I had intended to go to St Nicks today and help with some coppicing, but Gill wasn't feeling too brilliant so I decided to stay closer to home and do some work in the garden, chainsawing and compost bin filling, harvesting artichokes, tidying.
I popped round to the bread shop, and after lunch went into town to put in a cheque and find a 'seasonal gift' for the family.
I came back via Richard at Country Fresh, and made a really good nutloaf, with equal amounts of breadcrumbs and grated parsnip. I also put all the dried red and yellow pepper in the liquidiser goblet and reduced it all to dust, sieved it so that I had a bowl full of sweet pepper paprika. Melody came to pick up her Suma order, so I gave her a jar of the paprika as a seasonal present. She gave us a bag of foraged nuts, some jam and chocolates.
The nutloaf was delicious. I zoomed into town after tea as I wanted to attend the York Green Party AGM at the Guildhall. I enjoyed this. Then I visited Anna as she hires out TENS machines and I borrowed one for Gill. However, I'd asked on Freecycle about one and I had an offer there too.
I enjoyed a science programme quite late into the night, and a nice facebook chat with my friend Lisa. She is fun.
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An earlyish start as I was due to take our eldest round to Maria, our biochemist friend who coaches and teaches, and has agreed to do science for an hour a week as part of his home schooling. I had told him that I'd be happy to go round with him, to sit in with him if he wanted, or to stay in Maria's house. In the end, I sat downstairs for the hour, read my NewScientist and dozed. Our lad had a good session, mainly planning the forthcoming weeks.
I went into town to meet my new friend Lisa, whom I've had loads of chats with on facebook, and we have a shared music taste (Talking Heads, dance music, etc) but we'd never met, until today. So we went to El Piano and after that, I parked my bike and we walked down to the Millennium Bridge, and then back into town the other side of the river. I was really pleased to meet her, and I'm happy to have found another friend.
I cycled home for a late lunch via Country Fresh, and then realised I'd forgotten to do one of the jobs I'd meant to do in town; paying in a cheque and some cash o our Suma account, as we're doing an order next week. So I cycled back into town, did the Co-op bank stuff, then went to Alligator to pick up their compostables, and by the time I got home it was dark.
My next thing was to walk down to Heslington with our eldest, as Simon had offered to do a regular class about computer graphics, whilst his son is out at Scouts. I came back via a logpile a student had alerted me to, and then I did another trip to it, before going to get our son at 8. He had really enjoyed the computer graphics workshop. He has a real aptitude for the subject, apparently. We walked up to the logpile and collected a third trailer load, and walked home, chatting. Nice.
Later, I collected a fourth load, then had a wood-fired bath and found my train times and destination for tomorrow. Early start, so a bit earlier to bed than usual.
I went into town to meet my new friend Lisa, whom I've had loads of chats with on facebook, and we have a shared music taste (Talking Heads, dance music, etc) but we'd never met, until today. So we went to El Piano and after that, I parked my bike and we walked down to the Millennium Bridge, and then back into town the other side of the river. I was really pleased to meet her, and I'm happy to have found another friend.
I cycled home for a late lunch via Country Fresh, and then realised I'd forgotten to do one of the jobs I'd meant to do in town; paying in a cheque and some cash o our Suma account, as we're doing an order next week. So I cycled back into town, did the Co-op bank stuff, then went to Alligator to pick up their compostables, and by the time I got home it was dark.
My next thing was to walk down to Heslington with our eldest, as Simon had offered to do a regular class about computer graphics, whilst his son is out at Scouts. I came back via a logpile a student had alerted me to, and then I did another trip to it, before going to get our son at 8. He had really enjoyed the computer graphics workshop. He has a real aptitude for the subject, apparently. We walked up to the logpile and collected a third trailer load, and walked home, chatting. Nice.
Later, I collected a fourth load, then had a wood-fired bath and found my train times and destination for tomorrow. Early start, so a bit earlier to bed than usual.
