🗁Added 14 photos to album Edinburgh, 2023.
Two days of coworking in Edinburgh with my Co-op colleagues. We connected well, took positive steps forward for the business, ate some great food, and went ice-free curling!
Posts between 2023/02 and 2023/03 (24 out of 24)
- A confusing mix of frosty and mild days. Saw nacreous clouds!
- Pulled off a successful CoGM Hub in Edinburgh. Ended feeling extremely positive about all things Co-op. Well, most things.
- Started and finished Player of Games. Holy SHIT what a book. Started Neverwhere.
- Stripped the old paint of the ensuite cabinet more thoroughly than I planned.
- Started and finished The Irregulars and season 14 of Archer (whilst sanding the cabinet). Finished season 1 of The Boys. Watched Werewolf by Night which was good.
- Got out for sunrise every day and some walks with Max.
- TAG virtual face-to-face was full-on as ever, but fun and interesting.
- Co-op work remains intense but productive; preparing for hiring and upcoming AGM.
- Deflated by baking and repainting a cabinet. Watched Dirk Gently and started season 3 of The Boys.
- Despite all of the work, also managed to squeeze in some time with local friends.
- Decent Social conference ran, but I didn't join in the end; needed a break.
- The sinus infection that was threatining post-flu did not come to pass.
- I really feel like I need a week off, but there's nothing remotely on the horizon.
- Finished Neverwhere. Started Lilith's Brood.
- Spent time with new local friends; very uplifting.
- Made gluten-free coffee cake at the Community Kitchen, and peanut butter cups and gluten-free lemon coconut cake for friends.
- Calm seas and hazy sunrises. Swam in the sea.
- Chaired the Co-op AGM. Forward looking, productive afternoon.
- Worked on preparing to put some Co-op job ads live. Hopefully going up next week.
- L and S and Louie and Sandy came to visit. We wandered around Dysart/Kirkcaldy and went for a jaunt to The Old Barn Cafe of course.
- Things are growing again...
- Second February swim. High tides.
- Did my best to facilitate around some difficult interpersonal dynamics in the Co-op.
- Made pear cobbler and fancy truffles at Community Kitchen.
- Visited J&F&E&E in Falkirk and worked on the crochet sea turtle but didn't finish it.
- Enjoying Lilith's Brood, though some of the things the humans do are far more alien to me than the things the Oankali do. But also many aspects from the stories are working their way into my dreams quite severely.
- Hung out with Maud and Jess and K.
- Visited Dave in Dunoon. We climbed Bishop's Seat, visited Loch Eck and ate lots. Completely failed to see the northern lights despite being in a northern location with perfectly clear skies and low light pollution... because I went to bed early.
Twice in the last couple of days I've been asked to prove I'm human to sign up for email newsletters. Why can't robots subscribe to newsletters?
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🗁Added 11 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Cool clear mornings with vibrant clouds this week.
Week in review: 30th January - 5th February
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My brain is entirely at capacity. Please nobody ask me to think about any more things until further notice.
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🗁Added 25 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Rich sunrises with artistic clouds. A long beach walk with Max. The weather remains surprisingly warm.
🗁Added 6 photos to album Stuff I made.
Finally stripped and repainted the cupboard in the ensuite bathroom, only about a year and a half after buying it. This officially completes the ensuite refurbishment! I sanded and repainted it in semi-darkness while watching movies over successive nights this week, so every morning I'd take a look and be for some reason surprised to find it a bit patchy. Got there eventually though.
🗁Added 9 photos to album Homemade food.
Healthy omega muffins full of nuts and yoghurt and topped with raspberry frosting at the Community Kitchen. Coffee, hazelnut and pecan cake at home, made for the first time with gluten free flour. It was slightly denser and drier than usual, but nonetheless was well received by various test subjects. The frosting was coconut oil, strong brewed coffee and icing sugar, and that was pretty great.
🗁Added 16 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Good sunrises every day this week, in defiance of the clouds. A walk with Max on Thursday, although he was playing deaf and not being a Good Boy at all. He was better on Saturday.
Week in review: 6th - 12th February
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🗁Added 7 photos to album Homemade food.
Made some vegan and gluten-free treats for a small gathering. Peanut butter cups with secret blackberry jam in the middle. Lemon and coconut drizzle cake.
🗁Added 26 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Hazy sunrises and still seas... perfect for a swim.
🗁Added 4 photos to album Homemade food.
Gluten-free vegan coffee cake at the Community Kitchen. Carrot and avocado sushi rolls at home.
🗁Added 23 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
A weekend visit from Sandy and Louie (and their humans, L&S). We wandered around Dysart and Kirkcaldy, and went to The Old Barn Cafe for some dog and human treats.
Week in review: 13th - 19th February
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🗁Added 7 photos to album Homemade food.
Peach cobbler and fancy truffles at the Community Kitchen. I had to hand chop the almonds because the blender is broken. And this evening: a burger with mac n not-cheese on top.
🗁Added 30 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
This morning started grey and drizzly, but by early afternoon it had cleared up and the sun was out. I walked back from Community Kitchen by the scenic route, and encountered the highest tide I've ever seen. The beaches at Dysart and Ravenscraig were completely underwater, in some places all the way to the Ravenscraig Castle walls. It was relatively calm. I sat for a while and listened to the waves lap, and imagined that it just keeps rising, and swallows the world.
🗁Added 5 photos to album Stuff I grow.
Enough purple sprouting broccoli to eat in the footpath garden! And the rhubarb is coming back better than ever.
🗁Added 23 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
More cracking sunrises (and another swim). A visit with Maud and Jess (and K).
🗁Added 117 photos to album Dunoon, Feb 2023.
I went to visit Dave in Dunoon. We had a hearty breakfast in the Swallow Cafe, then went on a hike up Bishop's Seat. It was an easy hike, but varied in terrain, with some sufficiently steep and rambling bits to keep Dave satisfied, and fantastic views from the peak.
🗁Added 30 photos to album Dunoon, Feb 2023.
A short drive to the glassy and still Lock Eck. There were many many dogs playing in the water on one beach. Then cake and dinner in the Coylet Inn, which had plenty of vegan options for a small remote place.
Week in review: 20th - 26th February
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🗁Added 38 photos to album Dunoon, Feb 2023.
I walked the hour from Dave's place to the Dunoon ferry port, around the coast. It was a greyer, drizzlier day. After lunch in town, I took the ferry to Gourock. I had enough time to climb a hill, then back to the station for a lift home with T.
