Thread 4 - TalkExiles: "The Planet Goes On Being Round"

[Kucinghitam]

Continuation of previous lifeboat threads 1 & 2 & 3.

Gather here all ye refugees from the JTT Flat Earth Society, welcome to the reassuringly oblate spheroid of MN! Ye all already know the answers to the questions "How the heck do I format my post?" "Why can't I edit my typos?" "What do those acronyms mean?" and most importantly, "Where is everybody that I used to know?"

So really we're all here just to chat randomly.

Smallest cat revelling in hair tie obssession

Oh superb cat action!!

Can I just say, I love seeing all the photos and getting the little chatty updates about what everyone has been up to?

I was never on the WWYDLN thread before, which I guess was sort of equivalent?

But this thread has chatty updates and pictures! It’s awesome 😎

Got up, had a coffee and took the -dustbin- dog for a walk, on which, she managed to snaffle loads of large lumps (different locations) of festering crap.

I've been out shopping with No 1 daughter, to buy powdered milk, she's making Japanese Milk Bread.

www.carolinescooking.com/japanese-milk-bread/

And I've been burning wood outside, in a brazier. Scraps from the work on the bathroom.

And dossing around here.

The photos are a definite upgrade.

I've just been out in the garden. Repotted the pink blueberries and planted the last of the spring bulbs in the front lawn. Last year's lawn bulbs are starting to come up, with the first buds on a few of the crocuses.

I sometimes use tangzhong for normal bread. It does make a lovely loaf.

Definitely will have a go at the Japanese milk bread, will make a change from sourdough. Maybe tomorrow.

Oh now I have spring flower envy! Even on the mildest of winters we don't get crocuses until mid-March, and sometimes not until mid-April.

Lovely photographs!

I've been looking back at pictures I took in April 2020 and came across a couple from work. The spring was so beautiful that year with clear skies and fresh air. It was glorious and so, so quiet.

This rosemary put up the most delightfully curly stem and the white cherry blossom against the blue sky was so lovely.

Ooh Japanese milk bread. I made a couple of Japanese cheesecakes last year, quite odd but ultimately decided I liked them a lot!

I’ve been studying statistics this morning, not my favourite subject not helped by feeling a bit ill the last few days and having a blinding headache. My friend and I visited a Stuffed Animal and Skeletons museum earlier in the week, hoping for a quiet wander but they were also hosting a group of frenetic school children at the time. He’s feeling unwell too so think that may have been the culprit.

Gorgeous cherry blossom. Spring is my favourite time of year. Crocuses, cherry blossom and magnolia, nothing beats it.

The Dublin version of that museum is called 'the dead zoo'.

Haha I like the Dead Zoo.

I have the bestest Stuffed Animal and Skeleton (and divers other mad stuff) Museum near me.

www.horniman.ac.uk

@CyanCrystalViolet, shame your quiet trip out was spoiled. We had similar when we visited the Staffordshire Hoard at the museum in Birmingham. I wanted to linger over the displays and think about them in silence but then a crowd of shouty teens on a school trip showed up.

Spring is my favourite time of year. Crocuses, cherry blossom and magnolia, nothing beats it.

That's how I feel too. When the first flowers bloom and the sun shines through the new red foliage unfurling on roses, everything seems to glow and it makes me want to shriek with the thrill of it. If I was a dog, I'd be mad running.

I think they were 8 or so, it wasn’t too bad. Amidst the chaos they did actually seem quite interested, running around shouting LOOK WHAT I WRIT.

I don’t have any photos of Spring 2020 on this phone but here’s a few from 2021, including me feeding a robin

For Deads, there’s also the excellent Natural History Museum branch in Tring, Hertfordshire.

Gorgeous spring flowers! It’s my favourite time of year. All that promise in the air. I wonder what will have sprouted by the time I get back.

Lovely pics, @CyanCrystalViolet. Robins are the best.

Left the cupboard door open for ten seconds, turned around and was met with this.

I hope you're now working on the cat flap in the door, the cushion for the shelf, the little ladder to facilitate access to the higher levels . . .

Pike: Erm...

Cat: Wot you 'kin lookin' at?

He's a murderous little shit. In one day since being let out of the house he has killed one fledgling and one mole.

A mole? Oh no!

This tree was in the garden of the house we moved out of in 2018. I loved it every spring but the plot was one and a half acres and it just got too much to keep up. The current garden is a good deal smaller. We could probably fit our current house lot eight times into that lot.