vital functions
Feb. 14th, 2021 11:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaberettWriting. An "agenda" for a Science Meeting this week coming, on the general topic of : 2k words, 8 figures, 1 table, but hey, that's more-or-less what was requested, so. And! I have started typesetting chapter 2.
Watching. CXG S02E08 "Who Is Josh's Soup Fairy?" Some really interesting things going on this episode still about the influence of apologies' contexts on their functional forms and such.
Listening. A bunch of Indigo Girls: they are particularly good for singing along to while I continue attempting to work out what my voice is even doing these days.
Playing. Among Us! A few rounds of Fluxx with Adam! Lots of dragons! Small quantities of horn! And also a Giant Jigsaw Puzzle.
Cooking. Very little, because...
Eating. ... this has been the week of "get delivery of, approx, oven meals, from a bunch of fancy restaurants, using buy-some-fancy-food vouchers from A's employer". We managed to work out that The Wolesley, somewhere A's uncle took us for his birthday... last year...? ... was probably a good shout, and wound up ordering Several of everything vegetarian and having enough for three days plus bonus dessert! And then, after we'd placed that order but before it arrived, I realised that Valentine's day was coming up and that meant a bunch of places would be doing exciting offers and that's how we ended up with two sets of vegetarian thing from Ottolenghi Islington, a Celeriac Shawarma plus Bits (including manzanilla-and-hibiscus poached pears with chantilly cream) and a shakshuka plus chocolate-and-hazelnut cakes plus some lavosh plus some misc other cakes that we... need to get around to eating, goodness, life is so hard.
The Wolesley was perfectly competent and A Very Pleasant Change; the Ottolenghi was good, and the portions were impressively well-calibrated, and not only do I wish to learn to Cook The Thing (because, as usual with Ottolenghi, it's all fairly simple stuff done incredibly well with very good ingredients), I am also contemplating Doing This Again For My Birthday, in due course and the fullness of time.
The third and final voucher has gone on a three-month subscription to Ruby Violet, who are now doing UK-wide delivery.
Growing. At home: the basil seeds are all coming up, even the ones I didn't expect to! The passion fruit are not yet doing anything (visible)! I have sorted out and catalogued all the seeds from the mouldering ancestral pile, most of which are doubtless dead but which can nonetheless go in the ground eventually! I have I think worked out that at least some of the lemon's problem is that it wants watering much more than any of the books Suggest it might over winter! I have also sorted the shallots...
... and, with A's Significant Help, today made my first trip to the allotment in... about six weeks. I did not massively enjoy the experience of travel, still, alas, but I have now fed the compost bin, determined that the ground was too frozen to do Anything with, and Made Observations. The carrot tops have all died off but the roots are standing well; the beetroot we left in the ground seem to be doing fine; onions and garlic are coming along Perfectly Adequately including at least one that I planted as a seed (I think), which I did not expect; the purple sprouting broccoli has been Eaten by Critters but the stems are still there and still quite clearly earnestly trying to produce leaves. The artichoke got enthusiastically started on some new growth back in December, and I was mildly sorry to see it all looking rather bedraggled today (having not buried it in straw as one is supposed to), but I'm sure it will recover.
... gosh there is so much work to do.
Observing. Because I have left the house at all: snowdrops! daffodils!
... and from the comfort of our living room: a miscellaneous bird of prey, too far away for us with our mediocre birding skills to identify, which was swooping gloriously out past the conifers in the back garden.
Along, as ever, with glimpses of the fox, which I continue fond of in an abstract sort of way.
Watching. CXG S02E08 "Who Is Josh's Soup Fairy?" Some really interesting things going on this episode still about the influence of apologies' contexts on their functional forms and such.
Listening. A bunch of Indigo Girls: they are particularly good for singing along to while I continue attempting to work out what my voice is even doing these days.
Playing. Among Us! A few rounds of Fluxx with Adam! Lots of dragons! Small quantities of horn! And also a Giant Jigsaw Puzzle.
Cooking. Very little, because...
Eating. ... this has been the week of "get delivery of, approx, oven meals, from a bunch of fancy restaurants, using buy-some-fancy-food vouchers from A's employer". We managed to work out that The Wolesley, somewhere A's uncle took us for his birthday... last year...? ... was probably a good shout, and wound up ordering Several of everything vegetarian and having enough for three days plus bonus dessert! And then, after we'd placed that order but before it arrived, I realised that Valentine's day was coming up and that meant a bunch of places would be doing exciting offers and that's how we ended up with two sets of vegetarian thing from Ottolenghi Islington, a Celeriac Shawarma plus Bits (including manzanilla-and-hibiscus poached pears with chantilly cream) and a shakshuka plus chocolate-and-hazelnut cakes plus some lavosh plus some misc other cakes that we... need to get around to eating, goodness, life is so hard.
The Wolesley was perfectly competent and A Very Pleasant Change; the Ottolenghi was good, and the portions were impressively well-calibrated, and not only do I wish to learn to Cook The Thing (because, as usual with Ottolenghi, it's all fairly simple stuff done incredibly well with very good ingredients), I am also contemplating Doing This Again For My Birthday, in due course and the fullness of time.
The third and final voucher has gone on a three-month subscription to Ruby Violet, who are now doing UK-wide delivery.
Growing. At home: the basil seeds are all coming up, even the ones I didn't expect to! The passion fruit are not yet doing anything (visible)! I have sorted out and catalogued all the seeds from the mouldering ancestral pile, most of which are doubtless dead but which can nonetheless go in the ground eventually! I have I think worked out that at least some of the lemon's problem is that it wants watering much more than any of the books Suggest it might over winter! I have also sorted the shallots...
... and, with A's Significant Help, today made my first trip to the allotment in... about six weeks. I did not massively enjoy the experience of travel, still, alas, but I have now fed the compost bin, determined that the ground was too frozen to do Anything with, and Made Observations. The carrot tops have all died off but the roots are standing well; the beetroot we left in the ground seem to be doing fine; onions and garlic are coming along Perfectly Adequately including at least one that I planted as a seed (I think), which I did not expect; the purple sprouting broccoli has been Eaten by Critters but the stems are still there and still quite clearly earnestly trying to produce leaves. The artichoke got enthusiastically started on some new growth back in December, and I was mildly sorry to see it all looking rather bedraggled today (having not buried it in straw as one is supposed to), but I'm sure it will recover.
... gosh there is so much work to do.
Observing. Because I have left the house at all: snowdrops! daffodils!
... and from the comfort of our living room: a miscellaneous bird of prey, too far away for us with our mediocre birding skills to identify, which was swooping gloriously out past the conifers in the back garden.
Along, as ever, with glimpses of the fox, which I continue fond of in an abstract sort of way.
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Date: 2021-02-15 11:11 am (UTC)Oooh, Ruby Violet delivery is very exciting news.