Out of office: I'm going on a Vipassana meditation retreat, offline until the 24th of January.
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Week in review: 4th - 9th Jan
- Watched all of Godless. Started The Book of Boba Fett, continued The Expanse.
- Stole Max again. We walked to Wemyss and back and got very muddy, and around Ravenscraig Park.
- Made mushroom pie.
- Weeded the garden.
- Wrapped up BODS work, for now, and Co-op recruitment/onboarding admin.
- Took the train to Mum's after handing over my flat to E&M. Spent the weekend resting, reading, eating, cooking, crocheting, moving blocks of wood. Did my tax return. Tried to catch up on photo uploads..
- Finished Ender's Game (actually fab!). Started The Death of Grass (not enjoying this so much).
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Week in review: 27th Dec - 3rd Jan
- Finished painting the hallway.
- Worked on some BODS stuff, but kept getting stuck on silly things.
- F came for new year's weekend. We ate lots, watched movies, and wandered around with Max.
- Went in the sea at sunrise on the 1st of Jan. Sun didn't come out til later, but the air was warm.
- Finished I, Robot. Started Ender's Game.
- Walked through the woods to Wemyss and picked up rubbish.
- Foraged an improbable amount of large oyster mushrooms. Prepared an improbable amount of mushroom soups and bottled diced mushrooms.
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In reply to: https://mobile.twitter.com/greenerkdy/status/1473342262989963264
In case folk wanted a change from mince pies, I made mince pie muffins for the Greener Kirkcaldy Community Meals..
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Yesterday I spontaneously removed everything from my bedroom and sanded, washed and repainted the ceiling. Today I've done the walls and I'll decide tomorrow if they need a second coat. Amazing what you can do on nanowrimo brain.
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I'm picking up my 2012 and 2019 still unfinished novel for NaNoWriMo again this year. Writing immediately becomes the bigger procrastination target, so I might catch up with all my other work this month.
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The great thing about procrastibaking is that at the end of the day when you realise you haven't got any work done, you can console yourself with cake.
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This morning my brother found me buzzing around at 7am in the kitchen, nodded knowingly, and said "ah it's your superfan day. That's why you're up early getting all your jars out."
And indeed! The grand opening of the Kirkcaldy branch of Grain and Sustain has arrived!
I got there just after 9 to find it delightfully buzzing, jammed my backpack full of jars of supplies, and had lovely chats with a few local business owners who I bumped into who I also see regularly. Plus the sun was out. I am feeling the love for Fife!
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Replacing the smelly carpet with laminate in Dave's room the guest room has escalated into installing insulation under the floor in half the flat. Which is definitely good in the long run by BY GOLLY do I want this disruption to be over.
Replacing the smelly carpet with laminate in my room will, I anticipate, escalate into creating a secret compartment under the floor with a trap door because I think I have 4-5 feet of space down there.. (plus installing under floor insulation in the other half of the flat).
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My brother and I are going on an adventure together this weekend. I'm paying for everything, as a goodbye present. With the caveat that if he fails to actually leave, he's refunding it in full.
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I'm not usually around when my brother goes for his before-bed snack, but I was last night. Thoughtful of him, as he heads to his room with the last slice of lemon pie on a plate and a fork in his hand, licking his lips, to ask: "is it okay if I have this?" as if it wasn't a foregone conclusion.
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I accidentally made seitan the other day. I was trying to make a not-omelette (aka nomelette) and was mixing the equal parts flour and water with all the seasonings and stuff but it was going springy instead of batter-y?! I'd grabbed wheat gluten instead of gram flour. Fortunately it was a totally valid seitan mix so I stuck it in the fridge and started again. Now I'm frying it for a stirfry and it's super. Good job, past me.
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I haven't done a week in review since like May but REST ASSURED I'm keeping notes in a text file and I will flood you with all of them at some point. I'm behind on photo logging and like to link to stuff from the WiR, is why.
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I am beyond excited that my fave independent zero waste shop Grain & Sustain is coming to Kirkcaldy, and bringing a vegan deli with them!
And I'm thrilled that my local coffee bean supplier Ecobean is getting recognition for having a completely closed-loop zero waste thing going on as well.
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Me: ugh why didn't the last people who painted this room bother to tape up the edges, it's so messy.
Also me: fuuuuuuu- taping up all the edges before painting is so much work, is this really necesssary?
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I have absolute dream neighbours. Last time I left my washing in the communal washing machine all day, I came back to find it neatly folded on the side, after someone had taken it out of the washing machine, put it in the dryer, then taken it out of the dyer too.
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