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Could not resist this beautiful little bowl from Dundee Community Craft and it’s a great bonus the work provides opportunities through craftsmanship for communities adversely affected by poverty, complex trauma, and substance use.
Steve Hodgson
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I just finished the fantastic Audible Originals production of 1984, a book that never loses its power and possibilities for reinterpretation.
Steve Hodgson
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I really like using these new concrete mechanical pencils from 22Studio but also that ancient Faber-Castell I bought _from a shop _ when I was a student.
Steve Hodgson
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@jack not had a chance to listen to this yet but looking forward to it.
Steve Hodgson
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Over on the big blog; memories of books.
Steve Hodgson
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I’ve decided to use up my stash of pocket notebooks with the worst paper first. Sadly that means Field Notes.
Steve Hodgson
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I love sitting in a presentation where someone just reads out the slides!
Steve Hodgson
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I’m delighted I finally finished one of my audiobooks that has been proving a challenge. Emily Wilson’s new translation of the Iliad was magnificent.
I tried to read the then-new Robert Fagles translation decades ago but never made it past the never-ending battles.
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@bsag An interesting read and I’m finding my essential MacOS apps less essential these days but the interoperability between Apple devices is what keeps me here on Apple.
It feels the days of Mac being ‘cleaner’, leaner and more stable than windows are gone
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Contours
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Dundee Art School yesterday
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I treated myself to a pair of Suwada nail clippers and they are fabulous. The (so-called) leather case I added was so crappy, and unconvincing, that I had to ditch it and buy something better.
The cordovan leather from Suwada case is reassuringly expensive but fantastic.
Steve Hodgson
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My barely-read ‘big’ blog is getting way more traffic after a post was linked to by Brad Dowdy and the One Addict podcast today.
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@toddgrotenhuis It’s an Alessi coffee maker
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I tried breakfast in the back yard but it was a wee bit too grim this morning.
Steve Hodgson
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I’ve been a bit busy with the online updates…
Updated my review of the iA Writer notebook - TLDR: great design, lousy paper
Tried using vintage fountain pens again.
Updated my ‘now’ page.
Steve Hodgson
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Loving my birthday gift of a new tiny stovetop moka coffee maker.
Steve Hodgson
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Birthday macarons
Steve Hodgson
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I don’t move away from fountain pens often but I seem to have a style I favour. The heavier brass Ecridor model is a bit of an outlier but very much the same size and shape.
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I’m reading (with my ears) the new translation of The Iliad. Like when I first tried to read the Robert Fagles translation I’m stuck by how ‘anatomically correct’ the many, many, deaths are.
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It’s a particularly bright stationery day today. 🍊🍋
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Beach at high tide.
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Through the round window…
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Over on the big blog I’ve collated all my thoughts on my iA Writer notebook.
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Ghosting through the paper in the (very expensive) iA Writer notebook. Images are fountain pen, fineliner then a mixture of rollerballs, ballpoints and even pencil.
Because everything shows up on the reverse side this means it’s only good for one-sided writers. Not good for me!
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Although it’s a lot of work, I really enjoy making biryani.
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@cygnoir ghosting with a Montblanc fineliner pen too so I think it’s ballpoint or pencil. I’ll maybe try rollerball next time.
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@BestofTimes I tested the iA Writer notebook this morning and it’s not great with fountain pen ink. It’s quite visible from the reverse of the paper so it might be a better paper for ballpoints and pencils.
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@matthewlang I know. I couldn’t resist trying one.
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@hjertnes Do you have a photo of the clip?
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@cygnoir let me know what you think if it. On the face of it, it seems to have all the classic Murakami elements in there.
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@cygnoir and one of them an advance release. The City and Its Uncertain Walls is not available here until November.
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@cygnoir I’m guessing that might be a consequence of the move to Swift UI
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@Miraz I hope so too. I have skin in the game as a member of a 🇬🇧 political party.
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@Gabz always love a screen shot. What’s to the left of Ulysses? And the pink heart and elephant.
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@odd The Trainee Animator has a dark sense of humour!
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@Ron I think I read it’s a bumper year with two different types of cicadas coming out at the same time for the first time in decades.
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@philbowell my only real gripe with Things (a deal breaker) is the inability to mark recurring tasks complete early. They appear to have no interest in providing this and I can’t imagine why they favour their approach.
Steve Hodgson
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@jeremycherfas Would it stretch to car tyres?
Steve Hodgson
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@BestofTimes seems I’m not alone in have problems in Kagi search under iOS 17.5
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@maique that watch is lovely!
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@bsag I think it may have been you first highlighted them to me
Steve Hodgson
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@ayjay yes. It’s proving very annoying especially coming from the company where these services are supposed to just work.
Steve Hodgson
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@bsag the first two, but not the last. Animated films have been part of our cultural life since the girls were wee (as we say in Scotland). Studio Ghibli in particular but others too.
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@bsag That was the first film that the Trainee Animator and I went to see after lockdown was lifted. I was blown away by the representation of the wolves’ senses and we believe these kind of things are more believable as animation that in special effects.
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@Munish and that’s before international shipping costs are added too!