Atomic Shrimp

I've been having a good time distracting myself from current life stuff by discovering Atomic Shrimp's YouTube channel.

He's a man with many interests, and great curiosity. I love his approach, all about how will this work? Let's find out. He's open to additional information and advice from commenters, too.

He's seriously good at the various adventures he undertakes, from foraging for wild food

And teaching people how to do it safely

To mudlarking, he lives in the south of England where there's local tidal waters

To creating things like an Audubon style bird call from scratch, where he gives a blow by blow of the molding method he used to create the decorative pewter bird and how he carved and drilled the wood base.

First creating his own wax carving tools

And creating this bird, using the wax casing, this cracked me up, from a couple of baby cheeses, after eating the cheese!

Then the molding process where he retrieved the molded bird  for another use.

He used a silicone compound to pour into the mold.

And he cooks interestingly, very inventive and experimental in his methods

He does shared cooking projects with an African friend

He tests milk heat by how long his finger can stay! As in one two three ouch.

Then he goes to just study nature and enjoy things like this enormous fig tree in a botanical garden on the isle of Wight, probably the most mild climate in the UK.

This  channel is where I found out about pineapple weed, among a lot of other plant information.

He's just an enjoyable, friendly, low key person, just right for me today, when my neighbor texted me to say my car window was open. 

Unknown to me, been like that I think since Thursday. Major rainstorm. 

This has happened a couple of times, a rear window has opened that I didn't know about.  I guess some towel work will be needed, sigh. Once it stops snowing.

And a couple of other things, too boring to go into. Oh well.

I'm baking a tea loaf today, with any luck, and maybe handsome Son will visit. 

Meanwhile I'm warming up my laptop to get tax forms downloaded and printed and it's not having it. Everything needs to be updated, it's been a while. The good news is that it did fire up. As did the printer. 

So there's that. I'll let you know about the tealoaf.