May Photoblogging Challenge - Day 1: switch (or switches, mechanical ones) 🤓
May Photoblogging Challenge - Day 1: switch (or switches, mechanical ones) 🤓
🖋New pen day! This is the Gravitas Pocket Pen in copper, with a 1.1 stub nib (my first stub). Just gorgeous. Lovely birthday present from my brother and sister-in-law.
New post: Rest
In which I get a bit philosophical about mistle thrushes and the past two years.
Finished reading: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman 📚. In another author’s hands, a detective series set in a retirement village could be patronising, but his cast of characters are brilliantly complex and surprising.
Finished reading: Atomic Habits by James Clear 📚 I don’t often read what you might call ‘self-help’ books, but this was superb. It made me rethink how I think about time.
New post: Back to BEAKL
In which I explain some recent changes to my keyboard layout, including switching (again!) from QWERTY to BEAKL.
Idly perusing ‘Coming Soon’ on Apple TV+, I was really excited that they are doing an adaptation of ‘Slow Horses’, Mick Herron’s series of darkly comedic thrillers about the MI5 rejects in Slough House. The trailer looks good, so I’m hopeful it will do the books justice 🤞
Sometimes I underestimate how stupid I can be when tired and stressed. Yesterday (when in both those states), I tried to replace the plastic cable cover on my monitor arm, and couldn’t get it to stay on at all. Today I tried again and realised I had it upside down yesterday 🤦♀️
Finished reading: Piranesi by Susanna Clarke 📚
This is my second reading of this book. I loved it even more the second time around, as I found that I could focus more on the journey of the main character, knowing where he would end up. I also felt very tender and protective of him. This one of those books with an ‘aftertaste’ - a good one! The world that Piranesi inhabits sticks with you a long time after you finish the book.
It’s quite some time since I last used the BEAKL 15 layout, so I’m surprised to find that I still have some muscle memory remaining for it. This is probably a really bad idea, but sometimes it’s fun to play around with your brain a bit!