vital functions
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kaberettReading. Gideon the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, one and half times so far. I inhaled it as a delightful romp; I am rereading and going "oh nooooooooooooooo" a lot. I Have Questions but also mostly a lot of fun.
The Silmarillion, JRRT. Up to the hiding of Valinor, and starting to get a handle on the geography!
Playing. Degrees of Separation, now completed. Very pretty! ... yet another disappointingly unsatisfactory ending to a very pretty game, in that the inevitable incoherent romance was indeed an inevitable incoherent romance.
Cooking. SEVERAL THINGS:
Making & mending. Two major things: item the first is that greenhouse parts FINALLY got delivered to the local dealership, so I spent a lot of yesterday flapping around on the ground while Adam was up a ladder putting the greenhouse back together. We have an awkward bit that doesn't quite fit so I'm going to need to go back and poke things some more and see if I can persuade it back into square; I will do that around Sorting Out The Fruit Cage, for which purpose I have Bought More Pipe Clips. I think I'm juuuuuuust going to manage to get it done by the time the redcurrants are coming ripe...
Item the second is that two of our cloth masks, purchased from friends at the beginning of the After Times, have finally (after several replacement nosewires) reached the end of their useful lives. Adam proposed to Just Bin Them; I had a stroke of brilliance (or... something... anyway) and put together "these are small amounts of Nice Cotton with Prints We Like on them" and "the main reason I have not actually started to learn how to quilt is my reluctance to buy new fabric for the specific purpose" to come up with "folk history project". Which is why I spent some of yesterday afternoon and evening carefully dismantling said pair of masks...
There are two stumbling blocks on the road to realising this project. The first is that we don't actually have many cloth masks, so... if you have miscellaneous at-least-one-layer-of-cotton masks you were dithering over how to dispose of, I'm apparently accepting donations. :-p (The second is that my options are hand-sewing, which: no, or... getting my grandmother's sewing machine back into working order. Suggestions that I use Adam's electric one will be ignored.)
Obviously the embroidery/quilting part of this hypothetical project that might never happen is going to be the SARS-CoV-2 structure...
Growing. I am mildly sulky that my broad beans are only wee and not terribly lush; probably they want more fertilising and I should Do That. Elsewise I have done a lot of weeding this week, not that it's particularly visible, and have got some squash started.
Observing. A baby probably-mouse at the allotment! I disturbed its nest without realising, poor thing, and was quite startled by the LOUD SQUEAKING emanating from an undifferentiated patch of long grass...
A blue tit flew across the road on my way back from the allotment, quite close to me. The robins are robins. Two bats At Once!
The Silmarillion, JRRT. Up to the hiding of Valinor, and starting to get a handle on the geography!
Playing. Degrees of Separation, now completed. Very pretty! ... yet another disappointingly unsatisfactory ending to a very pretty game, in that the inevitable incoherent romance was indeed an inevitable incoherent romance.
Cooking. SEVERAL THINGS:
- A round of jollof rice, where it turned out that using the Extremely Spicy fermented tomato-chilli sauce I made Some Time Ago as a constituent ingredient made everything much quicker and easier, so I'm planning to make up a larger batch of said sauce and keep it in the fridge for future Easy Jollof Rice. We ate it with plantain & cauliflower; for once I actually got the quantities about right and it Cooked Correctly without needing me to fuss over it. I am going to attempt to write up what I even did this week coming.
- More akuri.
- In addition to Usual Bread, I also made some sourdough focaccia! Which worked really well apart from the bit where the instructions said to be gentle about making the dimples, so we wound up with a lovely domed loaf that was barely dimpled at all...
Making & mending. Two major things: item the first is that greenhouse parts FINALLY got delivered to the local dealership, so I spent a lot of yesterday flapping around on the ground while Adam was up a ladder putting the greenhouse back together. We have an awkward bit that doesn't quite fit so I'm going to need to go back and poke things some more and see if I can persuade it back into square; I will do that around Sorting Out The Fruit Cage, for which purpose I have Bought More Pipe Clips. I think I'm juuuuuuust going to manage to get it done by the time the redcurrants are coming ripe...
Item the second is that two of our cloth masks, purchased from friends at the beginning of the After Times, have finally (after several replacement nosewires) reached the end of their useful lives. Adam proposed to Just Bin Them; I had a stroke of brilliance (or... something... anyway) and put together "these are small amounts of Nice Cotton with Prints We Like on them" and "the main reason I have not actually started to learn how to quilt is my reluctance to buy new fabric for the specific purpose" to come up with "folk history project". Which is why I spent some of yesterday afternoon and evening carefully dismantling said pair of masks...
There are two stumbling blocks on the road to realising this project. The first is that we don't actually have many cloth masks, so... if you have miscellaneous at-least-one-layer-of-cotton masks you were dithering over how to dispose of, I'm apparently accepting donations. :-p (The second is that my options are hand-sewing, which: no, or... getting my grandmother's sewing machine back into working order. Suggestions that I use Adam's electric one will be ignored.)
Obviously the embroidery/quilting part of this hypothetical project that might never happen is going to be the SARS-CoV-2 structure...
Growing. I am mildly sulky that my broad beans are only wee and not terribly lush; probably they want more fertilising and I should Do That. Elsewise I have done a lot of weeding this week, not that it's particularly visible, and have got some squash started.
Observing. A baby probably-mouse at the allotment! I disturbed its nest without realising, poor thing, and was quite startled by the LOUD SQUEAKING emanating from an undifferentiated patch of long grass...
A blue tit flew across the road on my way back from the allotment, quite close to me. The robins are robins. Two bats At Once!