Thursday 16 March 2023 I have had a break maker for more than twenty years, the current one is the second. I go through phases of using it, with the early pandemic months being the last regular-usage phase (until I was no longer able to restock flour and yeast). This morning, having started the timer […]
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Wednesday 15 March 2023 I couldn’t stop taking photos and videos yesterday, we finally had some proper snow. I had been taking photos through the Velux window in my office, using a camera I hadn’t used for a while and trying to get used to it again. I noticed that the light was changing and
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Tuesday 14 March 2023 Apparently, it’s -4 °C with a feels-like of -9 °C. Almost every morning in Scotland, when I come downstairs, I open the front door and stand outside. This morning, beautiful blue sky and a dusting of snow, but, wow, it felt like -9 °C. Yesterday, it rained almost all day, sometimes
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Monday 13 March 2023 I have finally found a place to read in the house. While the central heating was off, I set up one of our small blower-heaters on a small table directed at the charpai in what is now “the Indian area”. There is a small skylight and a fairly big window in
Friday 10 March 2023 We have snow. But nowhere near as much as I expected. There’s probably about one inch. My friend Carla in West Yorkshire, expecting us to have a similar amount of snow to be excited about, sent me a photo of their garden this morning, with about ten inches of snow, a
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Thursday 9 March 2023 It’s -4 ℃ and outside there’s a chilly breeze, the clouds are low and grey-white and there’s a feeling of worse weather to come (I say that having read various weather reports so I think it’s inevitable). But then, as always seems to happen here, I just keep looking out the
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