Anyone else having a grey day that pumpkin soup and bookstore browsing can’t fix? Here’s a pick-me-up!

I have a real fascination with abandoned places; this looks amazing.

Currently reading: The Listening Book by W. A. Mathieu 📚

Portishead, pinot, and ping pong tonight! 🏓

Non-spammy post time (sorry again), for camera peeps: would an iPad Air be enough to sort photos during a month of travel? I was going to take my laptop with me because my phone is old and sad, but the weight is considerable. What do you take as your hardware setup when you travel with your camera?

Oh no, I was tweaking some old blog posts and noooo, a whole load of images have come through somehow. Apologies!!

These browser tabs are getting away on me like gremlins after midnight :(

🎹Paraïba by Ritual Fade (youtube). Super nice.

One other thing that I found interesting today - my Blot.im blog achieved an ‘A’ rating with websitecarbon.com while my author page (with much less content) on GitHub pages got a ‘D’!

Does anyone know of any newsletter platforms or services where you can basically write up a markdown or html file, rather than having to use a convoluted web-heavy online portal? I love how easy Blot is to use for my blog, and I really enjoy the text-first feeling of using it.

Currently reading: Daughter of Smoke & Bone by Laini Taylor 📚

Went for a walk yesterday with the xPro2, trying out some new recipes. These are using the portra 160 recipe. Feels like a bit too much Portra? Though I like the warm, creamy feel. 📷

I think I’m turning into my dad, circa the era of his discovery of fax machine memes…

Bit of a weird harvest this morning: cherry tomatoes, wild strawberries, Szechuan peppercorns, and coriander and dill seeds. There are still two straggling cucumbers but I’m hoping they may still grow a bit before I pick them. 🌱

Shonen Knife @ San Francisco Bathhouse!

Chewie sunning himself in a patch of autumn sunshine!

I’m mastodonning. I think. Trying to figure out how to not spam everyone while still cross posting.

Flights booked for October trip! Thailand, South Korea & Japan. Now on to the fun stuff— where and when! Already booked accom in Osaka, Kurashiki and Kyoto…big decisions next about where to stay in Seoul and Tokyo. Thinking Insadong and Yanaka?

Happy Lunar New Year! So glad to realise the sound of explosions across the harbour was fireworks :)

Currently reading: Bryony and Roses by T. Kingfisher 📚

Finished: Luna and the Lie by Mariana Zapata 📚 One of the least-egregious romance reads this summer so far. My pile of more serious fiction is looking at me but I guess I’m still in potato chip mode. I shouldn’t make excuses about what I read…but it’s still hard to own the trashy stuff.

Really liking these Cern anti-harassment posters:

Currently reading: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik 📚

Getting ready for our trip next year!

Prepping for our NYE party while listening to the DJ set from the last one: “Noise Control,” which is what happens when a whole lot of 40 and 50 somethings get a pass for the night 🥳