Day 164 of Project 365: Zoltan, World Destroyer
I like visiting Alex and Marianne for many reasons. Zoltan, World Destroyer, their turtle, is one of these reasons. Here, Zoltan merely destroys dinner. In the next moment, one of his aquarium-mates (the finny, gilled kind) swam by as if to take a nibble off the side but failed.
Read MoreDay 163 of Project 365: Friend of a Friend
Day 163 of Project 365: Friend of a Friend, a photo by cygnoir on Flickr. Today I met Claudia, a friend of a friend, at the Scott Monument. We walked around Princes Street Gardens for a while, then sat down on a bench to talk. Conversation was quite easy and I was so relaxed that the one o’clock gun didn’t startle me. After this photo was taken, Claudia and I had lunch at the Spice Pavilion, shopped at K1 Yarns, and retired to the Jolly Judge for some pub knitting. It was an excellent day, and now a friend of a friend is my...
Read MoreDay 162 of Project 365: Pasta
Although we found ourselves in the lavish Art Deco surroundings of the Dominion later this evening for a movie with friends, I didn’t get any photos. Good thing we plan to go back soon. Of course I managed a dinner photo. This is how Nonna’s does gluten-free pasta with Parma ham, sage, and ricotta. The noodles they use are exceptional. It’s a real treat to be able to go into such a great Italian place and have so many options on the...
Read MoreDay 161 of Project 365: Travel Expenses
I haven’t filed travel expenses for my volunteer position in … ever. Oops. Today I remembered to ask for the expense form. Low photo creativity today, as I’m just a few hundred words away from a crappy first draft of a story I’m very excited about.
Read MoreDay 160 of Project 365: Just Let Me Knit
Day 160 of Project 365: Just Let Me Knit, a photo by cygnoir on Flickr. I was in the mood to knit today, but didn’t have the right needles to continue with FunkyPlaid’s jumper and didn’t have the focus to finish that shawl from last September, so I cleared some stash with a nothing-in-particular project. I still can’t believe I only bought one skein of this. Taking a photo of this on the sofa made me realise that an afghan in this colorway would go...
Read MoreDay 159 of Project 365: Magic Horses
On Monday morning, our little group took a brief excursion to see some standing stones.[1] We hopped a stone-and-barbed-wire fence — some of us more gracefully than others — and trudged out to the middle of the field.[2] One moment we were inspecting and photographing these amazing menhirs, and the next we were briskly approached by a small herd of horses. I was a bit bemused, so I only had the sense to take one shot before they wandered off again. Here Azra is inspected while trying to keep her phone out of the horse’s snuffling path. Azra took this amazing shot of FunkyPlaid with two of the herd. Please observe the phone-snuffling! O, and the standing stones behind him. As soon as the horses had determined that we were largely inedible yet...
Read MoreThat birthday lip dub again.
I learned a new acronym today: ICYMI (In Case You Missed It). For FunkyPlaid’s birthday last year, I enlisted the help of his wonderful friends and family all over the world to create a lip dub to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’”. ICYMI, here it is! It is a wet and chilly evening in Edinburgh, but we are warmed by birthday wishes and belly laughs.
Read MoreDay 158 of Project 365: Kye
Greetings from the pastoral splendour of rural Scotland. We took a walk around the estate with Kieran and Azra and their pup, Pippa, and I learned a new word for cattle: kye.
Read MoreThe Week in Tweets on 2012-04-29
Achievement unlocked: wrote a functional WordPress plugin. Now all the sleeps! # Day 152 of Project 365: Cornered. photo: http://t.co/JjpK2Vv5 ~ words: http://t.co/1DrodjxG # Levelled up in homemade pasta sauce tonight. I know this because of the giant sparkly clove of garlic hovering over my head. # Day 153 of Project 365: Teasels. And cynicism. photo: http://t.co/5UU2QdMd ~ words: http://t.co/vuKps3uX # Hey, paper geeks! A pic of my dot-grid notebook is on http://t.co/kbmI7eGw today. http://t.co/qCQmMuL7 #analoglife # This is huge. RT @tordotcom Breaking news!: Tor UK announces E-book Titles to Go DRM-Free http://t.co/uug2OhtB @UKTor @torbooks # I have definitely played this game. Planetary Resources: mining asteroids project launched – Telegraph...
Read MoreDay 157 of Project 365: Grassmarket
After being in the house for most of the week, my errand excursion into the world of the living today was quite eventful. I got over the initial disappointment of the library not being able to find the book I placed on hold, and headed off in the general direction of burritos! For there was a birthday burrito to bring home to a nearly-birthday-having FunkyPlaid. Somehow, and I am still not sure how other than thinking, “I need to be down a level from here,” I figured out how to get from one part of my mental map to another part of my mental map with no wrong turns. I even got to wander through the Grassmarket on the way. Here, the Castle doesn’t so much loom as it bear-hugs your eyeballs. As often happens when I stop to take a picture, someone...
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