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Fruit, an update - and some links
Jun. 12th, 2015 10:32 amSummer! I really, really don't like the heat, but oh yes, I love the fruit! Right now, in this very kitchen (and the kitchen update comes later) there are:
Meanwhile, in the kitchen... the floods have gone,and the mysterious well has been utterly transformed; instead of a well, we now have hidden under the floor a neatly tiled (around the edges) miniature Roman bath, and leading from it, an open channel cut down through the floor tiles, with two pipes in it, running away to underneath the sink. Which will be covered over like the bath, they say, with all due dispatch - but I have a gloomy feeling that the covering and retiling is going to wait until they can find tiles to match, the tiles which formerly ran along that bit of the floor having been used to tile the hidden Roman bath, of course. What chance will there be, of tiles to match for a decades-old house? I wait excitedly to find out!
Links, links.... here's two from australia, of very different life-forms:
a video of a joey koala, emerging from its mother's pouch.
and some still photos of an ethereally blue bioluminescent bloom in Tasmania. I especially like the one where someone has walked away across the sand leaving glowing blue footsteps.
Syrena_of_the_lake has curated a second collection of stories from rthstewart's 3SF - this time it's the Wings But No Feet (Dragon!Sherlock) collection - so far six stories are up, and I think about the same number still to come.
When I put up the two for Kangarooverse, by the way, I deleted them from my own 3SF post, which left me two chapters short in what was billed as a six-chapter collection. So I added two more, offering a reason why Susan might have been thought to be no good at schoolwork. (Chapters 5 & 6)
- plums - small, sweet, red plums, but not so sweet as to forget that a plum's essential mission is delivering the tartness hit.
- lychees - fresh! still on the twig
- watermelon - well, watermelon!
- mangoes - which drop free from the tree next door! :)
- and lastly... pineapple! this time, very little ones - just about fist-sized, once peeled (I bought nine!)
Meanwhile, in the kitchen... the floods have gone,and the mysterious well has been utterly transformed; instead of a well, we now have hidden under the floor a neatly tiled (around the edges) miniature Roman bath, and leading from it, an open channel cut down through the floor tiles, with two pipes in it, running away to underneath the sink. Which will be covered over like the bath, they say, with all due dispatch - but I have a gloomy feeling that the covering and retiling is going to wait until they can find tiles to match, the tiles which formerly ran along that bit of the floor having been used to tile the hidden Roman bath, of course. What chance will there be, of tiles to match for a decades-old house? I wait excitedly to find out!
Links, links.... here's two from australia, of very different life-forms:
a video of a joey koala, emerging from its mother's pouch.
and some still photos of an ethereally blue bioluminescent bloom in Tasmania. I especially like the one where someone has walked away across the sand leaving glowing blue footsteps.
Syrena_of_the_lake has curated a second collection of stories from rthstewart's 3SF - this time it's the Wings But No Feet (Dragon!Sherlock) collection - so far six stories are up, and I think about the same number still to come.
When I put up the two for Kangarooverse, by the way, I deleted them from my own 3SF post, which left me two chapters short in what was billed as a six-chapter collection. So I added two more, offering a reason why Susan might have been thought to be no good at schoolwork. (Chapters 5 & 6)
