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I agree with my wife — home is a time as well as a place.

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I’ve been a fan of em dashes — particularly surrounded by hair spaces — for a very long time. I wonder if I like them enough to be flagged as an LLM AI?

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I just wish more fonts supported hair spaces. I generally avoid them in anything being shared.

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Off to see Jethro Tull play live at the Usher Hall tonight!

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My 2016 passport is valid until the end of the year but I can no longer use it to travel to EU countries — but I can to the rest of the world! Post-Brexit rule changes mean my passport with a 10 year and nine months validity is no longer valid for the EU.

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North Edinburgh today.

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I subscribe to the UK government’s email listing products that are recalled for safety reasons.

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Just ouch! ….

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This weekend I read ‘Clown World’ by Jamie Tahsin and Matt Shea. It documents a four-year investigation into Andrew Tate and those men around him.

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It has lodged in my brain since I finished reading it because it disturbed me more than I expected and it left me feeling slightly dirty.

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Updated my ‘now’ page

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Amazed at the difference in ‘heft’ between these two despite them being the same size. The one on the left is being rehomed with Daughter No. 1 as the family’s other coffee geek.

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In coffee-related news, I’m excited by my new Comandante C60 coffee grinder. It’s a ridiculous buy-for-life product and I’m going to wait to the weekend to switch over.

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No. 2 coffee aficionado in the family, Daughter No. 1, will be gifted my current grinder.

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@manton sent a reply. The problem seems to be that there are two books that cannot be removed from my list

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First Man, 2018 - ★★★: letterboxd.com

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Whenever I hear people talking about the first crewed mission to the moon in 50 years, I keep hearing “crude mission to the moon”.

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It appeals to the bits of dirty-minded teenager that survive in my brain.

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I have looked at the new Day One Gold Subscription plan and I’m not sure I see it adding much value. With no reviews yet it’s hard to judge objectively.

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@manton Yes. I have a couple of recent books appearing in both shelves.

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@manton is there a problem with Epilogue not removing books from ‘Currently reading’ when they are marked as finished?

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Over on the big blog I updated (or remixed) an old post from 2012 about the principles I try to follow when I buy stuff.

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I’d welcome any feedback on it.

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Edinburgh now has a dedicated gluten-free bakery. It’s called Confelicity and I tried it yesterday and it’s great!

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My ‘salt cellar’ by Tsubota Aya arrived early and it’s a delightful thing to use in cooking.

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To Dundee, and a quick catch-up with the Master Animator. It’s always good to see their work in progress.

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Updated my ‘now’ page.

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I’m still amazed I can do this on my phone while sitting on a train.

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I’m also contractually obliged to confirm that I am also looking forward to seeing daughter no. 1 (the Master Animator) in about one hour.

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UK stamps are so boring compared to other nations’.

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In all my years living in Scotland and drinking gin and tonic, I have never been afflicted with malaria. QED!

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In stationery news my A6 pocket notebooks arrived today. From MARK + FOLD in London

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The orange one is glorious.

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The Ardnamurchan Distillery Heritage Barley Release is one of my new favourites. Lovely flavours of digestive biscuits, marzipan and melted butter.

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Although I really like using Field Notes notebooks as they are a great size, sometimes the paper is AWFUL with fountain pens.

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Watching ‘Bait’ with Riz Ahmed and I think I spot an architectural Easter egg. Our hero is auditioning to be the next James Bond and lives in Trellick Tower, designed by architect Ernő Goldfinger.

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I’m reading the most recent Haruki Murakami novel. I used to love his books but I’ve found the last few quite disappointing. I think it’s that they haven’t surprised — they’ve been MURAKAMI novels.

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@jeremycherfas yes my wife was surprised by how difficult it is sending cards from Palermo. Then none of them arrived!

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@manton Is the micro.blog / Epilogue search for new books ‘underperforming’ at the moment? I’m having problems searching for and adding new books.

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Based in the UK in case that’s a factor

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@patrickrhone I’ve been waiting all my life for a camera pendant! Finally I can be Doug McClure talking to Burgess Meredith.

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youtu.be/4iKGMFoNA…

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@landocakes.bsky.social Available now or Kickstarter? Saw him live many times and some great shows.

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@adders 😂

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@strandlines does it help if I add tinkety-tonk old fruit and down with the nazis?

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Yes, a member of the church

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@secretedinburgh.bsky.social Joy’s in Candlemakers Row has some quirky local things.

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@Munish @josephaleo is there any simple migration path between Day One and Apple’s journal?

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@thisness that’s interesting. I’m find it better than the last season with more interaction between the leads. What’s the criticism?

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@artkavanagh I don’t know what this is but it pops-up when I unlock the Mac. I thought it might have been LaunchBar but it’s not. Nothing in the Console logs either.

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@JohnBrady very common here in the UK and perfect for dipping into soft-boiled eggs!

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@JoeHoffman It’s such a fascinating period in history. I’m still half way through the three books I want to read and hope the third one is the best.

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I do like that phrase of yours!

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@todd no, a brand called Lyra Megaliner.

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@bestoftimes.bsky.social I got them through Amazon UK but they came from Europe.

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amzn.eu/d/1ycatmb

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@bestoftimes.bsky.social I got them through Amazon UK but they came from Europe.

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amzn.eu/d/1ycatmb

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@jeremycherfas there were two Psion 5s in the tech drawer along with my wife’s old Psion Revos. Elsewhere I have a Psion netBook that still works.

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@JohnBrady my local postman thinks the new owners of Royal Mail in the UK want to hi that way too. Each Christmas he notices the volume of cards significantly reduces.

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@Contrariwise Bear is for notes in short. Notes on books, IT stuff, lists and reference.

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@birming Today I tried the Happy Atelier in Stockholm to make a happy coeliac.

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@birming indeed! Then to Öland tomorrow.

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@jeremycherfas The Guardian is not impressed.

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@JohnPhilpin just a nice small socket adapter.

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