I'm often late to the party on new day-to-day tech stuff, like how it was mindblowing when I finally got a contactless payment card. Now I have bluetooth headphones and it's soooo freeing.
(If only I could get ubuntu to pair with them, or anything, but you know one thing at a time. They work with my ye olde android phone.)
Healthyish vegan junk and hearty dishes in my Mum's kitchen.
Runs around Stickford, cooking in my Mum's kitchen, and a visit to Southwell.
If there's one important lesson I've learnt from my mother it's that if you want cake, and you don't have any, just make some.
The good thing about being unfit is that when I do manage to get out for a run 15 mins / 1 mile is enough for the same physical release and seratonin hit that I needed to run 45 mins / 5 miles for when I was in practice. Way more time efficient.
Doughnuts and vintage in Nottingham.
Chips on the beach and epic rainbow in Skegness.
Lunch in Sheffield followed by a couple of days Co-oping in Wortley Hall. Then.. To Edinbraaah.
Edinbrah! A run around Holyrood park, breakfast at Considerit, lunch at Black Rabbit, dinner at Holy Cow, what a day.
A visit to Falkirk, Jane and the Kelpies, food at Fork & Mustard (everything can be vegan, including homemade croissants!), dinner at Behind The Wall, vegan macarons from Considerit (I never thought I'd have macarons again).
On to Stirling for the ODS Co-op dev retreat, plus a visit to Stirling Castle. Food at Loving Food (great seitan), The Regent, Cafe Aina (amazing vegan menu), Spice Garden, HBW Coffee (all veggie, but food menu not strong. Has pea milk!).
Back to Edinburgh after co-working in Stirling, and a climb up Arthur's Seat.
Giant nachos at the Auld Hoose; fancy unusual Indian at Dishoom; pizza at Nova Pizza; breakfast 'doughnut' at Considerit; lunch at Pomegranate Express; cake at Holy Cow, and adventures in nut luncheon. In between co-working, and suit shopping for K's wedding.
'Nut luncheon' is made entirely of peanuts, how bad could it possibly be? Sure it comes in the form of can-shaped pale mush. It surely can't taste as unappetising as it looks? The instructions say grill or fry. I fried it with coriander, cayenne pepper, black pepper and salt. The smell of it frying haunted me all day after. It got a pleasant crispy texture on the outside but the taste still left an awful lot to be desired.
The next time I cubed it and tried thyme, soysauce and Vegeta (MSG), and fried them with mushrooms. That was a bit better, but the bar wasn't high. I was impressed that even Vegeta didn't help.
Maybe it needs marinating in something..?
A pleasant jaunt to Currie, followed by food at Mosque Kitchen, and the Last Unicorn.
TFW a service you sign up for asks you for 'title' and you put 'Dr' and then it goes ahead and addresses you on every screen as 'Miss' anyway. Why bother even asking? Did it even store that first form?
And then you have to phone them to get it changed. I mean.
Back from Edinburgh to Lincolnshire. Went to Boston with Mum to look for more wedding clothes. Found these shoes but apparently they're not suitable. Faced with a choice between rushing off somewhere else, or quitting and having a Gregg's vegan sausage roll and tea, we chose the latter.
Mum and I took the train down to Brighton to visit Dave and Juri. We ate at the places Juri worked when she was working, and all hung out together when the kids were free. We walked through the Lanes, along the beach, visited secondhand shops and many many cafes. The Brighton Pavilion is so cool. The weather was pretty miserable, but it was nice.
On the way back we stopped for chips in Coningsby before finding my sister and taking her home with us.
An afternoon in Skegness. Chips and kite flying on the beach.
Packed up all my fairphones and shit, bounced through London, then off out again to the wilds of Europe.
After two days of buses, arrived in Bulgaria as planned in time to not have to cross any borders around brex- oh they moved it again. To correspond exactly with my next UK visit. Again.
Nanowrimo starts tomorrow!! I am psyched but extremely not ready.
But also kind of ready because I've been thinking about this story since 2012? But at the same time all that baggage might get in the way of me putting anything on paper. Eek.
