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 …
Author archives: Scattered Thinker
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. …
Transference
I have been pottering in my studio. Having cleared the bench, it seemed as though I should put it to good use.
Which I did, with these five canvases.
Never mind the wood, watch out for the trees
because the trees have eyes
On shooting oneself in the foot (again)
Today I am (mainly) trying to fit a quart into a pint pot and am padding about the studio moving stuff from A to B to C and back to A again. It is tedious and dusty work. We had planned to head pub-ward for supper, as some kind of reward but Mr L has discovered that …