Apple’s iOS focus mode automatic switching is great when it works. It does seem to be very fragile and doesn’t need much to break the functionality.

Out and about yesterday exploring Edinburgh.

It’s wild garlic pesto making season again!

I love ABBA’s The Day Before You Came. I think it’s a song about the last day of not being in love but looking back after the affair has ended.

(Nearly all ABBA songs, even the uptempo ones, are sad)

Trying something new from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society, as we go into British Summer Time, with my first gin from them.

Updated my ‘now’ page.

That was great fun! Public Service Broadcasting at the Usher Hall tonight. Shame it’s a school night.

Looking forward to enjoying Public Service Broadcasting tonight. They play live in about 30 minutes.

Sadly, the support act did nothing for me.

After finally getting round to trying a firmware update to my Happy Hacking Keyboard, it’s finally pairing with my Mac again! There’s a second HHKB that isn’t pairing that I don’t know how to get rid of but at least I can finally use the perfect keyboard again.

One of my best conscious choices on iOS is to use the FastMail app for email. That account is purely for ‘signal’ where iCloud and GMail are ‘noise’.

That’s been a few months that my Happy Hacking Bluetooth keyboard has stopped pairing with my up-to-date Mac. I tried safe mode and it made no difference.

This is becoming really frustrating as I love that keyboard for extended typing. I can’t think what I could do next that would not be a massive pain in the ass.

When I told my daughter the name of the father of the singer in one of her favourite bands she replied ……

“Who’s Bono?”

2:2 at snooker tonight but we had to consult the Rules of Snooker to decide if it was that or 3:1.

Tonight’s walk down at the harbour.

Overheard on the No. 11 bus: “Do we like her?”

Daily stationery post: I’m finding this little template really useful in my paper planner.

This weekend’s new album is a solo from Jason Isbell. I’ve heard the first few tracks and they are really great.

Talking of ink, I’ve been writing letters to the daughters and this is my favourite paper to use for fountain pens.

New Robert Oster super-sheening ink from Vitstyle. This should work well in my Desiderata Soubriquet that has the John Sorowka stub nib.

Some great short letters in The Guardian this week.

My wife and I watched the Australian TV show ‘Bump’ season 5 episode 9 last night. That was powerfully moving TV and felt convincingly authentic.

I’m in a meeting where every engineering role is described as “he/his”. I’m the only one using non-gendered terms.

I’ve just learned that my favourite email application, MailMate, has a distortion mode to anonymise it for screenshots. Brilliant!

UK people: I’m trying to buy a ‘James May’ wig! Any thoughts on where to look?

Looks like there’s a major new release of DEVONthink coming soon. It’s been a great tool and a bit of a secret weapon but, for for the first time, I’m wondering whether I actually need to upgrade.

Last year I scrapped a lot of my old ‘Parent Council’ databases just leaving a couple of active databases.