Saddened to learn of the death of the Scottish writer (and more) Alasdair Gray.
📚 I just finished reading this book and it was wonderful and engrossing and full of interesting characters. One of the two best novels on time travel I’ve read this year!
I am so looking forward to reading this beautiful Christmas gift. A copy of The Jungle Books printed in Edinburgh 1932 and full of wonderful engravings.
I received a similar book as a gift when I was young but nowhere near as nice.
So many wonderful and thoughtful gifts this year. I am amazed the Trainee Artist made this and painted it for me - a wonderful Wemyss cat.
After a lovely Thai meal out with family and long consideration of Santa’s favourite, I will declare 18 year old Longrow to be the perfect Scotch Whisky.
‘The’ Bridge…
Feeling more Christmassy now. A Christmas Carol at the Pitlochry Festival Theatre was superb.
The trickle-down food chain economy of iPhones going to offspring has taken place early. My company’s benefits programme gave me £500 to put towards a technology purchase leading to me getting an iPhone 11 Pro.
Well, our decorations are old, they don’t match or they were made at nursery or primary school but there are a lot of memories tangled up in that tinsel and those homemade baubles.
In dreich Scottish weather it’s so useful to keep a waxed-cotton jacket in the boot of the car. Perfect to throw over high-tech coats that are a bit too delicate.
I really liked the geometry of these light shades at the V&A in Dundee.
I’ve not done one of these in a while but I am on holiday… Tonight’s crafty beer is a lovely cherry and almond sour at ABV 6.5% from Northern Monk and Left Handed Giant.
If this somewhat bizarre combination of a vinyl record of mechanical keyboard sounds is going to appeal anywhere it’s on my micro.blog feed!
I know what I’d vote for in the Wildlife Photographer of The Year awards. This photo of mice blows my mind.
A blog post from @jack about an old blog sidebar has got me excitedly looking over an old screenshot from 2003. More nostalgia from 2003 to follow on my main blog soon I hope.
I enjoyed creating OFFIMGs for my DM42 calculator. It’s quite a challenge making them work on the screen with only 1-bit available.
Daughter no. 1 prides herself in wrapping presents in an impregnable manner. So for her 18th birthday, Her little sister has wrapped them using heavy duty zip-tie ‘ribbons’.
I only recently learned how difficult it is to sync Soulver 2 files on iOS with Soulver 3 on the Mac. It’s a shame things aren’t more transparent. I used to use Calca for things like that but it’s passed the ‘year without an update’ point where I get cautious about using an app.
I’m reading Nine Suitcases by Béla Zsolt and finding it a hard text to read. But just occasionally a sentence grabs me…
“No, I’m not a beginner, I’m not lying among bodies for the first time , her in the synagogue of the wonder-rabbi.”
