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My parents woke me up around 9.30am this morning to say that they were leaving now and could I unlock the door so they could get out? This was easily achived, but by then Jemima was whining for her breakfast and I was too awake to go back to sleep.

Currently, I am trying to a) work up the enthusiasm to go down to the garage to get more firewood (actually necessary); b) decide whether I can be bothered making Diana's Chocolate-Caramel Brownies to take into work tomorrow (probably a good idea); c) make lactose-free apple cake for gaming tomorrow night (maybe). I should also have lunch.

For sometime we have been planning to have an electricity-free drill to test our preparedness for an emergency. We're not doing this with complete thoroughness, I have to admit - the experiment is planned to run from 3:00pm - 3:00pm, the fridge freezer is staying on, and we're not going to turn off the water. Given that the sun goes behind the hills shortly after 5:00pm and a southerly is expected to come through later today, this should be interesting.

( other things that happened in the last two days )

Now I should actually do things.

I got my results today:

Litigation Law and Practice - B
Business Law and Practice - A+

Words cannot express how fucking relived I am. I am done!

To do today:

Harvest coriander
Plant new coriander
Clean and put away barbeque
Chop wood
Finish homework
Start readings

Somehow I'm not sure if the last one is going to be managed, but I will try. I don't have that much to go on the hard section (Legal Ethics), although I have a fair amount to type up.

I handed in questions 1 - 6 ages ago, when I'd done them, and did relatively well, so I don't expect to do badly. I have a lecture for this class tomorrow, but for some reason, my Wednesday one is cancelled. I wonder why.

Is anyone going to a dawn service down at the Cenotaph? I was thinking it might be nice to go to another one.

Already A History of the Jewish People is proving to be much more interesting than The Barbarian West, so I might eventually be able to catch up on the non-fiction reading. I should work out how far behind I am...

There are still some brownies left. I shall have some shortly and drink the first of many cups of tea of the day (for some reason, I always seem to drink a lot of tea when I'm doing homework).

We grew coriander last winter and it went really well and we used a lot of it. It didn't last as long as the italian parsley, but they were about the same size and right next to each other. So when we planted more over the summer, we made sure they weren't side by side. The coriander promptly went to seed and because I hate seeing such things go to waste, I harvested the seeds this morning. They will sit on a tray on the table for a few days drying and then I'll stick them into a spare jar.

...F said yesterday that we'd buy any baking ingredient if it was on special and we'd never heard of it before or could come up with a possible use for it (this was after hearing of our purchase of 72% cocoa chocolate to make hot chocolate out of) and I've come to the conclusion that she's right.

I'm not very good at regular maintenance of a garden - which is one reason why the gorse is starting to grow back and weeds surround the plants - but I do enjoy one-off jobs such as harvesting coriander or making the occasional jar of pesto. Mmmm, pesto.

Hmmm. It could possibly be construed as being lunch time. I can come back and type up notes after lunch, surely...