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A photo of six chicken skewers being cooked on the barbecue. They've already been flipped over so the top side of them is nice and brown and they look delicious. Underneath the barbecue, the flames are quite orange.

Aw yeah, using our barbecue for the first time in probably six months. Chicken that's been marinated in miso, soy sauce, rice wine vinegar, and sesame oil. We had it with rice and green beans and it was bloody delicious.

Posted on 16 October 2021, 18:53

A photo of a small fancy glass with rum in it and a single big ice cube.

Kristina bought me a set of ice cube trays that make REALLY BIG ice cubes, so I'm having a rum Old Fashioned with one and it's excellent.

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Posted on 15 October 2021, 21:05

A photo of a corner of our garage with all of our new garden equipment mounted on the wall with hooks: the "Power Head" that holds the battery for the edger, hedge trimmer, and line trimmer attachments, as well as the leaf blower. There's also a small fire extinguisher, and small garden fork and spade.

A photo of the inside side wall of our garage with a bunch of vertically-hanging hooks attached to two wooden planks up near the ceiling. There's various tools hanging off them (a couple of saws, a couple of clamps, a level, bolt cutters, a broom, etc.).

That was an excellent last mental-health-Friday off. Got all the new garden equipment (sans mower) mounted tidily on the wall in the garage, and also put in a bunch of new hooks in on the other side to similarly neaten up the stuff that was hanging there.

I also took the opportunity to take the new blower for a spin to clean the floor of the garage out a bit. It's got a "Turbo" button, and HOO BOY am I glad I had the arm strap attached because it was actively pushing backwards against me!

our house gardening darkroom tidying and rearranging

Posted on 15 October 2021, 19:16

REALLY hoping we don't end up with smashed solar panels after this storm...

(Update: they were fine!)

our house video storm

Posted on 14 October 2021, 16:18

A photo of a BUNCH of big boxes containing all battery-powered equipment: lawn mower, blower, plus an edger, hedge trimmer, and line trimmer attachment and the head they attach onto. Also a shoulder strap and a pair of polarised protective glasses.

We've also gone whole-hog and replaced ALL of our outdoor gardening equipment with battery-powered stuff from a company called EGO. It's apparently extremely well-regarded and is as good as petrol so I'm keen to see how it goes.

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Posted on 12 October 2021, 13:00

A photo of the box of the Warhammer Underworlds warband "The Grymwatch", which are essentially zombies. Also a bunch of little different coloured tufts of grass that are designed to stick onto a miniature's base and add visual interest, and a tub of "muddy ground" brown texture paint, also for basing.

I'm excited to see what interesting things I can do with these little basing grass tufts and the "muddy ground" texture! Got a few ideas already, and definitely no lack of miniatures on which to use them. And I decided to pick up the Grymwatch having seen someone do a WAY cooler paint job with them than the standard one.

our house darkroom games workshop painting warhammer underworlds beastgrave the grymwatch new miniatures

Posted on 12 October 2021, 12:56

A photo of a not-insignificantly-sized dinner plate that's ENTIRELY covered with food: two eggs on a large piece of sourdough, bacon, mushroom, tomato, haloumi, hashbrowns, sausages, and baked beans.

I decided to treat myself to an all-day breakfast from our local café. It was, uh, a lot more food than I was expecting it to be.

our house darkroom food portrait mode bread bacon eggs mushrooms tomato hash browns haloumi sausages

Posted on 8 October 2021, 12:53

A photo of a small scruffy blonde dog lying on the floor with his head underneath the spokes of the base of an office chair that is currently being sat on.

Beanie REALLY likes living dangerously.

beanie our house dog darkroom beanie lying on or under things

Posted on 3 October 2021, 19:40

A photo of the covers of all six of the books in Frank Herbert's "Dune" series.

Huzzah, I now own my very own copies of the Dune series! And hilariously, I can't tell if the "Now a major motion picture" text has been on the first book since David Lynch's version in 1984, or if it's been newly re-added for the movie that just came out. 😛

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Posted on 1 October 2021, 13:57

A photo of a bowl of vanilla ice cream with whipped cream on top, and hot chocolate fudge and sprinkles on top of that.

An afternoon treat.

our house darkroom food portrait mode ice cream

Posted on 30 September 2021, 13:59