As much as I want to feel offended you’re quite right :)

Heading to a dnb/jungle/dubstep gig tonight. Gonna see how many lemons I can give away.

Just some rando handing out lemons to randos.

Used to do it in the before times and they all went so keen to see if that still holds.

Queen of Sheba

Eee that was my old abbys name.

She also enjoyed heights to the extent she’d make sure you were looking and jump off the roof (2nd floor) for sport.

Definitely! Tastes just as good :)

Prawn gyoza and lots of goon.

Dipping sauce will be equal parts soy and rice wine vinegar, splash of sesame oil and chilli flakes.

ooh that is a trick I haven’t heard of!

I have a lot of panko, squid, oil, flour but no eggs :(

So the squid will be frozen until the panic bakers come to their senses and settle down. I just need 1. Seriously the egg section feels like the beginning of the rona.

Day 7 of the lemon tree thorn accident. That tree should be weaponised, finger is still blistering.

It’d be completely demoralising.

There you are standing in the field, bombs going off left right. Tinnitus drowning out the aural horror… Then some fuck comes at you brandishing a lemon tree branch. You need to think quickly, this is life or death. First thought is what type of lemon… Meyer? With those sweet floral undertones… Lisbon? How thick is the pith? Would it make good limoncello? Are they really worth $1.19ea at woolies?

Before you can appraise the lemon and with various recipes flashing before your eyes it’s too late. You’ve been struck!

You return to base, seemingly with a minor injury. Your comrades laughing at you… but over the next few days their laughter subsides into deep pity watching you try and delicately put your right shoe on without using your normal finger.

There is a ghost on my stovetop.

Some oven dude came out to fix a burner a few days ago. He fixed the burner, but fucked another burner and igniter (sparky things).

On two of the burners, when you turn it down, then back up, all the igniters start sparking and doesn’t stop. Very odd. turns out if one igniter isn’t sparking, they all spark as a safety thing so there’s no explosion.

Took some methylated spirits to the sparky things which helped but the big trick was re-sparking, so when they all start going off, just push one of the burners’ dial and it stops. Never seen that before.

Oven dude was gonna hit me for a few hundred just to have another look even though he didn’t do it right.

So, happy to get it going again without any more hassle.

Fuck that oven guy though.

All those cold swims paid off last night.

I’m in a house built in 1910 with no insulation, sisalation etc. Slept with the windows open and felt nothing.

Would’ve burned through a lot of previous midnight snacks it’s basically cheating.

So in this weather we switch from steamed dims sims to deep fried dim sims because it’d be a health hazard if the blood wasn’t loaded up with stuff to burn.

So the science is true: Get in cold water = can deep fry shit.

If this shit impacts overwintering of my chillis I’m gonna write a stern letter. To someone.

I was thinking ‘o’, but it turns out that’s a similar but different thing in the UK which I’ve never heard of before.

Chicken parm….i…a…y…u

That should set the cat amongst the pigeons chickens

Got done by a lemon tree thorn a few days ago. Tiny little prick but it’s really puffed up. Headed over to Dr. google and learnt a new word:

Phytophotodermatitis, where when you get done, then expose it to UVA it flares up. Most common from lemon trees apparently.

Little fucker packs a punch. I had no idea.

I will wear gloves next time.

Sounds like he’s been… bounced.

I wouldn’t jump on that.

Before you know it you’ll be reverse mortgaging for a second floor extension and then cat will be asking for help to get down.

ooh nicely done!

I just use paper towel (2-3 layers) in a colander over a bowl. Slowly drips through. Seems to work and not much mess.

Super deep sleep last night.

Also didn’t get any afterdrop after the swim last night. Puts monocle on… One theory is that afterdrop happens when your core tries to continue to warm up peripherals (due to peripheral vasoconstriction from the cold).

So the experiment is what happens if you dilate them blood tubes with chilli before jumping in. Body wants to restrict blood to limbs but can’t, so core temp drops more quickly, but that activates the trusty brown fat (BAT). The idea is to see if chilli can reduce the symptoms of mild hypothermia (mainly shivering and lethargy) by inducing it before jumping in.

Seems counter-intuitive af BUT not the first person to think of it

“Capsaicinoids have another advantage in that they could be administered to patients in the field as an initial response or could even be used in combination with physical cooling methods to reduce the need for sedatives and muscle relaxants and create a stable, more controllable hypothermia in people.”

Thank you for reading my pseudo probably incorrect scientific report.

treat me like crap

Get them to do the washing up, sit there silence judging them :) With your eyes “that’s not where that goes”.