Lots of end of year posts on my my main blog covering health, the books I read in 2018 and my final month of films, books and music.

On OS X Mojave with desktop stacks enabled it really annoys me that the icons move ever so slightly when I close apps. I just catch sight of it out of the corner of my eye.

📚 I’m really enjoying reading The Silence of The Girls by Pat Barker.

I do love the strange and wonderful results from using my pinhole camera.

Poise and balance - that’s my daughter!

Kissing trees

I’ve been starting most days right with this kettle for years.

I was off for my traditional winter photography walk today. I decided it was mostly a ‘film’ day so packed these cameras (the Fuji is digital). I am looking forward to seeing the results soon.

I updated my ‘about’ page and added back the ‘currently reading’ page onto my website.

Wandering around, I’m seeing lots of themed Christmas trees or minimal ones. We’re at the other end of the spectrum―_all_ of those memories have to be carefully unwrapped from tissue paper and thrown on the tree. Maximalism!

I’ve enjoyed learning a little more about 3D printing over the last two days.

Disappointed to see that things that used to just work on Apple computers have been taken away.

• No print services in the Photos app means I can’t send calendars as gifts easily.
• No more syncing of just a few treasured photos to my phone via iTunes.

A few years ago I photographed many of the little things I like to keep near me on desks I use. I thought it was an interesting record of the items I like to keep around because they remind me of places and people.

I just added a few more things to the photoset today.

I’ve really enjoyed CJ Samsom’s latest Shardlake book, Tombland.

I loved this description of a set of cheese knives on Amazon. Straight out of Private Eye’s Pseuds Corner.

New blog post: 11 down and 1 to go! Three for November with my music, film and book favourites for the month.

That’s this year’s Christmas puddings complete. Last year I thought basing the label around various dictionaries word of the year was so smart. This year I’m not so convinced!

I’ve treated myself to three records so I’m looking forward to listening to some favourite and new music this weekend.

New blog post: The repetitive nature of tradition is comforting

I’ve been fascinated listening to the Grenfell Tower Enquiry podcast for the last few months. Especially this week when they have moved to questioning expert witnesses. I was shocked by how much flammable material was present in the refurbished tower.

www.bbc.co.uk/programme…

New blog post: Basically just a pocket dump but my first post using Blot too!

sulluzzu.blot.im/new-diary…

I’ve just seen my first Christmas tree of the year in a private home. 😡

Edinburgh, you should be ashamed of yourself!

I’m listening to Paloma Faith talking about her song writing. She’s an absolute hoot!

www.sodajerker.com/episode-1…

Moving to blot rather takes me back to when I used a previous Dropbox blogging solution to move from Tumblr. Because It and Pelican have such similar metadata the move should a ‘skoosh’ as we say in Scotland.

All this talk about @blot convinced me to give it a try and I blame @jack I like Pelican but the need to build it back at base is occasionally a burden and I’ve never got my head round scaling images for mobile.