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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 8h

Basically this recipe: www.theguardian.com/food/2023/ju... with a whole bunch Moar Hot. 🔥🔥 Supposed to ferment at room temp for a couple of weeks to let it go funky spicy. The 15yo Popeye's / Nandos fan approves already.

Kilner jars of chili ketchup, lids loose, ready for lacto fermentation.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 11h

Meanwhile, these naughty little devils - going on 5M Scoville here - are going in the blender with some of the excess tomatoes (of which there are still far too many) for Harissa Ketchup. Which is such an obvious Posh White Girl Name, I assume she's the Greens' new candidate for Hay on Cotswold.

About 40 red Scotch Bonnet chillies on a wooden board.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 11h

Could really have done with a slow day today. I did not get one, but I did get these. Off by one, I'll allow it.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

And despite the cooler temperatures, this dickhead still hasn't given up, I see.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Second crop figs from the plot! A little underripe for eating raw, but they'll cook up pretty nicely. Pancake sauce or just roast 'em up and have with ice cream? 🤔

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

You presume to do routing maps, machine? For me, of all people? Not today, asshole.

ChatGPT "wants" to plan my routes for me. This is a thing I do not want.

Humans want, machines do not. I win.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once, fine. Three times, tolerable. Multiple times a week over about two years? Aaaaaaa.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Somewhere to the east, a packaging designer is sweating bullets...

Some kind of skin cream (?) whose name is PDRN.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

A long hot summer means a high sugar content, and an SG measurement of 1.060 works out somewhere past 7% ABV, aka hypergolic crazy juice. Once I've done the third and final round of pressing (hard work, but the older two helped), will add a little water & citric acid to make it a tad less messy.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I am, realistically speaking, way too busy for yet another round of kitchen / garden shenanigans. So, inevitably, I'm doing exactly that.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

My life may be chaos, but my beans are order itself. Top to bottom: "Prizewinner" (scarlet runner, used like kidney beans in chillis etc). Borlotti. Enough said. "Meraviglia", cannellini type. Better as young pods but I couldn't keep up with them this year. "Cobra", to sow next year, not to eat.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Normal temperatures for 11am on a Sunday in early October. Luna stopped by to express her concern as to humanity's impacts on the climate. "Yes to treats, no to carbon emissions."

A thermometer in a garden reading 24.9⁰C. and a cat.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The Mystery Apple Project needs a little more TLC. It's running on wine yeast so first there's a yeast starter to wake it up a little, and then an extra 600g of sugar per 5l tub to get the ABV up towards a level of approximately "fuck yeah". And then it's time to let the microbes do their magic...

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Had to leave it til morning (twenty litres takes a while to cool, and the ambient temperature is wrongly warm for October), but from here, the beer's easy. Chuck in the yeast, give it ten days or so to do its thing, bottle with priming sugar, leave another two weeks, chill and DRINK 🍻

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Boil it up for a bit (hubble, bubble, etc.), then into the Big Bucket with MOAR HOPS. Cold water to bring the volume up, and the concentration, and temperature down. Hygrometer measures potential final ABV (4.2 ish, it says), thermometer because chucking in the yeast while it's too hot, kills it.

Hygrometer, thermometer, hops in a big bucket full of beer wort

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Into the pot goes: - water (8l). - foraged hops (bitterness). - liquid malt extract (body). - 1.5kg sugar (ABV kick). - cupful or two of oats (bit of silky mouthfeel and IPA haze).

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Proper homebrewers will be wincing a little at that. And, fair, if I were doing a traditional malty English ale, it wouldn't be the greatest result. But for this batch of session-IPA-ish stuff, the malt isn't really the point. These are.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Next, the beer. Bit of a cheat recipe, this, but I've done it before and it works. This liquid malt extract is intended to boost 23L of beer by 1.7%, but brew a shorter volume of say 15l, add a couple of kg of sugar, and we can get to a very drinkable 4%.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Still just about enough left for a third bucket. I wasn't going to do that, but I do have one more bucket. And I really don't like wasting these. (Mate with the tree really did come through. He's got enough for cider - a prospect I'd written off this year - if I can find time, and spare vessels..)

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Apples done. Shred 'em up a bit in the food processor, add water, teaspoon or two of pectolase to help get the goodness out. Tomorrow, sugar and yeast go in to really get things moving.

Shredded apples in 5L fermenting buckets.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

A day behind schedule - had to phone a friend to get apples, the trees I'd hoped to forage had been pretty much stripped - the raw materials for a spot of citizen science and minor alchemy.

Hops, apples, liquid malt extract, yeast.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Well hello there, Hill of Regrettable* Life Choices. * subject to Hartnoll's First Law. Guess I'd best get on with it, then.

A heavily laden analogue boxbike at the foot of the Fountain Drive Toll Road.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Spotted on the rear rack pack of a fellow cyclist as we huffed and puffed our way up through the school run to the top of the local hill. Brought a chuckle. 😁

"Am I making you drive the speed limit? Poor baby."

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I know.. LinkedIn.. but still, LOLs are LOLs.

"I interviewed for a contractor role at Ticketmaster and when they asked me what my day rate is I told them I operate a dynamic pricing model and they said they couldn’t operate like that and I laughed for a really long time and showed them how much I paid for Beyoncé tickets and anyway long story short they escorted me from the building". - Helena Langdon on LinkedIn.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Welp, I guess that's what closure looks like. 🥲 End of an era, damn. That certainly calls for a glass of.. I'm not sure what, actually, but 11am is too early to decide.

Removal notice from a ROLI / Fxpansion GitHub repo

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Good reminder - and probably getting time to switch to a winter supplement regime if you have one, as well. No sniggering at the back, there. I see you.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Croydon: That's a little too subtle.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Despite heading down to the plot, as per, at the tail end of the school run / beginning of the rush hour, curiously I experienced exactly 0 close passes on the bike today. Isn't that odd? 🤔

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

OK, someone explain to me HOW exactly it can be this warm, but also feel this grey and dreary and dull? 28ºC is normally how you say "glorious blazing July sunshine". Today the sky is like:

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

And I was even kind of looking forward to those Mayfield hills too. Sigh.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

There was a Christiania in the middle of nowhere, somewhere past East Grinstead. And a lovely chat with its owners, and their adorable kids who were amused by my Simon's Cat jersey. And an entrepreneurial girl of ten or so selling fresh apple juice by the roadside...

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Worth Way, a few miles outside East Grinstead. Did this bit with the eldest when he was five, on his little silver Dawes Blowfish. And then we went for a ride on the Bluebell Railway, because he was very into trains at the time. (Still is, but given the choice, prefers tanks.)

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Whatever else might be going on, the Weather Gods are kind today.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here follows an Extremely Niche Visual Gag, as I head home from the synth cave with a couple of bits & bobs I'm selling off. Who wants to play? A small bottle of the Old Gods' Tears, or an evening in an alcoholic venue of your choice, to the winner.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Sure thing, Google, "magic". It's OK, just tell me you had the Shit Machine read my private emails, and used them to train it on how to shit bigger, stinkier shits than ever before. (Not that it'll be much help, my inbox is mostly very, very boring.)

"Important according to Google magic."

"Click to teach Gmail that this conversation is not important."

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Pigeons, seemingly eating mortar out of a wall. Never seen that before. (Nunhead Cemetery ish).

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Last little bit of hedge-wizarding this week before an afternoon of errands and a weekend of big hills and wise old friends. Pretty though, aren't they?

Rosehips in a colander, waiting to be turned into syrup.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Hands practically screaming at me for stuff to do this morning. Oh well, this little lot should keep 'em busy awhile.

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Exhumated 🧟 unDead @slothlydad.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Now look. I'm certainly not one to begrudge a good sunset. And this is certainly one of those. But if the Heavenly Being Responsible would please check their timing. It's not even quarter to seven FGS. Unacceptable!

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