Updates to my ‘now’ page.

Tonight’s home cocktail experiment. A Corpse Reviver No. 2.

On a whim I was researching Lord Peter Wimsey’s Daimler Double-Six: “Mrs Merdle”. What a beauty!

I see pinboard.in seems to be down. Does anyone know how long it’s been offline?

Heretical corruption of classic Maltese snack? Seasonal delight? I can’t decide.

Today’s view.

Today I read The Driver’s Seat by Muriel Spark. A very strange book. Great writing but a little underwhelming.

I just orderd a new small notebook for a family holiday that’s coming up soon. I really like the size of this bu I love the labelling on the front cover! (It’s a company called Iconic and the paper is Nippon Paper)

As a stationery nerd my ears pricked-up with Bill Nighy talked about getting his new hard-backed diary. Now I really want to know what he uses!

Last night we tried a new meal but it was a huge let-down. Crispy rice salad with tofu, lime and herbs sounds great but there were a few red flags in the recipe.

One was taking perfectly-cooked rice and baking it back to raw crunchiness. The other was the huge amount of salty fish sauce involved.

Looking at social media tonight I saw something apologising for being “1 minute and 49 seconds long but don’t let that put you off” and I thought have we come to a point where we have to challenge people to focus for two minutes.

And I sound so old…

Our friend Maggie’s big birthday party has an amazing cake. In this case ‘abridged’ means gluten-free and that’s for me.

Some postcards heading out into the wild. Heading to some of the ‘Analog Tools’ people.

Over on the big blog I’ve been re-evaluating my Apple browser choices. Concluding that third-party browsers are on balance better but it’s close.

I wonder if I’ve missed anything.

Choosing pens for the week ahead, I decided to go with a theme.

I’m struggling to think of any other electronic hardware from the 1980s I’m still using now.

With a major update to MacOS I feel the need to try Safari again. It has some real advantages in how it integrates across all the Apples. I still prefer Orion on the Mac, especially for how well it handles loads of tabs in a vertical sidebar.

My next pocket notebook is an Iconic Adorable (that’s the name!) notebook.

We are rewatching ‘Singin In The Rain’ once again. When I was younger I used to hate the whole ‘Broadway Melody’ section of the film.

Things have changed and I now understand just how magnificent it is.

I was reading an article on why the places we love in books can never quite be found in real life and they mention Sherlock Holmes’ 221B Baker Street in London. For me, it’s been clear for a long time that the Baker Street flat is actually an Edinburgh flat, reflecting Arthur Conan Doyle’s youth.

Updating all the fruit-based devices!

Updated my ‘now’ page.

Enjoying. The Casio F-91W in orange.

I’m looking for a tool (guillotine?) to be able to neatly remove the binding off notebooks for scanning.

Any recommendations to be able to do this quickly? I think I need to be able to slice through as many pages as possible.

There’s a new Ezra Collective album out today. Excited!