Daylight Savings is such a waste of time
Mar. 8th, 2026 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyAnd there's an increase in mortality with every change of the clocks.
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Culinary
Mar. 8th, 2026 07:22 pmoursinThis week's bread: a loaf of Marriage's Organic Country Fayre Malted Brown Bread Flour: quite nice but turned out a bit crumbly??
Friday night supper: ersatz Thai fried rice with chopped red bell pepper and chorizo.
Saturday breakfast rolls: Tassajarra method, strong brown flour, a spot of Rayner's barley malt extract, cinnamon, raisins, okay (cinnamon a bit past its BBF).
Today's lunch: a pie (bought-in puff pastry) of silken tofu + baby spinach + fresh coriander and flat leaf parsley + garlic - okay, but perhaps a little bland; served with steamed asparagus splashed with melted butter with lime juice and lime zest, and padron peppers.
Whiffle whiffle
Mar. 7th, 2026 05:16 pmoursinImagine! a good old fashioned scam without embedded link to dodgy site or anything, wow, the nostalgia is nostalgiaful, eh?
My humble greetings,
I feel the need to approach you securing and moving my late father fund. It's just My urgent need for a foreign partner/investor. I have a significant fund to transfer. My Whatsap [---] for more details
Awwwww.
This had a charming naivety lacking in yet another solicitation to become involved with some academic journal, in this case:
Given your expertise and contributions to medical and surgical research, we believe your involvement would greatly strengthen the journal’s academic quality and reputation.
It's bad enough when some predatory publisher cites My Important Work and it's actually a 500-word review, but this is above and beyond WHUT.
Plus they not only want a CV they want a photo. Tempted to send them one of the photobooth efforts I got done for passport purposes, which have 'inmate of criminal lunatic asylum, c. 1880' vibes.
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In other nostalgic news, apparently the annual eight-day Thomas Hardy fest still occurs.
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And I was utterly charmed when finally flicking through the pages of the most recent Travel Which to discover Madison WI rated one of the top less-visited North American cities (cannot find this online), bless, with particular mention of the Monoma Terrace.
Though I am honestly boggling a bit at the decision to run an article on North American cities as touristic destinations at the present time, even if a significant proportion of the actual recommendations do turn out to be in Canada.
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Mar. 7th, 2026 11:12 amandrewducker
About two months ago Gideon discovered Mario Odyssey. He played ¾ of
it with me, and then restarted and played the whole game by himself.
And then followed that up by playing all of Kirby and the Forgotten Land.
And then, this afternoon, discovered that we have a PS4. So now we're
playing The Last Guardian. He is delighted by his pet dog-dragon.
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Mar. 7th, 2026 09:12 amandrewducker
Last Sunday Sophia threw up.
She spent Monday and Tuesday with a fever, and then Wednesday clearly feeling better but not well enough to go to school.
She was mostly either asleep or watching videos. I worked at home on the Monday, when she mostly slept.
On Tuesday I had to work from the office, which is when Jane had to deal with a lot of...demands.
And then I worked at home on Wednesday, although I did drop-off and pick-up. She continued to have demands, and we split them as best we could, depending on who had meetings when.
And then by Thursday she was feeling much better, and made it in to
school for World Book Day, where she was Sophie from the BFG (pyjamas
and drawn-on glasses). And since then she's thankfully been fine.
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Arena
Mar. 6th, 2026 09:19 pmranunculusMy first chore today was to send off the information my tax guy needs for the part of the Ranch that is held as a corporation. Corporate taxes are due March 15, not April 15. Sigh.
This afternoon I took the tractor down to the arena and spent a lot of time going in tight circles as fast as I could. According to someone I talked to that is the secret for leveling out an arena. My arena had big lumps in it where truck loads of sand were dumped. Over time the lumps have gotten better, but it has been easy to see that it was far from flat. The circles seems to have worked, the arena looks a lot better, but then it always looks better after it has been all stirred up and the footing is soft. Leslie Miller was there, she came to camp for the weekend. So were Glen and Alice. They all helped first clear the arena so I could work it up, and then set for this weekend's Obstacle Practice. It was fun up until I had to race back to the house to meet Denise who came and trimmed Firefly's feet.
Off early tomorrow to finish setup and get ready to greet riders. Only 5 coming Sat and 7 on Sun.
This afternoon I took the tractor down to the arena and spent a lot of time going in tight circles as fast as I could. According to someone I talked to that is the secret for leveling out an arena. My arena had big lumps in it where truck loads of sand were dumped. Over time the lumps have gotten better, but it has been easy to see that it was far from flat. The circles seems to have worked, the arena looks a lot better, but then it always looks better after it has been all stirred up and the footing is soft. Leslie Miller was there, she came to camp for the weekend. So were Glen and Alice. They all helped first clear the arena so I could work it up, and then set for this weekend's Obstacle Practice. It was fun up until I had to race back to the house to meet Denise who came and trimmed Firefly's feet.
Off early tomorrow to finish setup and get ready to greet riders. Only 5 coming Sat and 7 on Sun.
As one of life's petty problems goes
Mar. 6th, 2026 09:15 pmconulyI'm worried I lost my kindle when I misplaced my red bag in which everything is. Well, not everything, but perhaps my kindle. Or maybe not. My kindle might be under my bed. If it's not under my bed, I'll have to replace it sooner or later. I'm a bit wary of looking and finding out one way or another.
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