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How is it that when the sun is shining and has driven the frost off the fallen leaves and the lawnmower battery is charged and you found your heatholder socks and unearthed the thermo wellies from under the stairs and you go outside to chaff(?) everything up - and it's raining?

... this is a case of 'oh, I still have a pumpkin and a mango... and chestnuts'
*cooks and purees*
'hm, needs more structure'
*adds some millet*
*tastes*
'oh, that Morroccan tajine spice should work great with this!'

... and it did!

NOMNOM

Merry Reformation Day!



🎃

( And as ao3 is down... )

stolen from silvan_lady!

HOW SHELTERED HAS YOUR LIFE BEEN?
Place a X by everything you have NOT done! Just for fun! Someone please play.

Been divorced X
Been to Disney World
Been to Disneyland ~ um, there's a difference? I have been to some Disney thing

Skipped school
Been to Canada
Ridden in an ambulance
Been to Hawaii
Been to Las Vegas
Been to Texas
Visited Mexico
Been to the Bahamas ~ been to the Caribbean, does that count?
Seen Grand Canyon in person
Been on a ferry boat
Flown in a helicopter
Sung in the rain
Been to California
Been to New York
Played in band/chorus X
Sung in Church/School Choir X ~ preventing sanity damage by not doing any of the singing stuff!
Sung karaoke X

Laughed so much I cried
Caught a snowflake on my tongue
Had/Have children X No. Just No.
Had/Have a pet
Been skiing/sledding on a big hill
Ridden on a motorcycle X
Been to a drive-in movie X
Ridden an elephant or camel
Ridden a horse
Been on TV
Stayed in the hospital
Donated blood or plasma
Gotten a piercing X
Driven a stick shift vehicle
Gotten a speeding ticket
Gotten stitches or staples
Traveled alone
Been zip lining
Been to another country
Shot a gun X
Gotten a tattoo

... not very sheltered!

Stopped overnight at that Swiss campground next to the nice lake, had a swim, next day drove down to Genova.
Heavy traffic, stop-and-go around Milano (seeing the Olymic traffic signs at Como and Milano exits made me smile), nothing serious. But I'm glad I break up the drive like that, less stress.

Genova, boarding, cabin. No wifi.
...
WTF? No wifi???
Talked to reception, nope, no wifi.
I NEED A BOOK! *SCRAMBLES BACK TO THE CADDY TO GET ONE* (made it just before they closed the garage for passage)

Arrived on Sardinia on Friday morning, the day before the SwimTrek started, because there is a nice outdoor market on Frday mornings in Palau.
Yes, there are the ubiquitous stalls selling junk, but also farmers with fruit and veg, locally grown cork and wood carvings, cheese and cured meats, pottery, fabrics...

( pics )

So, I'm a person who has close contact with all kinds of liquids... water, milk, mud, liquid manure, the works, so I have a waterproof mobile (and have dropped it into my bathtub when reading in the bath, as well as washing it with the dishes).

( But. )

(send from a campground in Switzerland)
((edit: ah, there's better wifi on the ferry))