Wednesday, October 27, 2021

Day 300 Update on... Stuff

The penultimate update for the year...

The last few weeks have been absolutely brutal - work has been crazy, we've all suffered a bout of illness (a cold that just won't clear), and too many other things. Basically, it has just sucked.

  • Books: By Day 300 I should expect to have completed 49.315 books. I've finished 46 and am well advanced in two others, so I'm a little more than two books behind. I don't hold out much hope of getting caught up for the ear, but I do expect to complete my allocation on the three sublists that I consider most important, so I'm not too disheartened by that.
  • Weight: There has been some progress here, but it amounts to repeating what I did earlier in the year. This is getting tedious.
  • Blogging: By this point I would have hoped to have posted around 99 times here and 49 or so over on the Imaginarium. The actual totals are 83 and 28, so I'm miles behind, with no prospect of getting caught up - indeed, I think it's more likely that I'll fall further behind than that I'll catch up at all.
  • Redecorating the Spare Room: Done. Additionally, last week I refreshed the paint in the living room, which is both an improvement in general, and also brings it into line with the dining room and, not incidentally, with the various bits of patching that LC had done over the past couple of years (and, indeed, that were the motivation for doing this now).
  • Tadpole #2: Done.

And that's that. This remains a poor showing, but it's in line with the rest of the year.


Monday, October 25, 2021

Experimental Cookery 2021: Lentil Bolognese

Meh (again).

This one came from the box in which some chopped tomatoes were packaged, so it's probably not fair to raise the expectations too high. In any case, the meal was quick and easy to put together, with the bulk of the time taken up with simmering.

And it was okay. Not great, or particularly interesting, but it was at least okay. Once we've finished off the three remaining servings I doubt we'll have it again, but I don't particularly resent the time spent making it.

And that's about that, really.

#45: "The Summer Tree", by Guy Gavriel Kay (a book from The List - nine to go)
#46: "Troubled Blood", by Robert Galbraith

Tuesday, October 05, 2021

Experimental Cookery 2021: Meatball and Pasta Traybake

Meh.

This one came from the Hairy Bikers' "One Pot Wonders". It was quick and easy to put together, and... it was fine. But no more than that - while it was utterly inoffensive I'm afraid there also wasn't anything at all to recommend it.

We won't be having this again. It just didn't inspire.

Who would have thought Jamie Oliver would win the pasta bake contest?

#43: "Firefly: Generations", by Tim Lebbon
#44: "Broken Homes", by Ben Aaronovitch