knitting

Reading. FINISHED:

Furiously Happy, Jenny Lawson. I can see why people like her! I have also remembered why I wound up unsubscribing from her blog. Very interesting proof of concept in re audiobooks, though.
Prophet, Helen MacDonald and Sin Blaché. Very enjoyable reread in which many things landed differently, in service of...
a word you've never understood, rydra_wong. EXACTLY the post-canon follow-up I wanted but would have absolutely failed to articulate. Have already tried to lure one more person into reading the book so I can then make them go read the fic. Now I just selfishly want Even More Of It.
Pain is really strange, Steve Haines. Reread for the purpose of making notes, this time. Sparked at least one useful thought. Following up references is a work in progress.
How to cook... Desserts, Leiths Cookery School. Read all the way through for the purposes of EYB indexing first pass! Go me.

STARTED:

Adventures in Stationery, James Ward. Borrowed from library on a whim for low-brain non-fiction.

Writing. First pass through indexing a cookbook on EYB!

Some Actual Notes re pain for The Book, including (and I am very proud of myself for this) actually writing down my questions alongside the bare "here's what it contained".

Watching. Murderbot S01E01. I am dubious but expecting to keep watching. If you encourage me I might say more when it is not past curfew.

Cooking. ... apparently I have not managed Much Of Note this week.

Eating. POTATOES at the ALLOTMENT courtesy of ALLOTMENT FRIENDS. Also finished my choi sum and had my first AMAZING broad beans and nibbled kohlrabi speculatively, all on Tuesday.

Today I have nibbled: a cherry; the first few redcurrants; a pod's worth of Kelvedon Wonder peas; half a tiny tomato.

Making & mending. Made some progress on A's left glove. Realised, belatedly, that I'd done the same thing with picking up stitches unevenly along the two sides of the palm. Ripped back most of the way to where I started from and Sulked. BUT HEY I've remembered the pattern and where I'd stowed all the bits for it!

Growing. See Eating for my biggest excitements. Sugar Magnolia (purple sugar-snap pea) now setting pods; my main intention with it this year (given that I planted a whole packet of seeds and have wound up with ...fewer plants than that) is just to get myself sorted with a significantly larger number of seeds for next year, but hey, maybe they'll all be super productive and I'll actually get to eat some too.

Stockings now at the plot to go onto the cherry tomorrow, hopefully.

Tomatoes planted out when tiny not doing so great (i.e. have mostly disappeared). Tomatoes planted out when larger Actually Flowering. Desperately need to stake the lot of them.

Tiny single solitary surviving oca has started to Go.

V grumpy about how poorly the squash I got started A While Ago have coped with getting put outside given that they are in biodegradable fibre pots so I'm not even disturbing their roots. Getting the rest of them in the ground AND THEN SOWING MORE very much also high on tomorrow's priority list. (And the beans, augh.)

Observing. Met a neighbour!

queen_ypolita

My mum and sister are going to come over for a few days towards the end of next week, so my weekend has largely been about tidying up, getting rid of junk, and figuring out what more I'll need to do next week. I also rearranged things on my desk, which wasn't really necessary for the cleaning or next week but something I'd been thinking about for a couple of weeks. The work laptop I've been using since April is a bit bigger than the older one was, so the way I had monitors and stuff set up before didn't work as well any more.

And I'll need to be on the phone to the dentists first thing on Monday. Starting from Friday afternoon, one of my molars has been super painful with any pressure on it and I strongly suspect I've got an infection at the root. Painkillers and eating very, very carefully have kept things tolerable—I don't like taking painkillers unless I really have to, and this has really been one of those times. I can't remember the last time I resorted to taking both ibuprofen and paracetamol at intervals. No idea how quickly I can be seen, but hopefully between tomorrow and Thursday. I might need to replan my office days though.

badly_knitted

Title: Hollow
Fandom: Babylon 5
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Lyta Alexander, Kosh.
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Setting: Walkabout.
Summary: There’s a hole inside Lyta where she used to sometimes carry part of Kosh.
Written For: Challenge 477: Amnesty 79 at

fan_flashworks, using Challenge 413: Negative Space.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Babylon 5, or the characters. They belong to J. Michael Straczynski.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( Hollow... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Over And Done
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Dee, JJ.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 453: Over You at

drabble_zone.
Setting: After Like Like Love.
Summary: JJ realises he’s not in love with Dee anymore.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Over And Done... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Click
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ianto, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 868: Code at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: The latest alien visitor is annoying Ianto.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Click... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

pensnest

I cooked a big breakfast this morning: chipolata sausages, bacon, black pudding, mushrooms, grilled tomato, fried egg. The meat products all came from our local butcher, and were so tasty it was hard to decide which should be my final mouthful*

Why the big breakfast? Beast is off—just now, in fact—for a concert this afternoon, so he won't need to be fed until the nice people who invited his chorus ply them with cake.

* I like to eat 'rotational', ie mouthfuls by turns, but make sure to save a tasty morsel for the last bite. Beast eats in a columnar style, devouring what's on his plate from least favourite to tastiest by eating all of each ingredient before moving on to the next. I suppose a case could also be made for eating in the same way but starting with the favourite.

Which way do you eat a plateful?

copracat

I'm been reading a few pages of my DW network link lately and discovered I'm not following people I thought I was following. I suspect I have accidentally unfollowed because on my current layout reply is close to the drop down list that has unsubscribe and ban user. I need an icons to the left layout.

Anyway, happy long weekend, Australians. At least those Australians who get the king's birthday holiday this week. I'm listening to the Classic 100 countdown to not-celebrate. Can we have a republic now, please?

twistedchick

Some thoughts on jobs that used to exist and don't, anymore, because of mechanization, progress, and the potential future job losses to AI.

coprime

Art by Alex Maleev of Daredevil holding a sword pointing down, its tip touching the ground, with blood coating it.

kaberett

goslings! (Canadian; one still very yellow and fluffy, several more rather larger.)
SNAILS. so many excellent snails. we went out on a couple of stupid little walks and saw MANY snails.
ate the last of my birthday cake, with discounted raspberries courtesy of one of said stupid little walks. <3
the post brought Several more books for me (two pain-related, ...some cookery) and I am very pleased with them. particularly looking forward to warm bread and honey cake, though given that I've still not actually read Salt Fat Acid Heat I don't rate my chances of getting to it any time soon...
current borrowed-on-a-whim-from-the-library book: Adventures in Stationery, James Ward. First chapter was paperclips; current chapter is a whistlestop tour of The History Of The Pen, including a much more loving biography of the BIC Cristal than I am normally exposed to via fountain pen fandom!

peaceful_sands

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marinarusalka

We're back!

Got back yesterday around noon, after a rather brutal return trip that involved a red-eye flight from San Jose to LAX, then a 2-hour shuttle bus ride from LAX to San Diego, then a Lyft home from the shuttle stop.

Costa Rica was amazing. As I said to The Boy at one point, it felt like we've spent two weeks living in a David Attenborough documentary. So green! So full of wildlife! So gorgeous! I'll be sorting through pictures for a while, and The Boy even longer, but here are some birds to start off with.

Keep in mind, these were all taken with my phone, so not nearly a complete list of what we saw, just what I could get a decent photo of.

( birds!birds!birds! )

There were also toucans, and scarlet macaws, and tons more hummingbirds and lots of other stuff that will have to wait until The Boy sorts through his photos. Stay tuned!

Current Mood: tired

crafty_packrat

Three quarts of strawberries, 3 pints of sweet cherries, a pint of sugar peas, locally grown brown rice, locally grown polenta, large soft pretzel, gruyere-bacon pastry wheel, lemon tart, fennel plant, dill plant, zinnia, cilantro, basil (all three plants given away by the local Master Gardeners group).

I guess I'm making strawberry jam this weekend.

neotoma

badly_knitted

Title: Tough Case
Fandom: FAKE
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Ryo, Dee.
Rating: PG
Setting: After the manga.
Summary: Ryo stares out to sea, letting the wild weather lift his spirits.
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Waves’.
Disclaimer: I don’t own FAKE, or the characters. They belong to the wonderful Sanami Matoh.
A/N: Triple drabble.

( Tough Case... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Special Souvenir
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Tenth Doctor, Donna Noble.
Rating: G
Written For: Challenge 929: ‘Brick’ at

dw100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: One of the Doctor’s souvenirs puzzles Donna.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Doctor Who, or the characters.

( Special Souvenir... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

badly_knitted

Title: Encoded
Author:

badly_knitted
Characters: Owen, Jack.
Rating: PG
Written For: Challenge 868: Code at

torchwood100.
Spoilers: Nada.
Summary: Owen finds an intriguing bit of paper.
Disclaimer: I don’t own Torchwood, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.

( Encoded... )

Current Mood: tired
Current Location: my desk

highlyeccentric

Last Sunday I had lamb, but had to go get more ingredients before I could make Nagi's slow-roasted middle eastern lamb shoulder. I ended up running too late to make it in a slow-cooker, and still short a few items, so I had-hocked it a few ways. The leftovers turned out amazing though, kept going all week.

( Spiced Lamb Shoulder )

Nagi serves hers with lemon herb couscous. I (being gluten-intolerant) recommend basmati rice, cooked with at least half the liquid being stock. You may wish to add sultanas to the rice.

Recommended toppings:

( Yoghurt sauce )

( Ful Medames )

Serve: Lamb on a bed of rice, with roast vegetables and the two dip/sauces.

Leftovers 1: Same thing, minus the yoghurt if you're taking it to work to reheat. If carrying it in a container to reheat, do include an orange wedge, and a dash of extra water, to infuse with the rice.

Leftovers 2: Ful Medames on celery sticks, as a component of Girl Dinner / Picky Tea.

Leftovers 3:

( Lamb and Feta Pizza )

Leftovers 3b: Leftover pizza.

Leftovers 4, which I made at the same time as the pizza:

( Spiced vegetable and bean soup )

Leftovers 4b: soup. Mix yoghurt sauce through if you're taking it in a container to work.

Leftovers 5: Wraps/soft tacos/thingy with fuul medames and lamb. If you have leftover mushroom / zucchini from the pizza, toss that in here. Add avocado if you have any.

Leftovers 6: at this point just "uses for ful medames", but ful medames mixed with Jack M's banana chili ketchup makes a good spread base for breakfast burrito.

This has been: a week of lamb and things that go with lamb.

james

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kaberett

A significant part of the problem is that we only start saying "all pain is in the brain" (or "the tissue isn't the issue" or whatever) to people with complex or chronic pain.

And there's a good reason for that! It's the same reason that I need to have a much more detailed idea of the fine detail of what an atom is and how it behaves than the vast majority of the population, for whom the Bohr model is perfectly adequate!

... and we need to explain that, we need to explain why we don't tell people with simple acute pain that All Pain Is In The Brain -- it's not because it's any less true for them, it's just that for most people most of the time they don't need to worry about that level of detail. But if you don't explain that, it sure do sound a lot like "your pain isn't real (unlike those people over there)".

Lies-to-children. That. That thing. That's a thing I need to explain.

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vital functions is struggling with time management and up way past curfew

Weekend with cleaning

B5 Triple Drabble: Hollow

FAKE Double Drabble: Over And Done

Double Drabble: Click

just loosen your belt two inches

(no subject)

New Substack post

For my Fic "Against the Clock"

some joys of the day

May Progress on my 101 in 1001 list

Costa Rica highlights: birds

Farmer's Market -- 7 June 2025 (Pitchfork Day, 20th of Meadows, Year 233)

Farmer's Market -- 7 June 2025 (Pitchfork Day, 20th of Meadows, Year 233)

FAKE Triple Drabble: Tough Case

Doctor Who Drabble: Special Souvenir

Double Drabble: Encoded

Roast Lamb à la Nagi + Leftovers Thereof

DNGAF

[pain] today's articulation

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