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I baked some banana bread the other day. It smelt delicious while cooking, so I had a piece when it had cooled down and it did what my baking usually does. It didn't taste of anything, which always disappoints me, and you'd think I'd remember this by now. So I left it out overnight, and had another piece the next day, and it tasted almost as delicious as it had while it was cooking.

I.

I don't know, you guys. (I'm sure there's a scientific explanation).

Anyway, I sliced and froze the rest, as I have a cake I bought from the supermarket a while back that needs eating first (I'd way rather eat the banana bread, but I'd also rather not waste food).

I realised it is the first thing I baked since last November (I thought it was October, but a tweet I found told me different). I cook my food most the time, but I haven't baked for how long???? I think it's being out of the habit, to some degree. It was more fun to bake when I had someone to share it with, and when mum felt more like eating things. But I've decided I'm going to bake and freeze more stuff because a) I have a decent sized freezer and b) perhaps if I freeze things in portions, it will stop me buying cake at the supermarket. (I've got nothing against supermarket cake, but it's such an impulse buy, and I know it, and also there is just me. One average sized cake lasts me forever).

Also I've got loads of frozen fruit now, so I can make lots of things with fruit in!

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In video game news, I got to Braska's Final Aeon in FFX. I was quite surprised to see on my save file that it said the last time I played was nearer the start of April. I didn't realise it had been so long.

I think I need to do a tiny bit of levelling up/equip everyone with Stoneproof armour, and also remember to unequip Lavaetin from Yuna (because, while it has SOS Overdrive, I realised that while it's equipped, it doesn't charge the gauge at all. So it makes more sense for her to be equipped with something else, and her gauge charge normally because I have her set to Healer for that, and, well, that's what she does).

So I might try that tonight and see how it goes!

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In nature related news:

1. I planted some alliums in the garden years ago. They reflower every year, but this year they are a) not stringy looking and b) there's loads of them! There's even a new cluster started a little way over from the old batch.

2. while I was out in the garden, dinking around on Tuesday, I saw a goldfinch in the oak tree across the road. I wouldn't have even seen it then, but that the cat was watching me/the birds, and I happened to look in the same direction as her. And there it was, on a bare branch.

I'm really pleased to see one - I know there's a small colony of them nearby (I sometimes see them flitting about there) - but it's been a while since I've seen one near the house.

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Danny's Inferno - The Three Suns

Someone on a friend's FB post pointed out that this used to be the theme tune to Fortean TV (which I watched religiously, pardon the pun). So ofc, when I remembered I was on the internet, I went to look it up, and it's exactly how I remember it sounding. I probably haven't heard it in twenty years.

(Admittedly, I was reminded to look for it by finding a link to Vince Clarke's version of In The Hall of the Mountain King, but ehhhhh got there in the end).