Today is World Rainforest Day!
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Rudely awoken this morning by neighbour cutting tiles on their front lawn. Seriously can’t they give it a rest with the renovations on a Saturday? I really wanted a sleep in.
Still managed a gym session but I had shower scrubbing on the cards today and need to motivate myself to do it.
Don’t tell my kids, but I don’t really want to get up at 7:30 on a Saturday to go and watch them play hockey. I’m tired, it’s cold, wet and I’m not really having fun.
I might be getting my first new computer in 14 years later today, so I have something to look forward to.
I stand corrected. Headache is back.
Still going to clean the kitchen and maybe the bathroom if possible.
No more gym till after the interview Tuesday.
Heat pack on the neck could help. If it’s randomly coming and going could well be muscle related.
I would avoid smelly cleaning chemicals and bending over too much. But as a chronic migraine sufferer, productive slow pottering can be good.
Take it easy and (insert annoying aunty voice) make sure you drink enough water!
Hope it’s not the dexies doing it, if the headache keeps coming back maybe talk to your GP. Or maybe it’s covid? My main covid symptom was a headache, never had much of a throat problem…
May the satisfaction of getting some cleaning done lift your spirits a bit
oh no, take it easy, have cups of tea and toast
World Rainforest Day
World: from Proto-Germanic *weraldi-, a compound of *wer “man” (Old English wer, still in werewolf; see virile) + *ald “age” (from PIE root *al- (2) “to grow, nourish”).
Rainforest: apparently a loan-translation of German Regenwald, coined by A.F.W. Schimper for his 1898 work "Pflanzengeographie
Day: Old English dæg “period during which the sun is above the horizon,” also “lifetime, definite time of existence,” from Proto-Germanic *dages- “day” (source also of Old Saxon, Middle Dutch, Dutch dag, Old Frisian di, dei, Old High German tag, German Tag, Old Norse dagr, Gothic dags), according to Watkins, from PIE root *agh- “a day.” He adds that the Germanic initial d- is “of obscure origin.” But Boutkan says it is from PIE root *dhegh- “to burn” (see fever). Not considered to be related to Latin dies (which is from PIE root *dyeu- “to shine”).
Australia has unique temperate rainforests in that they have the biome but not the high rainfall. Like in the Dandenongs, Macedons and the Otways.
You may be interested in this book if you don’t already have it. https://www.routledge.com/Old-English-and-its-Closest-Relatives-A-Survey-of-the-Earliest-Germanic-Languages/Robinson/p/book/9780415104067
Movie Review Rewatch. Crimson Peak.
Watch for red flags, love is actions not words.
6 jars of marmalade made, 3 plants repotted, 1 load washing done and put away, another load in the machine
What do you typically have marmalade with, other than toast? Not having much of a sweet tooth, I can’t imagine how one gets through even a jar of marmalade in a reasonable time, let alone 6.
Topping for cheesecake, glaze for apple tarts, anywhere where the intense sweetness plus fruity tartness and a bit of bitterness makes a nice contrast. Marmalade can be melted, sieved and the liquid used as a sauce on vanilla icecream too. Adding a bit of arrowroot & water to the sieved liquid sets it to a firm gel, which goes pretty good as an icing substitute on a plain pound cake. A small spoonful of marmalade is a nice addition to a stir fry sauce too along with soy etc. Try it with cauliflower or broccoli. Bearing in mind that a jar of marmalade for toast only every day is usually gone in a week, so 6 jars will last maaaayyyybeee the worst of the winter.
oh yeah, it’s good in icing for carrot or banana cakes
my last jar in the batch has less peel and is more like jelly and that would definitely be good with desserts
just want to add I chopped and seeded about 100 cumquats to make 6 jars
That’s a LOT of chopping! Props to you.
Cumquats I just do whole in brandy for about 6 months. Seeding them is bonkers!
I use it in marinades for roast chicken , I give a few jars away but I mostly have it on toast , one jar lasts me about 3 weeks
Laundry all done and hanging up outside. Others have got laundry out as well so I’ve had to hang mine fairly close. If it doesn’t dry by 4pm, I’ll have to hope that it doesnt get too damp overnight and dries off fully by about 9am tomorrow.
Did the frustrating big-inertia job of wiping down all the surfaces in the bathroom, after the tile work done on Tuesday with no notice left a fine layer of dust on everything since I couldn’t move anything out. The chemical smell is almost completely gone now after 4 full days, got the balcony door and study room window open to air this place out a bit. That should close that particular chapter of temporary unpleasantness.
Next thing is vacuuming and then… final big inertia job, mopping the floors. I hate to confess how long it’s been, but in winter I really do let it go because I wear slippers indoors. The floor needs a mop to lift off the dust though. I’d like to freshen up the energy of this place before my RL cake day very soon. But I haaaate mopping.
I hung some of mine out last night and some this morning. I’m not super confident it’s going to fully dry today. Maybe by the end of tomorrow provided the sun holds up.
Looks like it’ll be foggy tomorrow morning so I expect it’ll be a bit damp to start but it should hopefully clear up in the morning… sun’s done for today by the looks of it so I dont expect much more drying this afternoon unfortunately.
Feeling better this morning. But of a late start but that’s ok. Needed the extra sleep.
Decided to take the kukri (further sharpened today on a silicone carbide stone) to the lemon tree for the first time as it needed pruning. Turns out to be a good fast tool for that work. Hit those little branches at 45 degrees… straight through.
Ended up with 22kg (!) and heaps more to go :)
These may be of interest ![hard lemonade recipe] (https://aussie.zone/pictrs/image/808252be-1519-4fa5-958b-bd994d0966aa.jpeg)
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I’m off to a mexican restaurant with mates
see ya later 😘😘😘
Enjoy 🍹
Bring me back a spicy!
Have a great time!
an unintended consequence of having a day job is vitamin d deficiency so now i am rotating outside in tshirt and shorts
Just a psa that there are high dose vitamin D tablets that can be taken once a week 👍
take vitamins 👍
marmalade is on the boil, I have a ton of washing to do, have sewing, it will be a busy day
Look at us all busy little bees today. I’ve managed a shower and I’m deciding whether to get dressed or not.
Ii think I’ve been worse. I woke, had breakfast, chatted in the phone then went for a nap and that’s my day :/
Just picked up a free old projector for my emulator PC.
I put out a really nice new cat chair out in the courtyard for someone to take , the boys are too big for it
I just picked up my towel and hung it up.
Lol don’t worry. I only just got around to having a shower and getting dressed, and I only did that because I have a visitor soon. If it wasn’t for him, I would still be in bed
Same, though I did get dressed.
It’s been a very slow start for me, if that makes you feel better! I have tons on next week so I knew I had to get some things done today or I’d be punishing my future self when she’s more tired and cranky.
KFC have killed the giant snack pack, and therefore killed any interest I have in going to kfc.
I tried the GSP and thought it was absolutely vile. But I mostly go to Red rooster these days anyways, so I can’t blame you. kafers is just too expensive these days. A $5 snack sub box from rooster is where it’s at!
If red rooster could stop putting bones in their roast rolls we could talk, but man the quality of the chicken sucks.
Agreed red rooster is superior these days.
The last KFC I had was so disgusting it’s tainted any memory I had of them being worth going to. Cold damp unsalted chips, some pieces of chicken looked like they’d been cooked 4-5 times already - tiny dried out husks of food. The box was soaked through with fryer oil.
Yeah that was them a couple of years ago. It’s better now. But not by much. It’s back to like 2008 levels, which let’s be clear is still pretty bad.
This was in the last three months. Police Rd KFC.
Yikes. Yeah I think there are a few who just don’t give a f sadly. Officer is DOG SHIT!
A small amount of gardening has been achieved, cutting back the beans and other dead summer plants and putting away the support stakes. Things look a bit tidier out there now.
I have also achieved mixing & packaging a new batch of dog food and a bit of general tidying up.
