I’m enjoying an IPA brewed in Leith using hops picked in New Zealand between 20:15 and 21:45 on the evening of March 14 2025 while the moon was in total eclipse.
I’m really liking my new Ansø pen developed with tactile turn. I’m not normally a fan of narrow pens but this nails it.
For the last 4½ years I’ve been using a Philips SmartSleep ‘sunlight’ alarm to wake me up. It’s been ok but with a few rough edges in the design choices mostly that it’s not easy to clear an alarm when it’s still in the sunrise mode.
Anyway I’ve finally ditched it for a Mudita alarm.
Bill Nighy’s ‘ill-advised’ podcast is the perfect antidote to the stresses of life.
I like the design of Mark + Fold planners but I’m glad I didn’t get the linen planner again this year. That ‘6’ looks smaller than the ‘2’ for some reason. I think it’s because the ‘2’ has a bigger surface area.
Very nice gong though.
Tonight’s first malt whisky is a 20-year-old Auchentoshan and it’s everything you’d expect from that combination!
As we approach Halloween this seems an appropriate book to start on my train home today.
(railway ticket bookmark for scale)
I have just finished reading Nevil Shute’s Trustee From The Toolroom. it was very, very, good!
I finally start my ‘Dundee’ coffee tomorrow!
Welcome to the strange world of Leica R lenses… It turns out that the secondhand lens I bought that was advertised as a ‘3 cam’ is actually a ‘3rd cam’ lens. That means it won’t work with older cameras such as a Leicaflex SL.
A 3 cam lens has three cams while a 3rd cam lens only has the 3rd cam!
Leaving Malta after visiting family this week. My bag is stuffed full with Intangible Cultural Heritage — also known as ‘Ftira bread!
Our AirBnB in Malta has one feature that’s sufficiently grim we are booking a hotel for tomorrow onwards.
One of my highlights of 2025 was visiting this place.
This is lovely … I just need to find a lens for it now.
The answer to the question “how many film cameras should I have?” is one more than is sensible.
On that basis I’ve excelled, buying a body where I don’t (yet) own a compatible lens.
Something in MacOS 26 is causing this but I don’t know what.
I liked this in the last edition of ‘Idler’ magazine.
Whenever I want to concentrate on writing or reviewing something I turn to my ‘One album to play on repeat playlist’.
My wife is reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer. She hates it so much that she only reads (aloud) the first sentence from each paragraph claiming it still reflects the author’s intention.
