Get more coffee, go for a pee, be on time for the next meeting. Choose any two of the three.
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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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One day of heavy rain has decimated my footpath garden. I've covered everything, but too late for most. I miss when slugs were stealing my lettuces in my living room..
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Week in review: 26th April - 2nd May
- Joined the AC meeting.
- Little bit of DID spec stuff.
- Planted out broccoli and rhubarb.
- Spending longer and longer on the beach in the mornings.. And an evening under the supermoon.
- Co-op quarterly meeting, aka NoGM.
- Multiple failed attempts to rehome my old sofas. Desperate not to send them to landfill.
- Got to see JB in 3 dimensions! We hung out in K's garden.
- Made wholewheat bread. Went surprisingly well. And a cashew not-cheesecake.
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Okay so it's probably a totally random coincidence and definitely not systematic sexism but I got a letter from the NHS addressed to both me and my brother and even though I'm Dr (clearly superior) and alphabetically first, it's still "Mr and Dr Guy".
Edit: Handed the letter to Dave when he got home from work and the first thing he said was "with your impressive title and the fact you did all the work for this, but my name is first? Wtf sexism." So he's raised right.
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A pox upon gumtree people who ask "is this still available" then never respond again.
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Homegrown mushrooms on homemade sourdough, with homegrown lettuce leaves and home-sprouted chickpeas. The ultimate lockdown breakfast?
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Week in review: 19th - 25th April
- Made sourdough again, and sourdough rye, and lemon cakes; falafel and flatbread; pizza; and other tasty things.
- Stayed really warm most of the week. Coffee on the beach in the morning is still as magical as the first time.
- Moved my indoor salad planter to outside, and replanted the carrots in the big tire planter. Promptly lost all four remaining outdoor lettuces to wind and sunburn, alas. Planted bok choy seeds there instead. The radishes look battered, but are growing new leaves and might make it (apart from one). Also planted chard seeds in big pots.
- Got a bunch more planters and pots from Freegle to expand the footpath-garden. Made my inside windowsill garden more civilised, and some chilli and basil have sprouted! Various plant photos.
- Walked through the woods on the way to Glenrothes, up to an ancient bridge. Picked up lots of rubbish on the way.
- Had an exciting trip to B&Q for yet more compost.
- Mushrooms grew dramatically and started dropping spores. So beautiful. Harvested and ate them! Amazing.
- Also crocheted a mushroom.
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I put my little baby seedlings outside for the first time and they are so small and pathetic I'll worry all night. Dissuaded from sleeping on the path next to them, but I have rigged up a little cardboard tent..
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You either never make sourdough, or you're constantly making sourdough. There's no in between.
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Week in review: 12th - 18th April
- Mostly amazing weather all week, so lots of beach walks.
- Trekked around Kirkcaldy for various things.. coffee grinder, compost, jars. Also bought an espresso machine that doesn't work >:( (debugging in process) and a bed for Dave that... has a part missing so we can't put it together.
- Extra TAG meetings, internal Co-op stuff, and where did the week go..?
- Made sourdough, tarts and cake.
- My mushrooms are emerging..
- One of my rosemary cuttings has roots, so I moved it to a pot, and repotted the basil.
- I'm up to 7 parsley sprouts. Not sure why they're all coming up a week apart..
- Found five more slugs on the bok choi that lives at the base of my avocado plant, but no more damage to radish and lettuce seedlings.
- Finally got to Kangus!
- Beach walkies with Lowenna!
- Finished Star Trek: Lower Decks.
- Finished Eye, started (against better judgement) Mentats of Dune.
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My brother said, whilst cleaning up and glaring pointedly at me, that maybe the reason he's miserable all the time is cos he prioritises housework over "zany adventures" but what he classes as my "zany adventures" that day consisted of taking three cute slugs 'rescued' from my seedlings on my morning walk, and carrying a tire up a 45degree slope after getting stuck in a spiky bush in the evening.
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When one person mutes someone else in a video call it should make a "shh" sound to the person being muted.
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Gonna make my first sourdough today, which means scheduling my whole day around its needs, apparently.
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Week in review: 5th - 11th April
- Liberated some raspberry plants for the greater good. Replanted my radish and lettuce seedlings into the windowbox, but that's staying inside until it's less arctic out. Aphids immediately moved into the lettuces.
- Later in the week, a lettuce disappeared completely, and the following night another one did. Set up a defensive perimeter with sand and rosemary, and conducted extensive searches, eventually gently rehoming a total of thirteen slugs. Garden related photos.
- Also planted nasturtiums in the windowbox outside, hopefully they wait a couple of weeks to sprout until it's no longer intermittently freezing.
- Did some TAG things to do with First Party Sets.
- Finished painting the hallway.
- Crocheted some things.
- Started Star Trek: Lower Decks. It's so good.
- Misc gardening, replanting, hole digging.
- Trekked to West Wemyss along the beach picking up tons of rubbish on the way.
- It snowed.
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This morning I have one fewer lettuce growing than last night. It's just... gone. I have spent an hour searching and I cannot find the slug. Am I going to have to stay up all night and watch for it?
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