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A nice autumn day in photos: Tried Beringer’s, City Island for brunch.

Don’t worry, this is not a fashion blog (as you most certainly can tell!

Brand new dark-blue jeans and pristine new trainers are a truly awful combo 😬 Thank God for the good old masking-tape-inside-the-leg-opening trick to prevent colour transfer!

My wardrobe reboot is a project that’s been running for as long as the blog, but yesterday I finally started wearing the new clothes I’ve been buying over the past month or so.

Photo evidence of me not wearing all black anymore 😆

Today marks the start of wearing my 14-day wardrobe.

Today’s main task was to go shopping for Carhartt dungarees.

Yesterday, we ended up leaving home too late to be in the mood for our usual Saturday brunch routine.

One thing I enjoy is going to TV recordings, as I find it very interesting to get a behind-the-scenes look.

I installed iOS 27 yesterday.

On an evening like this, the view while waiting for the DLR at Shadwell is not too bad.

Schnitzel at Fischer’s in Marylebone on Friday night.

One of my little projects to get ready for autumn is rebooting my everyday carry (EDC), and I think I’m done enough for a trial in the real world.

So many places still to go!

Yay, I have an iPad again!

Some thoughts from watching Apple’s “Surprise and Shine” event yesterday: With all the leaks beforehand, the surprise element the name promised was non-existent.

I was longing for rain all summer, but now that it’s here, I’m not that keen, tbh ☔️

I saw the phrase “September is the real new year” somewhere and realised that’s genuinely how I feel.

The throwback post with the view from Willis Tower that I posted the other day made me think of my most popular Tumblr post ever, with 6,181 reposts and 3,001 likes.

The next Apple event is on Wednesday and I will be watching, as always, even if I found them much more enjoyable when they were live, rather than just a 1-hour polished commercial.

This blog now has a search page 🔎

It seems the idea of getting a camera is still stuck in my mind.

This photo from Willis Tower in Chicago, taken in 2018, popped up on my phone’s lock screen.

It’s a new month, so I have updated my now page.

Once I bought my first JNCO jeans, I guess it was just a matter of time before I bought another pair, and my birthday was the perfect excuse to treat myself.

The husband said he won’t eat sugar in September, and having put on a bit of weight lately, I decided to join him.

I’ve added a photo archive to the blog to make it easier to find articles by their photo.

For mortgage reasons, I’ve had to return to my old bank after many years with newer banks, and I’d forgotten quite how crap they are.

After a week in Sweden, it’s time for the boat to come out of the water and for me to head back to London.

As I hinted when I posted the throwback photo the other day, I am a bit tempted to get a non-phone camera again 📷 I tell myself it would make perfect sense, since I could go for the standard iPhone next time if I no longer need the Pro for the best camera.

Dragon fly

These are my current in-flight or about-to-start personal little projects: This blog (in progress) — I’ve been successfully maintaining this blog for over 3 months now, so I guess it ought to be reclassified as a “hobby” rather than a project by now ☺️ 14…

After using DuckDuckGo for a while, I’ve decided to take Kagi for a spin instead.

Then and now.

A while back, I started thinking about rebooting my wardrobe, and as autumn is getting closer, I’m back at it.

Sometimes I miss having a real camera.

Georg Baselitz at White Cube Gallery

I thought I was nostalgic for ZX81 graphics but looking into it, they were even more simplistic than I remembered.

I would love to just have a good old Casio watch, but there are two reasons why I have a smartwatch instead: I need a silent alarm to wake me up in the morning without waking my husband.

I’ve been finding Grammarly extremely useful for keeping an eye on my grammar when I write.

London Graphic Centre suddenly have a lot of Japanese stationery in store, including my favourite sticky dots from Stalogy.

Last night in Canary Wharf

When it comes to finances, I subscribe to the idea that automation is how to make it easy to stay on top of things.

I’m happy to see how this blog project seems to be surviving so far, two and a half months in.