Updated my ‘now’ page for the weekend.

On my phone I love Drafts for quick notes and doing things with them — like this post. So it’s mostly ephemera. I love Bear for longer more permanent notes that are linked.

But Tot has a place in my heart too — it’s just an example of elegance.

Looking forward to my next malt whisky but I will need to report back on what it is and how it tastes.

Aurora’s blue ink is the anti-climb paint of the ink world! I don’t think it ever quite dries.

From today’s NYT. As someone outside the US I’m wondering if this happens for mass shootings at schools too. 🤨

Kårehamn in Öland where we had some lovely fish.

Finding that my new fountain pen friendly highlighters are great!

I tried the new Instagram on iPad experience.

Grim.

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My daughter got a big box of lovely chocolates from her uncle for her 22nd birthday. I hope she’s up for sharing!

Last night’s pre day off beer was lovely.

Radio 4’s In Our Time will not be the same without Melvyn Bragg.

I enjoy the way each episode hits the ground running, as Melvyn opens with something like … “In 1523, Jan van Essen and Hendrik Vos were burnt at the stake in Brussels, becoming the first Lutherans executed by the Council of Brabant.”

I do enjoying using these in cooking and on food

After hours of ‘colouring-in’ this weekend I think I’m bumping up against Lightroom’s ability to handle big complex masks. Adding another area seems (repeatedly) to lose the whole mask.

Time for Photoshop maybe…

Looking forward to eating my favourite Maltese snacks soon.

I know it’s just corporate PR but I really liked seeing this in Edinburgh this morning.

A friend brought round a small pumpkin/squash from their allotment. Lunch today was pasta with fried pumpkin, guanciale, red onion and thyme. Lovely!

I really like how the FT’s iOS app switches read articles to monochrome in the ‘FT Edit’ view.

I may have finally solved the problem of finding the perfect highlighters for fountain pens.

These pencils avoid that waxy deposit that can happen with other fountain pen friendly highlighters.

An important milestone in each planner season is the announcement of the next year’s Mark + Fold colours. I already know what I will be going for!

I thought these graphs were fascinating in that they show two things:

1. Just because something is exponential doesn’t mean use a logarithmic scale. The linear graph captures what really going on.

2. It’s shocking just how bloated Adobe Reader has become.

Updated the ‘about’ and ‘stuff’ pages on my blog.

It has been a while since I updated my now page.

Finding this old iPhone today, I was surprised just how small and light it is.

We are a family who enjoy freshly ground black pepper. This week I bought a Männkitchen Pepper Cannon and WOW it’s fantastic!

I as digging down clearing the Tech Drawer of Shame this morning. Like a good archaeological dig, there were a few gems there.