Tuesday Triage

On coming back Almost a year ago I wrote about taking a break.

On taking a break For years now, the end of the year and subsequently January were spent in a rush: first, the rush of wrapping things up in late December, and then the rush of coming up with the new things to focus on before the new year properly settles…

On festive season Christmas in the UK is a home celebration – most people travel around trying to pay a visit to their whole extended families, pay respects in the form of gifts, and most likely start a fight or two talking politics or religion.

On too much coffee My coffee journey was long and thorny – I went from instant coffee with copious amounts of sugar and pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks to dark roast batch brews, then to flat whites and cortados, then to Nespresso capsules and double…

On Iceland We've just came back from almost a week in Iceland, so my time at home was divided between looking up tickets back to Reykjavík and scrolling through thousands of photos I took: Given it was our first time on the island, pretty much everything…

On target shooting It's a bit early for New Year resolutions, but I tend to pick up a new thing every year, whether it's driving or cheese making.

On DIY Despite having the word "engineer" in my bachelor degree, I never did much "engineering" in its common sense, and skipped the majority of my physics lessons throughout school due to various computer science competitions.

On Cantabria This week I made a Basque cheesecake, and then the next day flew to the North of Spain.

On South West Coastal 300 For the past few months I hardly find a weekend to just lay still on the weekend.

On harvest Autumn is the time for harvest, and while most people stumble upon pumpkin patches or dig potatoes, I open up my curing chamber to take the measurements and see if anything else is ready for packing: This time I got a batch of slightly different

On Northumberland 250 This weekend we drove down to the south.

On going places This week's edition is out way later than I planned it to be, and yet it was a conscious decision to put some of my projects on hold for a few weeks while I went to London to see my parents and sister and spend some quality time altogether…

On Loch Leven Wikipedia states that there are more than 30000 freshwater lochs (lakes) in Scotland, even though most of them are small (we call them lochans).

On chilly weather I didn't really mind this summer's weather, even though many people mention that's the coldest Scottish summer they remember, but come Autumn and it is already getting properly chilly.

On first signs of Autumn Even though it's already September, and even though this summer in the UK was the coldest in a decade, it still doesn't feel like Autumn yet, so I am not even close to wrapping up the BBQ season (this time somewhat inspired by Gre…

On Santorini I slipped on my newsletter schedule again, but as always, it was for a good reason—this time, we embarked on our first proper journey outside of the UK in nearly three years, and we chose Greece of all places.

On getting ready for Christmas I was born in a country united by the proverb "in July your sledge remember", so still am taking it seriously.

On another year of Fringe Every August the city of Edinburgh transforms from a quiet touristic village into a full-blown comedy festival, and it takes its tall: streets are harder to walk, trains are too crowded to casually stroll in.

On different food Last week, I was enjoying the Lake District, and this week I came down with some kind of flu (or cold, or COVID – we'll never know).

On the Lakes Last week I've been to West Coast of Scotland, but this week we take a train to the South, first for a stop in Manchester, where among many other things we get to dine at a restaurant I've learnt about from an Instagram reel (yes, usually tha…