P.S. You might enjoy the novel The Vitals by Tracy Sorensen. The characters are all her internal organs. She is an Australian & her Uterus is named Ute, the ovaries are a pair of kelpies in the back of the ute
Apparently she started out trying to understand her cancer by crocheting her internal organs. Honestly this book taught me a lot about internal organs & how they behave & interact! It's wack all this stuff goes on inside us that we don't even understand!
make bad art is one of my new years resolutions! i havent done much of it yet but i want to craft badly and write badly. love these rubbish ideas! my mom was a fountain pen person so good luck it'll be fun
I would say we are already a mild-moderate fountain pen household in that we all use fountain pens with normal ink colours and have recently upgraded to the refillable kind of cartridge. But I don’t think I can rest till the ink is scented
I love recommendations/suggestions. The book I'm reading now, the book I'm going to read next, and the TV show I just finished watching were all recommended (or just referenced even) by people on Substack.
I've been thinking about Narnia a lot lately (desperate for snow), and wish for you that you had a wardrobe you could access it through in the summer (the white witch would still have to be reigning in this scenario.
Finally, rhubarb! One of the best fruits (or vegetables pretending to be a fruit). Can you eat fermented foods (I ask because I'm not meant if I have this weird adrenal thing)? If so, there is a delicious fermented rhubarb thing you can make that I have added to mead before, which is also very yummy with elderflower champagne.
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Thank you so much for all the recommendations - we don’t do a ton of our own fermenting yet but I have been wanting to change that. I hope that your adrenal glands turn out to be normal and you can put fermented foods back on the menu!
I love also that you forced your captive audience to smell wild yeast before they got to have any beer. Nicely done.
I am also rabidly obsessed with fermented foods and quite sad that I can't have them until they find out if I have a pheochromocytoma. Do you do much fermenting at home? One tip, if you don't mind a little plastic, would be to get a cheap vacuum sealer, as it's so easy to ferment stuff in them. The rhubarb I fermented was with ginger and caraway and 2 % salt and then I think you just whizz it up with a little sugar and add to whatever you're drinking (lemonade, mead, elderflower champagne). Have you got any Pascal Baudar books? I got a bit obsessed with making/harnessing his wild yeasts a few years ago. I was doing brewery tours at the time and I would bring a whole bunch of wrangled wild yeasts that I would make everyone smell, and then I would talk to them about gruits before they got to have any free beer or to look at the brewery
I wrote a manifesto about rubbish! https://rosiewhinray.substack.com/p/free-shit-a-rubbish-manifesto
Also this is a good song about Winter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpBdjRe7tSA
P.S. You might enjoy the novel The Vitals by Tracy Sorensen. The characters are all her internal organs. She is an Australian & her Uterus is named Ute, the ovaries are a pair of kelpies in the back of the ute
ok now THIS is what I'm talking about re:great recs from random humans on the internet
also I can't get over that the ovaries are kelpies
Apparently she started out trying to understand her cancer by crocheting her internal organs. Honestly this book taught me a lot about internal organs & how they behave & interact! It's wack all this stuff goes on inside us that we don't even understand!
make bad art is one of my new years resolutions! i havent done much of it yet but i want to craft badly and write badly. love these rubbish ideas! my mom was a fountain pen person so good luck it'll be fun
Scented fountain pen ink is a real thing that I didn’t even make up for this post
I would say we are already a mild-moderate fountain pen household in that we all use fountain pens with normal ink colours and have recently upgraded to the refillable kind of cartridge. But I don’t think I can rest till the ink is scented
Do the bad art!!! Make a bad blog about it!!!
I love recommendations/suggestions. The book I'm reading now, the book I'm going to read next, and the TV show I just finished watching were all recommended (or just referenced even) by people on Substack.
I've been thinking about Narnia a lot lately (desperate for snow), and wish for you that you had a wardrobe you could access it through in the summer (the white witch would still have to be reigning in this scenario.
Finally, rhubarb! One of the best fruits (or vegetables pretending to be a fruit). Can you eat fermented foods (I ask because I'm not meant if I have this weird adrenal thing)? If so, there is a delicious fermented rhubarb thing you can make that I have added to mead before, which is also very yummy with elderflower champagne.
(Is this the most brackets you've ever seen in a comment?)
Thank you so much for all the recommendations - we don’t do a ton of our own fermenting yet but I have been wanting to change that. I hope that your adrenal glands turn out to be normal and you can put fermented foods back on the menu!
I love also that you forced your captive audience to smell wild yeast before they got to have any beer. Nicely done.
I feel quite touched that you though of a magical wardrobe for me, even if it is perhaps not the most practical real-world solution to UV sensitivity.
I am rabidly obsessed with fermented foods and the idea of a fermented rhubarb mead thing sounds AMAZING, where can I find this thing??
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I am also rabidly obsessed with fermented foods and quite sad that I can't have them until they find out if I have a pheochromocytoma. Do you do much fermenting at home? One tip, if you don't mind a little plastic, would be to get a cheap vacuum sealer, as it's so easy to ferment stuff in them. The rhubarb I fermented was with ginger and caraway and 2 % salt and then I think you just whizz it up with a little sugar and add to whatever you're drinking (lemonade, mead, elderflower champagne). Have you got any Pascal Baudar books? I got a bit obsessed with making/harnessing his wild yeasts a few years ago. I was doing brewery tours at the time and I would bring a whole bunch of wrangled wild yeasts that I would make everyone smell, and then I would talk to them about gruits before they got to have any free beer or to look at the brewery