Good morning, it's raining, it's the first of November, and I'm immediately on a nanowrimo-related wikiventure.
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Posts between 2023/11 and 2023/12 (31 out of 31)
- Astonishingly, the sea restored the hole it had earlier gouged in the beach, covering the new steps we started to build with fresh rocks, and excavating my morning seat that had been buried. So, back to how it was before.
- Started a new story for NaNoWriMo. Stayed pretty on top of the word count.
- Worked with a new crew to get a funding application in for a local commumnity support project.
- Dave and Huan briefly came back.
- Made apple cake and apple and fig strudel at the Community Kitchen, and even stayed to eat some. Chanterelle pizza at home.
- Pressed the button on the smoke machine at K's for hallowe'en.
- Just about finished my hallway cupboard pantry and tool storage updates, including underfloor insulation in just that wee bit.
- Played lego with R.
- Finished Bodies.
- Had a bit of an intense co-op week; only worked two days, but it felt like a very long week indeed.
- Chilli forest and accompanying aphids moved into my living room for the winter.
- The weather picked up again, back to normal programming for November in Fife.
- Made pumpkin pie (which was actually squash and sweet potato) at the Community Kitchen, and chocolate ginger tart for N's birthday.
- Foraged blewits, cloud agaric, agricus.
- Went to Edinburgh's Radical Book Fair, saw some talks on climate stuff, and bought many books.
- Wrote, on the beach, in the hammock, and in various Kirkcaldy and Edinburgh cafes.
- Swam in the sea.
- Wrote.
- Swam in the sea.
- Caught up on housework and life admin due to procrastinating from writing.
- Visited Jess and Maud.
- Exciting trip to Rejects to look at fabric.
- Coworked in Leith and stayed over chez Lowenna.
- Saw Howie Reeve play in KDY in a very small gig which was really good.
- Fermented beets, and ate lots of blewits and jelly ear.
- Wrote.
- Some incredible skies.
- Finished Daemon Voices and Against a Dark Background.
- Started Vurt.
- Took myself for an afternoon in Burntisland; groceries from G&S and a not-cheese toastie at The Fix.
- Overworked.
- Made pear and almond cake in the Community Kitchen, and mapo tofu at home.
- Dealt with a lot of tomatoes.
- Explosion of fungus gnat and aphid populations in my living room is starting to test my nonviolent gardening style.
- Learnt some lessons about buttercream (and baking when tired).
- Saw a giant moth on the promenade, but not the moon, because clouds came.
- Swam in the sea twice, once in Pittenweem.
🗁Added 8 photos to album Homemade food.
Apple cake, and there was some leftover puff pastry so I made a strudel with apple and homemade (not by me) fig jam.
🗁Added 22 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Against all the odds, high tides and big waves this week restored the beach to more or less how it had been pre-babet. Obviously the bank that washed away was never coming back, but the steps down to the beach are accessible again!
Dave and H came back briefly on their way home from China, leaving a trail of teas and tiny pandas in their wake >.>
Week in review: 30th October - 5th November
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🗁Added 7 photos to album Foraging, 2023.
Still some blewits and cloud agraric and a few agaricus around.
🗁Added 17 photos to album Doing-it-meself.
Started putting shelves up in the hallway nook. R can't resist the opportunity to insulate something of course, so we took up the floor boards, cleaned all of the junk out (found a whole set of drill bits!) levelled the floor and put insulation in, then put laminate down (leftover from Dave's room).
Started populating the shelves with pantry and gardening items.
🗁Added 7 photos to album Doing-it-meself.
An excellent new light fitting for 50p from Furniture Plus.
The chilli plants moved into my living room, along with a great many aphids :/
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Cooking with agarics and blewits from the woods.
Fancy chocolate tart with ginger and rose for N's birthday.
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An afternoon in Edinburgh for the Lighthouse Radical Book Fair and some talks on climate stuff. Dinner afterwards with N in Soul Vegan.
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The November Sea is back in all its luminescent glory.
Week in review: 6th - 12th November
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A couple of days of coworking in Leith, and a night with Lowenna.
Ate nice lunches at Sly Fox and the Leith community garden cafe, and a mindblowing lime pasta at Nova Pizza. Nice to see coop colleagues.
🗁Added 15 photos to album Doing-it-meself.
Far longer than planned browsing fabric in Rejects. I think I'll get the black and gold with mushrooms/space/leaves for a wee curtain and cushion in my hallway. Also, some astonishing light fittings, that are far too expensive.
🗁Added 7 photos to album Homemade food.
Pulled all of the beets from the garden; they're not going to grow more, and they are getting eaten by slugs. Put them in brine to ferment.
Picked jelly ear in the park on my way home one evening, and immediately made a stir fry. Picked blewits another day and made a fry up. What a life.
🗁Added 20 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Week in review: 13th - 19th November
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This morning I went on a nanowrimo related wikiventure about different types of galaxy then had a small existential meltdown about the scale of our universe. In case anyone was wondering how my writing is going.
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Pear and almond tart at the Community Kitchen.
🗁Added 36 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Astonishing sunrise skies. A trip to Burntisland.
I'm going to write 6000 words today, so help me.
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🗁Added 42 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Went to see Luna the moth (with a telescope) on the prom, but the clouds covered the moon before our turn to look came.
Ending my 6k today challenge with 3,585 words, a loaf of homemade bread, an excessively elaborate cake, enough curry for the week, a bit of housework, two paintings of kirkcaldy from the second hand shop, a nice lunch out, and picked up a library book.
Passed last year's final total, so pretty happy with that.
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Due to being behind on my NaNoWriMo wordcount I had a pressing need to find out if jelly made an acceptable sponge cake filling, and also to decorate a two layer cake in elaborate buttercream frosting.
My first mistake was not skimming the domed top from one of the layers. My second mistake was to use the layer that had already split as the top layer instead of the bottom. My third, was not mixing the buttercream thick enough. My fourth was not mixing the new buttercream thin enough. My fifth was not doing a crumb layer of buttercream before the top coat. And overall I should not be trying to frost cakes late at night.
It looked like it'd been dropped, but it tasted good. I can confirm, jelly is an acceptable sponge cake filling.
🗁Added 9 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Adventure in Pittenweem with K, R, K&M and Lowenna. A swim in the sea pool, followed by lots of food and hot chocolate at Cacoa Tree, as usual.
Week in review: 20th - 26th November
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The buttercream lessons of last week paid off, and I successfully frosted the Community Kitchen rose and orange sponge. Also made rose and almond jelly/panna cotta puddings... The rose water from the summer really needed to be used up.
🗁Added 27 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
I don't think I'm getting to 50k (I might if I say up all night, I'm not far off! Tempting, but I have tons of stuff to do for work tomorrow and I'm already knackered) but if I can write the actual final scene I'll be very pleased with myself.
I never manage to write the endings even when I know how they go. This one is made up of three distinct stories so I've already written two 'endings' this month which is frankly the achievement of a lifetime.
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🗁Added 14 photos to album Stuff I made.
Made some plant hangers to donate to the Kirkcaldy festive giving market (along with pots and tradescantia).
I'm up to 50,151 words and there's a whole 20 minutes of the day left. I still haven't written the fucking ending, but I've sure as hell built up to it...
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🗁Added 12 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
After a frantic day of trying to get to work meetings in Kangus between running back and forth to town, I sat down at 9pm to write some more. If I could write 1000 words an hour, I'd make it. No way, I thought. Not a chance. So I wrote a thousand words, and it was 45 minutes later. Alright, I thought. Just do that again.
So I did.
Felt a bit like I was in some kind of alternate reality. Like I was watching myself from outside. I don't know, it didn't seem very real. It was well past my bed time.
Then I did it again.
I celebrated briefly, then since it was only 23:30 I wrote another 500 before midnight.
WTF! I got so far behind, I did not expect this.
