State of the flashlights 2026. I really liked that tiny copper Muyshondt Maus for everyday use but since it broke there’s been radio silence to my support queries so it’s heading for the trash. The bigger Prometheus Beta replaces it and I’m still happy with the other two Muyshondt models for travel
Their beans are eye wateringly expensive so I just bought one bag. 💰
As a stationery nerd, I’m often enticed by new mechanical pencils but keep coming back to these lovelies. I bought that Faber Castell alpha-matic when I was an engineering student in Dundee!
I agree with my wife — home is a time as well as a place.
I’ve been a fan of em dashes — particularly surrounded by hair spaces — for a very long time. I wonder if I like them enough to be flagged as an LLM AI?
I just wish more fonts supported hair spaces. I generally avoid them in anything being shared.
Off to see Jethro Tull play live at the Usher Hall tonight!
My 2016 passport is valid until the end of the year but I can no longer use it to travel to EU countries — but I can to the rest of the world! Post-Brexit rule changes mean my passport with a 10 year and nine months validity is no longer valid for the EU.
North Edinburgh today.
I subscribe to the UK government’s email listing products that are recalled for safety reasons.
Just ouch! ….
This weekend I read ‘Clown World’ by Jamie Tahsin and Matt Shea. It documents a four-year investigation into Andrew Tate and those men around him.
It has lodged in my brain since I finished reading it because it disturbed me more than I expected and it left me feeling slightly dirty.
Amazed at the difference in ‘heft’ between these two despite them being the same size. The one on the left is being rehomed with Daughter No. 1 as the family’s other coffee geek.
In coffee-related news, I’m excited by my new Comandante C60 coffee grinder. It’s a ridiculous buy-for-life product and I’m going to wait to the weekend to switch over.
No. 2 coffee aficionado in the family, Daughter No. 1, will be gifted my current grinder.
Whenever I hear people talking about the first crewed mission to the moon in 50 years, I keep hearing “crude mission to the moon”.
It appeals to the bits of dirty-minded teenager that survive in my brain.
I have looked at the new Day One Gold Subscription plan and I’m not sure I see it adding much value. With no reviews yet it’s hard to judge objectively.
