Saturday 8th

• Hugh: made another cupcake recipe, this time pecan pie flavoured. Still trying to figure out the piping bag.
• Dan: needed to know the practicalities of how leases work and how to get out of one early, for their role play. Discussed with reference to Beth’s recent situation with the Primrose Sands house.
• Hugh: made a GF pizza base for dinner

Sunday 9th

• Hugh: told me about working out how to do a double self-opening door using Redstone blocks for his latest build; I asked him to do an Instructable-type tutorial for his portfolio, and to include references he used when learning how to use the plug-in
• Hugh: did the menu planning for his Cook For a Day (planned for Wednesday) and picked meals for Thursday (all the vegos will be out so he’s making sausage curry) and Sunday
• Dan: learned more about their ambition of fostering cats/kittens via the Kitten Lady YouTube channel
• Hugh: cooked Chicken in Parmesan Gravy for dinner
• Hugh: shared some songs he’s been enjoying lately, including a hilariously wonderful remake of the silly Minecraft meme Diggy Diggy Hole given a LotR-themed metal makeover

Monday 10th

• D&H: no youth rapier this week – trainer unavailable
• Hugh: we talked about him entering Midwinter A&S competition category “Tribal Nomads” with Mongolian food (possibly yoghurt or cheese). Looked for recipes/info online and sent him an article. Other applicable category includes “Baked/Fired”.
• Hugh: a discussion on the transmission of the Black Death by traditional Mongolian eating of marmots turned into a conversation about pikas. Looked at images, read some articles.
• Dan: binge-watched the anime adaptation of Les Mis. Did a flowchart about how to approach Les Mis depending on your preferred media

Tuesday 11th

• Beth arrived: whole family helped Beth with last packing and end of lease clean at Primrose Sands. Beth paid the kids to help with the cleaning and they worked hard for several hours.

Wednesday 12th

• Dan: 1-hour AMEB prep singing lesson rescheduled to Monday
• Hugh: Cook For A Day #2 – less organised than last time due to everything else which was happening, but Hugh produced a delicious cooked breakfast, and several Chinese-style dishes for dinner, using online recipes and Gordon Ramsay’s World Kitchen.

Thursday 13th

• Dan: roller derby
• Dan: Wham Bam Silver Slam (did not perform)
• Hugh: cooked sausage curry for dinner because all the vegos were out
• Hugh: bought Subnautica: Below Zero – DLC frozen version of regular Subnautica with his money earned helping Beth

Friday 14th

• Dan: Beth shaved the sides of their head and neatened their fringe
• Dan: first Youth Ambassador meeting – they were very inspired and excited about how much they were able to contribute, and felt that it was a great forum for expressing the knowledge and leadership that they’ve learned in their other fields of activism
• Hugh: played Subnautica: Below Zero, Ancient Warfare, etc. Watched Veratasium videos on shade balls on a Los Angeles reservoir (for water purification, reducing evaporation, etc)
• Dan: watched Cowspiracy with Beth for (not very harrowing) vegan arguments for the environmental benefits of veganism