Moving your limbs I'm not so keen on getting too hot, or too cold, or rained on, or achey or blistered or whatever, but physical activity is undeniably a net plus even if there are a few flies in the ointment.

[SM] The flies are the best part!

Perpetrating names like Boots, Bewts, Butes, Bootes, Marchinup & Downagen Solicitors and Commissioners of Oaths on the Americans in my Space 1889 game. Count Oberluft and Baroness Von Klyster have also made appearances.

My automatically waving at people, when I take my morning walk, eventually paying off when people start waving at me first!

Playing an augmented 9th (on the piano). A nice, tangy jazz chord. Can't leave it hanging, though. .

@Muse I'm trying to cultivate the habit of smiling at everyone, especially people working in shops. If it helps just a tiny bit I think it's worthwhile.

[Pablo] What, the first ever? Wow :-)

Discovering that plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose is actually true.

A warm, but slightly overcast day with a pleasant breeze.
Means I can sit in the 'garden' and 'work', and see WTH I'm doing on the laptop. Yes, I would be more productive if I sat indoors at my desk with a keyboard and the bigger monitor, but perfect days like this are rare and should not be squandered. And I've squandered more than a few, so let's start appreciating them.

The prospect of baking a cake tonight for the first in-person team meeting for a while tomorrow & being able to make it lactose-free for one particular colleague who often misses out.

I wasn't very bold, was I? Maybe a good thing. You'd all want to come to our team meeting for a piece of Devonshire Honey Cake (see the BBC's Good Food website recipe)

My mother, who was quite a good baker, once decided to make honey cake. It wasn't good at all, and nobody wanted to eat it, so we left it out for the birds. After about a month we came to the conclusion that neither the birds nor any other beast would ever touch the stuff, so we had to throw it out.

I also have a honey cake story. My mother, also quite a good baker, once decided to make honey cake. The whole house smelled of honey while it was baking, yet the result was an ordinary sponge cake that hardly tasted of honey at all. Maybe it’s like brewing coffee, where the optimal temperature for extracting the flavour will send the flavour flying off into the air given any chance. Is there a baking equivalent to the espresso machine, that bakes the cake in a sealed oven?

I've never had honey cake, only honey buns, but those are good. Reminds me that I should get some next time I get some groceries.

The recipe calls for boiling the honey, butter and sugar together. I kept it under a boil - I reckoned I'd lose all the honey aromatics by boiling. It seemed to work. But the cake needs 50% longer in the oven than the recipe states.
The prospect of going to try out a new (to me) car later this afternoon. It's got heated seats.

(pen) Heated seats? Wow! Can we call you Ms Winterbottom?

[Rosie] Not for much longer. Presumably that's the point

I'm not sure if this is a little pleasure, as I only did it for the lulz, but toasted cheese Brevilles. I have a sandwich toaster, which has been used maybe once since my student days. On a whim I decided to randomly use it again. Mmm. Hot toasted Breville sandwiches.

They were all right. In fact they weren't a bad lunch.

I think that does count as a pleasure, but, yeah, only a little pleasure. Still, that's on topic for this game.

Cleaning the toaster, on the other hand... well, I was reminded why toasted Breville sandwiches are primarily a studenty novelty.

[Simons] Is that like a grilled cheese sandwich? I do love grilled cheese sandwiches, but even if I had a kitchen, it's too hot for grilled cheese sandwiches.

I did remember to get some honey buns and I got some chocolate muffins, too.

The Breville is supposed to seal gloopy fillings inside the bread. It's basically a waffle maker with different shaped heating plates

'Sealing gloopy fillings' - that is, either the seal is imperfect, it leaks and makes a mess which dribbles out over the toaster and onto the table, or it seals correctly, meaning that the scalding hot goo comes out when you bite into it, giving nineth degree burns AND a mess.

Toasted marmite sandwiches...

Toasted marmot sandwiches

Cuddling with my dog when I go to bed and before getting up for the day.

[SM] Your cat? You got a cat?

Dodge-with-treble lead 2nds dodge lead dodge. Out to the back, double dodge lie dodge. To the front, lead and dodge. The middle work up: dodge 4ths 3rds dodge-with-treble 4ths 3rds dodge. (Dodge everywhere. When in doubt, you probably forgot a dodge.) The back work: double dodge lie dance-with-treble lie double dodge. Reverse to reassemble, so next is the middle work down: dodge 3rds 4ths dodge-with-treble 3rds 4ths dodge. To the front, dodge and lead. To the back, dodge lie double dodge. To the front, dodge lead dodge 2nds lead dodge-with-treble 2nds and that’s all. Learning Cambridge Surprise Minor by studying the blue line over two days and then ringing it all the way through.

Music

[Bismarck] That's beautiful.

Finding somewhere warm in Sheffield