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Today I sold our RIB, Annic Nova, and her new owners (a family with four young kids) came to collect her. They had driven four hours on a hot day starting at 7am (with a baby!) and they didn't even want to give her a test run (I suppose it would have been difficult to do so safely, since I hadn't brought enough PFDs for four kids, and don't have anything suitable for a baby anyway).

Still, it felt like a lot of trust they gave me for all that money and effort from them, even though we had taken her out earlier in the week to get a bit of video at their request. Pp had fun whizzing around while I took some video from a pontoon. It was a bit too windy to comfortably go out to sea, which was a pity. I would have taken her out for one last run on Sunday if they hadn't been quite so keen to come pick her up.

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She sold via Ebay in the end. I also advertised her on Facebook Marketplace, and on Apollo Duck (a specialist boat ad website). Apollo Duck was the most expensive, and the least effective place to advertise.

I'm kind of sad and relieved. It was an amazing thing to have a boat to run out to the islands, to float among the puffins and seals. She was very fast and very fun to drive, but she was also undeniably noisy, thirsty, and expensive.

I am hoping I may be able to go out in Mew the Mirror tomorrow: a much quieter, cheaper and slower kind of boating.

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Two fics in two weeks, gosh.

The first one is simultaneously not really fic and extremely fic: it's a smutty sequel to faites-lui mes aveux, a somewhat chaste I wrote for

femslashex... getting on for eight years ago now, good grief. I'm not sure it makes much sense without the original original, but never mind.

ardentes, folles, enfiévrées

(Neither of them are actually in French, and I translated pretty much everything I quoted, too.)

The second one is part of the magnificent weirdness that is

intoabar. Harriet Vane goes into a bar and meets Mercutio.

through the long horror of that piteous night

I have a third fic in the works but it's been that way for a long time and I don't know when I'll get it finished. 11000 words and counting. I've also been working on some original original stuff, which again I am not sure that anyone else is going to want to read, and again, I don't care, I'm just glad to be writing.

nanila

What is a place you have visited, or want to visit, that starts with D?

I have been to Denmark. Copenhagen, specifically, with the bloke. It was a work trip for him and a jolly for me, before the kids. I brought the dSLR and had a wonderful time exploring the city (https://nanila.dreamwidth.org/tag/copenhagen).

I have also been to Dubai. Well, just the airport to transit through to India or Africa. But honestly, that was enough to assure me that that was the maximum amount of time I ever wanted to spend there. It's not my kind of place.
What is a food that you like, or don't like, that starts with R?

A lot of foods I like start with the letter R: rice, ramen, risotto, roasties, ravioli, raspberries. I don't know how to prepare risotto or ravioli myself, so they're a real treat on the rare occasions when I go out to eat. The others, we prepare and eat regularly. (He makes the best roasties.)
Own anything that starts with the letter M?

Makeup and masks. I had to think for a little while about this, and I might not have remembered the masks if this year's departmental ball had not been masquerade-themed.
Know anyone whose name (first, middle, or last) that starts with N?

Yes. Er, that's all I have. This question was rather less evocative of an interesting reflection than the others for me, sorry.
Favourite movie, book, TV show, or song whose title starts with T?

Oh goody. This lets me talk about Tom Yum Goong, one of Tony Jaa's films. I wrote a long loony fangirl post about Tony Jaa 16 years ago (https://nanila.dreamwidth.org/777069.html). He's an actor and an athlete, expert in multiple forms of martial arts and parkour. He's also 5’6”, which makes scenes like this one where he kicks the light out of a lamppost all the more impressive.

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(Tony Jaa kicks the light out of a lamp-post, YouTube, 00:14)

I hope it's clear from this that you don't watch these films for their plots, which contain heavy-handed morals and require a level of suspension of disbelief that can only be achieved through the consumption of large quantities of popcorn. You watch them for the stunning scenery and the eye-popping action.

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I’ve been making overnight oats in jars for the bloke and me since the start of the year, and have experimented with varying ingredients and quantities. I think I’ve finally found the balance I like best, so I’ve carefully documented this below in case I ever stop making them regularly.

Base layer is 3 medium-sized strawberries, chopped into 1cm pieces. For the bloke, 4 tablespoons of oats, for me, 3 tablespoons.
Shake the jar to mix oats and strawberries. This is especially important if using the jumbo oats (as shown here), otherwise I end up adding too much milk.
Add milk to just below the top layer of oats. For him, whole milk, for me, oat milk.
Add full-fat Greek yoghurt. For him, 3 heaping tablespoons, for me, 2. This helps to moisten the top layer of oats, and also gives a smooth layer between the oats and the crunchy bits at the top.
Add Linwoods Milled Flaxseed, Sunflower, Pumpkin & Chia Seeds & Goji Berries. Two teaspoons for both of us. I used chia seeds on their own for a while, but I found that I didn’t much care for their crunchy texture and tendency to get stuck in my teeth even after soaking them briefly in water to activate their mucilaginous properties. This mixture is much nicer.
Add 3-4 teaspoons of pomegranate seeds. These have the right balance of juice and crunch after the yoghurt layer.
Finish with granola. I prefer the stuff that has freeze-dried strawberries mixed in. For him, 2 tablespoons, for me, one.
Put lids on jars, store in fridge until morning. I find these fill me up sufficiently that I’m rarely hungry before lunch, although I often eat a banana around coffee time just to give myself a little boost.

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