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Photo — 2018-09-19
Photo — 2018-09-16

Louise, Alex, me and Jamie with our breads
Alex and I took our friends Louise and Jamie to a bread making workshop as part of a wedding present.
Thank you to Colin at Bread in Fife, who led the class and was great fun to work with. Formerly based in Freuchie in Fife, he has since moved to Edinburgh — but remains called Bread in Fife.
We had fantastic fun making bread that we baked in a Dutch oven. We each had our own recipe to follow. I made a wholemeal loaf, Alex made a walnut boule, Louise made a white cob, and Jamie made a harvest loaf.
While waiting for the dough to prove, we made digestive biscuits. We also made a Russian bridie-like pie called a pirozhki, which contained an onion and egg filling.
Lunch for this week is sorted!
Photo — 2018-09-15
The new Formula 1 timing app is comically bad. Even on quite a large screen, it only shows 10 drivers — at a gigantic font size. Meanwhile, the live driver tracker is juddery and completely unusable.
But hey, I guess it uses Sean Bratches’ new fonts.
The old app wasn’t perfect, but at least it gave you all the information you needed to follow a session, and the driver tracker was usable.
It’s difficult to believe Liberty Media did any usability testing with any F1 fans before unleashing this style-over-substance atrocity.
Photo — 2018-09-08
Alex took me to Training for Warriors, the high-intensity interval training programme she attends three times a week. Usually it is a women-only session. But today, regulars were invited to bring their male partners with them.
Alex was keen for me to see what she gets up to at Training for Warriors. I was a little reticent about going, because this isn’t really my sort of thing. I prefer moderate runs or long bike rides by myself.
True enough, I struggled at elements of today’s session. I have never been good at push-ups and the like — and moreover, I have never felt the need to get good at them.
Training for Warriors is also big on community spirit, with participants encouraging each other on. As an introvert, I actually find that sort of thing distracting, and more than once I flopped to the floor when someone spoke to me mid-push-up. I’ll stick to the solo bike rides!
Speaking of which, I’m doing Pedal for Scotland tomorrow. So I was also concerned about making myself sore or tired out ahead of 45 miles of riding tomorrow.
But although today was tough for me, I also found it enjoyable. I’m glad to have gone today, and really pleased that Alex is so enthusiastic about it.
Photo — 2018-08-28
Dinner at the Atomium.
Photo — 2018-08-27
Epic drive-through beer shop near Spa!
It’s called Drive-In Andrien, and it’s one of the most surreal places I’ve been to. You drive in through a garage door, and you’re basically in the Costco of Belgian beer. Many beers were purchased, and our wallets are not that much lighter…
Photo — 2018-08-26
Chilling on Eau Rouge (or is it Raiddilon?) after the Belgian Grand Prix.
Photo — 2018-08-25
Belgian Grand Prix beer times. 🍺
It’s not lost on us that it’s 10:30am at home. But it’s party time all the time at the Verstappen stand.
Photo — 2018-08-24
We’re here at Spa-Francorchamps!
Photo — 2018-08-23
Campervan fun times
Photo — 2018-08-23
Haas pit stop practice.
Photo — 2018-08-22
Would you believe it! Our campervan is orange. We’ll fit right in with the Max Verstappen fans!
Photo — 2018-08-04
Five Telegrams, Edinburgh International Festival 2018 opening event, by Anna Meredith and 59 Productions.
One of Edinburgh’s busiest roads was closed last night for this musical and visual work projected onto the Usher Hall. The sort of event that makes me really proud to live in Edinburgh.
Photo — 2018-07-29
Soulwax at SWG3 in Glasgow, 15 July 2018.
Photo — 2018-07-21
Photo — 2018-07-09
Don’t look down.
At the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead.
Photo — 2018-07-07
Photo — 2018-07-02
Putting with pals in North Berwick yesterday evening
Photo — 2018-06-16
Settling in for a night watching the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Only 15½ hours to go!
Photo — 2018-06-07
Thom Yorke and friends at the Usher Hall
Photo — 2018-05-10
Quarry by Phyllida Barlow at Jupiter Artland on its opening night of the year. Brutally beautiful.
Photo — 2018-04-21
Concorde at the National Museum of Flight, East Fortune.
Photo — 2018-04-07
Photo — 2018-03-31
You Are Still Here.
By Mona Hatoum, on display at Fundació Joan Miró.
Photo — 2018-03-30
We’ve had worse breakfasts.
Photo — 2018-03-30
The view from our Airbnb in Barcelona at 2am. Not bad. 👍
Photo — 2018-03-17
Field Music at St Luke’s, Glasgow. 🎼
Photo — 2018-03-11
Photo — 2018-03-03
Photo — 2018-03-01
A different lunchtime walk today, at Braidburn Valley Park.
Photo — 2018-02-28
Snow Day at Bruntsfield Links
Photo — 2018-02-27
Union Canal
Photo — 2018-02-16
−1
Photo — 2018-02-12
I’ll be honest; I’ve had better music rounds.
Photo — 2018-01-21
Fixed it for you
Photo — 2018-01-20
Photo — 2017-12-31
We have added a bit of brutalism to our living room with these fantastic brutalist coasters made by Slope Design.
Each coaster represents one of four iconic British brutalist buildings.
Photo — 2017-12-30
Alex and I took part in the torchlight procession today.
Photo — 2017-12-25
I told Alex once that I liked those weird items of matcha confectionary you get at the Chinese supermarket. Now I have all this, including a suspicious item called ‘Collon’.
Photo — 2017-12-10
The Christmas tree is up
Photo — 2017-11-26
Rachel Whiteread exhibition at Tate Britain
Photo — 2017-11-25
Concrete jungle
Photo — 2017-11-25
Design Museum
Photo — 2017-11-24
Ferrari exhibition at the Design Museum
Photo — 2017-11-18
Beware pedestrians
Photo — 2017-11-03
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Photo — 2017-11-02

Photo — 2017-10-29
Mexican Grand Prix night.
…Including home made churros!