My wife took Scully to work for the morning today. This gave me time to go for a 5k run, as well as do my stretches and have a shower, before heading out to lunch. I also got some sourdough bread going.
For lunch I caught a train to my wife’s work and had lunch at a Japanese place there. They have a nice lunch special consisting of a bowl of miso soup, salad, rice, and your choice of protein. Sometimes I get salmon or something else, but today I got karaage chicken.
Then after eating I picked up Scully and we walked home. We walked a long way home, doing a big dogleg via Naremburn rather than the straight route. So Scully was pretty knackered by the time we got home. With that huge walk and my 5k run, I scored around 12,000 steps today.
I’m pretty lazy making sourdough and have been letting it rise just once before baking. But today I gave the dough a second kneading and rising after it had doubled in volume the first time. I’m hoping it makes a less dense final product. It seems to have turned out okay, but I’m not sure if it’s made all that much difference.
Tonight I had the first three classes of this week’s new ethics topic: “Socialisation”. I was supposed to have one yesterday, but the class ended up with no students in it due to one having an extended vacation, and others leaving the class time. The paused student will be back next week, so I’m hoping someone else enrols before then to avoid a class with just one kid in it. This week’s new topic so far feels easier to teach than the last two weeks’ ones.
I’ve been adding photos to my Flickr album for my Japan trip back in February. I want to get it completed before leaving for Europe next month! Here’s our travelling companion, Monkey, at the Kawazu Sakura Festival:
The sakura (cherry blossoms) there were really beautiful.
This one (below) is the original Kawazu Zakura cultivar tree, planted around 1955, which turned out to be a mutation that flowered early, leading to Kawazu being the place to go for February cherry blossoms, a month or two earlier than anywhere else in Japan.
Such a beautiful place.