I went on a slightly longer route to walk Jacky and Bosco and this rapefield was just sooooo yellow. The pic really doesn't do it justice. IRL it looked much more like a yellow carpet with green specks instead of the other way around. I have a hunch the name for the plant was imported into the English language. I wonder if, when rapeseed first came to the British Isles, rape already had the meaning of sexually violating someone and they kinda just went "sure, lets name it after this horrible thing."

One of our proximite neighbours has a magnolia (thanks to my wife I now know what tree* that is) in her garden. I really like the flowers there. Super picturesque, which is why I took the picture!
*turns out I'm not sure anymore what a tree even is because nature never gives shit to you straight

Finally, we ordered a cast iron pan for the LARP (although I eyed cast iron tools occasionally anyway). It's sooooo globdamn heavy at 3,3 kg and a very short handle. Like, literally, there's almost no buffer when I wrap my handle around. My fist is something like 8 cm long (or do you say "tall"?) and the handle has maybe a centimeter left that isn't covered by my grip. But frying food in it works really well after I "burned it in" and built up the protective patina. And since iron has such a low thermal conductivity, it retains the heat incredibly well. We usually make enough food to get two plates per person and the food is still almost as hot as fresh from the stove by the time we grab seconds. Buuut that comes with the detriment that heating up the pan in the first place takes much longer than with stainless steel or teflon pans.