Backdating, because I wasn't even home to finish blogging the year :)
Saturday. Boxing Day. Ok sleep I think. Bits and pieces of housework in the morning, alternating between that and making the Shanghai Lego set Stu got me for Christmas. Downloaded Python, reverted to an older version of numpy (pip uninstall numpy / pip install numpy==1.19.3), then installed Simple Photo Gallery. It does mostly what I want to do with it, although pulling a little more exif data would have been useful. I don't know *anything* about Python, so not sure if I could do it myself. Leftovers for dinner then more of the Mandalorian documentary. We were going to have the failed pavlova anyway, but it hadn't dried properly and after two days the whole bottom of it had this horrible black mould all over it. Gross. Then Stu broke one of my pretty green Tupperware bowls (trying to cut through the base of the cheesecake, and to be fair those bowls are probably fifty years old) and the whole evening made me have a sad. Went and watched the Poseidon remake which was pretty lame. If you put aside the fact that cruise ships just won't stay capsized like that, as well as a zillion other plot holes and problems (eg, those bow thrusters would NOT be running, neither would all the ships lights, but granted you do need light so you can *see* the movie), my biggest gripes were that you don't actually get to know or care about any of the characters before the wave hits (turns out a good twenty minutes of scenes where you get to know them were cut from the movie), and the North Atlantic in the middle of winter is freezing cold - they would have all died of hypothermia with the amount of time they spent in the water. Just sayin.
Sunday. Couldn't get to sleep for ages. #grunt. Puttered through the todo list, mostly houseworky type stuff. In the afternoon I pulled apart the scanner to try and clean under the glass. This dude had a really helpful guide on how to pull it apart. Sadly even after two attempts, there's still dust on the underside of the glass. I really don't know what to do to get it clean. Stu cooked sausages and zucchini for dinner.
Monday. In an attempt to have a holiday I finished the That's Insulting jigsaw, and built Neil's ISS Lego set. Watched the second last episode of The Queen's Gambit in the evening.
Tuesday. Tried to catch up on photo processing and blogging. Did our food shopping at lunch time, then came home and cooked up a kilo of mince with onion, garlic and bacon, and also a batch of honey mustard chicken (with added peas/corn/carrots) and rice.
Straight after I finished cooking, went and met up with Doc and a bunch of peeps for drinks at the George which was all very pleasant.
Came home and used some of the mince to make up One Pan Dinner for dinner. Finished The Queen's Gambit in the evening - very well done show, we both really enjoyed it, much more than Discovery.
Wednesday. Stu was restless and couldn't get to sleep, and eventually that woke me up and I was awake for two or three hours. Hurrah. So Wednesday was a zombie day. Pretty much a nothing day. I did patch my laptop and backup my computer before heading out to the club in the afternoon. Too tired to do anything much, but did sand off the top of this little chest of drawers (I should have taken a before photo).
Had a swim with the sweetie, then had a drink with some of the peeps that were out there, before heading back to the van for dinner (leftover honey mustard chicken) and an early night.
Thursday. New Years Eve. Slept quite well. Pottered about the van in the morning. Started a paint by numbers set I got myself for Christmas. Around lunch time I finished off the first tin of primer and got more of the cabinetry, and the top of the drawers, primed with a first coat. Checked to make sure we could light a fire, and burnt a big pile of leaves and bark from around our van in the fire pit. After all that hot work we then went and had a swim. I rescued this bee but then had to wait for ages for her to dry herself off (I didn't want to poke her to get off, cause that's when they sting you). Eventually got out of the pool and was able to get her off.
And hey look! Royal Bluebells!
I'll save the evening for a New Years Eve post.
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