🗁Added 35 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
A few bright days
Posts between 2024/02 and 2024/03 (24 out of 24)
- A bit of a heavy week. Long days, and coop angst. Running out of patience for being the person in the middle of everything.
- Dave and Huan visited for one night, eating everything in sight like a swarm of locust. (Read: with great affection.)
- Started The Difference Engine.
- Made lemon tart at the Community Kitchen.
- Swam in the sea twice.
- Finished Ugly Betty.
- Gallivanting in Glasgow (Went for Tripod training about conflict in non-hierarchical groups. I'd booked it before This Week, but it was incredibly useful).
- Adventure in Anstruther.
- Too much to do, not enough time, and no time or energy for anything other than coop. Better than last week though.
- A day coworking (and eating pizza) in Edinburgh.
- Made raspberry chocolate cake at the Community Kitchen.
- Swam in the sea.
- Watched The Artful Dodger.
- Day trip to Helensburgh to visit J and the gang.
- Big waves and king tides demolished more of the bank, and excavated a secret tunnel at the bottom of my beach steps.
- A slightly less stressful week, feeling more on top of things. Trending up.
- Made peanut butter cups and raspberry cake in the Community Kitchen, and peanut blondies at home.
- Had a Co-op OGM.
- Spent a whole day on BODS schema tests refactoring, which was nice.
- Hung out with Max and founder winter oysters.
- Swam in the sea thrice.
- Some TAG documents were mentioned in a report by the UN Human Rights Council about ethics and web standards, which is pretty cool.
- Finally enjoyed a weekend with NO PLANS. Used it to make a website for The Kitchen Treasury (pending approval).
- Headphone shopping, as the Sennheiser MM450-X I've had since 2019 are finally giving up (one ear has stopped emitting sound, and the bluetooth and noise cancelling won't even switch on). This is the third pair of essentially the same headphones I've been buying since 2009 because they're compact for travel and really comfy to wear for hours. I have very small ears, so they're perfect for me. Only now I only seem to be able to get the 550-X model, which would be fine, but it's from circa 2015 and still £140+ secondhand for some reason; 3x what I've paid previously. I'm tempted to just pay it because I know what I like, but on the other hand maybe I should investigate other headphone brands..? Hmm.
- Finished The Difference Engine (found it a bit challenging to stick with; probably would have enjoyed it more if I knew more about the time period it's set in). Started The Algebraist.
- Enjoyed an evening in Edinburgh with JB and RG.
- Bought some bright pink beats headphones from a local person and they're good so far. Bulkier than the sennheisers, so we'll see how they travel.
- Made jelly and (n)ice cream at the Community Kitchen, and an emergency birthday cake for a child which was requested right at the end of my shift (it was my pleasure). And earl grey, orange and thyme cupcakes at home.
- Got loads of BODS done, again!
- Started This Is Us and started and finished the newest season of The Orville.
- Ups and downs in co-op land.
- Swam in the sea twice.
- Went on walkies and enjoyed some clear, still days.
- Enjoyed an afternoon in Kirkcaldy JB and K, and discovered Merchants House has a new vegan menu..
- Planted some more things and cleared up the garden.
- The daffodils and crocuses are out, though it's still frosty in the morning. Mixed signals regarding the onset of spring..
- Encountered my dear frenemy and neighbour Mulder with no barking and growling for the first time ever! The strategy was to wave a bag of treats from the distance as I approached. He took one from me quite happily and climbed up my leg like we've been friends forever. I've been carrying around treats waiting to try this for a while. He has previously hated me with the burning rage of a thousand suns (because, I presume a) I live in close proximity to his territory, and b) because I associate with Max, whom he hates even more), so I'm very happy all it took was one treat to turn things around. Hopefully he can stop barking whenever I'm tiptoeing quietly through the hallway between our two homes, now.
- Watched Hamilton. Almost turned it off a couple of times, but was mostly enjoying it by the end. Learnt a lot more about US history than I knew before, and managed to stick with it, by wikipedia-ing things for the duration.
🗁Added 16 photos to album Misc visits.
A night and a day in Glasgow, mostly for a training course. But also a visit with F&M, curry from Raunak Raseeli India, pastries from The Dorky French, and fancy dinner at Stereo.
🗁Added 19 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
A day out in Anstruther, with K&M and RG and dear slimy Lowenna. We ate chips and sorbet and frolicked on the beach, then played board games.
Week in review: 29th January - 4th February
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🗁Added 9 photos to album Edinburgh 2024.
A day of coworking in Portobello. Pizza for lunch, pida for dinner. Pretty birds on the beach.
🗁Added 18 photos to album Homemade food.
Confronted with an enormous mound of frozen raspberries, and a desperate craving for chocolate cake, I made many raspberry chocolate cakes, and covered it in raspberry chocolate ganache.
🗁Added 10 photos to album Misc visits.
Day trip to Helensburgh for an educational time and curry with E&E (and J&F). It didn't even rain! But we stayed in.
🗁Added 61 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
Some braw clear days, and some stormy rainy ones (not photographed). King tides and big waves excavated a secret tunnel at the bottom of my beach steps, toppled a load of the brae, reconfigured the beach again and trashed the carpark at Path Head.
Week in review: 5th - 11th February
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'Pay to avoid ads' is more of a hostage situation than a business model.
Especially given that ads creep into paid services regardless - ie. on-demand streaming media, cinemas, cereal boxes...
I'm tired of this false dichotomy being presented as the only way to keep the web platform alive.
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🗁Added 48 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
Some very braw and very dreich days. The sea was very still compared to recently which was nice, and once I went out to swim in the mist. It was all very muted and gentle.
Also, a walk to Wemyss, and some winter oysters.
Food at The Kitchen Treasury.
Making a little website, like in the old days.
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I was feeling left out, but I finally got some of that Mastodon spam I've been hearing about.
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In reply to: https://rhiaro.co.uk/2024/02/making-little
It's not like the old days though because I now have the power of ALMIGHTY CSS GRIDS.
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🗁Added 42 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
Same old
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Two raspberry themed treats at the Community Kitchen this week: peanut butter cups (with a secret raspberry center) and raspberry swirl cake. Unfortunately the pink part and the vanilla part came out the same colour once baked, so I had to do swirly icing at short notice instead.
Also made peanut butter blondies at home, with almonds and choc chips.
Week in review: 12th - 18th February
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🗁Added 23 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
Clear nights, bright moon.
🗁Added 3 photos to album Stuff I grow.
Rhubarb is coming back..
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Potatoes and hot sauce on toast for breakfast most of this week. A lot of potatoes to get through before it's time to plant the next lot...
Raspberry jelly and banana (n)ice cream at the Community Kitchen.
Then a last minute birthday cake for a four year old who liked last week's pink icing.
Earl grey, orange and thyme cupcakes.
I flipped a nomelette without breaking it.
🗁Added 57 photos to album Life in Fife, 2024.
The usual views. Some days of very still sea, dramatic skies; swam twice.
An afternoon in KDY; lunch at Koku Shi and cake at Merchant's House... who have a new vegan menu! To pick up the customers left behind by Kangus, I presume...
Week in review: 19th - 25th February
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While I was drinking my coffee on the beach this morning, the confluence of thoughts about the writing style of The Algebraist (Iain M Banks) and the storytelling of Hamilton, which I watched last night, unblocked a plot point I was stuck on in a novel I started in 2018 and haven't really thought much about since.
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🗁Added 7 photos to album Homemade food.
A whole lotta frozen raspberries and coconut cream for a whole lot of cranachan. To emulate whisky in the cream, I used vanilla essence and liquid smoke. Instead of honey, I used agave. There was a gluten free version as well (Community Kitchen).
