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A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog that has just one of his eyes visible and none of his body while he stares at me from around the entrance to our hallway.

Beanie is on two different types of anti-anxiety medicine, which thankfully he's very happy to have with a piece of cheese, no questions asked. He knows the sound of the pill box and cutter and the rustle of the plastic around the sliced cheese and normally he'll wander down from wherever he is and come and sit in the kitchen while I prepare it.

Occasionally though, he decides he's going to be extremely creepy and will stare at me with just one eye from around the corner.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 19 June 2022, 20:33

A screenshot of a notification from my Apple Watch saying I hit a 1000-day move streak.

And now, I've just hit a 1000-day move streak on my Apple Watch! That's every single full day since I got my Watch at the end of September in 2019. 😁

(It's also a thousand fully-closed exercise rings, and will be a thousand fully-closed standing rings in two hours time as well.)

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Posted on 19 June 2022, 17:11

A photo of two slices of rustic-looking bread lying open-faced on a plate, covered in slices of tomato with cooked mushrooms on top and little chunks of cheddar cheese on top of that.

A photo of two cooling racks with small-ish round golden-brown cookies on top.

What a delicious day that was. Mushrooms cooked in sage, rosemary, and garlic with cooked tomatoes on my home-made bread, with sharp cheddar cheese sprinkled on top for lunch, then I made miso chocolate chip cookies this afternoon.

our house cookies darkroom food portrait mode bread mushrooms

Posted on 19 June 2022, 17:05

A photo of four Warhammer 40,000 miniatures. They're all regular human troops with big armour and various guns, but the stock male heads have been replaced with third-party female ones from a company called Statuesque Miniatures. The skin colour is very dark but with really nice subtle shading, and the one I called out with the goggles has them pulled up on her forehead. The goggles have a really nice shade going from very dark green down to a lighter green so it looks like they're some sort of futuristic night vision or something.

It took far too long, but the first four Scions of my converted all-women Kill Team squad are done! Absolutely stoked with how well they came out, in particular the faces as well as the goggles on the one second from the left.

There was absolutely no drybrushing on these at all, but given how much time drybrushing saves and the fact that I've got another nine of these to paint, I'm definitely going back to drybrushing for the larger areas because I want to actually get the rest of these finished some time in the next five years. 😛

lightroom our house warhammer 40k games workshop painting astra militarum statuesque miniatures

Posted on 19 June 2022, 16:13

A photo of a metal contraption that has a skewer through multiple pieces of delicious-looking lamb and is hanging the skewer vertically above a plate of chips.

A photo of a big wine glass except instead of wine it has vanilla bean ice cream that's been blended with Kahlua, and has two straws in it.

A photo of a pale bluey/purpley McLaren supercar parked in a normal-looking concrete underground carpark. It's very low and wide, and is extremely aerodynamic-looking.

We went for our belated fancy anniversary dinner tonight at Meat & Wine Co., the one that was meant to be on our actual wedding anniversary last week but was postponed due to sickness. I got the lamb skewer and chips and followed it up with a Dom Pedro with Kahlua, which is basically just an alcoholic thickshake, and it was gooooooood.

Also, there was a McLaren parked in the carpark. 😳

kristina darkroom food alcohol bella vista skewer mclaren

Posted on 15 June 2022, 21:06

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog sitting up on his haunches staring directly at the side of someone sitting in an office chair at their desk.

Beanie REALLY wants some popcorn.

beanie our house dog darkroom

Posted on 15 June 2022, 16:09

A photo of the (very compact) box that the tripod came in. It's tall and thin, roughly 40cm long and a bit under 9cm wide.

The camera tripod we currently have is "Velbon" brand, I've had it for YEARS and tbh it's not great. It gets the job done but it's not what you'd call sturdy or hugely stable. It wasn't too much of an issue until we got a Peak Design camera strap that has a (quite standardised) plate on the bottom of it that the Velbon doesn't work with. To attach the camera to the tripod we had laboriously unscrew the base plate of the hand strap, screw the tripod attachment into the camera and put it on the tripod, then undo all of that when we were done.

I'd had enough and decided to get the Peak Design Travel Tripod, and man it's impressive. It's WAY more compact than the Velbon, but far sturdier and can go both higher and lower than the Velbon as well, and it's attached by a single ball head so you can adjust it every which way and then just lock it in place and bam! You're good to go.

our house darkroom new toys photography tripod

Posted on 12 June 2022, 19:50

A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread sitting on a cooling rack on a white countertop. The sun is streaming in the window and directly onto them.

A photo of nine individual tupperware containers that each have half rice and half red tomato-based chicken curry with green beans and carrots in it.

Man, today was the day of cooking. First these two round loafy bois, then NINE serves of curry for leftover lunches.

our house darkroom food portrait mode bread curry

Posted on 12 June 2022, 18:57

Achievement unlocked: watched Life of Brian with the daughter. 🎉

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Posted on 11 June 2022, 22:38

A photo of a big white rectangular casserole dish with food in it, but you can't make out what's underneath the crunchy golden brown panko breadcrumb topping. It looks amazing though.

A photo of the tuna mornay in a bowl. Here you can see that underneath the topping it consists of spiral pasta with chunks of tuna and pieces of corn in a thick white sauce.

We made the tuna mornay recipe from Recipe Tin Eats for dinner tonight, and OMG IT WAS EPIC.

I'm not quite sure how she decided it was ten minutes of prep because it took us about fifty, with a whole lot of mess, but holy crap was it worth it! Just absolutely delicious.

our house darkroom food portrait mode tuna mornay

Posted on 11 June 2022, 20:13