Depressed, cold and sore. A rotten day, physically. My crook knee just wouldn't respond to any treatment and wearing the elastic support brace seemed to make things worse. I'm at home, in bed with the convection heater warming the room and the electric blanket doing the same for me.
In six days God created heaven and earth and everything therein. On the seventh
day while he rested, the cat he'd also created walked over his keyboard.
Long story short, here we are.
@variablepulserate My sister and I decided to hit Mum's rhubarb patch in Dad's orchard/vegetable garden with a ride-on mower. This patch was around 2 square metres in area and we mowed the damned space down to ground level, literally. Scraps of rhubarb and fine soil particles flew everywhere.
I don't know quite what we were thinking. The misbegotten horror of a plant patch regrew to an even greater height and density than previously
// @coopey
Hitched up my soundbar to the TV and also selected the OG HomePod stereo pair to play Elton John's Funeral For A Friend track really loudly. This track is the opening one for the almost 50 year old Goodbye Yellow Brick Road album, released in May of 1973.
Why play such a track?
Because it was appropriate, I'd just returned home from the funeral of a friend.
@coopey It's entirely possible, I'm usually no great fan of gin, either. On the weekend I chanced upon a gin-maker's stall at a local festival and he was allowing three free samples. The ginger and rhubarb-infused one was a clear favourite and really smooth in the gullet with a hint of heat from the ginger.
My knee, back and balance issues don't allow me to walk very far in one go. Today I'm attending a funeral a mere 300 metres from my front door and I'll be giving my new side-folding rollator walker a try-out . With its wheels flipped up (rears through 90º, fronts through 180º) it's really very compact in the storage mode. Its design encourages users to take a very upright stance when using it too.
@coopey I share your hatred of this vegetable, however infused into gin or schnapps, it's quite nice.
I have just ordered a small bag of ground and roasted wattleseeds. The product is used as a caffeine-free coffee substitute with a coffee/chocolate/hazelnut flavour profile. Unlike coffee, the used grounds can be utilised further to flavour dairy desserts and baked goods such a cookies or breads.