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Reading. For EYB indexing purposes: I have finished Hotel Chocolat: A New Way of Cooking with Chocolate (absolutely do not). I have started Divine: heavenly chocolate recipes with a heart (Linda Collister; not particularly interested in the recipes here either thus far but good GRIEF at least it's actually centering the growers' co-op!!!) and also Medlars: Growing & Cooking (Jane Steward; I had been holding out hope that it would be better than the other book in the series I've indexed, Cherries & Mulberries, but alas while it's differently bad it's still bad: I think I'm at least three loops deep into "we don't have evidence for this so we can't say it happened ... and now I'm going to tell you more about the speculation ... that we have no evidence for ..." and I am definitely getting dizzy about it).

I have also got to the top of the holds queue for Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard), which recessional pointed me at when I had my rant about The Genius of Trees. I am about three pages in and feeling pretty good about it so far.

I also read the first few pages of Amy Liptrot's The Outrun, after having the third book in her memoir trilogy advertised to me By The Internet, and I think have decided to not read further though I am experiencing mild temptation for reasons I cannot articulate.

Watching. I painted Adam. We watched a Farscape episode. It was very a Farscape episode.

Listening. absolutely earwormed with ein ganzer Sommer.

Creating. Painted A!

Growing. Garlic chives are flowering. :) Squash continue to squash; even I managed to treat the powdery mildew today before going off on a Trains Adventure.

Observing. BAT. Very obligingly came out to swoop around while I was admiring the sunset yesterday!

1. I have FINISHED indexing (in the EatYourBooks sense) a cookbook I was threatening to stall on.
2. Indexing sure is getting me to actually properly read a lot of cookbooks about which I had vague curiosity! I am glad to be doing the reading and also, perversely, glad to discover that the majority of them are of limited interest to me for any purpose other than reading approximately once. (Alas that indexing takes reading at least twice...)
3. The magic that is international video calls.
4. A few weeks ago I bought some freeze-dried raspberry powder to see what I thought of adding it to protein shakes; I'm indifferent to that but really enjoying having a tablespoon or so of the stuff in my breakfast mush.
5. Sourdough bread and its willingness to just keep on being food long after it was baked and without any especial care being taken of it.

This morning I accompanied A to St Pancras to wave them off to NixCon, via getting brunch just over from the Eurostar, and paused for my own purposes at buns from home in KGX to get myself treats.

Unfortunately, this evening I went "... it really has been a while since my last dose of the anti-CGRP migraine preventative, hasn't it", checked the calendar, and realised it was due last Tuesday. ( Read more... )

Reading. gingerschnapps remarked, pre-event, that Daggerbound (T. Kingfisher) had been released, which I had somehow missed (somehow here meaning "because it wasn't announced via the Patreon???"), so this week while I have mostly been Lying Very Still with Very Little Brain I have reread Swordheart and consumed Daggerbound. They are extremely World of the White Rat books; I had a correspondingly good time.

Watching. This afternoon we had an episode of Farscape while I was bleaching A. It was extremely an episode of Farscape (2.11, Look at the Princess part 1).

Playing. We finished our second play-through of Tukoni: Forest Keepers; I successfully acquired the rarest achievement sans spoilers; but we still had two hidden achievements left. We have now spoiled ourselves for them and will be going back to complete them at... Some Point.

A is away for a bit next week so I have downloaded my own copy of Color Bus Trip so we can bus together long-distance without anyone having to engage in screen-sharing bullshit.

Cooking. Most of my cooking of note has absolutely been today, but let the record show:

• the standard Kaiserschmarrn recipe, with the addition of ~3 tbsp of ground Mohnpoppyseed, is extremely good actually (and it didn't hurt that the grinder had a little tiny bit of cardamom hanging around). went v well with the redcurrant and raspberry soup jam-that-didn't-set.
• we enjoyed smitten kitchen's summer squash pizza, which behaved very well on the Netherton Foundry spun iron baking sheet that was my (belated) birthday present from my mother; subbed fake Parmesan for Gruyère, skipped the breadcrumbs, and put non-grated frilly-edged pattypan squash slices on top instead; will happily make again (combination of new iron and new baking sheet worked really well for making pizza crust I was happy with!)
• I have also made a ridiculous amount of bread.

The experimental (veggie) sausage/fennel/lemon/bay/onion pasta Accompaniment did not alas work out as well as I was hoping and I am not sure what I could tweak to make it be More What I Wanted next time, other than drowning it in significantly more olive oil.

Eating. SQUASH from the ALLOTMENT good GRIEF. Raspberry and redcurrant jam ditto! The last of the Excellent Bonus Field Cake (one of my team spent IC currency on a huge box of baked goods; the Linzer cookie situations were excellent and we finally got around to the sticky toffee apple pudding).

Exploring. ... to make a hollow laughing...

Growing. Have I made it to the plot? lol. But the patio tomatoes and the lemongrass survived, and the poblano chilli merrily continues to ripen its various fruit, and having fed it the Trinidad Perfume is abruptly putting out many more flowers!

Otherwise today has been largely wrangling Lost Objects and also Laundry; in service of the former I have also dug out the point-and-shoot digital camera I got shortly after moving to London, with the intention of establishing whether the Object Photographs it produces are significantly better than the phone camera...

So have a headline:

Battle to save the tiny, gooey snail only found in one lake in the UK