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Clear nights, bright moon.
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- 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.
- Finished Legends and Lattes. Started We Won't Be Here Tomorrow.
- Made many mince pies at the Community Kitchen, and falafel at home.
- Watched all of Only Murders In The Building.
- Had a great many walkies with Max including a day out in Edinburgh.
- Snowed under with Ops work, recruitment stuff, and Spanish employment law anxiety (it's all fine, though).
- Nacreous clouds! For three days in a row! Lots of walkies and cuddles before Max left for his other home.
- A great many walkies and sunrises.
- Mired in recruitment again. Hired two more Python developers, started onboarding prep. Sifting for Data Analysts (application deadline 24th Dec...).
- Actually did some BODS scheme refactoring work though.
- Made ginger cake and green tomato ketchup at home, and plum and raspberry cobbler at the Community Kitchen.
- Finished The Bear. Watched uh all of Fleabag.
- Swam in the sea.
- Finished Look to Windward. Started Legends and Lattes.
- Fungus gnats continue to drive me to despair, but the spider population has increased considerably which is nice. The second birds eye plant died. All hope for a chilli filled summer hangs on the scotch bonnet.
- A great many walkies and sunrises.
- Mired in recruitment again. Hired two more Python developers, started onboarding prep. Sifting for Data Analysts (application deadline 24th Dec...).
- Actually did some BODS scheme refactoring work though.
- Made ginger cake and green tomato ketchup at home, and plum and raspberry cobbler at the Community Kitchen.
- Finished The Bear. Watched uh all of Fleabag.
- Swam in the sea.
- Finished Look to Windward. Started Legends and Lattes.
- Fungus gnats continue to drive me to despair, but the spider population has increased considerably which is nice. The second birds eye plant died. All hope for a chilli filled summer hangs on the scotch bonnet.
- Had a cold. Slept a lot.
- Crocheted some sea creatures.
- A bit of a stressful Coop week, again.
- Watched all of Pose.
- Made green tomato chutney.
- Went to Glasgow and Helensburgh.
- Max came to stay with me.
- Aphids have finished off all of the lemon pepper plants and one birds eye in my living room, and given up and mostly moved out, it seems. The second birds eye and scotch bonnet are clinging to life. Fungus gnat population has escalated dramatically.
Week in review: 12th - 18th February
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Lucky to have some more gorgeous clear days for beach walkies. And also to have a Max to snuggle on the sofa on the rainy days. Such a cuddly Max.
Week in review: 18th - 24th December
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More walkies. Max has a great time with giant sticks. I'm glad he can entertain himself while I sit and contemplate the waves.
Xmas eve Tiffin delivery.
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A day out in Edinburgh with Max, who was Very Good. I had to pick up a box from BBL, and then we had a doughnut in ConsiderIt with JH.
Max was very good. We had a frolick across the Meadows, and took the train home from Haymarket.
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More walkies, more nacreous clouds!
And a visit to the market for the first time in a while.
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Nacreous clouds at sunset! Far more vivid than my camera could capture, in the colours of the trans flag. Max and I watched them from the beach until they turned bright orange and dissipated..
Week in review: 11th - 17th December
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Week in review: 11th - 17th December
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🗁Added 22 photos to album Life in Fife, 2023.
Max models the sunrise.
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Walkies through the Wemyss woods. No oyster mushrooms except old ones.
Week in review: 4th - 10th December
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