Last night was awesome: I stayed up for the moment we lost — and regained contact with — the Artemis II mission. That astronaut Christina Koch was both the first female astronaut around the moon, and the one to register the reconnection with Earth? It’s a great day for womankind. 

There’s another part of this mission that’s been blowing my little mind: the fact that Goonhilly Space Station in Goonhilly, Cornwall, has been helping maintain contact with the spacecraft. I’ve been to Goonhilly Space Station; I used a satellite link to speak to a young boy and his family at Land’s End, Cornwall. It was amazing. 

“If you ever want to have a geek-gasm, it’s the place to go” I tell Master Levi. 

“You’re such a geek” Master teases as I excitedly wait for updates from the mission. I don’t care: I am a geek, and proudly so. 

I’d been watching the live feed on the BBC website, but it turns out, so too had Master Levi. So I tease him about being a geek for calling me a geek, then we agree that he can monitor the live feed while I cook dinner. 

A wave of stupidity takes over me. 

“Hey, do you want to get a close-up look at the moon before the astronauts do?” I ask. 

“How?” Master asks. 

“Here you go!” I say, I spin around and moon him. Master grins. 

“Come here,” he commands, “I need to get a closer look. For scientific research.”

I gasp and shake my head. I gathered his ‘scientific research’ would not be in my best interests. 

“Then trousers up and go and cook dinner before you get yourself into trouble” he warns. I nod and comply. 

Later, we watched the penultimate episode of The Hunt: Predator VS Prey. I didn’t know it was on TV on a nightly basis. 

I’m undecided if I’ll watch it again, if they do bring it back. On the one hand, it’s a fun concept. On the other, I have far better things to be doing than watching a group of grown-ass adults play hide & seek. Like playing hide & seek with a group of grown-ass adults myself. 

Predator contestant Mhairi gets under Master’s skin: she “froze” prey contestant Mel, then voted her out once they’d swapped roles and Mel was now a predator in the “cull” (eliminations). Master says that Mhairi only caught Mel because she had frozen her, she also played dirty tactics in the last episode by guarding a challenge post and only allowing prey contestants to participate in the challenge if they promised not to vote for her in the cull. It backfired spectacularly, with prey contestant Amir telling her “cool. Well, it’s been nice knowing you.” 

Despite not appreciating her foul play, Amir did eventually vote for stronger predator Chloe, who he saw as more of a threat. 

Master says that Mhairi “has about as much class as a wooden broom”. I stifle a laugh. 

“So… how classy is that?” I ask, “curious minds need to know.”

“Not very” is the reply. 

Okay then. 

Also last night, I made up the tiramisu that I’d promised Master for his colleagues. I was concerned that the pot of mascarpone I had ordered was much smaller than I imagined it to be. Well, I’ll just have to whip it up and hope. 

Despite my fears, it came together firm and perfectly, with just the right amount of sweetness in the cream mixture and a rich coffee-wine taste in the sponge soak. I made a “mini-misu” in a ramekin to test my flavours before assembling. I was pleased with the result. 

The assembled tiramisu has since been lidded and transported to the office via Uber, and I’m sure shall be devoured and delighted in at lunch.