Apple muncher's number crunching

Karmacat

Hope dc enjoyed themselves today and yes, pool splashiness is always to be encouraged    

And wow, you did a lot of gardening!  Good stuff there  

apple_muncher

Emptied out some more pesky non-germinating potfuls this morning and repotted a couple of plants that are already growing.

Did a quick gym visit - I've tweaked my left hip joint. Did it first during the handstands part of a recent workout. Not on the actual handstand, but when re-setting my stance for another handstand. And since then, it has tweaked at me a few times just when walking along, pesky thing. So today I went and did a 30 min incline walk (@10% ish), and then tried skipping. Not a good idea, so I stopped. Took some ibu when home, washed down with a good strong coffee for good measure.

2 bags of garden waste found a new home at the tip.

Dc's hair is now a stronger shade of blue. Mine got slathered in pink. Boy, was it a strong pink on my head! Like dark fuchsia pink!!! But it mostly washed out and is more subtle now. Phew. And dc also cut my hair a bit!

We popped over to return some bks to dc's friend. And came away with 4 more!

Overall, my dc is much happier and more peaceful than of late. 'of late' meaning the last few years, really. Yep, still has huuuge anxiety issues, but is currently on a fairly even keep. Long may it last.

apple_muncher

The paddling pool is inflated and has some water in it ready for tomorrow. It sits on a slight slope, so takes more bucketfuls to fill to a useable level.

f0xh0les

This weather most definitely calls for a paddling pool !

CathT

Wishing we had a paddling pool right now! Tempted to go and sit by a river today.

DC hair sounds fabulous and good to hear they are feeling more settled and happy. 

apple_muncher

I have put the pool to good use today😎.

Dh was doing PA at ch and I was leading kids Klub so we were out of the house by 8.30. Dc stayed home and seems to have just sat and chilled out and read all day!

Dh went to W1ckes and got me a piece of 6x2 trellis this afternoon, and we put it up along the top of the fence (but with extra bits of wood to screw it into the 4x4 uprights rather than to the flimsy panel) and I threaded some of the rampant honeysuckle through it. Already, we have a lot more privacy from the neighbours there, without putting up a solid barrier 😀.

I'm working through a book called 'A year to clear' and must be about 30 days in so far. It really suits me and seems to be working for me. Phew! Possible aided by now being off school, but hey! who cares, if it's working. Tomorrow I want to write my list of 'tolerances' (those things we just put up with and put off doing) as it is in danger of becoming a tolerance itself as I keep delaying writing it!!!!

V glad that a slight breeze has started and that it is cooler than before. Also glad that tomorrow is due to be a few degrees cooler than today - we're meeting a friend of dc's in the park at 1.30 for them to skateboard together.

Karmacat

The book sounds very interesting!  And ooh, skateboarding - isn't it part of the Olympics for the first time?  And three world class British athletes in it?  Aged 12, 13 and 14!!!

apple_muncher

You are right, karma, about those skateboarders. And it being an Olympic sport. We randomly came across the skateboarding nationals on channel 64 around Easter and recorded it. And those girl skaters were there too!

Liddle has been visited this morning, and two f+v boxes acquired:

450g blueberries

24 potatoes of varying sizes

17 satsumas or similar

10 bananas

8 aubergines (hmmm, need tasty ideas as not a great fan. If only f0xh0les lived nearer...)

6carrots

5 mini peppers

2 lemons

2 pears

2 big gem style lettuces

2smallish Swede

2 nectarines

2 onions

1 tomato

Not too shabby!!!

apple_muncher

I found a neighbour who took all the aubergines. Yay!!!

f0xh0les

You would be my favourite neightbour apple, you would, you would, you would!

We had a miso noodle salad yesterday with fried aubergine slices, it was Delicioso  - as Dora would say.

Still have 2 left which is enough for a fatteh (garlic tahini yogurt sauce, with pomegranate molasses, pomegranate seeds, fried pitta slices layered with aubergine slices - divine!). 

It is also nice on a bbq if you make a maple syrup and harissa marinade to paint on thin slices.  Crisps up like a slice of bacon  and becomes chewy.  Magic stuff.