1. Counselling is just around the corner from the V&A.
aella_irene likes the V&A. Ergo we had lunch sat on the art installation
You Know You Cannot See Yourself So Well as by Reflection, having spent the morning hanging out in
the ironwork collection. (My plan for next time involves making friends with the glass gallery; wrought iron is something I just... find incredibly soothing, for reasons I haven't quite articulated but that include the fact that it's very stark in terms of colours involved, and has lots of nice bold lines and repeating patterns.)
2. Relatedly, plants: the hydrangeas up the sides of the central courtyard are currently
fantastic, as are the other plantings, and
aella_irene very generously gave me a bag of her household's surplus raspberries, so that was a joy and a delight.
3. Our internet connection is unstable enough (and I'm undermedicated enough) that I don't particularly feel like coding; nonetheless
I made lots of progress with my Dreamwidth todo list today.
4.
( Benefits-related discussion. )5. Peak 90s Kid: my mum frantically facebook IMing me for tech support. I sort of provided it, ineffectually, and she actually sorted the problem out by herself, and that means there exist more photos on the internet of me & largest smallcousin.
6. We had tinned pineapple in the house; we now have pineapple upside-down cake.
7. Another batch of rosemary sourdough is rising on the side, to be breakfast-and-lunch food.
8. I have Steam installed on the new laptop and it was rapid and painless and completely unlike most of my other attempts to install Steam under Debian. This means that I now have a MOUNTAIN yes yes.
9. Every time I reread
your blue-eyed boys I find more things in it, and they are comfort and they are in their fragmentary way moments of peace.
10. Externally-sourced self-worth: my comments on the MeFi thread are getting favourited by lots of people & positively engaged with. Hurrah for managing to say things that are useful to people.