First vandalism of my garden yesterday. Someone tried to yank off some rhubarb. They failed, but partly detached the stem and wrecked the leaf.
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Week in review: 10th - 16th May
- One bag of mushrooms yielded one clump. The other bag tried and failed :(
- Too much bok choy sprouted, trying to spread it around. Repotted a ton of basil that grew from seeds. Salvaged the stray tomato that sprouted at the base of the avocado plant and potted it up.
- Most of the replacement cucumbers I bought from B&Q look like they aren't going to survive, for unknown reasons.
- Apple cake, rhubarb crumble, and other things.
- Made many omelettes in the Lang Spoon kitchen. Been about 6 years since I cracked an egg..
- Started making decisions about bathrooms, changing my mind, acquired some stuff.
- TAG not-face-to-face from early mornings to late evenings, with Co-op in between. Somehow.
- Recovered with a fantastic weekend of gallivanting. Went around the coast to Elie and Pittenweem, bought a wetsuit, swam in the sea pool, visited interesting little shops; rescued an excellent bath from the dump and rehomed it in K's garden; then 'helped' with clearing ivy of her shed roof.
- The kayak finally came! I can't lift it myself.
- Finally watched the 1984 Dune movie (over two nights). I quite enjoyed it, though I can see how to people who haven't read the books it is probably completely incoherent.
- I'm still slogging through Mentats of Dune.
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I went to vote at 0730 yesterday. I wasn't expecting anyone else to be there, but got stuck behind a line of nuns.
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Week in review: 15th - 21st March
- A lovely sunny week. Went in the sea, saw some lovely sunrises, hung out with Max, did some gardening.
- Made good bread.
- Worked on BODS, and TAG things.
- Met someone from the community council and a local councillor who are going to try to help me get permission to turn the shared front lawn into a veg patch (my neighbours in the block are all in favour).
- Started a sourdough starter.
- Acquired some houseplants and herb cuttings.
- Started incubating two bags of oyster mushroom spores.
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Week in review: 8th - 14th March
- Made a bathmat out of eight pillowcases.
- Finally finished my crochet kelpie (and posted it to Falkirk to be with its own kind).
- Short walks and beach time.
- Wrote Django tests, mostly, for Standards Lab.
- Made a cake, and other things.
- Crocheted a VHS tape ribbon.
- Started getting serious about my herb garden.
- Went for a long walk along the coast.
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Week in review: 22nd - 28th Feb
- Actually properly reviewed some TAG Design Review issues.
- Editorial review of DID Core goes on.
- Tinkered with docker and github actions for the Standards Lab project.
- Started making a bath mat out of strips of fabric from old pillowcases.
- Last week was spring and this week apparently summer!! I feel like I'm on holiday.
- Borrowed some tools from a neighbour and made a new friend in the process.
- Walked to Burntisland.
- Made a lot of curries.
- Finished Navigators of Dune fucking finally. Started Frank Herbert's Eye.
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Week in review: 15th - 21st February
- Finally the weather recovered, and I had a couple of nice trips outside.
- Finished painting my bedroom from twitter blue to white.
- Cleaned my old flat, and handed in the keys.
- Gave away lots more stuff on freecycle/freegle, and received some stuff too.
- Spent a fortune on bulk food / cleaning supply orders, but hopefully never have to think about those things again..
- Watched Parasite, finally.
- Saw many good doggos go past the window.
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Week in review: 8th - 14th Feb
- It was cold AF.
- Finished Chapterhouse: Dune. Started Navigators of Dune. Brian Herbert's writing is nothing like Frank's so far (in a bad way.. I'm not sure I'll make it through many more of these).
- Did some work on how to module missing declarations/data in BODS in a standard way.
- 'Ran out of food' (according to Dave) but still managed to come up with some good meals.
- Gave lots of stuff away on freegle/freecycle.
- Went back and forth between new and old flats in the snow.
- Got up at sunrise for a freegle handover, and went to see snow Seafield.
- Got a new boiler!!
- Started painting my new bedroom.
- Moved all Dave and my stuff to the new place, but spent the first night on the sofa due to aforementioned painting.
- Got surprise Indian food from The Tiffin (surprise because I forgot I preordered it).
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It's quite nice out now, in between the snow storms.
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me, hearing my brother swearing in the next room: what's wrong?
brother: it's snowing in the bathroom again.
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Gale force winds and freezing rain for more than a week now. This is the longest stretch of consistent weather since I moved here. And I am sick. of. it.
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Week in review: 25th - 31st Jan
- A BBL-supplied Burns Supper, and homemade coffee cake.
- Attended the TAG not-face-to-face. This was fun. But SO much to read.
- Spent 18 hours, and 31 minutes in meetings.
- Handed in my rental notice. Time to move! Closer to the sea, further from cars.
- Spent the weekend deep cleaning the new place, and... finding faults.
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I do really appreciate living so close to the beach that it's not a big ordeal to go out for the last 15 minutes of sun of the day and a listen to the sea.
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This morning my BBL and Grain and Sustain deliveries came, and this afternoon the sun came out. Truly a blessed day in Fife.
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A dear wish of mine is for Grain & Sustain to stock BBL vegan deli 'meats' and to get a peanut grinder so I don't have to go all the way to New Leaf in Edinburgh for peanut butter. Then my new life in Fife will be complete.
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My ostensibly local and quite expensive fruit and veg box arrived, along with a loooot of plastic. Disappointing. I can't seem to find a greengrocer anywhere near me in Kirkcaldy. Might be going to Burntisland for veg at this rate..
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