You know that feeling when you're on top of everything and know exactly what needs to be done but when you open a text editor (or whatever the tool is you need to work) it all sort of dissipates?
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That feeling of not-having-a-migraine after a day of having a migraine is almost worth the migraine. Almost.
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The sun just came out, pointed itself right at my face. I can't see my computer screen any more, so this is a win all round. I'll just be basking until it goes away again.
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I went on some nice evening flat Lincolnshire runs. I taught J chain and single crochet, and by the next day she was churning out masterpieces. I made the cat butt coaster, for my brother.
It has been amazing to have J cooking for us for a couple of weeks. We were treated to vegan Japanese feasts, night after night. Aubergine with miso sauce, inari, fried tofu in shiitake sauce, mapo tofu, Japanese curry, okonomiyaki, nikoman, yaki udon, and more.
I chipped in a few times with doughnuts, apple cake, lemon drizzle cake, hummus, lasagne, pasta, curry.
Chips on the beach at Sutton-on-Sea. My chips were from Alford, because both Sutton-on-Sea chippies cook in beef dripping and are aggressive about it when people express their unhappiness with this on TripAdvisor (partly because one also offers a lot of veg*n options but still cook them in beef dripping and don't seem to see a problem with this).
I spent as much time as possible in my dinosaur onesie, and J thinks this is kawaii. So I made her a tiny version of myself to take back to Japan. It's been a while - years - since I did amigurumi and then I only dabbled. The dino was quite complicated but I followed a fantastic video at ClubCrochet and it took about 2 hours (twice as long as the video).
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A couple of days looking around flats in Kirkcaldy. The beaches are gorgeous. The high street is a bit tragic. But overall a really nice town.
One thing I love about travelling on a monthly cadence is that if I stay in a place that is unpleasant or uncomfortable or annoying in some way, it doesn't matter cos I'm not there for long. So I'm thrilled to find Scotland have encoded this in their tenancy laws! There's no minimum lease period now, you just pay one month's rent ahead and have to give 28 days notice. This is so empowering for tenants, and makes flat hunting a lot less stressful.
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The grey days in Scotland make the sunny blue ones sweeter.
I wouldn't object to fewer grey days though, if that was, you know, an option.
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Have I mentioned how beautiful Edinburgh is?! Of course the sun only came out on the days I had to stay inside and work, but I did manage to have lunch and go for a run around Holyrood.
Breakfasts from bbl (who have an amazing vegan deli these days) and doughnuts from ConsiderIt.
Brunch at Cakes by the Lake in Southwell.
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We must send so much information to the letting agency, enough to steal our identities! And it's so complicated to get it all together. Oh and money too. More money! And it's urgent!! Send it right now!!!
And they will send the tenancy agreement "shortly" (hours ago, still waiting). The electrical and gas safety certificates are "to follow" (days ago, still waiting). Oh and by the way they don't work on Fridays or at the weekend, or after 5pm.
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Made seitan from vital wheat gluten and gram flour. Krispie cakes with stale cocopops (these are vegan now apparently), choc chip muffins (not pictured), miso soup, inari, maki..
Had to call the bank (HSBC) yesterday. Did all the security clearances and stuff. Extra ones cos I don't call often and had forgotten most super secret codes.
"Is it Miss or Mrs?"
"Uh.. Dr."
"Okay then. Next we just need to... can I call you Miss or Mrs?"
"............ you can call me Amy?"
The operative did proceed to call me Amy after that, but I'm even in the banks records as Dr (finally). Anyway can we just normalise gender neutral and not-marital-status-related honorifics please? Or just like, names. Which is what they're for.
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