Shwmae from the banks of the river Lleidi!
Did you know the Blues Brothers have a cameo in Sister Act!?
It blew my mind when I found out. Imagine that potential
shared universe. We have been cheated as a society by not having a Blues
Brothers-Sister Act crossover movie!
Another fascinating thing I recently learned, not
everyone has an internal monologue. I just cannot process how that works.
As I’m typing this I can hear it in my head. How can these ‘others’ function? But
the real surprise is that they don’t realise that some people have an actual
inner voice. We’re all just farting around not realising that some people have
actual voices in their heads and some just have visual concepts. It stunned me
almost as much as the Cameo fact.
Sticking with learning new and vital information, you should
absolutely mute
these words on Twitter. You know all those annoying tweets that tell you
who’s liking what tweet or who follows who? Muting the words on that list gets
rid of all that. Now we just need to get rid of the Nazis on there. You can
also use this app to disable
retweets en masse. I’m half and half about doing it, I tend to use twitter
for news gathering and connecting to subjects that are interesting to me. So
some of the accounts I follow are mostly just retweeting. It would make an
interesting experiment. Hmmm.
And just for shits and giggles here are some awesome facts
about ravens.
While I’m just throwing links at you, check out the web
comic Vattu by Evan Dham. I can’t
remember how it came across my path but I’d planned to read a few pages every
so often and work my way through it. I ended up burning through about 900 odd
pages in a few hours of absolutely well spent reading. I love the world building, it feels so much
bigger and lived in than the narrative you’re following which makes you want to
see more and designs for all the different races are brilliant and fascinating.
This is another week that seems to have flown by. I battened
down the hatches for storm Dennis and basically hid in the kitchen all weekend,
I made a massive batch of Jambalaya as well as two streak and mushroom pies.
The gravy in the pies is a secret recipe that I’ve perfected over the last few
years. The diced steak and chestnut mushrooms marinate in it for at least two
hours. Then it’s all about the quality of the hot water crust, you have to work
ninja quick before the dough can cool.
Pro tip: if you want the best hot water crust pastry add a
vegetable stock cube and a splash of Worcester sauce to the hot water. The perfect gravy you have to figure out on
your own.
After Storm Dennis had done it’s think I was able to get out
into the garden.
My poor bloody shallots. Between all the rain and the cat
that I suspect is waging a war against me, they have had a hammering. I pray to
the great shallot in the sky that they will recover.
I also seeded up some wild garlic and savoury. They’ll go in
the troughs that run along the front of the veg beds, also seeded the first of
the radish crop as well as some spring onions.
I just hope they survive the next wave of storms. And
apparently there’s the possibility of snow in mis
Mawrth a mis Ebrill.
I’ve got some potatoes chitting on a window sill at
the moment and I would like the correct weather to plant them in next month
please. I'm going to try a bit of Keyhole gardening with them and see how that goes.
I’m currently hoping March has enough dry days so I can do
something for Solarpunk Action
Week. And just in case you’re wondering what Solarpunk is. There’s a
solid Solarpunk community on Tumblr, it’s brilliantly positive and with tons of
ideas and advice on sustainability and just being environmentally conscious. I
like that it is grounded in the benefits of actions big and small, whether that’s
just having an insect hotel in your garden or going full on urban farming.
Once the garden is fully operational I’m thinking about
starting some kind of Solarpunk Cymru group, a little network for seed
swapping, advice, etc. It just has to stop raining first.
Changing track to growth of a personal nature, the gym
sessions are going really well. Still at thirty minutes cardio, thirty minutes
strength training. I’ve upped the Kg I’m lifting and have managed to shed 3Kg
which I think is about half a stone in old money. Which I’m happy with, that
being said my weighing scales have a 3Kg margin so I could have lost anything
0.01Kg to 3Kg. Still, it’s progress.
Sticking with progress, I am now in the Pearl League on
Duolingo. It was another stunning last minute fight, knocking some other poor
sod back for another week.
As I’ve mentioned previously I have a backlog of newsletters
that I’m working my way through, most of the links in this post were curated
from some that I’ve read this week. I’ve managed to get the number down from
277 to 243.
Okay, I think I’m done for this week. Before I sign off, if
you could check out Michael Sheen’s Go Fund Me
raising money for those parts of Wales most effected by Storm Dennis and maybe
consider making a donation that would be awesome.
Brave heart, dear friends and don’t let the bastards grind
you down.
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