME, COOPERATIVELY, IN A DUVET NEST. I have been running (and honking); Adam has been picking things up and putting them back down (and honking); it's great. WE ARE A HORRIBLE GOOSE. (We got the bell! We watched the credits! we got MORE TODO LISTS.)
Poking. Hatched: a Gible! Two Ferroseed! (Last week: a perfect Swablu.) Raided: some Darkrai.
With my cousins, on Thursday: the first episode of Good Omens, the first four episodes of Over The Wall, and a lot of music videos various.
Cooking. Flapjack! I had a craving.
Bread experiments continue, with a focus on the trade-offs between flavour and structural integrity.
Boiled up a batch of stock & actually got it into the freezer.
And, for cousins & also All Souls': Kardemummebullar, which turn out to work rather better (in my opinion) with granulated than with caster sugar; smitten kitchen's pear bread, with some experimental tweaks (and bonus nutmeg and cardamom); Seelkuchen, which I'm getting the hang of doing with the jam in the middle; madeleines; scones, which are still not quite doing the thing I am hoping for; shakshuka; experimental caramel popcorn.
Creating. I've been doing a lot of quietly messing around with my watercolour pencils and my botanical colouring book and the... Winsor & Newton Series 7 brushes... I picked up at a charity shop...
So far I have been experimenting mainly with laying down & blending colour dry, then adding water, but I've also been doing a little drawing onto wet paper. On the cards for further experimentation is washes created by laying down a thick layer of colour on some sacrificial paper, picking it up with a wet brush, and then applying it as desired.
A source of minor anxiety is that the colouring book I'm working with has "here's the original with all its colours, here's a black-and-white for you to fill in"... with the original on a rather darker background, such that I'm really not managing to reproduce the saturation. I am spending quite a lot of time gently-but-firmly telling myself that it is Okay, I do not in fact have to Copy It Perfectly, I get to just mess around and see how things go.
Growing. Okay, so: the current batch of Thai basil hasn't died yet (!). AND I made it to the ALLOTMENT (with lots of encouragement from A) where I WRANGLED THE COMPOST BIN A BUNCH (partially filled in a bed!) and took some tentative steps toward constructing the next raised bed structure and confirmed that the water butt is very much Still Leaking, alas.
Playing. UNTITLED GOOSE GAME, COOPERATIVELY, IN A DUVET NEST. I have been running (and honking); Adam has been picking things up and putting them back down (and honking); it's great. WE ARE A HORRIBLE GOOSE. (We got the bell! We watched the credits! we got MORE TODO LISTS.)
Poking. Hatched: a Gible! Two Ferroseed! (Last week: a perfect Swablu.) Raided: some Darkrai.
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