@hjalm big fan of Comandante manual grinders here. Especially the never models with bigger burrs.

@the These days I use an e-ink alarm clock (Mudita) that also uses bird song as a wake-up sound. I have the volume so low my wife sleeps right through it.

@patrickrhone it’s tough. I’ve been through it twice but it becomes great to see them spread their wings.

Secretly, we also came to enjoy the empty nest too. 🤫🤐

@ayjay One of things that struck me when I first read Gilgamesh years ago was that all the tropes of the modern buddy movie are there. Two people (one flawed) who initially hate each other develop grudging resprect and have to team up against a ‘baddie’ with one paying a high self-sacrificial price.

@ayjay I read that with interest because I have the Andrew George (thoughts?) translation of Gilgamesh sitting in my reading queue. I went to order the Simon Armitage but it’s not out in the UK until October this year!

@junethomas It caught my eye because I was curious to see if the shop was still in business.

Some years ago there was a basement flat just off St Stephen’s Street that had this in the window. flic.kr/p/5JjKpB

@johnjohnston it was a lovely beer.