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Notes from Wednesday 21 January

An array of potatoes that are starting to sprout, laid out on newspaper in a shed.
Fi’s chitting potatoes in the shed. By the early autumn these will have grown into dinner.

Status:

Thought I might be able to do some bits and pieces today but had a slump in the afternoon. On the plus side a friend delivered loads of cardboard for me to shred. Can never have too much shredded cardboard. (It’s a composting thing.)

Yesterday I experimented with putting a grid of six photos in the post and I’m not happy with how it turned out, especially in the email where the formatting was nonexistent, so apologies for that. Will go back to keeping things simple.

Overnight listening:

Reading:

Intriguing:

  • fungal.page - the Wikipedia page for Hypha rendered with a generative font which spreads across the page like fungal mycelia.

Watching:

Telly:

  • University Challenge
  • Hercules the Bear - A Love Story - quite torn as to whether we enjoyed this or not. Filmmakers were strangely uncurious about the ethics of keeping a brown bear as a pet, and the whole thing sings out “the past is a foreign country”, but still a remarkable story about a man in trunks who wrestled a bear.
  • Fallout