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wiseheartDo you remember when I last year tried to make pink grapefruit jam and ended up with syrup? Well, the exact opposite happened to me today. I wanted to try my hand on lemon jam and ended up with candied lemon peels. Either I've cooked those poor lemons on too high heat or I cooked them too long. The end result were very nice candied peels with almost no liquid part. Ah, well, they'll serve me well for baking.
Not much else happened today - it was way too hot, and we had to survive the chiropodist lady, too. Which meant we couldn't let the blinds down or else she wouldn't have seen properly, not even with artificial light. Gah, it was hot in the afternoon inside the flat! Not as hot as outside, of course, we 'only' had 27 degrees compared with the 35 outside, but still way too hot. This summer is murderous. My friend Evie told me that her plants are dying in the garden, no matter how much she's watering them: their leaves get literally burned in the heat. It doesn't look well for her beans, which is a shame, considering the amount of hard work she puts into the garden.
And now to semantics. I've been watching some YouTube videos analyzing the ginger whinger and his wife's latest interview on CBS and stumbled over the completely idiotic expression 'unaliving' him- or herself. For pity's sake, people being suicidal is bad enough, but crowning the problem with such ridiculous euphemisms won't make people more aware of it; or is it some kind of control? Isn't it allowed to speak about such things openly anymore? The world has gone mad indeed.
Not much else happened today - it was way too hot, and we had to survive the chiropodist lady, too. Which meant we couldn't let the blinds down or else she wouldn't have seen properly, not even with artificial light. Gah, it was hot in the afternoon inside the flat! Not as hot as outside, of course, we 'only' had 27 degrees compared with the 35 outside, but still way too hot. This summer is murderous. My friend Evie told me that her plants are dying in the garden, no matter how much she's watering them: their leaves get literally burned in the heat. It doesn't look well for her beans, which is a shame, considering the amount of hard work she puts into the garden.
And now to semantics. I've been watching some YouTube videos analyzing the ginger whinger and his wife's latest interview on CBS and stumbled over the completely idiotic expression 'unaliving' him- or herself. For pity's sake, people being suicidal is bad enough, but crowning the problem with such ridiculous euphemisms won't make people more aware of it; or is it some kind of control? Isn't it allowed to speak about such things openly anymore? The world has gone mad indeed.
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Date: 2024-08-13 05:22 pm (UTC)Oh dear, do you know how long it took me to get behind the name ginger whinger? That´s lost live time, because this is a person of no interesr to me. Since I suppose the whinger must have attended university I now wonder how he has made it through the lectures...
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Date: 2024-08-13 06:44 pm (UTC)