🗁Added 3 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Cold and fresh. Visits to Maud and Jess.
Posts between 2023/01 and 2023/02 (29 out of 29)
- Quietly did Co-op and TAG things while few people were around for meetings and interruptions.
- Watched Aliens, Glass Onion, Alita: Battle Angel, The Labyrinth, and started The Boys. Continued binging How To Get Away With Murder.
- Caught up on November and December photo and week in review posts!
- Made chutney.
- Visited Maud and Jess.
- Cleaned the beach.
- Went in the sea.
- Crocheted most of a blanket.
- Drafted an update The Tiffin's website in anticipation of their new restaurant opening.
- Foraged jelly ear and found emerging winter oysters.
- Felt extraordinarily anti-social all week and mostly wanted to stay in the hammock, so it's amazing I did anything really.
- The year began with Tiffin and a midnight sit on the beach to watch the Edinburgh fireworks across the Forth. Actually they were all along the coast on both sides.
- Finished Smoke and Mirrors. Started The Lurking Fear as I seem to have finished all fiction but Lovecraft in the flat.
- After a mega productive week refactoring the tests for the BODS Schema, I thought I'd get back to it, but got immediately swamped by admin and meetings as lots of my colleagues came back to work.
- Also tinkered with the BreatheHR API in an attempt to get it to report the figures we actually need.
- Made courgette cake in the Community Kitchen, and pizza at home thanks to a donation of some Violife. J made pumpkin gnocchi.
- Braw sunrises until H came to visit, then it was grey, then braw again as soon as she left.
- Swam in the sea twice.
- Watched the new Indiana Jones with H and J.
- Got an astonishing amount of cleaning and laundry done.
- Planted onions.
- Planned some trips..
- More visits to Maud and Jess.
- Sunrises (finally) and walkies with Max.
- Found winter oysters emerging and lots of jelly ear.
- Made chocolate orange cake at home, and gingerbread at the Community Kitchen.
- A day in Edinburgh with Co-op colleagues.
- Crocheted.
- Mini Burntisland adventure.
- Went to Edinburgh to be with Tara. Went for walkies and cafe working and cuddles.
- Did Co-op strategy and governance things, as well as excessive amounts of admin.
- Saw J&E&E and F.
- Watched School for Good and Evil, How to Get Away with Murder, and read The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.
- Last day in Edinburgh with Tara. Mum came, and then we returned to Fife.
- Mum stayed for the week. We watched the sunrise and went on walkies with Max and crocheted.
- I blasted through my co-op todo list, but it doesn't seem to be getting much shorter. Felt productive though.
- I made peanut butter cookies at the Community Kitchen (and cake at home).
- I came down with flu symptoms.
- Mum left. I spent the weekend suffering alone. (I finished How to Get Away With Murder, and watched all of Mammals - because everything is shoving down my throat how funny it is but it wasn't, like, at all funny? and Willow series which I really enjoyed).
- Finished Empire of Light and started the Expanse short stories collection.
- One more day off work, then recovered from flu. Mostly stayed home all week. Skipped Community Kitchen pending full flu recovery.
- Did my tax return.
- Did some TAG work about third-party cookies.
- Lots of Co-op admin. Coordination around operations and strategy. Facilitiated a retro. Final logistics and agenda planning for next week's CoGM.
- Managed to sit on the beach most mornings for some braw sunrises. Really starting to feel like spring. Mustn't forget it could just as soon freeze again next week.
- Spent time with T, following the loss of sweet wee Lucy.
- Wetsuit swim in the sea.
- Finished reading Memory's Legion.
- Watched bits of She Hulk, Archer, For All Mankind, and Pandorum, Shotgun Wedding and possibly another couple of movies which left zero impression.
- Ate lots of chocolate. Ate things from the freezer and jars. Will hold off from buying groceries for as long as possible.. This is much easier when I'm only feeding myself.
- Cleared all the dead stuff out of the footpath garden, and turned all of the stray nasturtium seeds in so hopefully it will be full of surprise wild nasturtiums again. Also rearranged houseplants.
- Started sanding the bathroom cabinet that needs repainted, only a year late.
🗁Added 18 photos to album Foraging, 2023.
The sun finally came out, so we went for a rummage through the local woods where we found winter oysters last year. The tree that R climbed to get oysters a year ago has since blown down, making access much easier.. and it's just starting to fruit. Back in a couple of weeks.
Did go home with lots of beautiful condition jelly ear though.
Week in review: 26th December - 1st January
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🗁Added 4 photos to album Foraging, 2023.
Sneaky winter oysters are emerging... Back in a couple of weeks!
🗁Added 9 photos to album Homemade food.
Made a beautiful chocolate orange drizzle cake. It came to me in a dream. What if lemon drizzle... but chocolate orange?? Genius. With coconut ganache on top, as all good things should.
Also approximately eleven billion gingerbread folk at the Community Kitchen.
🗁Added 12 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
One clear day. A visit with tiny Maud.
🗁Added 7 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Up early to catch the bus to Edinburgh. Cake in Lovecrumbs, lunch at Sora Lella with Co-op colleagues. Dave gave me a lift home, and I treated him to a farewell dinner at Koku Shi on the way home.
Week in review: 1st - 7th January
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🗁Added 9 photos to album Stuff I made.
Made a mer-tail blanket for the new human my friend around the corner is going to create any week now. The yarn is absolutely gorgeous - all from a charity shop.
🗁Added 13 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Way overworked this week, so I took friday afternoon off. K and I stopped in town as we usually do, but there was no market and we felt like a change of scene. So we went on a grand adventure to Burntisland (the second-to-next town around the coast), had a nice lunch and ice cream on the beach. What exciting lives we lead. But it was very needed forced laptop-away time.
🗁Added 4 photos to album Foraging, 2023.
Absolute ton of jelly ear out at the moment, in really good condition. Also some winter oysters were ready, so they got fried.
Week in review: 2nd - 8th January
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🗁Added 7 photos to album Edinburgh, 2023.
Cafe working and eating with Tara. Burgers and chips from Seeds for the Soul and #fish.
🗁Added 33 photos to album Edinburgh, 2023.
Tara and I started the day at Chapter One Coffee. It was clear and bright, if cold, and only rained at brief intervals of a few minutes at a time, which was about as good as can be asked for at this time of year. We walked along the Water of Leith for a couple of hours, then detoured to visit Green Bite. Our final stop in the evening was Harmonium, where I worked for a couple of hours before J and H joined us. Tara got lots of attention and belly rubs.
🗁Added 13 photos to album Edinburgh, 2023.
Tara and I visited Glow Cafe in the morning, which was lovely. Later we walked across town for delicious Malaysian takeaway from Soul Vegan and doughnuts from ConsiderIt.
On Friday, morning walkies across the Meadows, and early afternoon walkies along the Union Canal.
It has been a long and full week, with too many notifications. I am feeling positive, but extremely tired.
Fortunately I have had this gremlin all week to keep me stocked up on snugs.
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I let Tara lead the walk this morning and she took me directly to Chapter One Coffee in no uncertain terms. It was full, but she immediately charmed a stranger into letting us share the table, then found three more people who were willing to adopt her on the spot, and the staff gave her a special chewy treat.
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Week in review: 9th - 15th January
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🗁Added 33 photos to album Edinburgh, 2023.
The rest of the week in Edinburgh with Tara.
Saturday: I let Tara lead the walk, and she took me in no uncertain terms directly to Chapter One Coffee. It was completely full, but she charmed a stranger into letting us share their table, got a special chewy treat from the staff, and over the next hour found at least three other people who were willing to adopt her on the spot. Later, we met F for dinner at Henderson's, which was superfantastic.
Sunday: We walked down the canal to Harrison Park and threw the ball for a while, then got brunch at Glow Cafe. On the spur of the moment, we marched to the train station and in time to go on an adventure to Livingston to see Lowenna (and K&M). The pups were in full zoomie mode in the house and the park, both attention-seeking and and possessive, but wary of each other. Lowenna is very submissive, so Tara has no problem standing up for her boundaries, but it was Lowenna's house and Lowenna is so curious and playful and a bit in Tara's face, though Tara was a bit too mean at times.
Monday: Mum came in the afternoon. We had a walk down the canal, then cuddled with Tara, and finally dinner at Henderson's again. The creme caramel dessert was THE BEST.
🗁Added 5 photos to album Homemade food.
A not-cheese board and a chocolate hazelnut cake for Mum. Peanut butter cookies for ice cream sandwiches at the Community Kitchen.
🗁Added 18 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
A mostly cold and clear week, with braw sunrises that I got to see with Mum visiting. Also a walk to Wemyss with Mum and Max - rockfall at the fossil rock! Mostly all buried now. Not sure how stable it is.
🗁Added 1 photos to album Homemade food.
Flu-recovery comfort mac n not-cheese, with two kinds of Honesty Tasty soft cheeses for the sauce.
Week in review: 16th - 22nd January
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I don't know if I'm spoiled by worker co-ops, or just basic EU workers' rights, but the idea of losing a job with zero notice is just.. mind boggling. How is that a thing? People have stuff to wrap up, hand over.. besides everything else obviously wrong with it.. I'm just confounded. Does not compute.
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🗁Added 23 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
A good week for the sunrise. Back in the habit of going out now, whatever the weather. It's still gorgeous to start the day in solitude by the sea, even when it's overcast or drizzling.
Week in review: 23rd - 29th January
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🗁Added 14 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Beach walk and a sit on Ravenscraig rock for sunset.
🗁Added 3 photos to album Homemade food.
Perfect gooey matcha cookies with hazelnut white chocolate pieces wrapped into the centers. Baking at 9pm just because.
I saw some next level clouds at sunrise this morning (not for the first time) that were so unusual I thought I was seeing things. A smear in four parts, each had radial rainbow colours that reminded me of an oil slick. It drifted across the sky over the course of an hour that I was in a meeting, and I kept staring out of the window in awe.
I raved about it in the family group chat, because my sister knows science and sky things, and she identified them for me as nacreous clouds which are super rare!
I tried to take photos but they just came out white, which did little for the feeling I was hallucinating. They were very surreal.
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