So here I am, tapping out notes for yesterday's piano student; she's spent the whole Easter break having a wonderful time with Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, and Einaudi and other things, and consequently forgotten how to play the various pieces we were working on for her Grade 7. Ah well. She's playing, and loving what she's playing which is the main thing. They often drop out when they are teenagers because there are so many other things filling their time, and bringing more instant rewards than unwillingly slogging through a Haydn sonata.
Really, I am watching the weather. It is a sunny, balmy morning, with a bit of a breeze. Yesterday I plotted the veg patch and went through my seeds;
These are the ones I want to plant today and I have promised myself that as soon as I finish typing I will be out there, even though the sun has disappeared and the wind is getting stronger.
Tomatoes and flower seeds need to be started on the windowsills freed up by moving the salvia cuttings.
I've also been making yogurt; Heat milk until boiling, allow to cool to blood heat (just nice and warm when you stick finger in to test). Put half a small tub of live yogurt into a wide-mouthed food flask and keep stirring as you slowly add the milk. Seal, and leave alone for 24 hours.
The resulting yogurt is rather thinner than I like (do you remember 'drinking yogurt' - not quite as thin as that) so I strain it.
Here's how much I ended up with - about two carton's worth. This batch is the texture of cream cheese, with a pleasantly milk taste.
As for quantum physics - I really don't have a clue. We (Himself and I) as sitting opposite each other at the table, working away on our respective laptops. I thought he was deep into the online grocery order, as he looked up with that glazed expression one gets after scrolling through myriads of little pictures to select the right kind of whatever. But no, his head was full of some recent development in quantum physics to do with solving a problem to do with predicting tunneling events... I was thinking of tunnels under the ground, but this is to do particle physics. We do have some hobbies in common. I can confidently say that this is not one of them.
Still, if this new development renders Feinman diagrams obsolete, does that release me from any obligation to try and learn about them?
Perhaps our other halves could start some sort of exchange of physics diagrams, as we do our stitching? Your yogurt experiments remind me of Quark.. the milky stuff, not the physics particle which displays Strangeness and Charm. Have you tried (a) using whole milk for your yogurt (b) stirring a heaped tbsp of dried milk powder in as you make it. Both these make a thicker Yog.
ReplyDeleteI have tried both yogurt suggestions and yes, the result is thicker. At the moment I am using up an oversupply of semi skimmed milk, but I must check the back of the cupboard for dried milk.
DeleteI'll look out the link for the physics article and send it to you...