🗁Added 15 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
It's a new month, and I have a novel I didn't have 30 days ago.
Posts between 2023/12 and 2024/01 (29 out of 29)
- Got behind on housework and life admin again.
- Made rose and almond puddings and orange and rose cake at the Community Kitchen.
- Made crochet plant hangers for the gift giving market.
- Had big highs and big lows in coop land.
- Swam in the sea.
- Won NaNoWriMo! Unexpectedly.
- Frost, almost snow.
- Finished Vurt. Started Look to Windward.
- Tomato and chilli harvests.
- Put lights up in my hallway nook pantry.
- Had a cold. Slept a lot.
- Crocheted some sea creatures.
- A bit of a stressful Coop week, again.
- Watched all of Pose.
- Made green tomato chutney.
- Went to Glasgow and Helensburgh.
- Max came to stay with me.
- Aphids have finished off all of the lemon pepper plants and one birds eye in my living room, and given up and mostly moved out, it seems. The second birds eye and scotch bonnet are clinging to life. Fungus gnat population has escalated dramatically.
- A great many walkies and sunrises.
- Mired in recruitment again. Hired two more Python developers, started onboarding prep. Sifting for Data Analysts (application deadline 24th Dec...).
- Actually did some BODS scheme refactoring work though.
- Made ginger cake and green tomato ketchup at home, and plum and raspberry cobbler at the Community Kitchen.
- Finished The Bear. Watched uh all of Fleabag.
- Swam in the sea.
- Finished Look to Windward. Started Legends and Lattes.
- Fungus gnats continue to drive me to despair, but the spider population has increased considerably which is nice. The second birds eye plant died. All hope for a chilli filled summer hangs on the scotch bonnet.
- Finished Legends and Lattes. Started We Won't Be Here Tomorrow.
- Made many mince pies at the Community Kitchen, and falafel at home.
- Watched all of Only Murders In The Building.
- Had a great many walkies with Max including a day out in Edinburgh.
- Snowed under with Ops work, recruitment stuff, and Spanish employment law anxiety (it's all fine, though).
- Nacreous clouds! For three days in a row! Lots of walkies and cuddles before Max left for his other home.
- Started watching Ugly Betty.
- Finished We Won't Be Here Tomorrow and started Smoke and Mirrors.
- Spent time with friends.
- Swam in the sea twice; braw days amidst the storms.
- Had a quiet week at work, restructuring the BODS schema and tidying up the tests.
- Saw the Kirkcaldy Panto (Ya Wee Beauty and the Beast).
- Ate lots of Tiffin delivery.
- Spontaneous trip to theatre in Edinburgh.
- 'Foraging' in the polytunnel..
- Turned my fermented lemon peppers and yellow tomatoes into hot sauce.
🗁Added 8 photos to album Doing-it-meself.
The finishing touch for the hallway nook pantry - fairy lights, which I scavenged from a box of "free stuff" cleared out of my late neighbour's flat.
(And to make Mum happy, I strung up the seed advent calendar she sent me there as well.)
🗁Added 8 photos to album Stuff I grow.
Tomato and chilli harvests from Nov and Dec.
Week in review: 27th November - 3rd December
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🗁Added 5 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
A jaunt to Glasgow and Helensburgh to visit F & J and co. Had a nice time at the Helensburgh winter festival.
🗁Added 5 photos to album Homemade food.
Harvested most of the rest of the green tomatoes from the polytunnel and made green tomato chutney. I have a suspicion it won't be as good as last years (which is amazing) but we'll see...
🗁Added 17 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Max came to stay with me for a while, and immediately took over my life (and sofas).
Week in review: 4th - 10th December
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🗁Added 46 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Walkies through the Wemyss woods. No oyster mushrooms except old ones.
🗁Added 9 photos to album Homemade food.
Turned yet more green tomatoes into ketchup, with some chillis. Also made a ginger loaf, but it sunk in the middle. Peach and raspberry cobbler at the Community Kitchen.
🗁Added 22 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Max models the sunrise.
Week in review: 11th - 17th December
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🗁Added 2 photos to album Stuff I made.
Work on the crochet project I can't decide on and will never finish.
🗁Added 15 photos to album Stuff I made.
Amigurumi ray and fishy for E and E's sea creature collection.
🗁Added 38 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Nacreous clouds at sunset! Far more vivid than my camera could capture, in the colours of the trans flag. Max and I watched them from the beach until they turned bright orange and dissipated..
🗁Added 51 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
More walkies, more nacreous clouds!
And a visit to the market for the first time in a while.
🗁Added 11 photos to album Edinburgh, 2023.
A day out in Edinburgh with Max, who was Very Good. I had to pick up a box from BBL, and then we had a doughnut in ConsiderIt with JH.
Max was very good. We had a frolick across the Meadows, and took the train home from Haymarket.
🗁Added 9 photos to album Homemade food.
Many mince pies at the Community Kitchen.
Used some of my fermented beetroot to make falafel, which was very good.
🗁Added 33 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
More walkies. Max has a great time with giant sticks. I'm glad he can entertain himself while I sit and contemplate the waves.
Xmas eve Tiffin delivery.
Week in review: 18th - 24th December
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I'm having an alarmingly good day for one spent mostly at a computer.. I'm making good progress with actual work work (billable software development as opposed to ops/co-op wrangling support which is still work but not work work), got myself out of a dependency hell in less than 20 minutes, learnt some new stuff, remembered how to write Python again and actually did so, and it worked, like immediately...
Then I took a break and went to investigate some homemade pickles that looked like they had gone mouldy in the (sealed) jar to discover that it was just kahm yeast around the edge and they are perfectly fine! I've been so sad thinking for weeks I was gonna have to throw out the whole jar.
You might observe it doesn't take much for me to be having a good day, my bar is pretty low.
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🗁Added 4 photos to album Stuff I grow.
I went to the polytunnel to pick the last of the tomatoes. Some still turned ready! Cleaned everything up, and then got trapped by a blizzard. Very conveniently, there were also some blewits growing in there. Does it count as foraging when they're in the polytunnel?
🗁Added 4 photos to album Homemade food.
🗁Added 7 photos to album Edinburgh, 2023.
Spontaneous trip to Edinburgh to see the Snow Queen at the Lyceum. I took the bus, and had just enough time beforehand to have a fancy dinner at Henderson's. (I tried Sora Lella first, but they were full.) The pumpkin gnocchi with cashew ricotta were next level.
I really enjoyed the theatre too. It wasn't busy and I had empty seats around me in the Grand Circle, and a good view. (Tony from Kangus was in the play.)
This outing re-confirmed something I already knew: that my favourite kind of date is one with no other people on it.
🗁Added 10 photos to album Homemade food.
I packed a tall jar with hot lemon chillis and yellow cherry tomatoes at the beginning of the month, and fermented them in brine along with coriander seeds and bay leaves. I tested a tomato every week until they were suitably fizzy, and today I blended them, and added a bit of lemon juice.
I decided not to pasteurise them, so the jars need to be stored in the fridge, but will keep all of the exciting bacteria from the fermentation. Hopefully the lemon juice and fridge will stop them from fermenting more.
I had to scoop kahm yeast off the top every few days after the first couple of weeks; I hope they don't go yeasty again in the jars.
🗁Added 45 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Lucky to have some more gorgeous clear days for beach walkies. And also to have a Max to snuggle on the sofa on the rainy days. Such a cuddly Max.
🗁Added 39 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
No-particular-occasion vegan feast with K, A and D on the 25th.
The days alternated between extremely braw and miserable AF this week. There was snow but it didn't settle. A lot of wind and generally dampness. But clear days and still seas were enough to see me through.
I went to see the Kirkcaldy panto with K. It was a lot. (I didn't realise I haven't been to a panto before..)
Week in review: 25th - 31st December
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It's a clearish night, do I stay up late enough to try to see the Edinburgh fireworks across the Forth (which I have never yet achieved), or just go to bed?
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