🗁Added 21 photos to album Fife 2021.
Got the keys to my new flat. Started cleaning / fixing / dismantling but then the boiler gave up and had to pause everything.
Got the keys to my new flat. Started cleaning / fixing / dismantling but then the boiler gave up and had to pause everything.
What fun.
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Gale force winds and freezing rain for more than a week now. This is the longest stretch of consistent weather since I moved here. And I am sick. of. it.
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Some things with tofu. A lentil loaf which was a good experiment. A good week for slow cooker stews (blizzard, and busy). Almond milk panna cotta with aduki bean topping and nuts.
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me, hearing my brother swearing in the next room: what's wrong?
brother: it's snowing in the bathroom again.
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It's quite nice out now, in between the snow storms.
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The coldest week in the UK since 1995 or something? It snowed a lot, the sea was furious, and everything froze solid repeatedly. It was a terrible week to not have a boiler, and to have to keep going back and forth between opposite ends of town with every step an icy hazard. But it was very pretty.
I don't know what's going on with me this week, but I don't think I've been this tired in years.
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On Seafield beach at sunrise, for a change. Breathtaking.
"No food in the house" this week until the BBL order arrived later than expected.. so I made "no-food" lasagne (soy mince, red lentils, tomato sauce; cream not-cheese in the white sauce), seitan chicken, "no-food" pizza (with seitan chicken, sweetcorn, pickles, tomatoes, and the last two mushrooms) and "no-food" curry (with chickpeas and seitan chicken; we ran out of white rice but I scraped together a mix of brown sushi rice and barley).
Friday brought the veg topup and BBL order (see: burger) to end "no food" week.
I made a chocolate and raspberry cake to round the week off.
The vegan chocolate berry meringue nests are from Roots & Seeds cafe, a delightful surprise find when I was walking into town one day (I knew about the cafe, didn't know they had vegan cake, let alone meringue).
I just got a surprise Indian food delivery because I pre-ordered on Friday in anticipation of celebrating moving into my new place and COMPLETELY FORGOT. Past me is a genius.
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Another sunrise start (pictured from Linktown and Dysart) for boiler replacement.
And finally moved! Celebratory cake and surprise Indian food (from The Tiffin) pictured.
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My new place is on a main dog walking route, and my desk is by the window, so I'm shouting my brother to tell him about every single dog I see walk past. He's already fed up of it and it's been like, half a day. Should I make a blog just for this?
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People often express concern for my back when they find out I sleep in a hammock. But of people I know with back problems...
and of people I know who sleep in a hammock (me), 0% have back problems.
Just saying.
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I couldn't move into my new room until the violent shade of blue was gone. Just covered it in white for now, three coats, and omigosh what a relief.
B*tco*n people are all like 'revolutionising the economy' and in the next breath 'have fun staying poor' like these people don't want to revolutionise shit they want to keep the status quo but with themselves in charge.
(yeah yeah Not All B*tco*n People, I know, but seriously, huge swathes of this community are just absolute garbage.)
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Biked into town for veg and it was a beautiful day but ugh I do hate cycling. Sat on Ravenscraig beach to eat a plum to recover.
The next time I just walked. Dave and I spent a day cleaning the old flat, before handing the keys in, then walked all the way back and ate ice cream on our new beach (stoically ignoring the rain) to celebrate.
Caught some obscured sunrises from the new flat.
Discovered Health Foods & More to be a treasure trove of vegan treats and eco household stuff (I thought it was just supplements and alternative medicine)!
Dysart is still so so cute, I feel like I'm on holiday every time I go out. As long as I stick to the coast/port part of the village, I can't even tell I'm in Kirkcaldy..
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The sun lures me out for procrastawalks when I should be working. Who am I to resist. Also found a nice nook to read in. And cool rocks on the way to West Wemyss.
DIY stands for Dave-it-yourself.
More photos of hanging out on the beach, sunrises, and the moon.
Walked to Burntisland. Nice to sea Seafield again. The water in the bay at Burntisland was still like glass.
A couple of things with tempeh; spaghetti bolognese; several curries.
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