The Current War

I saw the Current War's trailer, I thought, "all men", it dropped off from my radar.  Then Sarah thought it would be educational, so we went.  As expected, it was full of men,except much worse than expected, just about all the extras were also men, number to thousands!  There is hardly any science in it to be educational.  People paid to see Cumberbatch, luckily we used a coupon.

Carmichael Implosion

Vanderbilt has been sending a lot of emails to ask alumni and students to watch the implosion of Carmichael 3 and trying to sell some merchandise, which is weird.

Carmichael 3 was a marmite building, a lot of good memories, a lot of bad memories, a lot of hatred were associated with the building, and I am in the 3rd camp. 

I missed the live feed, and I watched it on the weekend afterwards.  They gutted it out well, it has a lot more dusts than normal. I am glad to see the back of it.

Atypical Pizzas

We had a pizza in a Tuscany restaurant, and it was made of spelt.  It was weird.

Taking that as inspiration, we made a pizza with red Leicester and Camembert, it was also weird.

Let me try to stick with traditional recipes next time...

Barnsdale Gardens

Sarah took me to Barnsdale Garden.  This was the first garden I have visited this year.  Unlike Kew and Harlow Carr, this is meant for visitors to take achievable inspiration, so there are many small domestic gardens.

We went on a rainy day, so it was not too crowded, only two coach loads of OAPs!  I should have taken my pedometer, because we walked for miles. 

We learned about how to string up tomato plants, shaping trees/scrubs.  But I could not envisage how any of them could be my garden!

Vive la résistance

Hottest on Record

It was so hot that I had to put a refrigerated bottle under my shirt at work.
It was so hot even air conditioning needs water cooling.
It was so hot that I slept on the sofa downstairs.

R&G Bobbins

I got Gary to fit the bobbins that I didn't have the key for.  They charged me £100!

Because I couldn't pick Flint up on Saturday, so I took the bus to get Steve to give me a lift to pick it up after work on one of the hottest day in the year.

It was still too hot even though I was wearing my air flow jacket!  I didn't move here for this!