I’ve ordered some fountain pen cartridges this morning. Although not going into their pens, I really like Montblanc cartridges as the ink is very wet, nicely coloured and well-behaved.
I’m looking forward to trying a new Kilchoman tomorrow evening. A 13-year-old Islay malt whisky matured in Bourbon and Calvados casks.
Edinburgh Botanic Gardens detail from yesterday
My cactus from wonderful, wonderful, Copenhagen. My wife brought these back as a gift along with lovely boiled sweets!
Tonight I retried Rock Rose gin from the north coast of Scotland. I still think it tasted musty; like old clothes that were put away damp and stored too long.
I subscribe to the UK Government’s safety alert emails. I thought this one was particularly ironic.
I noticed that I added my one hundredth quote into Day One today. It was this.
I decided to get my coffee beans delivered by mail from south Edinburgh to north Edinburgh because it cost less than parking for 30 minutes in the city centre! 🤦🏼♂️
Dinner in a local Sikh-run café tonight. It was lovely.
I remember going there in its former life to choose VHS tapes.
I’ve been searching for a while for a nice broad and ‘juicy’ colourful refill for my Studio Neat Mark One pen. I’ve learned that capless Montblanc rollerballs are perfect.
I met another user of classic HP ‘Voyager’ calculators at work today. Like me he acquired it in the early 1980 (when he joined Ferranti) and has only needed to change the batteries a couple of time since then. They really are marvels.
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.
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 ……
