Mail from Deborah in Florida earlier this week. I replied with a long letter written on the ferry on Tuesday.
The snail stopped by again today, with letters from Wales and from Texas. Both had good stamps
Monthly archives: May 2013
Stationery
I normally haunt The Writing Desk for my inky supplies but I stumbled across a new-to-me internet supplier recently and they offer even better value. Free postage for orders over £5 makes Bureau Direct an attractive proposition. They stock Herbin inks and also that lovely Ohto fountain pen… The reason that I find it worth …
Something happened to the time-space continuum
It has been quiet around here hasn’t it? I don’t know what has been happening but I have a belief that somebody has stolen around 8 hours out of my every day. I have to confess that I am all behind and scatter-brained. I have lost track of what is reported and what is not. …
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Spoiling
I was in town yesterday, alongside the passengers of the 3,200 berth Caribbean Princess, the largest cruise liner ever to berth in Kirkwall. It was a monster, a floating town that dwarfed the dock. I cannot begin to imagine how horrible an experience it must be to holiday on one of those things. The main …
A Tale of Two Loaves
Time is short around here and there is little yeasted activity happening (we are doing puzzles at every opportunity) That being so, I made some more of the non-flour seeded loaf earlier in the week. It was a disaster It’s dry and crumbly and completely unsliceable. No, I have no idea what went wrong. I made another one yesterday …
Puzzled
We are beavering away at the puzzles in every free moment that we have. Yesterday we solved one over morning coffee and the second in odd moments between then and lunch. The hints for yesterday’s unsolved pair have not helped us today. So far today’s puzzles are proving largely intractable, though I can report one solved before lunchtime. …