Things become real when they're printed on little bits of cardboard!
Thoughts for the new year and my “new” age, from cat and girl:
A little preparation for tomorrow…
Merry Xm! Wherever you are, whatever you do, look around you.
Openstreetmap predicts the effects of climate change:
Spotted a remarkable, slightly frustrated and philosophical public information sign in Hembury Woods:
Blue flames in my Kachelofen tonight:
Vorsicht! 100 Eier! // Caution! 100 Eggs!
Only in the GDR…
Prepared some Cedar and European Walnut for dulcimer building:
We felled a tree at Neumühle and it was exciting!
This big fir was a perfectly nice tree in a completely ridiculous place. Out with the chainsaw!
The tree is replaced by our new firepit, made out of an old cast iron turbine bearing from the mill.
The tree’s legacy lives on in eight log stools made out of the trunk.
Wien.
Today: supported two of my favourite web publications (The Toast and Serious Eats) and cleaned a lot of chimneys, with predictable results:
Spent this morning doing maintenance work on this very old hurdy gurdy with a very interesting history, which I shall be writing more about soon:
Spotted this nice lichen-covered stone hiking near Meðalfellsvatn this weekend:
😂 HA HA HA HA HA no. Absolutely not, Duolingo:
Jeb: “It was you, Certrix, wasn’t it. You painted my visor. Again.”
Certrix: “hahahaha”
Gildon: “hahahaha”
Suspiciously tidy newstatesman.com page footer — how many of these staff were hired to make the columns line up?
#KSP scientific instrument malfunction gives insight into Kerbin’s internal structure; continents rest on dense mushroom soup layer; nature of lower levels still unclear:
I’m not sure any of my bowls are profound enough for this soup recipe:
Send a one-line drawing to the moon! I drew a hurdy gurdy: http://www.moondrawings.org/drawing/ubuafrct surprisingly difficult with only one line of finite length.
